The Lazy Genius Podcast

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#413 Office Hours Apr 14, 2025

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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 navigate them.

You don’t need someone else to solve your problems—you’re smart and know your life best. Sometimes just asking the question is the solution. But listening to others? It’s a powerful reminder that you’re not alone in what you’re carrying.

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Burnout by the Nagoski sisters
Episode #332: How to Enjoy Your Evening Hours
Four Thousand Weeksby Oliver Burkeman
Episode #66: The Lazy Genius Yard Sale
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#412 - 6 Common Mistakes When Naming What Matters Apr 07, 2025

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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 common mistakes when naming what matters so that you can catch yourself when you run into one of these. Hopefully it’ll help you see with clearer vision.

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Episode #406: Big Sister Pep Talk: You’re Not Selfish
Episode #255: How to Name What Matters
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#411 - 10 Things to Do Before Taking a Trip Mar 31, 2025

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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 with a little more intention. The ten things apply to work trips, family vacations, girls weekends, all the things. If you leave your house for more than a night or two and then come back home, this episode will be helpful.

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Bonus Episode: The Disney World Episode
Episode #165: The Lazy Genius Packs for a Trip
Episode #248: The Lazy Genius Guide to Easier Travel
Episode #265: How to Come Home from Vacation
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#410 - How to Deal with All the Paper Mar 24, 2025

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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 Michael Scott said in that episode of The Office where they make their own TV commercial: limitless paper in a paperless world.

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Episode #91: The Lazy Genius Organizes Paper
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#409 - How to Parent When Your Kid Is Annoying Mar 17, 2025

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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 ways we regret.

In this episode, three things to remember when your kid is driving you up a wall, plus seven common frustration points and how to handle them with a little more intention.

Not a parent? No pressure to listen! But if you need a different episode today, Episode 302: The Lazy Genius Guide to Basketball is here to help you survive March Madness.

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Episode 216: Navigating Siblings Who Fight
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#408 - Three Surprising Steps to a Clean House Mar 10, 2025

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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 your home and what you do to keep it clean. And maybe your definition of clean will shift a little, too.

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#407 - How to Create a Flexible Weekly Plan Mar 03, 2025

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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 or weird shame spirals about failed plans. No thank you. We’re just living our lives, putting things in place where we can, intending to do whatever we decide, but then lowkey expecting that not all of those things will happen. We need to be flexible with both our plans and ourselves. Today, I’m going to give some ideas on how to approach both.

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Jodi Picoult TikTok
Cookish from Christopher Kimball
Muji 0.38 pens
Mildliners in Gold
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#406 - Big Sister Pep Talk: You’re Not Selfish Feb 24, 2025

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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 is about selfishness.

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Burnout by the Nagoski sisters
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#405 - What’s Saving My Life Right Now Feb 17, 2025

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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 joyful things in my life right now is something I hope I never stop doing. So today I have a list of ten things, a pretty mixed bag per usual. What brings me life and saves my life is going to be different from yours. But I will try and do a good job of sharing why that thing is on the list so that you might better understand why something is on your personal list.

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Order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy.
Book Buddy app
Messy by Olivia Dean (YouTube playlist)
Cashmere Throw Blanket by Quince
Cookishby Christopher Kimball (affiliate link)
I’ve Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God by Erin Moon (affiliate link)
@justmacrose on Instagram
Tiny little stirring spoons (affiliate link)
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#404 - 10 Ways to Find Calm in the Chaos Feb 10, 2025

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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 exception.

Finding calm in the chaos is not just a cute alliterative podcast title. It’s required. It’s survival for me right now. It’s necessary spiritually and mentally healthy work for me to actively seek, create, and receive calm in the chaos of life right now, and I want to share ten ways you might try doing that, too.