The Lazy Genius Podcast

There’s a decent chance that while you love the feeling of the holidays in your home, you’re also a little overwhelmed by it. There’s the regular upkeep of one’s home - the general cleaning and tidying, but there’s also a lot of extra stuff around the house this time of year. And because our tendency is to be fairly extreme in our response to challenges - either try hard or give up - we stay overwhelmed. Let’s create a small solution to the normal challenges of a holiday home so we can enjoy it while the holidays are here.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out my books The Lazy Genius Kitchen and The Lazy Genius Way
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #40: The Lazy Genius Navigates Family Tension
• Episode #224: When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
• Episode #87: The Lazy Genius Guide to Flexibility
• Episode #235: When You Disagree On What Matters
• Check out my books The Lazy Genius Kitchen and The Lazy Genius Way
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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We’re in the middle of November. American Thanksgiving is next week which means that Christmas is in five minutes, and it’s easy to feel like we’re losing our minds a little bit with all the things. Today, we’re going to make the rest of 2022 easier with five fairly simple steps that will give you really practical help in making the next six or seven weeks feel good and enjoyable rather than rushed and stressful.

Helpful Companion Links

• The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
• Episode #131: The Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey
• Episode #206: The Lazy Genius Guide to Buying Great Gifts
• Episode #287: How I’m Making Dinner Easier for the Rest of the Year
• The Holiday Docket
• Check out my books The Lazy Genius Kitchen (includes my turkey recipe and How to Host Thanksgiving like a Lazy Genius) and The Lazy Genius Way
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Today, I’m so excited to welcome Myquillyn Smith, aka The Nester, to the show to talk to us about decorating our homes! She is so good at helping people have the greatest amount of style with the least amount of stuff based on what matters. This conversation is a fantastic reminder of how to see the next few weeks in such a way that your home feels cozy and wintery and you.

• Find Myquillyn on Instagram and online
• Cozy Minimalist Home
• Welcome Home
• The Cozy Community (open just for Lazy Geniuses through Monday, November 14th!)
• My Winter Sun playlist
• Check out my books The Lazy Genius Kitchen and The Lazy Genius Way
• No transcript for this episode as it’s an interview, thanks for understanding. Love you, mean it.

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It’s early November, and we’re about to hit the gauntlet if we’re not already in it. Dinner is one of those things that just keeps happening no matter who you are and how you live, so today I’m going to share what I’m personally doing to make dinner easier from now until after the holidays are over, and hopefully it’ll give you some ideas on how to make yours easier, too.

• The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• Episodes you may find helpful: #121 - How to Build a Fall Dinner Queue, #279 - How to Fix Dinner When You’re Never Home
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Today is one of my favorite episodes we do every quarter or so on what’s saving my life. Y’all like it too because it always has above average downloads. I think we’re always looking for language around what’s making life easier and better for other people so that we can experience that for ourselves. So I hope today’s list will do just that.

• The next edition of the Latest Lazy Letter hits inboxes on Wednesday. Get on the list here.
• Episode #258: The Seven Kinds of Rest and How To Know Which One You Need
• Massage tool
• Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
• Bonus episode of The Lazy Sisters where we talk about relationship rhythms
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Being with and loving and helping guide kids is a privilege, a challenge, and can be exhausting. What works today won’t work tomorrow. What works for this kid won’t work for that kid. What works for you when you have energy doesn’t work for you when you don’t. Today I want to offer some words about that shift and then offer two simple “start small” steps to begin connecting more with your kids.

• 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
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Today, I'm joined by my sister, Hannah, to talk about how to get our relationship back on track. We're in a season of not talking or seeing each other as much as we used to, and we want that to change. So in this episode, we try and Lazy Genius our relationship in real-time. If you are out of rhythm in any of your relationships and wish you were more connected, this episode is for you.

