Because of our wonky expectations about this supposedly magical season, we all have unmet expectations. There will be times when you don’t deal with them super well. So in today’s episode, let’s figure out how to not bummer our summer.

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Today is a very exciting episode, the first of its kind and hopefully not the last! One of my favorite things about this job is helping you all Lazy Genius your problems. It is always the most fun, the most gratifying, the most connective thing. So we’re going to bring that to the podcast in an Office Hours episode!

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My family of five went to Disney World for the first time in February of 2023, and I’m sharing the 13 things I’m glad we did and the four things we could’ve done without.

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• Go Now Travel Company
• Disney Instagram highlight
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We are entering summer, at least in the northern hemisphere, and it might be worth thinking about the sun and your face. This episode is part skincare, part makeup, part pep talk.

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• Unseen Sunscreen by Supergoop (Ulta)
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• May Lindstrom’s Blue Cocoon
• Farmacy’s Daily Greens moisturizer (Amazon)
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Once May hits, it already feels like August is right around the corner. Time is weird, right? Everyone likely feels the urgency of the season in different ways. Instead of drowning in the overwhelm of this giant, approaching season, let’s make it smaller by asking a handful of questions where just one could adjust your thinking in a helpful way.

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• The Summer Docket is available again! It’s like The Holiday Docket, but for summer! It’s The Lazy Genius Guide to Making Summer Fun. Check it out here.
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This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of my second book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and today I want to celebrate that by sharing my favorite chapter with you. It’s the beginning of the whole kit and caboodle which is why I love it. It sets the stage for what matters about your kitchen and why not naming that causes problems.

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• The Lazy Genius Kitchen // Buy on: Amazon // IndieBound
• The Lazy Genius Kitchen Video Series on YouTube
• Sarah Horgan’s Instagram
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Today is a very special bonus episode where I get to talk to one of my favorite bands in the whole world, Joseph. They have a new album releasing tomorrow, April 28, called The Sun. It is an album full of honesty, compassion, joy, and it also just sounds rad.

Today, I talk with the sisters about what it’s like being sisters who also make music together, what you can do to help develop healthy relationships among your kids, especially twins, and how they process singing their personal stories so vulnerably from stage.

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• Visit The Band Joseph’s website
• The Band Joseph Instagram
• Their Tiny Desk Concert on npr
• "Without You" video

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This special episode is presented by KFC and Acast Creative. KFC chicken nuggets have made their debut and they truly are the perfect chicken nugget. Each one is hand-breaded with KFC’s Original Recipe and absolutely packed with flavor. So basically what I’m saying is...KFC took all the magic that is a bucket of chicken and packed it into one small but equally amazing chicken nugget.

And since KFC chicken nuggets are something that saves dinner for my family, I thought I’d share more examples of that in today’s episode.

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• KFC Chicken Nuggets
• Merlin App
• Olive & June press-on nails (Use code KendraA20 for 20% off!)
• The Essential Calendar (Use code LAZYGENIUS for 10% off!)
• Poor Bishop Hooper
• Instagram post of Annie jumping off a curb
• Sparkle Sounds playlist
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One of the most beautiful things about being a Lazy Genius is that you can Lazy Genius literally anything. Some of those solutions are linear, but frustratingly, a lot of them are not. There isn’t always a straight line from a problem to a solution. Or is there? Today’s episode is as close as we’re going to get, and we’re going to get really really close. 

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• The Instagram video of pivoting from my car
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Let's continue the conversation with friendship expert, Laura Tremaine! In this episode, she shares the rest of her list of 10 ways to start small in friendship, and there are so many things I wrote down like I was highlighting the conversation. You will get so much encouragement out of this episode that I think will translate to your actual life. And lucky for you, her book, The Life Council, does that in spades.

Helpful Companion Links

• Get Laura’s book The Life Council
• Find Laura on Instagram
• Listen to part one of this conversation here
• David Gate's Instagram account
• meetup.com
• Love Languages by Gary Chapman

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Friendship is one of the most highly requested topics, and for good reason. No one can survive without a friend. For the next two weeks, I have my favorite friendship expert Laura Tremaine joining us to talk about how we can see our friendships in a whole new way. Less pressure, more permission, and a lot more connection.

Helpful Companion Links

• Get Laura’s new book The Life Council (out April 4)
• Find Laura online or on Instagram
• Popcast Out of Context on Instagram

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Why “more helpful”? Because I think that most spring cleaning information I run across is not helpful, at least not how I need it to be. So today, we’re going to do what we often do: we’re going to tackle both perspective and practicality.

Helpful Companion Links

• How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis (I say KC Price in the episode, but it’s KC Davis!)
• Episode #298: How to Keep Up with Household Habits
• Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone
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Is there a way to compassionately experience stressful situations? There actually is, and author and licensed trauma therapist, Aundi Kolber, is on the show today to talk about how.

Learn about the flow of strength (a mind-blowing concept), the difference between triggers and glimmers, and how honoring your body's pace is just as important as the healing itself. Aundi's first time with us was one of the most downloaded episodes in the history of the show, so I can't wait for you to hear from her again.

Helpful Companion Links

• Strong Like Water by Aundi Kolber
• Find Aundi online and on Instagram
• Listen to Aundi’s first time on the show here
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Being a person is tough. We all know this. Part of what I love about this job is offering encouragement and tools, not just to take the edge off, but to enjoy being a person and living your life in a way that’s meaningful and matters to you. So let’s talk about what we need to have more fun.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
•  Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• The Life Council by Laura Tremaine (out April 4)
• Episode 256 - How to Make Time for Fun
• Episode 196 - How to Lazy Genius Adult Screen Time
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Ali Slagle is a food writer for The New York Times, the author of one of my favorite cookbooks, and an all-around delight. She’s here today to put some words to the never-ending chore of dinner and give us a fresh perspective on how to find and use low-effort, high-reward recipes.

Helpful Companion Links

• I Dream of Dinner (so you don’t have to) by Ali Slagle
• The New York Times food Instagram where Ali often posts recipes and videos
• The gnocchi that’s like a gummy bear you can eat for dinner
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Let’s take a minute to validate the complexity that is caregiving. It’s loving and fulfilling and something we’re probably honored to do. Most often, we’re caring for people we deeply love, who are desperately important to us, and when pressed, we’d likely say it’s an honor and privilege to care for that person or people. 

But caregiving is also constant and often draining. It takes so much energy to be on for people pretty much all the time, especially when we’re tending to their needs more than our own.

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• Episode #258 - The 7 Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need
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I get asked often where someone should start with the podcast since there are over 300 episodes now, and I always point them to that episode 200. But we have made some really great episodes in the last 100 episodes, so this is part two of that.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #200: The Lazy Genius Starter Kit
• Episode #238 - How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
• Episode #257 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Work Life Balance
• Episode #279 - How to Fix Dinner When You’re Never Home
• Episode #209 - How to Keep Your Surfaces Clear
• Episode #246 - 5 Essential Mindsets for Time Management
• Episode #259 - 5 Steps to Lazy Genius Anything
• Episode #235 - When You Disagree on What Matters
• Episode #230 - How to Feel Like a Person with Aundi Kolber
• Episode #280 - How to Find Your Personal Style
• Episode #258 - The 7 Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need
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Editor’s Note: This episode was slated to be a bonus episode, but then Team LG was struck with the stomach bug. Thanks for your understanding of this editorial change.

We are about to enter March Madness, and I know a lot of you want to sort of be involved and understand what actually happens in basketball. I did an episode like this for football a couple of years ago, and it was so fun for me because I love teaching about sports but also really helpful to y’all. So many people who had dads as coaches or who were cheerleaders in high school said that it was the most helpful explanation of football they’d ever heard. I hope the same thing happens here today with basketball. 

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• The Lazy Genius Guide to Football
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This episode isn’t about how to kindly change your body. It’s about kindly navigating the fact that your body is changing. Those are two very different things. Our bodies are present with us at all times, and yet we often have such strange, sometimes even contentious, relationships with them. I want to relax that tension today in how we talk about changing bodies because my guess is you’re already hard enough on yourself about it.

Helpful Companion Links

• Body episodes: #46 - The Lazy Genius Loses Weight, #217 - Let’s Talk About Your Body Part One, and #218 - Let’s Talk About Your Body Part Two
• Sign up for the Latest Lazy Listens email.
• Episode #259: 5 Steps to Lazy Genius Anything
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Are you feeling “rut energy” around the table? Maybe you’re already tired of soup. Maybe you had January goals to cook more at home or try new things, and you haven’t experienced that the way you hoped. Maybe you’re having to tighten your budget after the holidays and don’t have as much to spend on groceries, not to mention that the price of them is going up. 

I would like us to put a positive spin on this ordinary, “rut energy” season, and I think one of the ways you can do that is through meal prep.

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• Bizarro Meal Prep blog post from last decade
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We do these episodes about once a quarter for two reasons. One, it’s a wonderful practice that I want to remind you of as often as possible. And two, because our seasons of life change, so do the things that save them.

It’s really important to me that we pay attention to seasonal practices so that we get off that train of a linear life that goes from start to finish. That’s not how life works, so let’s remember what is working for us, bringing us joy, and saving our lives right now.

Helpful Companion Links

• Other episodes like this one: #251 - What’s Saving My Life Right Now, #286 - What’s Saving My Life, #236 - 10 Things Saving My Life Right Now, #275 - What’s Saving My Life Right Now
• North Carolina candle by Homesick
• Sunshine Curry video on Instagram
• The Next Right Thing Podcast
• Necklace separator
• Get the Latest Lazy Letter to see my book reviews every month.
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It’s easy to feel behind in our homes, like everything is at best a sneeze from falling apart. So today, we’re going to talk about how to choose the household habits that matter to you and how you might keep up with actually doing them.

Helpful Companion Links

• Recent episodes on habits: #297 - 5 Steps for More Ease at Work and #296 - How to Lazy Genius Your Habits
• Seasonal Home Maintenance Checklist from Better Homes & Gardens
• Episode #263 - How to Still Have a Weekend
• Episode #238 - How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
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Kendra is joined by her little sister Hannah to answer your questions, many of which are about how to foster connected relationships between siblings. The sisters also talk about their current favorite things, including a Kindle accessory that could revolutionize the world. 

Helpful Companion Links

• Billy Summers by Stephen King
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Solace House by Joy Ellis (narrated by Richard Armitage)
• Hannah’s Stanley Cup
• Kindle Holder
• Kindle Remote
• Tiny Target Lamp
• No transcript for this episode since this is a casual conversation. Thanks for understanding!

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I believe that people can feel more at ease at work no matter what work it is you do. In part one, we’re going to walk through how to do that, and in part two, we’ll apply those principles to a real life example to show you how the steps can work. So let’s jump in!

