Kendra Adachi: ...how to embrace 'the lazy genius' way to get stuff done

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the mixed messages society gives us about what it means to live well. We hear that there are so many things we should do--enjoy the moment, dream big, get up before the sun, make time for everyone in our lives while having a spotless home and doing the perfect workout.

Well, what if you could do what matters in your life, skip the things that don’t and be a person again? You can, according to our guest, Kendra Adachi, founder of “The Lazy Genius” movement and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done .

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:16.0	It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the mixed messages society gives us about what it means to live well.
0:23.4	We hear that there are so many things we should do.
0:26.5	Enjoy the moment.
0:27.5	Dream big.
0:28.6	Get up before the sun.
0:30.1	Make time for everyone in our lives while having a spotless home and doing the perfect
0:34.6	workout.
0:35.9	Well, what if you could do what matters in your life?
0:38.6	Skip the things that don't and be a person again. You can, according to our guest, Kendra Adachi,
0:45.1	founder of the lazy genius movement, an author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lazy Genius
0:51.1	Way, embrace what matters, ditch what doesn't, and get stuff done. Kendra,
0:56.5	thank you so much for joining us. I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
1:01.4	Your background is so familiar talking about listening to people on TV, telling you how you should
1:06.7	live your life for a long time before deciding to do things your own way. So tell us about your
1:12.0	personal background and how the podcast came up and then the book. Yeah. Well, I've been writing on the
1:18.0	internet for over 10 years now. The joke is that I start a new business every time I have a kid
1:23.7	and I have three kids now. I have three kids. This is my third. This is my third business,
1:30.0	but all of them kind of built on each other to bring me to this place, which is I just become so
1:37.9	sad and tired of watching my friends and women on the internet and just in life in general be sad and tired.
1:45.2	Like we're all just struggling and working so hard, trying to keep a smile on our faces
1:49.5	when we're just run into the ground with all the expectations that are put on us.
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