• Babyliss Travel Flat Iron (affiliate link)

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Oh, man, have we been waiting a long time for this one! This is a highly requested topic, and I’m excited for us to walk through how to make email inboxes more manageable and less stressful.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Lazy Genius Kitchen (affiliate link)
• Episode #91: The Lazy Genius Organizes Paper
• The Holiday Docket 
• Santa’s Bag app (iOS)
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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This is one of the best conversations I've ever had. Shannan Martin is the author of Start with Hello, a beautiful book about being a neighbor. She is a true Lazy Genius in this area and offers so many ways to start small in our relationships, for example with saying hello. This book transcends neighborhoods, lifestyles, and family structures. We also share places we've been awkward as neighbors and how one interaction, even if it's the last one, has a significant impact. You will eat this up, you guys. What a gift this conversation was to me and will be to you, too.

• Start with Hello by Shannan Martin (out October 11th!)
• Shannan on Instagram
• Shannan’s Pickle Recipe

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Feeding people at my house is one of my favorite things in the entire world, and I hope that my enthusiasm for it and the permission you’ll hear in this episode will help you be excited about it, too. But I also know that we all have a lot of speed bumps when it comes to hospitality and entertaining and having people over, so I want to speak to a few of those today and maybe sand them down a little bit so they’re less bumpy.

• Episode #278: How to Manage Your Time this Fall
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Today is a quick little bonus episode - How to Lazy Genius the Start of a New Month. We’re a whisper away from October, and anytime the calendar turns to a new month, we feel some things. There’s a sense of potential, maybe of dread, of wondering if we got everything done last month that we meant, of making sure we’re not forgetting anything that’s coming up so we can prepare for it.

That’s great, but let’s make sure we’re approaching it like Lazy Geniuses.

• Episode #258: The Seven Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need
• Episode #255: How to Name What Matters
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Last week, we had a longer-than-usual episode about how to find your personal style. So much of it is about how you want to feel, but there are also some great reminders and practical tips to help you get there. So if you not yet listened to that episode, I would encourage you to do so and then come back and listen to this one.

But you do you. Be a rogue listener with my greatest compliments.

• In this episode, I mention ABLE’s try before you buy program. That was discontinued before this episode aired. Check out their Size Swap and Lifetime Guarantee instead.
• Episode #280: How to Find Your Personal Style
• Episode #267: Find Your Summer Reading Rhythm
• The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link)
• My Favorite ABLE Items (use code LAZYGENIUS15 for 15% off!)
• Hang out on Instagram with me @thelazygenius 
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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A couple of weeks ago, I put up a very unofficial poll on Instagram asking what clothing-related problem was your biggest challenge, and finding your own personal style won out. This might feel like a problem no one else has, but let me assure it is not. It is not a singular problem that you struggle with that most people already have figured out. In fact, I think that it’s bigger than even I realized, so that’s what we’re going to talk about today - how to find your personal style.

• Episode #217: Let’s Talk About Your Body, Part One
• Episode #218: Let’s Talk About Your Body, Part Two
• Erin Stoll of @stylethieffashion
• My personal style Pinterest Board
• Follow me on Instagram @thelazygenius for 30 Days of Closet Permission.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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We have a lot of things we’re managing right now, and the one thing that never goes anywhere, no matter our season or stage of life, is food. We have to eat, you guys. So in light of all of the things that take up our time in the evenings this season, how do we cook dinner? How do we make sure everybody eats when we never seem to be home at actual dinner time or even at the same time? Let’s Lazy Genius it.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Holiday Docket: The Lazy Genius Guide to Celebrating Well
• Last week’s episode on fall time - episode #278: How to Manage Your Time this Fall
• Episode #121: How to Build a Fall Dinner Queue
• Episode #276: How to Pack Lunch for Work
• My pal Anna Sale’s podcast Death, Sex, and Money
• Episode #225: The Shoe Episode
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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It’s Labor Day here in the US, and fall is decidedly about to start. We’re eager and excited, going up the hill of the first drop of the fall roller coaster and super pumped. But, once we crest that first peak, it’s over. All we’re doing is screaming and hoping we don’t die. So before we start screaming, let’s get some stuff in place so we can manage our time this season.

• The Lazy Genius Way (where the Lazy Genius principles live) and The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• Mildliner highlighters
• Get the Latest Lazy Letter
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Today, I want to give us a bigger picture of what we expect from our friendships, and then after the break, I’ll share a couple of friendship principles along with your ideas on how to connect more regularly.