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #296: How to Lazy Genius Your Habits
• Episode #177: The Lazy Genius Plans a Day
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It is January, and we have that fresh start energy, right? Today, we won’t deep dive on habits because this is a podcast episode, but maybe you don’t need a deep dive. You just need a reminder or two as you move into the new year. Let’s gain some perspective on habits as we begin or end them.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode 295: How to Start Fresh Without Starting Over
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Bonus Episode: How I Read 120 Books This Year (2022)
• Get The Lazy Genius Way or The Lazy Genius Kitchen wherever books are sold!
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It’s January, it’s the beginning of a new year, and our options used to be either lazy or genius. We’ve been trying to be geniuses about the start of a new year for too long, but the alternative is not ignoring it or dismissing it or saying that the new year doesn’t matter. There can be something really special about coming out of a busy holiday season, getting a new planner, and starting fresh. But starting fresh does not mean you have to start over, so today we’re going to talk about the Lazy Genius way to approach a new year.

Helpful Companion Links

• Join me on Instagram @thelazygenius to see my little chart that aligns with this episode.
• 30 Lazy Genius Questions for the Start of a New Year
• The Next Right Thing Guided Journal by Emily P. Freeman
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This is not an episode of bragging. This is not an episode to make you feel like you should figure out a way to read 120 books or 20 books or 200 books or whatever. It is about what can happen when you actively choose to be a genius about something that matters, like reading matters to me.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #227: How to Know What to Read Next with Anne Bogel
• Anne’s podcast What Should I Read Next? I’m a guest on ep. 27 Books good enough to make you turn off the tv and ep. 245 Finding the right mix for your reading life.
• Episode #228: 5 Ways to Organize Your Books
• Episode #152: Reading in Odd Circumstances
• Episode #213: Create a Summer Reading Club
• Episode #23: The Lazy Genius Reads
• How to Use Trello to Track Your Reading
• See a list of my favorite reads here.
• Get the Latest Lazy Letter
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My birthday is December 27th, so tomorrow if you’re listening to this on the day it releases. I think that it is a very common problem for adults, maybe even especially for women, to know how to celebrate your own birthday. But y’all! It’s your birthday! It should be celebrated! So let’s talk about how.

Helpful Companion Links

• Jamie B. Golden’s Instagram post about birthdays
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We are entering the week before Christmas. I don’t want to take up too much of your enjoyment time with a podcast episode, but I do want to say a few words about something I think we so easily forget around the holidays. This week, I want to talk about how we think about time.

Helpful Companion Links

• Sherry Petersik from Young House Love
• Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
• The Enneagram and Decision-Making with Suzanne Stabile // The Next Right Thing Podcast
• Orientation to Time // The Enneagram Journey
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We have done so much work these last few weeks of figuring out how to manage our expectations and our holiday home and our time and our tasks and all the things. But we don’t want just to manage the holidays. We want to enjoy our life, and this time of year is one where you might actually have margin to do that. So that’s what this episode is. We’re going to move from management to enjoyment and do it the Lazy Genius way.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #288: How to Make the Rest of 2022 Easier
• Episode #238: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
• Episode #135: Nailing Your Holiday Vibe
• Bonus: How to Decorate for The Holidays with The Nester
• Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen (a gorgeous 4-color hardback book that would make a great gift!) or The Lazy Genius Way!
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Let’s walk through December almost like it’s a Candyland board, and plan for the potential challenges you’ll run into like a Lazy Genius.

Helpful Companion Links

• The 2022 Lazy Genius Gift Guide
• How to Decorate for The Holidays with The Nester
• #290: Managing Your Holiday Home
• #234: Ten Rules for Gift Giving
• #134: How to Be Happy With the Gifts You Give
• #42: How to Host a Holiday Party
• #130: The Lazy Genius Guide to Hosting Anything
• #288: How to Make the Rest of 2022 Easier
• #238: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
• #136: Ten Ideas for a Holiday Reset
• #289: How to Lazy Genius Holiday Expectations
• #40: The Lazy Genius Navigates Family Tension
• #235: When You Disagree on What Matters
• #132: Ten Steps to Creating Your Own Traditions
• #79: The Lazy Genius Creates a Holiday Sabbath
• #44: The Lazy Genius Guide to Holiday Baking
• #129: How to Holiday Road Trip
• #89: Reset the House Instead of Burning It Down
• My books The Lazy Genius Kitchen and The Lazy Genius Way!
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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.

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• Check out my books The Lazy Genius Kitchen and The Lazy Genius Way
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This Thursday is American Thanksgiving, and we’re coming up on a season of lots of holidays, and with those holidays come many many expectations. You have them, your kids have them, your parents have them, your boss has them, the Internet has them… it’s a whole vibe. So today, we’re going to talk about how to be a Lazy Genius about the holiday expectations you will encounter from others and from within yourself.

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
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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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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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.

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• 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)
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #278: How to Manage Your Time this Fall
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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. 

Helpful Companion Links

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

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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. 

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.
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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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Lazy Genius Way (where the Lazy Genius principles live) and The Lazy Genius Kitchen
• Mildliner highlighters
• Get the Latest Lazy Letter
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

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

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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!

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #119: Plan Your Opening Ceremony
• Episode #187: Rethinking Opening Ceremonies
• Episode #159: The Magic of Closing Ceremonies
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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. 

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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My goal is that you listen to these next twenty minutes or so and you leave with the following pieces of information: what matters most to you about your reading over the next two or three months, an idea of how to find things to read that make sense for you, and a simple - I mean, ridiculously simple - summer reading rhythm. This is not me telling you what I do, expecting you to take the same approach.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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. 

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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!)
• The Clean Slate: The Lazy Genius Guide to Keeping Your Home
• 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
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• Listen to Episode #259: 5 Steps to Lazy Genius Anything
• Get your copy of The Lazy Genius Kitchen (out this week!)
• Watch The Lazy Genius Kitchen mini series
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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
• Watch The Lazy Genius Kitchen Video Series here
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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!

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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.

Stuff Mentioned

• 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
• Get on the Lazy Genius VIP List to receive the next Latest Lazy Letter (out on Wednesday)
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• 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!)
• Get on the Latest Lazy Letter mailing list
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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.

Helpful Companion Links

• The first run of The Lazy Genius Kitchen may be underwater, but that means you have more time to preorder it!
• Download a transcript of the episode.

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Airports and airplanes have a lot about them that’s the worst, but flying is also part of life for a lot of people so why not Lazy Genius it? I’m going to share my start to finish air travel process and how I apply Lazy Genius principles to it. Hopefully, you get some ideas on how to make air travel easier, too.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode 248: The Lazy Genius Guide to Easier Travel
• Owala water bottle (only use the Free Sip version on a plane, trust me)
• Cord carrier
• Vuori joggers
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This episode is heavy on the practicality, y’all. There are so many decisions we make when we travel, and I want to give you just a slew of ways you can apply one of the most popular of the 13 Lazy Genius principles - decide once - to your travel. I hope this is an episode that you’ll come back to before you take your next trip whether it’s a family vacation, a work trip, a surprise visit to see a relative, or wherever your life takes you.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out all 13 Lazy Genius principles in The Lazy Genius Way, or, if you already have it, preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen (out May 3!)
• Episode 210: How to Lazy Genius Kids’ Screen Time
• The Instagram post where my friend Elizabeth talks about monitoring
• Episode 165: The Lazy Genius Packs for a Trip
• The Instagram post about my monthly tear-off calendar
• All the Best Days with Courtney Cleveland
• The Traveling Child with Monet Hambrick
• Local Passport Family with Preethi Harbuck
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It’s not spring, y’all, I know. Tomorrow is the first day of February and that is decidedly winter. However, the whole point of the Magic Question - what can I do now to make something easier later? Which is a Lazy Genius principle - is to think ahead just a little bit. We’re going to do that today with spring cleaning.

Helpful Companion Links

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen and get surprise preorder bonuses every month until release day!
• Episode 240: How to Plan a Personal Retreat
• Episode 195: Creating Your Own Holiday When There’s Nothing to Look Forward To
• Episode 72: The Lazy Genius Hosts a Book Swap
• Change Your Life Shawarma
• Grab a copy of The Lazy Genius Way
• The Clean Slate
• Episode 196: How to Lazy Genius Adult Screen Time
• Episode 208: Essentializing Your Phone Apps
• Episode 210: How to Lazy Genius Your Kids’ Screen Time
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We all have time, we all have expectations about how we want it emptied or filled, and we have a lot of hard, busy, stressful days that we need to manage so we don’t lose our minds. It’s a front-burner challenge pretty much all the time. Today I want to go a bit higher level and share some essential mindsets or mantras that will impact your time management no matter what your time looks like. I have said all of these in fits and starts in different places, but this is your episode to have all of your time management mindsets in one place.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode: 177: The Lazy Genius Plans a Day
• Episode 198: How to Lazy Genius Your To-Do List
• Episode 238: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
• Episode 127: The Lazy Genius Chooses a Planner
• Join me over on Instagram @thelazygenius for more Lazy Genius life
• Laundry episodes: 21: The Lazy Genius Does Laundry and 113: The Lazy Genius Does Laundry Updated
• Episodes 235: When You Disagree on What Matters
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It’s funny - I talk about meal planning a lot here on the podcast, on Instagram, and in my upcoming book that I can’t wait for you to read, The Lazy Genius Kitchen. But I don’t know that I’ve ever shared how I personally meal plan! Seeing the nitty-gritty can be helpful in figuring out your own nitty-gritty, so that’s what I’m going to share today.

Helpful Companion Links

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen and claim your preorder bonuses here
• Change Your Life Chicken (and here’s an episode all about it if you’re interested)
• Brainless Crowdpleaser inspiration
• Seasonal Dinner Queue inspiration: Winter, Summer and Fall
• Follow me on Instagram @thelazygenius
• Moleskin Pro 12 month weekly vertical planner
• Episode #177: The Lazy Genius Plans a Day
• Fearless Chicken Tikka Masala
• Change Your Life Shwarma
• Fake Fancy Dinner: Asian Lettuce Wraps
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In this bonus episode, Hillary talks about why our bodies aren’t what we look like, how to engage with our bodies in healing ways, and what it means to exist with pain and tension and let it make us more of who we are. Also, her voice is like honey butter. She is just the best.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride
• Find Hillary online and on Instagram
• Episode 157: What Does It Mean to Take Care of Yourself?
• Episode 217: Let’s Talk About Your Body, Part One
• Episode 218: Let’s Talk About Your Body, Part Two
• Episode 230: How to Feel Like a Person with Aundi Kolber

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In my book The Lazy Genius Way, I share 13 principles you can use to Lazy Genius any situation in your life. Sometimes you might need one principle, sometimes a few together, and sometimes you don’t know which to choose. When you’re faced with some sort of challenge whether it’s a system in your home, a relationship hangup, a time management problem, whatever it might be, even with 13 principles to choose from, sometimes that still seems like a lot. Hopefully, this episode will give you a tangible framework for how to choose the right Lazy Genius principle for you.

