Hey there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here

to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode 282, how to have people over to eat. Feeding people at my house is one

of my favorite things in the entire world and I hope that my enthusiasm for it and the

permission that you're going to hear in this episode will help you be excited about it too.

But I also know that we all have a lot of speed bumps when it comes to hospitality and

entertaining and having people over. So I want to speak to a few of those today and maybe

like, sand them down a little bit so they're less bumpy. So we're going to go in the right

order today. The order matters a lot here more than you realize probably and we're going

to start with who do you want to have over? Why does it matter? When could you do it?

And then what will you eat? You often start with what you're going to eat and then you

get freaked out and you just stop. The right order matters here. So let's take it.

All right. So the first thing, who do you want to have over? Start there. So often we're

like, I should have more people over or something super general like that. And then we're stuck

because of that whole wrong order thing. So who would you like to have over? Make a list

of people that you would enjoy having in your home. Maybe it's like one single person.

It's a larger group right now all the possibilities that come to mind and then start small with

one. Just pick one pick a person or a family or a couple of people that you're going to

prioritize having over soon. That's it. Now, before we move on to why it matters to have

them over, let's also say a word about the the regulars. Okay. We have instances where

we invite people over on purpose, right? And then there are the people who are in and

out of our home fairly regularly without our personal pursuit of them. Like when your

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