#460 - How to Better Channel Your Big Black Trash Bag Energy

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You know that feeling of wanting to burn everything to the ground and start over? I like to call that Big Black Trash Bag Energy, and today, I want to share three small steps to help you identify what that energy is really saying. Then we’ll talk about a little framework to figure out what problems that energy wants you to solve. This episode is chock-full of personal examples of what this looks like in my own life, and tiny problems I’ve solved recently with my Big Black Trash Bag Energy (but without throwing anything beloved away). Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. The Lazy Genius Kitchen Ep. 4 - The Freezer Fix with Annie F. Downs 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 or record your idea and share your voice on the show. 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	Hi there. You're listening to the lazy genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about
0:06.5	hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best
0:13.2	or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things
0:19.8	differently. On this show, we value contentment,
0:23.2	compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy
0:30.2	geniuses. Being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
0:35.4	And I'm so glad you're here. Today is episode 460. How to better
0:39.8	channel your big black trash bag energy. If you are not yet familiar with the term big black
0:46.2	trash bag energy, it's a term I coined to describe that feeling of wanting to burn it all down and
0:52.3	start over. It's when you're overwhelmed and even
0:55.1	annoyed by your home and you just start chucking stuff in big black trash bags to get it out of your
1:00.3	house. This feeling often comes in the transition from one season to another, like from the end of
1:08.4	the school year to summer or the end of the holidays into a new year.
1:13.7	It can also happen in the middle of a particularly hard season that doesn't seem to have a lot of
1:19.1	steadiness or order.
1:22.1	Or it could just come on a random Tuesday when your hormones are a little loop-de-loat.
1:26.1	It happens to all of us.
1:27.3	It's also a great
1:28.4	energy when channeled in the right direction. It can help focus your energy towards something
1:36.3	that matters rather than toward anything annoying that moves. So today I'm going to share three
1:42.6	small steps to help you identify what your big black trash bag energy is really saying.
1:49.2	And then a small little framework on what problems you should actually be solving.
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