Helpful Companion Links

• Grab a copy of The Lazy Genius Way (or preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen — out March 22!)
• Principle Categories Instagram post
• Download a transcript of this episode.

Lazy Genius of the Week: Paula Kay Myers

Love the soup podcast and need to share with you my LG gift idea. My 80-year-old dad and stepmom, like most 80-year-olds, don’t need or want anything. They actually act bratty when receiving a gift. But 2 years ago I had a brainstorm! I wrapped a case of 12 quart mason jars in Christmas paper and when they opened it I told them it was a soup of the month club. Perfect gift - consumable, practical, and something to look forward to. And I always delivered it with fresh bread. It also obligated me to a monthly visit with them. We were about 45 minutes apart at the time and they absolutely loved it. And began asking me in March when they had the option to renew. My husband and I have since moved 12 hours away so this year when I was visiting after Thanksgiving, I filled their deep freezer with bags of soup and wrapped up 2 cute soup bowls. Best gift I’ve ever given.

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It’s the first Monday in January which always has some fun energy to it. Fun? Is fun the right word? It has an energy to it. The level of fun depends on your personality and circumstances I suppose. So as we move into this new calendar year, I want us to do it like Lazy Geniuses.

Helpful Companion Links

• 30 Lazy Genius Questions for the Start of a New Year
• The Next Right Thing Guided Journal by Emily P. Freeman (affiliate link)
• Episode #191: Naming What Matters in 2021
• Episode #139: How to Plan Your Time This Winter
• Episode #90: Set the Right Goals Without Fizzling Out
• Episode #43: The Lazy Genius and Self Care
• Join the mailing list to get the Latest Lazy Letter (next one goes out Wednesday!)
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You guys, it’s the last episode of 2021, and it’s also my birthday today. And not just any birthday; today I turn 40! In early January, in episode 193, I shared seven things I wanted to do this year, in my 40th year, and today I’m going to share an update.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #193: What I Want to Do in My 40th Year
• The Popcast with Knox and Jamie
• Erin Moon
• Osheta Moore’s book Dear White Peacemakers
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A few weeks ago, I posted on Instagram asking for your holiday horror stories. You know, that time you tried to be either super lazy or super genius during the holidays. Here’s a collection of stories for solidarity and encouragement right before the holidays.Oh, and for me, it was the time I had a few friends over for a holiday party, and I thought one was supposed to make a cheese tray for this kind of party.⁠⁠ So I placed Saltines and folded pieces of actual American cheese on a platter and thought I was Martha Stewart. ⁠You guys.⁠ YOU GUYS.Helpful Companion Links - Missing out on the Instagram party? Follow along @thelazygenius.

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I always find that this week of Christmas I don’t need more information; I just need encouragement to be a person and exist in the information I already have. So this is just a quick word from me to you.Helpful Companion Links - Episode #197: How to Navigate a Faith Crisis - And here’s how to find Erin Moon online and on Instagram - Episode #87: The Lazy Genius Guide to Flexibility - Episode #224: When Things Don’t Go According to Plan - Magical post on Instagram - Episode #132: Ten Steps to Creating Your Own Traditions - Download a transcript of this episode.

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When I sent out December’s Latest Lazy Letter, I mentioned taking a personal retreat day the week between Christmas and the New Year, and a woman named Rebecca wrote back asking me to explain it. Like, what do you do? How do you plan it? Where do you go? And I realized that I had never really talked about this before. So let’s talk about how to plan a personal retreat. 

Stuff Mentioned

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (commissionable link) for a whole chapter on scheduling rest.
• Episode #177: The Lazy Genius Plans a Day
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Lazy Genius Collective Facebook Group
• Join the mailing list and get in on the Latest Lazy Letter action!
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It’s winter, and most people have big soup energy this time of year. I have such energy. I love a good soup. I wish my kids liked soup more than they do, but they don’t hate it as a concept. We’re working on it. But today I want to share five lessons learned from soup.

Stuff Mentioned

• Claim The Lazy Genius Kitchen preorder bonuses at thelazygeniuskitchen.com!
• Haven’t read The Lazy Genius Way? Grab it here or check with your library about getting a copy.
• Bri McKoy is a cooking teacher I trust with my whole being. She’s offering The Everyday Kitchen Masterclass right now. It starts on January 10th, 2022!
• Bri’s soup recipes: Pizza Soup, Chicken Zoodle Soup, Homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup, Chicken Taco Soup
• Episode 54: The Lazy Genius Makes Soup
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The number of times I have to do stuff I don’t want to do is a very high number, and it’s part of life. I think it’s important to name what we can be a genius about and what we can be lazy about, but there are things we have to do that we don’t love doing. So how do we do that while still being Lazy Geniuses? That’s what this episode is all about, and we’re going to make it as linear as possible. 

Helpful Companion Links

• Read all about the 13 principles in The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link).
• Episode #91 - The Lazy Genius Organizes Paper
• Sign up for my monthly newsletter, the Latest Lazy Letter (the next one comes out Wednesday!)
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Lazy Genius of the Week

Angela Kidde Taylor, who shared this tip in the Lazy Genius Facebook group:

After a taco night, I dump all the bits and pieces of leftovers into a taco soup bag for the freezer. When I’m ready for soup, I empty the contents of the bag as a starter. It saves time and the leftovers aren’t wasted.

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We’re doing something a little different around here today with a bonus episode! We might start playing around with some of these that are deeply specific in the future, or it might be just this one. But I have had enough of you ask me to explain football so I present to you The Lazy Genius Guide to Understanding Football.

Helpful Companion Links

• Download a transcript of this episode.

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It’s easy to feel like this particular week is pretty condensed. It’s hard, for me at least, to let Thanksgiving just be Thanksgiving. So I want to take a few minutes to center us this week before everything ramps up, whatever that looks like for you and your family.

Helpful Companion Links

• Claim your November preorder bonus for The Lazy Genius Kitchen here
• Practical past Thanksgiving episodes: #133 - 10 Helpful Thanksgiving Strategies, #130 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Hosting Anything, #131 - The Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey
• Mindset and gratitude episodes: #38 - The Lazy Genius Practices Thankfulness, #182 - Loving People You Disagree With
• Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass
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Lots of people on the Internet love to share what’s saving their life, so do I, and so do you! Talking about some favorite things definitely has an ease that disagreeing with a partner doesn’t. Plus, y’all really love these episodes, so here’s one for the fall. I have ten things, some products, a hobby, a yogurt I can’t get enough of… all kinds of things. Let’s jump in.

Stuff Mentioned

• Tell us how we’re doing at The Lazy Genius Collective via the 2021 Lazy Genius Survey. Submissions close Wednesday, November 17.
• Baggy, art-teacher-looking cotton linen overalls
• Kenra Clarifying Shampoo
• My IG post about actually being good at traveling despite saying I’m not good at it
• Laura Tremaine (Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First) and Andy Baxter (Penny and Sparrow)
• Stephen King’s Different Seasons
• Elise Blaha Cripe on Instagram (@elisejoy)
• Owala water bottle (and here’s where you can find the charming and fun Courtney Cleveland)
• Episode #145: How to Hire a Housecleaner
• The Lazy Genius Kitchen releases March 22, 2022 (but you can preorder it and get bonuses now!)
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This episode is dedicated to the hundreds of you who have asked me over the years how you handle disagreeing about what matters with someone you love. In this Lazy Genius way of living, we seek to support what matters most, and those things are different for everyone, right? So today, I’m going to share three simple questions to ask when you disagree on what matters.

Helpful Companion Links

• A previous episode that might be helpful: #40 The Lazy Genius Navigates Family Tension
• Find all 13 Lazy Genius principles in The Lazy Genius Way available wherever books are sold
• Claim your November preorder bonuses for The Lazy Genius Kitchen! Preorder the book, then let us know about it here.
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You might be done with your holiday shopping already or maybe you haven’t started. Either way, these rules can still add some lightness and help to the next couple of months.

Helpful Companion Links

• Looking for gift inspiration? Check out Team LG’s Holiday Gift Guide for 2021!
• The Lazy Sisters, my secret podcast with my sister Hannah on Patreon
• Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
• The best deals of the year are going on now at Boll & Branch! From November 1-11, use promo code LAZY at bollandbranch.com.
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When it comes to this episode, I will not speak any of these words as some kind of social or racial justice expert. But I’m learning and want to keep learning, and based on the communication I’ve gotten from so many of you in recent months, you feel the same way. So today, I want to share with you three small things that have made a big difference in my own process that I’m asking you to do over the next few weeks.

Helpful Companion Links

• The White-Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole for The Atlantic
• I’ll share some of my favorite follows on Instagram this week @thelazygenius
• Dear White Peacemakers by Osheta Moore (follow her on Insta @oshetamoore)
• 30 Days to Being Actively Anti-Racist on Social Media by Deidra Riggs (follow her on Insta @deidrariggs)
• Share your experience with me whenever you’d like by emailing hello@thelazygeniuscollective.com.
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This is a special, unique little episode because I am not alone. My sister, Hannah, recorded this little bonus episode with me to give some fun and levity but also permission to be who you are in a room even when you don’t know what everyone is talking about.

Helpful Companion Links

• Get a new episode of The Lazy Sisters every month on Patreon.

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When the first positive test came back for Covid in my family, I started writing things down. Especially the big things I learned. Even if you’re not in this situation, hearing what people learned from challenging situations is always helpful to me. You can find encouragement or comfort or ideas from someone else’s experience, even if your experience is centered around something completely different. So even if you’re not dealing with Covid, I hope you still find value in this episode.

Helpful Companion Links

• Grab The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) where I share the 13 Lazy Genius principles that help me in everyday life, including during quarantine.
• Download a simple Quarantine Tracker to keep up with symptoms, test results and more.
• Here’s our Quarantine Kit, aka the items that got us through two weeks at home.
• Other shows mentioned in this episode: Pantsuit Politics and last week’s episode #230: How to Be a Person
• Fun news alert: We have new gear! Check out the new Lazy Genius merch here.
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Today, I’m speaking with therapist and author Aundi Kolber. This conversation is a rich exploration of how to start small in finding a therapist, how to care for ourselves when we’re disappointed (like when we think a pandemic is going to be over and it does the opposite), and how the brain works under stress.

