Hi there, you are listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that batter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is our 250th episode, you guys, that's a big deal. I mean it's kind of a big deal, right? I love how we have arbitrarily assigned years that are basically increments of tens, 25,000 hundreds is super important, but I will take it 250 is an amazing number.

And a lot of episodes and I am just so happy that you are here for them. In this 250th episode, I'm going to tell you how I make this podcast.

I asked you 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. And then later in the spring, we'll do a broader business episode in case that is what interests you.

Now the irony of this episode you guys is that at this time I, okay, so I record I record in my home office, all right, and it is a converted garage like it's, you know, back behind my house across the street for my house.

My neighbor is actually building a new garage and it is very loud. I have covered my desk and all the things and as many as many soft things as possible to absorb the sound.

And we are going to hear occasional hammering. I have tested, I can still hear the hammering. So there's just no getting around it.

Again, the irony that there are excess sounds on a podcast episode about how to make a podcast. It's just fantastic. Okay.

Now, before I get into the specifics of making the podcast, I want to tell you about the three women on the lazy genius team and what they do because that is a huge piece of the behind the scenes of the podcast.

So Leah Jarvis has been with me since March of 2018. So we were coming up on four years of working together. She started out doing a few administrative tasks like answering emails and scheduling stuff and kind of helping me with the machinery of newsletters and the website, stuff like that.

Well, it did not take long working with Leah before I realized how good she was at creating content at helping me come up with ideas and finessing rough ideas I did have into something more polished and clear.

She's also great at design, which I kind of looked into. So she did some of that to Leah basically did everything I did not want to do for years.

Now, when I hired her, she already had a full-time job. So her work for me was on the side. But then a couple of years ago, she decided to quit that job and work for Reliance full time, a decent percentage of that being for me.

So that was amazing and also kind of wild and scary because I'm like, oh man, this chick just quit her job to work for me. This business thing better pan out.

So for a while, Leah did everything because Leah was good at everything and she was the only one on the team. But as we will know, if you try and do everything, you will kind of end up doing nothing.

And at the very least, you will sacrifice what matters most for trying to do it all.

As a new business owner, I fell into this with Leah. I failed her, you guys. I failed her. I basically asked her to make everything matter because she was the only one to do it.

We were surviving. We were doing okay. But I was not a good boss in seeing what was happening. After several conversations, we realized that what matters most to her about her job and what she's best at is creativity.

And yet she was in the weeds, managing email and schedules and non creative details because there were and are a lot of those in this business.

We launched the lazy genius way, the book together back in August of 2020, a time that was chock full of creativity and details and it about killed us.

Now, we let a lot of things go and it's still about kill this. There was just too much to do. And the things that we both were excited to do, the creative things just didn't have enough margin to get done, especially for Leah.

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