#283 What It Really Means to be a Neighbor with Shannan Martin
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This is one of the best conversations I've ever had. Shannan Martin is the author of Start with Hello, a beautiful book about being a neighbor. She is a true Lazy Genius in this area and offers so many ways to start small in our relationships, for example with saying hello. This book transcends neighborhoods, lifestyles, and family structures. We also share places we've been awkward as neighbors and how one interaction, even if it's the last one, has a significant impact. You will eat this up, you guys. What a gift this conversation was to me and will be to you, too.
Helpful Companion Links
- Start with Hello by Shannan Martin (out October 11th!)
- Shannan on Instagram
- Shannan’s Pickle Recipe
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:10.0 | Today is episode 283 and it is a conversation with my beloved Shannon Martin. |
| 0:16.0 | Shannon is the author of some of my favorite books ever including Falling Free, The Ministry of Ordinary Places, and the recent book Start With Hello and other simple ways to live as neighbors. |
| 0:29.0 | Shannon and I talk about the challenges of being in a book especially after so long of not really being in connection with anyone, why it matters. |
| 0:37.0 | And we share some pretty personal stories about our own insecurities in being a person who shows up even in the tiniest ways of saying hello. |
| 0:45.0 | Emily P. Freeman described Shannon as a sidewalk poet and she is very much that. That is such a good description. |
| 0:53.0 | Shannon is a fierce, passionate person who cares so deeply about helping us be neighbors in ways that actually matter and I cannot wait for you to listen. |
| 1:02.0 | So here is my conversation with Shannon Martin. |
| 1:06.0 | We should talk more just as human beings and not when we're doing a podcast interview. |
| 1:11.0 | It makes me kind of sad. |
| 1:14.0 | I know, I know. We decided we'll do it. |
| 1:16.0 | One of the things that you are so good at sharing with us is just really great ways to start small and being a person and being a friend and being a neighbor. |
| 1:25.0 | And that's we're just going to start small with that. It's like we're realizing now we don't talk enough. |
| 1:30.0 | And now we're like, you know what? I'm going to put something before we get off. I want to put something on the calendar where we're just like, let's have like a zoom. |
| 1:38.0 | Let's have a zoom morning coffee or something. |
| 1:41.0 | Let's face time and just like chat. |
| 1:43.0 | And I'm going to say, I'm going to say, do you want to be a guest? |
| 1:49.0 | Can we? |
| 1:51.0 | We will. |
| 1:52.0 | How many principles do you think we can name in this conversation? |
| 1:55.0 | Okay. |
| 1:56.0 | So I already kind of intro your new book, which I'm so excited about. I realize my, I endorse this book everybody. |
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