Helpful Companion Links

• Learn more about Aundi’s work on her website and follow her on Instagram @aundikolber
• Get her book Try Softer and grab the Try Softer Guided Journey (releases October 5th)
• If you want more resources from Aundi, check out her free companion video series for the Try Softer Guided Journey.
• To find a therapist, go to psychologytoday.com and use their filter system to name what matters most about your therapist or to emdria.org for therapists who specialize in EMDR. Aundi recommends choosing three therapists you're interested in and requesting a free 20-minute consultation to see if it's a good fit. Most therapists offer this. If finances are a hindrance, ask therapists if they have a sliding scale.

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There are only 95 days between today and December 31st, and those might be the fastest flying 95 days of the year in any year. Rather than find yourself in the middle of day 52 wondering how in the world you’re going to make it, today I want to help you think through this fall and holiday season like a Lazy Genius.

Helpful Companion Links

• Grab your copy of The Holiday Docket for $10 this week only!
• Learn more about the Lazy Genius principles in my book The Lazy Genius Way!
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We’re talking about five different personalities of book organization, so hopefully, you’ll see yourself in one of these. We all have different challenges when it comes to organizing our books, but there’s really no one-size-fits-all approach. Having a lot of books doesn’t make you a hoarder. Not having towers of bookshelves doesn’t make you less of a reader. So let’s Lazy Genius how to organize your books.

Helpful Companion Links

• Laura Vanderkam on making time to read and her appearance on What Should I Read Next (ep. 112)
• Older episodes about reading: ep. 23: The Lazy Genius Reads and ep. 152: Reading in Odd Circumstances
• How to Use Trello to Track Your Reading
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You guys, we have Anne Bogel on the show today to help us be Lazy Geniuses about deciding what to read next! She hosts her own podcast aptly called What Should I Read Next? And I’m delighted she’s here with us today to talk about planning our fall reading lists, how to get unstuck when we’re just not into a book, and what her new reading journal is all about.

Helpful Companion Links

• Anne’s podcast What Should I Read Next? I’m a guest on ep. 27 Books good enough to make you turn off the tv and ep. 245 Finding the right mix for your reading life.
• My Reading Life: A Book Journal by Anne Bogel (releases Sept. 21!)
• Other books by Anne: Reading People, I’d Rather Be Reading, and Don’t Overthink It

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In the last episode in a quasi-series on getting out the door, we’re going to use Courtney Cleveland’s method of packing for vacation to help us get out the door with all the right stuff (and at the right time!). And the magic of Courtney’s method is the combination of batching and bags. Let’s jump in.

Stuff Mentioned

• Courtney Cleveland of All the Best Days is my travel guru. Here’s a bonus episode I did with her last summer.
• The other episodes in this mini-series on getting out the door: ep.223 The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door, ep.224 When Things Don’t Go According to Plan, and ep.225 The Shoe Episode.
• My book The Lazy Genius Way contains 13 principles, one of which Courtney follows with her bag routine: Batch It.
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We are going to plow through common challenges we all face with shoes and apply some Lazy Genius principles to help make those challenges easier. Obviously, we can’t cover every possible shoe scenario, but I am hoping to cover some common ones to help cover our bases and also to give you some practice on applying principles so you can do it for yourself and your personal shoe challenges.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out all the details about The Kitchen Crew!
• Episode 223: The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door
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This episode was inspired by last week’s episode The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door. One of the reasons we all have trouble getting out the door is things not going according to plan. There are so many variables, so many things we can’t control, that shift the whole plan.

There are three steps to flexibility, and we’re going to talk about them today.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode 223: The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door
• Episode 87: The Lazy Genius Guide to Flexibility
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A few weeks ago, I asked y’all on Instagram to share the challenges that make leaving your house so complicated. What makes it hard to get out the door? I have never had more responses to a question box on Instagram in my actual life. It was amazing. So let's Lazy Genius it.

Stuff Mentioned

• You can officially preorder The Lazy Genius Kitchen! Order it now and get it on release day March 22, 2022.
• This episode was inspired by Lazy Geniuses on Instagram! Follow @thelazygenius and chime in.
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Today I want to talk about taking care of yourself as the world opens up. We’ll lay some groundwork and then apply a couple of principles for you to consider over these next few weeks, especially as we move out of summer and into more of a steady routine.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s quote in this episode is from his book Letters and Papers from Prison
• My favorite social platform on the interwebs is Instagram. You can follow me there @thelazygenius.
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It is the first Monday in August, and August is a unique month. For people with kids or if you’re an educator, it still feels like summer outside but you’re transitioning into fall routines. There are a lot of things to do to prepare for the next season, and it can feel overwhelming to keep up with all of them. And even if you don’t have kids, August is transitional. It just is.

Today, let’s put some specific words around the challenges of this season.

Stuff Mentioned

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Episode 168: How to Go Back to School
• Episode 94: The Lazy Genius Guide to Freezer Meals
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We’re talking about everything from what glasses I wear to how to Lazy Genius a marriage in this fun episode where I answer your burning questions (or the questions that pop up in DMs and my inbox on the reg).

Stuff Mentioned

• FAQ Instagram Reel from a few weeks ago (I’m @thelazygenius if you want to follow along!)
• Eyewear brands available at Oscar Oglethorpe
• Try an Olive & June mani or pedi system and have your mind blown (use code LAZYGENIUS for 20% off your first system)
• Episode 191: Naming What Matters in 2021
• Episode 186: A Pep Talk for Not Knowing
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We’re halfway through July, halfway through a crazy year that followed the craziest year of any in quite a while, and I think our bodies and minds might be feeling it. So let’s just take a few short minutes for a quick pep talk.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Pep talks from the past: For Being Stuck, For Not Knowing, a Goals Pep Talk.
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Last week was Let’s Talk About the Body, Part One, and I highly encourage you to listen to it if you haven’t already. I’m laying out ten principles to think about when it comes to your body and other people’s bodies; five were last week. Five are this week.

As a reminder, last week’s principles were one, the body is amazing; two, there is no normal body; three, there isn’t a hierarchy of bodies; four, bodies don’t have to be healthy in order to count; and five, there are privileged bodies. Ready for the next five? Let’s jump in.

Helpful Companion Links

• Here’s a list of resources that informed my own research and knowledge of body neutrality.
• My episode on Your Body Is Not Flawed
• Kate Kennedy from @bethereinfive
• Get the Latest Lazy Letter in your inbox every month
• The Body by Bill Bryson
• Do Less by Kate Northrup
• Period Power by Maisie Hill
• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Sarah of @thebirdspapaya is one of the most powerful voices I’ve encountered around thinking about our bodies
• Try Softer by Aundi Kobler
• The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride
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There’s a lot I want to cover here, so much so that I had to break it up into two episodes. It was just too long. So next week, we’ll obviously do part two of let’s talk about your body.

In total, I have ten principles to consider about the body - yours, other people’s, how you engage with your body when you’re alone, and how you pay attention to your body when you’re with other people, hormones, privilege, and the complexity of body positivity. We’ll start with the first five today.

Helpful Companion Links

• Here’s a list of resources that informed my own research and knowledge of body neutrality.
• The Body by Bill Bryson
• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Kate Kennedy of Be There in Five
• @whatkatefinds nail polish color wheel
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Today, I’m sharing ten things to help you navigate siblings who fight. To give you some context, I am not an expert. I’m only a mom. I am not a child psychologist or a parenting expert. I am in the thick of parenting with two boys who are 11 and 9 and a five year old daughter. It’s not like I’m seasoned in this. What I’m sharing today is simply what has helped in my own experience that is also informed by what I’ve learned from parenting experts but mostly my own therapy.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Episode 182: Loving People You Disagree With
• Episode 40: The Lazy Genius Navigates Family Tension
• Loving Your Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk
• The Soul of Discipline by Kim John Payne
• My podcast I co-host with my sister Hannah on Patreon
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Have you ever wished you were one of those people who could welcome anyone into your home for a meal or a hang without plans? Or maybe you’ve experienced one too many encounters where your brain forgot that your guests might need cups or need some sort of direction to really feel welcome in your space. Today, we’re talking about hospitality on the fly because summer is peak season for spontaneous hospitality. And if it matters to you, I want you to feel like you can say an enthusiastic “Yes!” when a pool day turns into an unexpected pizza night or ice cream hang or whatever.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Last week’s episode on summer meals is a great framework to think about feeding people who may not be regulars at your table
• Here’s the episode LG of the Week Emily mentioned in her message about reading clubs! And you can grab a guide to start your own with The Lazy Genius Way here.
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The energy around cooking this summer is a bit of a situation. So we’re going to talk about how you think about your meals, cook them, and eat them through the lens of how you might eat on vacation. If you’re going on vacation and have to feed your people, this episode will obviously be very helpful to you.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• The Summer Meal Formula, a list of summer meals that are easy-ish to make
• And here’s the 21-meal dinner queue that I leaned on heavily last summer
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Obviously, summer reading is a big thing for a lot of people, and if you’re new around here, reading is one of my favorite things on the planet. Today though, I want to talk about something more specific. I want us to create a summer reading club. A reading club is a group of readers (and if you read the book, you are a reader, friend) talking about what they individually have been reading.

Stuff Mentioned

• My first guest appearance on What Should I Read Next? and my latest appearance on it.
• How I track my reading using Trello
• My favorite books from the last decade
• Check out The Lazy Genius Facebook group if FB groups are your thing
• Grab the book club guide for The Lazy Genius Way
• Get a copy of The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) to get ahold of all the Lazy Genius principles mentioned in this episode.
• My favorite social platform on the interwebs is Instagram. You can follow me there @thelazygenius.
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A House Rule is something that could keep that first domino from teetering and knocking over everything else. All of us have different kinds of summers, and all of us likely experience different modes and priorities, again, within the same summer. House Rules can really help give a little steadiness to that if you want it.

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• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Here’s the crowdsourced post on Instagram if you’d like more ideas.
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
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I want us to plan a summer day without turning into robots or without leaving literally everything to chance where we’re playing it cool on the outside because we’re cool and spontaneous and we go with the flow and on the inside we’re literally screaming in terror because going with the flow forever and always is just as stressful as planning every minute.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Check out a podcast flight on Time Management episodes on Spotify. Or listen to The Lazy Genius Plans a Day here.
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It’s here, you guys, it’s here! This is such a highly requested topic, and I think now that we’re about to go into summer, we could use some perspective on how to approach this ever-present topic. So I have three perspectives and then a few ideas for house rules when it comes to your kids and screen time.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Here’s the episode on chores for kids from a few years ago.
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
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Clutter is a real thing. It feels like there’s never a clear spot to put anything down, and I think it’s safe to say that when surfaces are reasonably clear, your home feels cleaner and more welcoming even if it’s dirty. So today, I am going to share the ten principles of keeping your surfaces clear.

