Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie, and I am here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 144, How to Lazy Genius a Girls Night. This might feel like basic stuff. I mean, just go out with your friends, right?

The truth is, I get so much communication from all of you over email and Instagram about how you long for community. You want to get together with friends and do fun things, have traditions, go on trips, all of that.

So this episode is important in its simplicity because friendship matters, especially friendship together as women. So that's what we're going to talk about today.

Before we jump in and speaking of friendship and community, did you guys know that there is a Lazy Genius Facebook group?

I know that a lot of people have a certain allergy to Facebook and others love it and both ways are great. But one of the agreed upon benefits of Facebook is the ability to connect with people you normally wouldn't. Like strangers, like people who listen to the same podcast, for example.

Here's a thing, this is a Facebook group and the group is lovely. Every person who joins the group wants to be a lazy genius. Everyone is working from the same starting place of caring about the right things and letting go of everything else.

People ask questions in that group all the time and I have never seen any post or a question asking for a recommendation asking for help about something that didn't get a response like ever.

And bonus, like the responses are really thoughtful and helpful and kind. It's just a friendly, helpful place to be to ask your questions, to not feel weird.

Somebody recently asked about how to lazy genius and outside cat and there were ideas, everything counts because it's your life and sometimes we need help figuring out how to live it.

So if you have ever wanted to process an episode or ask a question about how to lazy genius something, try the Facebook group. I think you'll find it super, super helpful.

Someone recently posted in the group so much, so much laundry to do and I don't want to do it. What motivates you guys and someone else responded seeing my family naked and it made me laugh so hard.

So it's funny and helpful. There is a link in the show notes and you can request access to the group. That's the other thing about it. It is technically a private group.

So only people who are in the group can see what you're posting. So if you're struggling with something or feel a little weird talking about something that people in your regular Facebook life might not be as game for, you don't have to worry about that in this group.

It's private and contained and lazy genius is only. And I don't mean for that to sound mean. The members asked early on if we could make a private for that reason and we did.

So feel free to join you have to request because it is a private group. But my assistant Leah is like ready and waiting to grant you access. So feel free to join if you're interested. Again, the link is in the show notes.

Okay, let's lazy genius a girls night again. You might think this is kind of dumb. Do you really need perspective on this? But I would like to posit that if you are engaging in regular times of gaps.

You're doing regular times of gathering with the women in your life. And it's fulfilling and it keeps happening. Then you are actually naturally doing what I'm about to lay out.

So yeah, you're ahead of the game. Like if it's working great, but it's not working because it's like easy or just because like you're doing something and setting it up.

And your friends are already approaching your time together with intentionality. I don't think it would work otherwise. Maybe you named it a long time ago. Maybe you never had to because you were all on the same page so quickly.

But the same page exists. So if you are looking for a girls night like thoughts on that and you're wanting to have those types of gatherings in your life more often. We need to create like your page so that everyone can be on the same page.

You already have that existing in your group of friends. And that's okay. But you really are probably doing a lot of things we're going to talk about.

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