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The Lazy Genius Podcast

#450 - What to Do Before a Winter House Reset

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

I can feel it. This is the week. Or at least the week is coming where you look at the holiday decorations and extra presents and general detritus from the busy fall and get an organizational fire in your eyes. Big black trash bags are coming out. That energy is totally fine, but today, let’s talk about what to do before all that happens. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Sign up for our every-other-week podcast recap email called Latest Lazy Listens. Sign up for my once-a-month newsletter, The Latest Lazy Letter. Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want to tell you about a remarkable new podcast I can't get enough of. What happens when

0:07.8

our passions become obsessions? On David Green is obsessed, one of America's most familiar

0:14.1

voices and longtime co-host of NPR's Morning Edition, seeks out obsessives of all kinds while unpacking his own fixations.

0:23.9

You'll hear David talk to you, comedian Tignitaro, about her complex passion for plant-based

0:29.3

food. Actor David Arquette on his love for Bozo the Clown, Paula Poundstone on her house

0:35.2

full of cats, celebrity chef Michael Simon, on why he just can't quit the Cleveland Browns, even though they often make him miserable, and so much more.

0:44.7

It's pop psychology disguised as conversations with the world's most fascinating people.

0:50.0

You can listen to David Green is obsessed wherever you get podcasts.

0:58.0

Hi there. You're listening to The Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done.

1:13.0

Hustling to be the best or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently.

1:19.5

On this show, we value contentment, compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps

1:24.9

over big systems. Here we are lazy geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. And I'm so glad you're here.

1:34.4

Today is episode 450. What to do before a house reset. I can feel it. This is the week, or at least the week is coming, where you look at the holiday decorations

1:46.8

and extra presents and general detritus from the busy fall, and you get like an organizational

1:54.9

fire in your eyes. Big black trash bags are coming out. Now that energy is totally fine. But today, let's talk about

2:03.4

what to do before. All that happens. After that, we'll have a little extra something where I share

2:08.4

with you my word of the year for 2026. I don't usually choose the word of the year, but this year I am.

2:15.6

It feels right. And I will tell you all about it as a little extra something today. Speaking of the year, but this year I am, it feels right, and I will tell you all about it as a little

2:18.7

extra something today. Speaking of the year, after that, I'm going to share the lazy

2:24.1

genius of the year. You guys, we've had so many great lazy geniuses of the week through 2025,

2:31.1

and I have selected my favorite one to be our lazy genius of the year.

2:36.8

And then finally, we'll close with the mini pep talk for when you're feeling discontent.

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