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
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The Lazy Genius Podcast is not an interview-style show, so when I invite a guest on, I make sure they are a Lazy Genius at what they do. I’m thrilled to introduce you to Rachel Rodgers, a former attorney and current founder and operator of Hello Seven, who’s here to talk to us about a new way to think about money.

Helpful Companion Links

• Find Rachel on Instagram and learn more about her book We Should All Be Millionaires here.
• Here’s an older episode about budgets

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Today, I want to help you essentialize your phone apps. In this episode, we’re going to specifically apply the Lazy Genius principle of essentializing to your phone apps to that you can go from being overwhelmed or annoyed or distracted by your apps to having them serve you in a way that matters.

Stuff Mentioned

• Find all of the Lazy Genius principles in my book, The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link).
• If you’re looking for a resource about adult screentime, there’s an episode for that. Listen to it here.
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown (p.s. he has a new book out called Effortless!)
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Liz Wienke with her reminder to decide once and batch it.
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I get asked about the origin story of this business a lot, especially when I do our Ask Me Anything sessions on Sunday nights on Instagram. I get a lot of questions like “how did you get started, where did the name come from, what made you decide to make a podcast, did you have jobs before this,” so let’s talk about what shaped the Lazy Genius into what it is today!

Helpful Companion Links

• Check out The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) if you’d like to read more about my life and how I use Lazy Genius principles every day.
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
• This week only (April 25-May1), I’m opening the doors to Camp21 for the summer. Find out more details here.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Mary Chris Richard with her reminder to live in the season you’re in.
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It’s April, and we’re entering Teacher Appreciation Week soon. Then it’s Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and the end of school. And pandemic guidelines are loosening, people are planning weddings and baby showers. Then, of course, there are birthdays and holidays and all the regular things.

We have many opportunities to buy gifts for people, and it can be overwhelming. So today we’re going to Lazy Genius gift-giving.

Helpful Companion Links

• Listen to the original Lazy Genius episode on buying gifts here. Also, here’s a holiday-centric episode on being happy with the gifts you give.
• I get my kids’ teachers Cozy Minimalist Home by Myquillyn Smith as my Decide Once teacher gift.
• I use Trello for reading and for keeping up with many things in my life.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Brittany Jenkins with her self-care habit.
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First things first, you do not have to be planning a wedding to find this episode relevant. This is one of our Lazy Genius Brain episodes where we practice applying Lazy Genius principles to a specific area, even if it isn’t personally applicable. Think of it as getting your reps in how to think like a Lazy Genius. And if you are planning a wedding, well you are in luck. It’s a win for everybody.

Helpful Companion Links

• Find all of the Lazy Genius principles in my book, The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link).
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Andrea Buck with her Decide Once gift wish list habit.
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We all have bad days and for different reasons. There’s something about being inside a bad day that feels like there’s no way out. You kind of just have to wait until the next day and start over. But if your bad day is living its best (or worst) life by breakfast, maybe waiting until tomorrow’s fresh start is not the ideal solution.

None of us want bad days, but all of us have them. So let's Lazy Genius how to rally a bad day.

Helpful Companion Links

• Get a copy of The Lazy Genius Way (or request it from your library!) to learn all about the LG principles.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Chelsea K. Stanley with her Decide Once Chickfila reward points system.
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I love sharing lists like this and also encouraging you to make and share your own. We are still in it after a very long year, and paying attention to the things that bring us joy, make things easier, make us more ourselves, those things deserve a spotlight.

Stuff Mentioned

• The Ginger Smoothie recipe I shared on Instagram. I’m @thelazygenius, by the way.
• You can listen to the episode about my skincare routine here that’s a couple years old, or you can hop on the list to receive the Latest Lazy Letter and read about what I’m using now later this week.
• The Lazy Genius Asks For Help (spoiler alert: you don’t have to be in crisis to ask for help)
• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk (affiliate link)
• Winter Sun, Calling Spring, and Breezy Instrumental (or just follow me on Spotify if you want)
• The Lazy Sisters Podcast on Patreon
• Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine (affiliate link)
• If you haven’t read it yet, pick up a copy of The Lazy Genius Way at your favorite bookseller or your local library.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Wendy Toops-Lauer with her Decide Once Pannukakku Sundays.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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I want to revisit the concept of a morning routine, especially in light of still living kind of in a pandemic, and give you one question you can ask yourself - just one - as you think about how your current morning routine is serving you or not. I’ll also share my own current morning routine and its evolution over the last few years.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Lazy Genius Morning Routine from 2018
• The Universal Path to Life-Giving Routine (the original blog post that offers the foundation for any routine)
• My conversation with Erin Moon about morning routines was the most downloaded episode of 2020. Listen to it here.
• Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
• If you haven’t read it yet, pick up a copy of The Lazy Genius Way at your favorite bookseller or your local library.
• Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Danielle Barham with her reminder to clear your counters before picking up your groceries.
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It’s finally here — an episode about moving! Good golly, I’ve been getting asked to Lazy Genius moving at least once a week for the last two years. But before you scroll away because you aren’t planning a move, I want to tell you that I apply every single Lazy Genius principle to moving in this episode so you can see how to LG your own thing in real-time.

Stuff Mentioned

• Find all of the Lazy Genius principles in my book, The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link).
• Follow along on Instagram @thelazygenius to provide feedback on this episode setup.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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Two hundred episodes is a lot, and it’s likely you haven’t listened to every single one. Or maybe you have but it’s been a while and you need a brush-up. Whatever it is, I went through the entire archive and hand-picked the 20 episodes that will absolutely have the biggest broadest impact on your regular life.

Helpful Companion Links

• Get The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link) and have all 13 principles on hand at a moment’s notice.
• Episode #17: The Lazy Genius Cleans the House and episode #60: The Lazy Genius Cleaning Routine
• Episode #19: The Lazy Genius Gets Dressed
• Episode #21: The Lazy Genius Does Laundry
• Episode #32: The Lazy Genius Cleans the Kitchen
• Episode #34: The Lazy Genius Organizes a Home
• Episode #37: The Lazy Genius Budgets (Pro tip - check out Chelsea Brennan over at the Smart Money Mamas, too)
• Episode #40: The Lazy Genius Navigates Family Tension
• Episode #48: The Lazy Genius and Time Management
• Episode #51: The Lazy Genius Cleans the Bathroom (Pro tip - follow @gocleanco on Instagram)
• Episode #76 - The Lazy Genius Meal Plan
• Episode #77: The Lazy Genius Rests
• Episode #80: The Lazy Genius Daily Act of Kindness
• Episode #91: The Lazy Genius Organizes Paper
• Episode #119: Plan Your Opening Ceremony
• Episode #124: The Lazy Genius Weekly Plan
• Episode #142: Living Without Food Rules
• Episode #143: Your Body Is Not Flawed
• Episode #160: Wear Makeup Like a Lazy Genius
• Episode #196:

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Most of you live in the United States, many of you have kids, all of us are living in varying degrees of isolation still because of the pandemic, and all the things. Yet we still have to eat, we still keep making dinner. But it feels like it’s getting harder and harder, right? Let’s try and give a couple of solutions here. 

Helpful Companion Links

• Bri McKoy is a delight and a magician in the kitchen.
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People have always had stuff to do, but let’s think about it. Our culture and lives have evolved to such a point where if we don’t write down what we have to do, we will in fact forget. Today, we will talk practically about how one can manage one’s to-do list, but I have a couple of bigger picture thoughts, too.

Stuff Mentioned

• Don’t know your list-making personality? I got you. Listen to episode #173.
• Here’s an episode from last year on how a Lazy Genius plans a day.
• And here are some words on time management from the archives if you’re interested.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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It’s a heavy topic, I know, but I want to give some language and space around this thing that many people in the Christian faith are struggling with right now. And who better to help us with this than Erin Moon, the resident Bible scholar on The Bible Binge.

Helpful Companion Links

• If you missed our conversation about Erin’s morning routine last summer, you can listen to it here.
• Learn more about Erin’s Lent Guide here. (And you can get 15% off using code LAZY)

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I love my iPhone. I love my apps. I love Instagram. I love it all! And because we love it, we’re on it a lot, and while that is not a universally bad thing, you might desire a better relationship with your smartphone. There are no universal rules or truths or any of it when it comes how you use your phone. You get to decide what matters. You get to decide how to do your own screen time, and I’m going to share some Lazy Genius principles that you can apply to make your phone enhance your life the way that you want it to.

Helpful Companion Links

• Order a copy of The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link)
• My IGTV on how to make time for what matters or you can find all the Lazy Genius Instagram things here @thelazygenius
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February and March struggle to bring the thunder. I mean, it’s just the way it is. We’re past the lovely winter holiday gauntlet, we’re past the energy around fresh starts in January, we’re still weeks away from spring break if you get a spring break and for sure months away from summer vacation. So we need something to look forward to. For real. So rather than just waiting for July or a vaccine or for any kind of gathering or celebration to count only when things are back to normal, we’re going to be proactive.

Helpful Companion Links

• Episode #191: Naming What Matters in 2021
• Listen to BJ Novak on The Tim Ferris Show
• I hang out on Instagram @thelazygenius more frequently than anywhere else on the Internet.
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This is a rare episode where I talk to another human, and I only have humans on who are actual Lazy Geniuses at what they do, and you guys? Laura Tremaine is 100% a Lazy Genius, maybe even just a genius, when it comes to sharing your stuff especially online. 

I adore Laura and the work she puts out into the world. I hope you enjoy our conversation!

Helpful Companion Links

• For Greensboro locals, check out Chez Genese’s new Family Dinner Subscriptions.
• Preorder Laura’s new book Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First., which comes out February 2nd.
• You can learn more about Laura’s book here or by visiting her website here. And you can find her on Instagram @laura.tremaine.
• And if you’re looking for another podcast to listen to after you finish this episode, I highly recommend her show 10 Things To Tell You.

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This is a year I want to pay attention to in ways I’ve never paid attention to a year before. So in today’s episode, I want to share some things I want to do in my 40th year, why that is, and maybe even give you a framework for seeing this next year with more intentional eyes, whether you’ll be turning forty or not.

Stuff Mentioned

• Check out episode 191 Naming What Matters in 2021 if you missed it.
• Preorder Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First by my friend Laura Tremaine.
• Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard
• The doors to Camp21 open on Thursday, January 21st! Check it out here.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

 

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We all get that early January itch that carries into the dark winter of February where we just want our homes to feel good to be in. But we often start in the wrong place. I want to prevent that from happening to you today.

Stuff Mentioned

• Pick up a copy of The Lazy Genius Way to learn all about Lazy Genius Principles and how they can help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don’t.
• Check out The Lazy Genius Store where you’ll find The Swap, The Clean Slate, The Meal Plan and The Holiday Docket.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

 

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The turning of the calendar doesn’t change everything, but it does change something. It changes our outlook, even the tiniest bit. We are no longer in one of the hardest years, if not the hardest year depending on your life experience, we’ve ever faced.