• Episode 275: What’s Saving My Life
• Laura Tremaine’s Instagram account
• My friendship post on Instagram
• Episode 276: How to Pack Lunch for Work
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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I’m excited about this episode because when I went looking for grownup lunch help, I found very little that would work for a variety of people. Most solutions start from the wrong place, so today we’re going to Lazy Genius this. We’re going to go in the right order, which is a Lazy Genius principle, and we’re going to figure out how to pack lunch for work in a way that supports each person individually and what matters to them.

• Episode #238: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
• The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• The Chickpea Bowl
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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I love doing these episodes because they are a reminder for me as I create them and you as you listen to them that we can always pay attention to what’s saving our lives. What’s giving us joy and hope and rest and fun? It’s easy to survive every day or focus on what’s productive, but we also want to notice, maybe even way more so so, the things that make life really really good. So today, I’ll share mine.

• Previous What’s Saving My Life Right Now episodes: #251 (February 2022), #236 (November 2021), #203 (March 2021)
• Stranger Things
• The Trespasser by Tana French
• Eufy Robot Vacuum
• Sherry from Young House Love
• Get the Latest Lazy Letter
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Remember back in episode 200 where we did the Lazy Genius starter pack and listed 20 of the best episodes that will impact your life right away? This is that but for going back to school. If you don’t have kids or aren’t in education, you might not be super into this episode, but there might be a few helpful things in the realm of seasonal transitions so there you go. Let’s do this.

• Episode #200: The Lazy Genius Starter Kit
• Episode #221: Get Your Back-to-School Life Together
• Episode #168: How to Go Back to School
• Episode #223: The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door
• Episode #225: The Shoe Episode
• Episode #226: How Batching and Bags Can Get You Out the Door
• Episode #123: The Lazy Genius After School Routine
• Episode #246: 5 Essential Mindsets for Time Management
• Episode #177: The Lazy Genius Plans a Day
• Episode #124: The Lazy Genius Weekly Plan
• Episode #173: What is Your List-Making Personality?
• Episode #121: How to Build a Fall Dinner Queue
• Episode #174: Try a Meal Formula this Fall
• Episode #54: The Lazy Genius Makes Soup
• The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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The summer-to-fall transition can feel murky, especially if you have kids or work in education. There’s not a clean mark between the end of this and the start of that. Which means it feels like we’re neither beginning nor ending anything. We are not crossing finish lines or hearing starting guns. We’re just running around like headless chickens. Let’s talk about how to finish summer in this super short little summer episode.

• Emily P. Freeman on finishing regular
• An Instagram recap on my brain dump method
• The Next Right Thing Guided Journal (by our beloved EPF)
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It’s bonus episode day! Today, I’m chatting with routine expert Ashley Brown about transitioning your routines from one season to another. I love Ashley’s no-nonsense, yet kind approach to routines, and I hope you will, too!

• Find Ashley online at routineandthings.com and on Instagram @routineandthings

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I haven’t talked about opening and closing ceremonies (or what I now have shortened and broadened to seasonal ceremonies) in a while. Even though a lot of you are familiar with them, we haven’t done a full-on episode about them before if you can believe it! Plus, I love this idea of a new name that will broaden our definition a little.

• Episode #119: Plan Your Opening Ceremony
• Episode #187: Rethinking Opening Ceremonies
• Episode #159: The Magic of Closing Ceremonies
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Yeah, we need to fix dinner, as in make it. But also summer dinners feel a little broken, especially around July, so we’re going to fix them that way, too! I love a pun.

• Hang out with me on Instagram @thelazygenius
• Bri McKoy’s Cooks Club
• Episode #97: One Simple Step that Changes Meal Planning Forever
• My Summer Meal Formula (from 2021)
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Let’s do a quick little midsummer pep talk for the year of 2022 that just keeps outdoing its big brothers, 2020 and 2021. There are so many things that can impact our day, and right now, it feels like the intensity of the sensory input is extra sharp and edgy. Summer by itself often gives us reason to see things differently.

