#207 - The 15 Moments That Shaped the Lazy Genius
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:08.0 | and lazy about the things that don't. Today is episode 207, the 15 moments that shaped the |
| 0:14.4 | lazy genius. I get asked about the origin story of this business a lot, especially when I do our |
| 0:19.4 | Ask Me Anything sessions on Sunday nights on Instagram. I get questions like, how did you get started? |
| 0:24.6 | Where did the name come from? What made you decide to make a podcast? Did you have jobs before this? |
| 0:29.7 | So today, that's what I'm going to share. I went through my life and I tried to trace the |
| 0:34.7 | lazy genius through line. It was actually a very therapeutic, energizing practice. I mapped out |
| 0:40.9 | my life on a whiteboard and I saw how all of these pieces fit together into a really beautiful story. |
| 0:47.2 | One that I honestly hadn't really noticed before in this way. So originally, I was actually going |
| 0:53.0 | to call this episode the lazy genius origin story. But the moments felt so pivotal and I needed some |
| 0:58.4 | way to structure the episode that just wasn't me giving you a slideshow of my life because that's |
| 1:02.3 | weird. So here we are. The 15 moments that shaped the lazy genius. Number one, in eighth grade, |
| 1:08.4 | I placed second in a local sports writing competition. I was a very studious kid, very into |
| 1:15.6 | lists and organization and things being like a certain way. I also wanted to be a sportscaster for |
| 1:22.6 | years. When I was in eighth grade, I was a homeschooler and there was a competition in the local |
| 1:27.5 | paper. It was kind of a marketing arm of the ACC tournament. The Atlanta Coast Conference. It's a |
| 1:33.7 | college basketball conference. And my city, Greensboro, North Carolina, it often hosts the basketball |
| 1:40.0 | tournament. So this was also when the internet and computers were like kind of becoming a thing. So |
| 1:48.4 | the contest was to write a piece about a pivotal moment in ACC tournament history. And then the |
| 1:55.3 | winners would get to go to a couple of tournament games and they would write like recaps on the local |
| 2:01.2 | newspapers website. That was of course very polished and very ahead of its time. Right. So when I was |
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