So today I want us to start small in our own lives where we are and think through what is going to matter to each of us in 2021.

Helpful Companion Links

• Emily P. Freeman offers us many invitations to look back and see what matters to us. If you’re unfamiliar, you can listen to her podcast The Next Right Thing here, buy her book by the same name here, or order her brand new Guided Journal here.
• I talk about a lot of Lazy Genius principles in this episode, which are in my book. You can buy a copy of The Lazy Genius Way here.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

 

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I want to mark the end of this year here with you by sharing my favorite discoveries of 2020, and maybe it’ll make you want to remember the good things that you discovered and enjoyed and learned. So that’s what we’re going to do. Here are my favorite discoveries of 2020.

Stuff Mentioned

• Join me over on Instagram (@thelazygenius) for more of my favorite discoveries.
• Two podcast episodes by others that offer a great perspective on reflection: The Next Right Thing: Walk At Your Own Pace and 10 Things To Tell You: 10 Questions for the End of the Year
• Hear more about the Daily Delete from Miss Freddy in this recent Lazy Genius episode.
• Olive & June asked me to curate a collection for them, and I haven’t been okay since. (And here’s my review on Instagram)
• Hear me say words about skincare in The Lazy Genius Guide to Makeup and The Lazy Genius Skincare Routine. P.s. the brand I mention is Sunday Riley Good Genes
• The ultimate lounge set: Vuori joggers and Richer Poorer robe
• TV Shows: Schitt’s Creek and What We Do in the Shadows
• POV Comedians on Instagram: @lukemillingtondrake, @hicaitlinreilly, @dmichaelburke, and @vinn_ayy
• Soma Vanishing 360 Perfect Coverage bra
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We’re almost there. We’ve almost made it through this impossible year. I would love to take just a couple of minutes to find our position in it, our position in our days right now.

Helpful Companion Links

• Get a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Way
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This year may not be the year to host the entire neighborhood or maybe even anyone for a traditional cookie exchange; however, it could be a fun way to get everyone in your house involved in the kitchen and flex your creative muscles in showing other people that you care about them… through cookies. So we’re going to briefly cover what a cookie exchange is then I’ll go through a few steps to help you plan one during a pandemic. 

Helpful Companion Links

• My favorite book about gathering people is Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering
• Canva is a great resource for designing invitations, cards, or cookie tags if that sounds fun to you
• The Magic Question (and all of its Lazy Genius principle friends) live in my book The Lazy Genius Way
• A few cookie recipes hosted here on The Lazy Genius Collective: “I Want Them Now” Chocolate Chip Cookies, My Absolute Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe, Cumberbatch Cookies, Fudgy Oatmeal Cookies That are GF, Vegan and Mostly Refined SF, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
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I love implementing opening and closing ceremonies into my year and especially into the fall and winter holiday season. As we all know, holidays in 2020 are not what we expected. So how can we rethink traditions and gatherings and opening ceremonies during such an upside-down time? This episode will hopefully offer some encouragement in that.

Helpful Companion Links

• Here are a few past resources on opening and closing ceremonies: Plan Your Opening Ceremony and The Magic of Closing Ceremonies.
• Grab a copy of The Lazy Genius Way if you haven’t yet to learn the 13 Lazy Genius principles.
• Join me over on Instagram @thelazygenius for real-life Lazy Genius.
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There is so much we don’t know. So today on this Monday after Thanksgiving and this final day of November, I think we could all use a short little pep talk and a way to start small with all of this not knowing.

Stuff Mentioned

• Here’s where you can find all of my Spotify playlists, including the nine holiday-themed ones I made last year
• Sign up to receive the Latest Lazy Letter, which goes out this Wednesday
• The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman (p.s. her guided companion journal comes out in January!)
• Download a transcript of this episode

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I get asked a lot about photo storage all the time, and I haven’t talked about it at all because I’m not an expert. But lucky for you, I’m joined by someone who is an expert on today’s show! Casey von Stein aka Miss Freddy is a photo organization guru, and she’s here today to help us think about the holiday photos we’re taking this year, the areas where we can be lazy when it comes to photo storage, and how we can start small in organizing our files. She’s truly the Lazy Genius of photos.

Stuff Mentioned

• Get 20% off Miss Freddy’s Backup Bootcamp using the promo code LAZYGENIUS
• Snag an idea or two from Miss Freddy’s photo gift ideas blog post.
• Follow Miss Freddy on Instagram or check her out online at her website.
• Get The Lazy Genius Way for yourself or as a gift this holiday season.
• Pinhole Press is a great resource for photo gifts
• 1 Second Everyday App

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It’s the middle of November, and some of you might have already gone through the process of decorating or you’re putting it off because it’s overwhelming or you always do the weekend after Thanksgiving which is coming up, but the point is it’s kind of time. And it can be very overwhelming. Today, I want to give you a lens through which to view your decorating so you can find your holiday decorating personality and then offer five steps on getting yourself prepared to actually do it.

Stuff Mentioned

• Grab a copy of Myquillyn’s latest book Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round (pro tip: stock up when it goes on sale and use them as teacher gifts!)
• A few Lazy Genius holiday greatest hits episodes: Ten Ideas for a Holiday Reset, Nailing Your Holiday Vibe, The Lazy Genius Guide to Flexibility, Refocus Your Christmas Brain
• How to Decorate for the Holidays Without Punching Someone in the Face
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In this bonus episode, I talk with Tsh Oxenreider about her new book, Shadow and Light, that walks us through Advent in the most Lazy Genius way possible. It gives us permission to engage in the season of Advent without pressure or performance. 

Helpful Companion Links

• Get your copy of Shadow and Light by Tsh Oxenreider
• Visit Tsh’s website to get a peek inside the book and for other Advent resources like her playlist and weekly art pieces
• You may like Tsh’s podcast, The Good List, and her newsletter, Books and Crannies

 

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Spices are pretty important in cooking obviously, so let’s demystify a few things — what they’re good for, what to have on hand, how to use them, and how to store them. And we’ll run through what could be your essential spice cabinet.

Stuff Mentioned

• Here’s a guide to spices by cuisine that can help you as you determine what needs to be in your spice cabinet.
• Lazy Genius Change Your Life Shawarma
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Tomorrow is Election Day. I can’t remember an election in my lifetime that was this contentious and would leave so many people devastated no matter the result. It’s just a lot. And you are a unicorn if you do not know and love someone who is voting differently than you are. We’re all really tender right now, and to top it all off in terms of timing, we’re about to enter the most family/friend-centric two months of the year with all the winter holidays. So I think it’s time for a little conversation on loving people you disagree with.

Helpful Companion Links

• A great resource that has helped me in my life is Pantsuit Politics Podcast and their book I Think You’re Wrong But I’m Listening
• Emily P. Freeman’s episode on How to Stay Grounded During Election Season on her podcast The Next Right Thing
• Listen to my conversation with Scott the Painter about loving well when you disagree over on Instagram.
• An older episode of The Lazy Genius Podcast that is one of the most downloaded episodes to date: The Lazy Genius Navigates Family Tension
• The Liturgists Podcast with Hillary McBride and William Matthews
• The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
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Here’s what we’re going to go through today: what the Instant Pot is great for, what it’s not great for, how to start using one including my favorite tools and resources, and my own personal Instant Pot rhythm. Because here’s the thing: not everybody needs an Instant Pot, and everyone that does have one uses it differently, for different types of recipes and different speeds of regularity.

Stuff Mentioned

• Windblown Grateful studs are back for a very short time! You can get a pair here.
• The Instant Pot I own and use
• My Magic Instant Pot Curry Rice recipe
• Tools and Resources I use and love: Coco Morante’s two cookbooks The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook and The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook; tongs; kitchen thermometer; metal steamer basket
• Buy a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Way!
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We’re less than two weeks out from Halloween, and of course my kids are already asking what we’re going to do. It’s uncertain times, y’all, and it’s tough to know how to do this Halloween thing. Let’s do a quick check on what matters and some ideas for people staying in on Halloween and people going out.

Helpful Companion Links

• A throwback blog post on 10 Lazy Genius Halloween Ideas
• Other thoughts on Halloween costumes
• Download a transcript of this episode

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This is a very unsexy topic but also a really important one because we all have to eat. I don’t think a single person listening has never tried at least one recipe. So while this is super personal which we’ll get to and that there is really not some magical system which we will also get to, I hope you leave this episode with one small step that helps you feel like your recipe storage is serving you, not you serving it.

Stuff Mentioned

• Plan to Eat digital recipe organizer or try Evernote to create your own system
• The Lazy Genius Plan Your Hot Dogs notebook
• Follow me on Instagram @thelazygenius to get a peek at how I store my recipes this week
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I hear a lot of you say you wish you had a hobby but you’re unsure of where to start or how to start or you feel like they could be a waste of time. We want them, we need them, but a lot of us don’t have them or know how to get them. So that’s what we’re going to do today. Let’s get a hobby!

Stuff Mentioned

• Both versions of my chocolate chip cookie recipe if you want it (trust me, you do): “I Want Them Now” version and the original 72-Hour version.
• The bread book I’m using for my bread baking hobby this year.
• Get your copy of The Lazy Genius Way or grab one for a friend!
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I’m not going to give you my single day and tell you to copy it. I’m not even going to tell you what should be included in your day. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all situation. It rarely is. We’re going to quickly work through a lens you can use to plan your day, any day in any circumstance.

Helpful Companion Links

• The IGTV video I mentioned in the episode.
• Grab a copy of The Lazy Genius Way here for yourself or for a friend!
• Join me over on Instagram this Thursday around 11:30 a.m. ET because I’ll be going through The Holiday Docket!
• Be a Lazy Genius VIP and get yourself on my mailing list!
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Why fall reading? Like, what’s special about fall reading? How do you choose what to read? When do you read? Basically, I love making fall reading this amazing quest. I want to capitalize on the particular vibe of fall reading and make it feel legit. So let’s do this.

Helpful Companion Links

• If you’ve read and loved The Lazy Genius Way, consider leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads. If you haven’t read it, you can pick up a copy here.
• Book voices you can trust: Anne Bogel from What Should I Read Next, Jaime from Absorbed in Pages, Green Lights from The Popcast, or visit your local indie bookstore (which you can find here).
• Books I’m reading: Grateful by Diana Butler Bass, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ranson Riggs, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Books on my Non-Fiction TBR stack: Shalom Sistas by Osheta Moore, The Furious Longing of God by Brennan Manning, Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Books on my Fiction TBR stack: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jesmisin, The Space Between Worlds by Michaiah Johnson, and The Shadows by Alex North
• Join me over on Instagram if you haven’t yet where I talk books from time to time.
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We’re about halfway into September, and even though temperatures and even seasons depending on your hemisphere are different right now, something about life shifts when we hit September. And whenever I hit a shift, the importance of my environment is more obvious.