• Episode 219: A Midsummer Pep Talk
• Episode 230: How to Feel like a Person with Aundi Kolber
• Details about the Farmer’s Curb Market in Greensboro, where I will be on July 16 from 10-12!
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It’s summer, we’re traveling, and faraway places seem lovely. But so can home! Today, let’s Lazy Genius how to visit where you live like you’ve never been there before.

• Courtney Cleveland from All the Best Days // use code LAZY to get $10 off her travel guides
• You can find her on Instagram @bestdaycourt
• Here’s an episode from 2020 with Courtney where we talk about staycations
• Episode #177: The Lazy Genius Plans a Day
• Here’s my guide to Greensboro
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Sometimes we need a break from things like homework and time management and how to get dinner on the table. And right now is a perfect time for a break. Enjoy this bonus Lazy Sisters episode featuring my sister Hannah. We talk about our Season Passes, the things that require no consideration — we automatically love them.

• My beloved Eufy robot vacuum cleaner
• Silk pillowcase
• People We Meet On Vacation, Beach Read, and Book Lovers
• Vans Shoes
• Supergoop
• Sherry from Young House Love
• Aerie Swimsuits

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Last week, we talked about finding your own summer reading rhythm as a grownup, whether you’re home in the summer or just existing like the rest of the year, and today, I want to talk about some specifics for kids if you have those.

• Last week’s episode: Find Your Summer Reading Rhythm
• Read Aloud Revival’s reluctant reader list
• Book log coloring page from Everyday Reading
• Here Wee Read themed book lists
• Anne Bogel’s Kids’ Reading Journal (out Aug. 2!)
• Currently Reading podcast
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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• Anne Bogel’s podcast What Should I Read Next?
• Episode 213: Create a Summer Reading Club
• My two books The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen
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First, there’s a different strategy when you’re visiting the pool once or twice versus going to the pool again and again. If you’re going as a guest, you pack your bag with towels and snacks and whatever you or your kids need for the day, you go, you have fun, and you come home. One-off experiences are generally a little more forgiving. It’s the repeated ones that can be a bit frustrating.

This episode is going to be focused on spending multiple days a week or basically spending the summer at the pool. There will be some great tips for people who only go once or twice or maybe go to the beach or just summer outings in general, but the focus here is going to the pool again and again.

• Episode 209: How to Keep Your Surfaces Clear
• Episode 210: How to Lazy Genius Kids’ Screen Time
• Episode 211: How to Plan a Summer Day
• Episode 212: A Guide to Summer House Rules
• Episode 213: Create a Summer Reading Club
• My pool bag
• Our pool towels
• The Summer Docket
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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I am very excited about this episode, you guys. I think there are so many opportunities to just Lazy Genius the mess out of coming home from vacation, so we’re going to do what we often do which is have a nice little mix of practicality and permission.

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• Here’s where I break the principles down into three categories
• The Summer Docket
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Carrying a bag around is such a simple, daily thing but super important because most of us leave our homes fairly often and sometimes need different things based on where we’re going. So today, let’s Lazy Genius your bag and figure out how you can leave your home each day with the things you need.

• Check out all 13 principles in my first book, The Lazy Genius Way
• Selum bag and Abera Commuter from ABLE (use code LAZYGENIUS15 for 15% off!)
• The Summer Docket: The Lazy Genius Guide for Making Summer Fun
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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We just launched The Lazy Genius Kitchen into the world, and it became a New York Times bestseller which is so much fun and I’m so grateful. I often get asked, especially by aspiring or professional authors “how do you get on The New York Times?” I get asked enough to spend a few minutes on it today for this little bonus episode.

• Check out my books The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen
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Weekends are supposed to be restful and rejuvenating and fun, and yet our weekends are filled with more obligations and responsibilities and activities and things that are not restful or rejuvenating or fun! So how do we be grownups with responsibilities and still have a weekend? Let’s talk about it.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out my latest book The Lazy Genius Kitchen (a New York Times bestseller!)

