Hi 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 is a bonus episode and it is a conversation with the host of moms don't have time to read books, Zibi Owens.

Zibi is a mom of four and also runs a media company that includes podcasts, publications, publishing house, and a huge book loving community.

Today, Zibi and I talk appropriately, perhaps before we get into the summer, about what can be helpful and enhance our lives as moms who read.

Now, if you are not a mom, this episode will likely still be interesting to you. But Zibi's perspective is trying to optimize her time so she can do what she loves, namely be with her kids and read.

Also, be sure to listen all the way to the lovely point that she makes about Midway through the episode. She talks about bringing her kids into the things that make her feel like herself.

It was a really memorable moment for me, so I hope it is for you too. And here you go. Here's my conversation with Zibi Owens.

You are a big time book influencer. You guys, Zibi is the host of moms don't have time to read books. And I see your posts and how you are sharing lists for us to read on Good Morning America and all of these different places. And it's so, and then you interview all these authors.

And I just think like that is such a great name for your podcast at mom's don't have time to read because I don't even know how I don't know how you do it. I don't even know how you do it. I want to ask you how not how do you do it? How do you do it all because that's not a real question because no one does it all.

But here in the space, we talk about how we can be a genius about things and how we can be lazy about things and there have to be things in your life that you have said, you know what, I'm going to put my time into this and then other things you go, I'm not going to care about that as much. And I would love to know what some of those things are.

I am a genius about sort of making the most of every second like maximizing time efficiency and I focus a lot on that. So I feel like I'm, I've got that one down.

Do you find yourself like trying to find new ways to be efficient or do you have that down? Like what does that look like?

I'm always looking for new ways and then I get super excited when I find them. So I work with a woman named Chelsea, who is like a master at efficiency. And so I'm always learning from her. So she recently taught me to put some frequently things that I frequently email as a signature in my emails.

It's changed my life. Oh, it's fantastic. It's so fast. So now like I'm always offering like here's where you just have to galley or whatever. So now just that one line is a signature and I can just put it in.

That probably cut your inbox time by a great percentage. So now I can focus more on the pitches. Anyway, I'm always looking for things to make things more efficient and how to do everything better. So yes, I'm continually trying to optimize that.

What's one of your favorite ways to optimize your time?

Setting alarms. I said a lot of alarms. Actually recently I've started using Siri a lot more. I know I'm a little bit late to this.

But sometimes I literally have to say I'm doing emails for 30 minutes and then I have to stop. So I'll be like Siri set a timer for 30 minutes.

That's one of the things I've been starting to do lately. If it makes you feel any better, I only use Siri when I accidentally activate her. I still don't know how to really do it on purpose.

I know this is literally my first time. I mean, I had another computer in here for a while where I was trying to do podcasts around the room in different places.

And I would say something to Siri here. She would like start playing a song on my computer behind me and I was like, this is terrible.

I don't know what I'm doing. Why is it why a series best to be so easy to use and I can't seem to master it. But now I feel like I finally mastered it. And it's actually super helpful.

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