Creating a space that feels safe and cozy, whatever that looks like for you, is important for your mental health. This episode will give you steps on how to do that, but the important thing here is to name the importance of your environment when you’re in the middle of something long or at the start of something new. 

Stuff Mentioned

• Preorder Myquillyn Smith’s new book Welcome Home and claim your preorder bonuses before Tuesday, September 15th.
• Her other books in order of release are The Nesting Place and Cozy Minimalist Home.
• Myquillyn’s guest appearance on The Next Right Thing podcast hosted by the one and only Emily P. Freeman.
• Follow me over on Instagram to see my story highlight where I walked through my entire cozy home process.
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Now it’s not fall yet in weather or on the calendar, but it’s getting close. And while you might not think you’re the kind of person who would do a meal formula and very well could be right about that, I’d love to share with you how you might put one together to help your meals come together even more easily over these next few months.

Helpful Companion Links

• The original meal formula episode from this past summer and the actual formula if you want to see it
• Leave a comment on an LG recipe if you’ve tried it and loved it or saying how you changed it up for your people. Here are some of my favorites for quick access: Change Your Life Chicken, Change Your Life Shawarma, King Biscuits, Trashy Tamales, Fearless Chicken Tikka Masala, The Chickpea Bowl, and Homemade Hamburger Helper
• Join me over on Instagram @thelazygenius to see behind the scenes kitchen stuff and Meal Plan Monday
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Lists are a big part of our lives, especially in these uncertain times, but I think we sometimes think there’s only one way to make them. That’s not true! So today we’re going to talk about list-making personalities and how we can support what matters in our lives even more with how we approach our lists. 

Stuff Mentioned

• There’s still time to join us for Book Club! Grab your guide and tune in on Thursday nights here.
• Some helpful list-adjacent LG content: How to Bullet Journal, The Lazy Genius Guide to Planners, and The Lazy Genius Chooses a Planner
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A couple of days ago, I asked folks on Instagram what one word they would use to describe their current relationship with routines. There were very few positive words, words that would indicate that routines are working. Here’s what we’re going to do for the next few minutes. We need to examine our expectations of routine, reframe what routines actually are, and then give you a next step or two to resurrect them.

Helpful Companion Links

• Leave a review on Apple Podcasts right here.
• Buy a copy of The Lazy Genius Way for yourself or a friend!
• Hear me and Erin Moon talk more about morning routines in a bonus episode from a few weeks ago.
• Other routine-themed LG resources you might find interesting: The Universal Path to Life-GIving Routine (blog post), Lazy Genius Morning Routine, Lazy Genius Evening Routine, Lazy Genius Cleaning Routine, and more.
• Get all the details about The Lazy Genius Way Book Club, which starts Thursday!
• Join me on Instagram @thelazygenius for everyday Lazy Genius content (it’s where I’m active the most!).
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I know that top ten lists can be a bit rote, but honestly, there’s something super life-giving for me personally to hear what other people are finding joy in. It gives me ideas of course, but more than that, it reminds me to pay attention to my own life and be even more intentional about nurturing the things in my day that give me a lot of joy. So I hope this list does that for you today!

Stuff Mentioned

• In a turn of events that no one expected, least of all me, I’m a nail polish person. I ride or die for Olive & June nail polish.
• Having a summer meal formula is saving me this summer. I talk about that idea here and share my own here.
•  I was influenced by Bri McKoy to get these joggers even though they cost around 80 dollars. For sweatpants. But my life is changed and here we are.
• My beloved Penny and Sparrow have a new album out.
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It’s our final bonus episode, you guys! Over the summer I’m talking to some Internet and IRL friends about Lazy Geniusing an aspect of our every day lives. Today, I’m talking to Erin Moon about morning routines!

Helpful Companion Links

• You can find Erin Moon on Instagram and online here.
• The Lazy Genius Way is out now! Get your copy today from your favorite bookseller!Erin

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I get messages all the time asking how a person can lazy genius their laundry pile or an awkward friendship encounter or online school or any number of things! The truth is that any challenge could use a Lazy Genius solution, and that’s why I wrote The Lazy Genius Way!

Helpful Companion Links

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Way before midnight tonight (Monday) to claim your preorder bonuses!
• Missed the episode on How to Go Back to School? Catch up here.
• Details on opening and closing ceremonies and what they can be for you and your family.
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On Saturday, you might have heard the audiobook version of the introduction of my book The Lazy Genius Way, and today’s episode is chapter one! I don’t want to make you wait around, so here it is! Chapter One of The Lazy Genius Way entitled “How to Think Like a Lazy Genius.”

Stuff Mentioned

• Preorder either the print or audio version of The Lazy Genius Way and claim your preorder bonuses before August 11th!

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Today’s episode is extra and very exciting. It’s the audio version of the introduction of my book The Lazy Genius Way! I’m so excited for you to get a sneak peek of the audiobook before it’s out in the world in all its glory.

Helpful Companion Links

• My book, The Lazy Genius Way, is available for preorder! You can find all the details here. Don’t sleep on it, you guys. Preorder bonuses end on August 11th!

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Transitioning from summer to school routine is a legitimate thing, but this year? Well, clearly we don’t have to say a lot about this year. So how do we go back to school when we don’t even know what that looks like?

Helpful Companion Links

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Way and get the entire Lazy Genius Library for free just for preordering. Details here!
• Previous episodes that are Back to School adjacent: What Does It Mean To Take Care of Yourself?, The Lazy Genius Works From Home, and Plan Your Opening Ceremony.
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It’s another bonus episode, you guys! Over the summer I’m talking to some Internet and IRL friends about Lazy Geniusing an aspect of our every day lives. Today, I’m talking to Kristen Howerton and she’s helping us Lazy Genius being a mom, specifically being a mom of teenagers down the road.

Stuff Mentioned

• You can find Kristen on Instagram here and buy her book Rage Against The Minivan here.
• My book, The Lazy Genius Way, is available for preorder! You can find all the deets here.

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Did y’all know I really dig playlists? Like so much. And I’ve been told, especially after my holiday playlists last year and my quarantine groove playlist this summer, that I’m really good at them. I will agree with you. This is not a space I choose to be overly humble. I learned from the best.

Helpful Companion Links

• Playlists I’m proud of: nine curated Christmas playlists plus my Quarantine Groove list for the summer.
• My sister Hannah makes seasonal playlists for our patrons over on our Patreon show The Lazy Sisters.
• My buddy Bri McKoy is also a bomb playlist maker. Check her out on Instagram.
• Here’s my profile on Spotify for easy access.
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There is something so fun about getting a behind-the-scenes look at something like publishing. We all read books, but y’all the whole industry is something else. There’s so much happening, and it’s all really interesting! Well, some of it is. Today, I want to share with you five things I learned about launching a book that I didn’t know before.

Stuff Mentioned

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Way and get the entire Lazy Genius Library for free just for preordering. Details here!
• If you missed the episode A Peek Inside The Lazy Genius Way, you can listen to it here.
• My thoughts on goals and goal-setting: Quit Setting Stupid Goals, How I Handle Screwing Up My Goals, A Goals Pep Talk, and The Lazy Genius Sets Goals.
• If you’re interested in being part of a community, check out Hope*Writers. They open their doors to new members three times a year.
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Vacations definitely look different this summer than they usually do, but trips aren’t just vacations. You’ll go see grandma, you might travel a state or two over when the holidays come soon. Basically, we’ll have trips long after this pandemic is over, and I get a lot of questions about doing a packing episode, so here you go.

Stuff Mentioned

• Haven’t preordered The Lazy Genius Way yet? You can do that right here and claim your bonuses!
• My bonus episode with Courtney Cleveland from All the Best Days on Lazy Geniusing staycations. You can get her packing list here.
• There are only a few more days to join the book launch team! If you haven’t applied yet, you can do so here!
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It’s another bonus episode, you guys! Over the summer I’m talking to some Internet and IRL friends about Lazy Geniusing an aspect of our every day lives. Today, I’m talking to Kate Strickler of Naptime Kitchen, and we’re Lazy Geniusing dinner without losing our minds. Kate is such a great resource for making regular life dinner, and she happily takes us along with her.

Stuff Mentioned

• You can find Kate on Instagram @naptimekitchen or on her blog at www.naptimekitchen.com.
• My book, The Lazy Genius Way, is available for preorder! You can find all the deets here.

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I’m not saying I fixed summer cooking because that would be stupid, but I think I found an approach that will be pretty awesome, especially if you’re three weeks into hot weather no school everyone home cooking and losing your mind a little. 

Stuff Mentioned

• Apply to be a member of The Lazy Genius Way Launch Team here! The application will close at noon on Wednesday, July 8, and we kick off activities Monday, July 13. I’m so excited, and I would love for you to join us!
• Here’s a link to my pancake recipe I make every couple of weeks in a big batch and freeze.
• I’ll be on Instagram around noon eastern to go live and answer your questions on Thursday.
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Summer is a season of relaxation, of later bedtimes and loungy days, but we’ve also kind of already been in a weird season of pseudo-relaxation and later bedtimes and loungy days because of COVID-19. It’s safe to say that easing into summer rhythms is a little complicated right now.

Helpful Companion Links

• I first mentioned Daily Sheets in How to Lazy Genius Kid Chores (episode 117) and I misspoke in the episode by calling it The Lazy Genius Plans a Day. It’s really The Lazy Genius Weekly Plan.
• Preorder your copy of The Lazy Genius Way out August 11, 2020 (and get fun preorder bonuses!).
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This is a very exciting and surreal episode for me to share because in case you didn’t know I wrote a book, and today is the first real day that I’m going to tell you about what is inside! On August 11th, you’ll get to read those words if you want, and in this episode I’ll actually share a couple of ways you can read those words sooner, but for now, I’m going to tell you why I decided to write a book, what my writing rhythm was when I was writing it, how I wrote 60,000 words that were never used, what kept me from quitting because I almost did a couple of times, and what’s inside the book.

Helpful Companion Links

• Preorder The Lazy Genius Way and claim your preorder bonuses here.
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Surprise! We’re doing fun bonus episodes over the summer where I talk to others about Lazy Geniusing an aspect of our every day lives. Today, I’m talking to Courtney Cleveland of All the Best Days, and we’re Lazy Geniusing staycations and a little bit of day-tripping. This episode will legitimately give you the tools you need to travel like a Lazy Genius.