• Episode 238: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
• Join the mailing list to get the next edition of the Latest Lazy Letter here
• Download a transcript of this episode

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The Magic Question is what can I do now to make something easier later? The smaller the something, the easier the solution. When you ask the magic question, you usually get a pretty quick win. When you get in the habit of asking that question and then noticing how even the simplest answers can positively impact your day and your time and your energy and your attitude, you want to keep asking! It’s a great question.

• Check out my two books: The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• Best of Both Worlds with Laura Vanderkam
• Find me on Instagram @thelazygenius
• Episode #258: The Seven Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need
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In my book that released last week, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, I shared something kind of revolutionary. A cooking formula that could change how you approach recipes forever. It’s called The Liquid Index, and it is your recipe decoder. It’s kind of a big deal, big enough that I want to spend an entire episode on it today.

• Buy The Lazy Genius Kitchen wherever books are sold!
• Watch The Lazy Genius Kitchen mini-series here. Andy’s episode airs on Tuesday!
• Instagram post about making two completely different meals with the same ingredients
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Last week I shared part one of The Lazy Genius Kitchen where I teach the five steps, and today I want to apply those five steps to a few specific areas of the kitchen, just like I do in part two of the book! Now today, I’m not using any material from part two of the book; I’m not repeating what’s in there. What I am doing is taking specific problems that you all have and applying the five Lazy Genius steps to those problems to see if we can find some solutions.

• Listen to Episode #259: 5 Steps to Lazy Genius Anything
• Get your copy of The Lazy Genius Kitchen (out this week!)
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Today, we are just about one week out from the release of my second book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and in that book, I share five steps to Lazy Genius anything in your kitchen, but those five steps can work for anything in your life.

• You can still preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen and get a free recipe ebook when you let us know! Order it here then let us know about it here.
• Catch the latest episode of The Lazy Genius Kitchen video series here. New episodes air every Tuesday at 2 pm ET.
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Zibby Owens joins me for this bonus episode where we talk about what can be helpful and enhance our lives as moms who read. Even if you’re not a mom, this episode has practical tips to make time for things that matter to you.

• Find Zibby online and on Instagram
• And check out her podcasts (that share a network with me! We love Acast!)

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Rest itself is such a needed thing for all of us. After all, a Lazy Genius principle is to schedule rest, mostly because we just let it happen and it never does. But I have also been paying a lot of attention to the different kinds of rest and why certain kinds don’t always land for us. Or why we take the time to rest but still feel unfilled after. A conversation around the nuance of rest is desperately needed, especially when a lot of us are working with less margin than we ever have before. So let’s dive in.

• This episode covers principles from my first book, The Lazy Genius Way. You can get a copy here.
• The Popcast with Knox and Jamie
• Episode 257: The Lazy Genius Guide to Work-Life Balance
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There is not a magical formula that achieves the perfect balance between life and work. There’s just not. You’re not missing something. You’re not the lone person trying to solve problems that everyone else has figured out. There’s so much to do, so much to manage, and you also want to rest and hang out with friends and do hobbies and have fun! So today I want to share some thoughts about how to live when you work all the time.

• This episode covers principles from my first book, The Lazy Genius Way. You can get a copy here.
• The Lazy Genius Kitchen comes out May 3. Preorder today and get a fun companion recipe ebook as a bonus. Details here.
• Listen to the whole playlist of specific episodes mentioned here on Spotify.
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We are very good at talking about productive things, domestic things, hard being-a-person things, but we don’t often talk about specifically fun things. The busier we are, the more humans we interact with and care for, the more we don’t deal with the mounting pressure of what it means to be a person in this world right now, we don’t leave a lot of room for fun. And I want us to actually systemize it today. I want us to Lazy Genius fun and for you to figure out how to add more fun to your life on purpose.

• Details about our upcoming Pub Crawl events in Chicago, DC and Greensboro.
• Bonus episode with my sister Hannah
• Emily P. Freeman on Instagram
• Get to Work Book by Elise Blaha Cripe
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This episode is one of those rare ones that I’m like - wait, did we not do that yet? It’s so desperately essential to living like a Lazy Genius, and I’ve never actually done an episode or spent a length of time talking about how to do this, how to name what matters. Because y’all ask often how to do this. It feels like everything could matter, and it’s hard to have a rhythm for figuring it out in your own life. So that’s what we’re going to do today!

