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. Hustling to be the best or to make

the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently.

On the show, we value contentment,

compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps 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. Today is episode 455. It's office hours time.

I'm always so excited when this episode comes around, either through voice memo, email,

or Instagram, you guys share the challenges of your everyday lives and we try and lazy genius

them together, finding compassionate solutions that match your season of life.

Usually during these episodes, we group the parenting questions together at either the beginning

or the end so that anyone who doesn't have kids can easily skip that content if desired.

If you are a regular podcast listener and you're expecting that announcement,

we don't actually have any kids specific questions today. So this whole episode is great for

everybody. And fun fact, we have a couple of voice memos in our episode today, one from a

listener sharing her question and another from someone whose voice you actually might

recognize as an

answer to a question. That one will be at the end. For a little extra something, I'm going to offer

another word of the month. We did that in January, and I thought it might be nice to do it again

in February and see if it resonates with you. As always, we'll share the lazy genius of the week,

which is a fun tip for freshening up your wardrobe with a little surprise built in, and then

we'll close with a pep talk for when you don't know how to help. Speaking of helping, I wanted

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