Stuff Mentioned

• Here’s where you can find Courtney Cleveland: her personal Instagram and All The Best Days Instagram.
• You can get her packing list here.
• My book, The Lazy Genius Way, is available for preorder (and there’s a free sample available here right now)!

 

 

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This summer, you guys, is the summer I truly begin my education of being an anti-racist. I want to begin taking steps in how I see my summer stack and even in what I watch and listen to. I also want to do that with my kids. And I invite you to join me.

Stuff Mentioned

• Books mentioned in this episode: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, The Enneagram of Belonging by Chris Heuertz, The Green Ember by S.D. Smith, The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, Enter Wild by Carlos Whittaker, I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown, Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, The Lazy Genius Way by me!
• Movies mentioned in this episode: The Black Power Mixtape, The 13th, and When They See Us
• Podcasts mentioned in this episode: 1619, Melanated Faith, and Throughline
• Ro Williams Brann on Instagram, and her recommendations for the summer: The Colors of Us by Karen Katz and This Is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe.
• A Kids Book About Racism (back-ordered) but you can follow them on Instagram here.
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I am no makeup expert by any stretch, but over 20+ years of wearing makeup, I’ve figured out one strategy that works for me, and I want to share it with you today.

Helpful Companion Links

• If you want to be a genius about makeup, follow Jamie B. Golden on Instagram. Do it. Go. And while you’re there, I’d love for you to join in on the Lazy Genius fun, too.
• More words about the products I use on my four faces here.
• My monthly newsletter, Latest Lazy Letter, goes out this Wednesday. There will be book news in it. I repeat, there will be book news in it. If you want it, get on the VIP list.
• If you don’t have plans Saturday night (I mean, really, who has plans right now?!), join me for The Popcast’s virtual live show celebrating Knox’s new book All Things Reconsidered, which you can get here (affiliate link).
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It can feel like our closing ceremonies are shot because of how things are within the setting of a pandemic, and that’s a very real thing. I’ve said it several times in episodes about a variety of topics, but there’s a lot to grieve right now. But here’s an important thing to remember: the magic of a closing ceremony isn’t really about what you do but that you just do something.

Stuff Mentioned

• Want a refresher on opening and closing ceremonies? Start here: Plan Your Opening Ceremony (119), The Lazy Genius Welcomes Fall (70), and The Lazy Genius Conquers Holiday Overwhelm (36).
• Sarah MacKenzie at Read Aloud Revival can help you incorporate a read-aloud rhythm in your family.
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Right now, we’re separated from each other in ways we never have been before, but there will be other times when we want to stay in touch with people we love when we’re far away from them, whether it’s across the country or six feet apart. So today, how do we stay in touch when we can’t actually touch?

Helpful Companion Links

• Myquillyn Smith, aka The Nester, gave me the framework of “lovely limitations.” Her book, Cozy Minimalist Home (affiliate link), is my go-to Christmas gift for my kids’ teachers.
• Instagram is where I hang out most on social media, and I’d love for you to join me there. You can find me @thelazygenius. P.S. Here’s that post about Annie’s birthday party.
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If you’re stressed about all that’s going on, you might be sleeping less, not eating the same things because of apocalyptic grocery shopping, maybe you’re not able to read or run or get drinks with girlfriends, all things that normally make you feel really good on hard days. So yeah. I feel like it’s a good time to talk about what it means to take care of ourselves. 

Helpful Companion Links

• A few extra resources not mentioned specifically in the episode: The Lazy Genius Rests, The Daily Act of Kindness, and The Lazy Genius and Self-Care.
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Last week, I shared ten principles of lived-in cleaning, but today, we’re diving into the specifics. Laundry, tidying, bathrooms, dusting and all the things. Just how do we keep our homes clean when everyone is in it all of the time? Let’s jump in. 

Helpful Companion Links

• We talked about the 10 principles of lived-in cleaning last week, revisit that episode (or catch up on it) here.
• Here are the most popular cleaning episodes from The Lazy Genius back catalog: laundry, laundry updated, and how to start a cleaning routine.
• Looking to get rid of some stuff? Listen to The Lazy Genius House Purge.
• Tackling the bathroom? Here’s how The Lazy Genius Cleans the Bathroom.
• Here’s an affiliate link to my beloved Dyson vacuum. Cordless vacuums are worth their weight in gold.
• The next Latest Lazy Letter goes out Wednesday where I talk all about what I’m reading, watching and listening to. Hop on the VIP mailing list if you’re interested in receiving it.
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A lot of us are still sheltering in place, and that brings a new set of challenges when it comes to cleaning. Because there are so many challenges, we’re going to make this a two-part miniseries. Today, I’m going to share 10 principles of lived-in cleaning. Then next week, we’ll get into some specifics like laundry, bathrooms, dust, and crumbs on the floor. Here we go.

Helpful Companion Links

• If you’re active on Facebook, we’d love to have you in The Lazy Genius Facebook group. It’s a lovely resource and community.
• The episode on How to Hire a Housecleaner if that’s something you want to consider when the pandemic is all over.
• My pandemic Spotify playlist, Quarantine Groove.
• I’m the most active on Instagram these days (and I’m sharing my results of The Favorites Files there, too). You can find me at @thelazygenius.
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We’re still in a shelter-in-place situation in most parts of the country and part of this process includes not going to the grocery store as often. Thing are weird, and new meals don’t really fit in with our weird. We’re eating a lot of the same things over and over again, but I’m sharing five ways to add freshness to repetitive meals.

Helpful Companion Links

• Bri McKoy is great at a lot of things, but I love love love the sauces and dressings she comes up with. Here’s a link to her cilantro yogurt sauce which pairs perfectly with Change Your Life Chicken (if you like cilantro of course).
• Speaking of meals that will change your life, Change Your Life Shawarma is a staple in our house lately.
• Bri also inspired me to switch up our rice and make it in the Instant Pot with coconut milk.
• The Favorites File is a free download that helps you be a genius about the things that don’t matter, like celebrities you’d be quarantined with, famous actor partnerships, and so on and so forth. It’s really fun, and 100% free.
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Yes, we’re still in the coronavirus pandemic, but honestly, there are lots of times when time makes no sense. It’s a struggle to get a handle on how to manage our time when our regular average day and the regular average things you normally do to fill it gets turned upside-down. So today we’re going to revisit the three Lazy Genius pillars of time through the lens of time making no sense.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Favorites File is the entertaining homework you didn’t know you needed right now. Sign up to get your free download here.
• Revisit The Lazy Genius and Time Management for more of my thoughts and opinions about time management.
• Listen to more wisdom from Beth Silvers on her podcast Pantsuit Politics. She and her co-host Sarah Stewart Holland wrote a book called I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening) if you’re interested.
• I’m planning to be on Instagram @thelazygenius this Thursday around noon ET to chat about time management when time makes no sense, so be sure to follow me there.
• My book The Lazy Genius Way is now available for pre-order at your favorite place to buy books.
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Based on the number of downloads of past episodes related to reading, I know that there’s an overwhelming majority of people listening who really love to read. So when our regular reading rhythms are disrupted by odd circumstances, it’s nice to have a roadmap of how to get back to normal or how to create a new normal. That’s what this episode will do. 

Stuff Mentioned

• I’m planning to be on Instagram @thelazygenius this Thursday around noon ET to chat about this topic, so be sure to follow me there.
• The Favorites File is officially available for your enjoyment. Sign up to get your free download here.
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Whenever I share something about eating outside, the questions pour in on how to do it. Breaking things up a bit and getting into the fresh air sounds really good right about now, so lets Lazy Genius eating outside.

Helpful Companion Links

• The Lazy Genius Cleans the Kitchen is a good refresher on how to reset your kitchen after a meal, so apply the same dishes zone principle to eating outside.
• If you have ideas on how to eat outside with more ease and fun, share them on Instagram using #lazygeniuspicnic. And as always, you can find me @thelazygenius.
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These are weird, scary, surreal times, but, honestly, I am grateful for how this global crisis has already affected how we see. Here are five things to remember when you’re stuck at home…or maybe when you’re just stuck.

People and Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• The Incomparable Mister Rogers, who tells us to look for the helpers
• Seth Godin, who reminds us the ocean is made of drops
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, who encourages us to scatter joy
• Ingrid Fetell Lee, who wrote the book Joyful
• Myquillyn Smith aka The Nester, who asks us what we will wish we would have done when this is all over (here’s a link to get on her email list)
• And as Emily P. Freeman reminds us, let’s do the next right thing in love.
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Note from Kendra: This episode of The Lazy Genius Podcast was recorded before the majority of changes, postponements, cancelations and recommendations for social distancing due to covid-19 were enacted. Please know that I am thinking of the Lazy Genius community during these uncertain times. Be well. 

Naming what you’re good at is a simple exercise in being kind to yourself. And to be a Lazy Genius, you need to do that! Your gifts and abilities and ways of seeing and being in the world are significant and have incredible meaning. And when you don’t name what those are, it’s like having a tool that you don’t use.

A Few Helpful Companion Links

• I didn’t mention this specifically in the episode, but Laura Tremaine has an excellent episode exploring what you’re good at on her show 10 Things To Tell You.
• If you’re not following me on Instagram, I’d love for you to join the party. We’re about to do something really fun where you can chime in about your favorite episodes of The Lazy Genius Podcast.
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We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to mark moments, make memories, and give our kids something to remember. Even if you don’t have kids, there’s still a high cultural premium on memories. Scrapbooking, photo albums, daily journals, the Gram. But if we try to manufacture memories, mechanize them, we’ll get overwhelmed by something that our brains already do. Let’s make memories like a Lazy Genius.

Helpful Companion Links

• You can listen to Ten Steps to Creating Your Own Traditions (even if it’s geared a little bit towards holidays) here.
• Laura Tremaine’s family doing Sunday pancakes is a great example of a simple, but powerful memory-making practice. She also hosts a great podcast called 10 Things To Tell You.
• My favorite app for documenting with video is 1 Second Everyday.
• I also use a five-year journal (affiliate link) with a couple of lines for every day with space for five years.
• More info on Chatbooks, which we use to print photos of our kids from Instagram.
• Speaking of Instagram, I’ll be there on Thursday around noon EST to talk live about making memories. I’d love for you to join me.
• Download a transcript of this episode!

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In today’s episode, I’ll give you some ideas on how to move forward with a pseudo-traditional capsule wardrobe, but you’re a really smart person. If you pay attention to what matters, what doesn’t, and you create a few guidelines around those things, you can create your own process for building a capsule wardrobe.

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• Here’s that old blog post called Baby Steps to a Capsule Wardrobe.
• I’ll be on Instagram on Thursday to answer your capsule wardrobe questions LIVE around noon EST.
• Download a transcript of this episode.

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