• The Lazy Genius Kitchen is almost here! And we’re hosting a Pub(lication) Crawl to celebrate. Get more details about our events in Chicago, DC, and Greensboro here.
• We talk about principles a lot in this episode. You can read all about them in The Lazy Genius Way.
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I don’t have a lot of time, you probably don’t either, and even if you do, most of us don’t necessarily want to spend all of it doing chores. Some chores you might like, some are therapeutic and calming and give you a sense of accomplishment and purpose, and that’s fantastic. But I think it’s always good to evaluate what we’re doing every day, what we’re not doing every day, and what matters most.

• Explore all 13 Lazy Genius principles in my first book The Lazy Genius Way.
• Episode #225: The Shoe Episode
• Episode #91: The Lazy Genius Organizes Paper
• Preorder my newest book The Lazy Genius Kitchen (out May 3!) and get a ticket to the first Pub Crawl event by letting us know you preordered here.
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A note from Kendra: In this conversation, Kate and I exchange a joke about going to prison for someone we love, and I have since been shown the harm that reaction causes people in communities affected by disproportionate and unfair policing. For that, I am genuinely sorry. Thank you for graciously leaving space for all of us to continue to learn and do better in our work of allyship.

Kate Bowler is here! If you’ve been around here for a while, you know we don’t have many guest interviews as regular episodes on this show. But today is a special day! Kate joins me to talk about ways to give yourself permission, life advice that we wish we could retire, and what she does when living in a hard season.

• Find Kate online and on Instagram
• Check out her three books: Good Enough, No Cure for Being Human, and Everything Happens for a Reason

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Surprise! We’re experimenting with where The Lazy Sisters Podcast lives. Today, you’re getting a bonus episode from Hannah and me. We’re sister speed dating, so you can get to know each of us a little better.

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We’re always on the hunt for new recipes, right? We want variety and beautiful meals, and we think that repetition is somehow a sign of laziness in the kitchen. It’s not. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for new recipes. We all have different approaches to them, and today I’m going to share mine.

• Brainless Crowdpleasers 101
• Mad Hungry by Lucinda Scala Quinn
• Hope’s Table by Hope Helmuth
• Aarti Paarti by Aarti Sequiera
• Made in India by Meera Sodha
• Food sites I trust: Budget Bytes, Damn Delicious, and Our Savory Life
• Some Pub(lication) Crawl tickets are still available! Check it out here.
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This kind of episode is one of my favorites to put together. Barbara Brown Taylor coined the phrase “what’s saving my life right now,” and I love the idea of thinking beyond favorites and splurges to find what’s grounding us and making us feel like ourselves.

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen and get access to a fun Internet party on March 22! Details here.
• Peter Thomas Roth Retinol Fusion PM Night Serum
• Episode #196: How to Lazy Genius Adult Screen Time
• Moleskine Pro Weekly Vertical Diary // Pilot G2 0.38 pens // Mildliner highlighters
• Olive & June x The Lazy Genius // Lazy Genius Polish Quiz
• You’re invited to The Lazy Genius Kitchen Pub(lication) Crawl
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In this 250th episode, I’m going to tell you how I make this podcast. I asked y’all on Instagram what you wanted to know about the behind-the-scenes stuff of the Lazy Genius space, and a lot of it was podcast related. I’ll answer most of what you asked in today’s episode. Later in the spring, we’ll do a broader business episode in case that interests you, too.

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen (out May 3rd!) and claim preorder bonuses here!
• Check out the three Lazy Genius shades of Olive & June nail polish (and take the new quiz!)
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You might have heard that all the copies of my next book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, were on a boat that had a rough day and lost some of its cargo. Today I want to share the story of my drowning book but more importantly how Lazy Genius principles have saved us during such a strange, frustrating time.

• The first run of The Lazy Genius Kitchen may be underwater, but that means you have more time to preorder it!
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