Part systems expert, part permission giver, Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius, is here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
504 episodes transcribedWe spend so much time in our kitchens—making food, cleaning up food, putting away food. The mess that comes out of that room is nothing short of terri...
My oldest is wrapping up his freshman year of high school, and I can feel how fast it’s all going. This episode is about what I hope he—and all my kid...
Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial s...
It’s time for another Office Hours episode! Every quarter, you send in your questions and challenges, and I offer a Lazy Genius lens to help you navig...
Naming what matters is the whole foundation of everything we do here, and I think it’s also one of the most challenging. Today, I’m going to share six...
As we get a little closer to spring break and summer which inevitably involves a trip or two, I wanted to do an episode to help us think about trips w...
I did an episode on organizing paper over five years ago, and it’s solid. But it’s time to look at it again. Because paper is everywhere. It’s like Mi...
Kids are wonderful. Kids are also annoying. Parenting asks us to love them while they push our buttons, and if we don’t think ahead, we might react in...
If you think like a Lazy Genius, there are three surprising steps to a clean house. They’re a short little row of dominoes that impact how you see you...
This kind of episode is like Christmas for me. I love talking about planning but with a compassionate, flexible bent. We do not need anymore rigidity...
I’m always honored when you all say I’m the big sister you’ve never had, and I think sometimes we need a good ol’ pep talk from a big sister. Today’s...
Man, I love these episodes. I love lists so that’s obviously a blast, but intentionally looking for the good things, the life-saving things, the joyfu...
For whatever cocktail of reasons, life just feels like a lot right now. An extra amount of a lot. Constant chaos feels like the norm instead of the ex...
This is a universal problem. All of us have stuff we have to do and we just don’t feel like doing it. So either we don’t do it and get behind or we do...
Y’all are super familiar with this episode by now, but I’m going to take some of your questions from Instagram and Lazy Genius them. I will say that a...
Live in your season is one of the thirteen Lazy Genius principles I write about in my first book, The Lazy Genius Way, and fun fact: it was the hardes...
Celebrations are strangely complicated. Sometimes we shy away from them, especially if we’re celebrating something about ourselves. Other times we hav...
The beginning of the year or the beginning of anything often has us rethinking our routines and rhythms and systems and choices to see if there’s anyt...
We are right in the middle of this sometimes blissful, sometimes annoying, sometimes deeply ordinary week between Christmas and New Years. Since 2025...
I cannot tell you how excited I am about this episode. I’ve been keeping a note on my phone all year of my favorite discoveries and moments and just r...
