Kendra Adachi: ... quitting is not failure

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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.
0:13.0	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.0	It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the mixed messages society gives us about what it means to live well.
0:22.9	We hear that there are so many things we should do.
0:25.9	Enjoy the moment.
0:27.0	Dream big.
0:28.0	Get up before the sun.
0:29.6	Make time for everyone in our lives while having a spotless home and doing the perfect workout.
0:35.4	Well, what if you could do what matters in your life? Skip the things
0:39.1	that don't and be a person again. You can, according to our guest, Kendra Adachi, founder of the
0:45.4	lazy genius movement, and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lazy Genius Way,
0:51.3	embrace what matters, ditch what doesn't, and get stuff done. Kendra, thank you so much for
0:57.1	joining us. I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Your background is so familiar,
1:02.5	talking about listening to people on TV, telling you how you should live your life for a long time
1:07.6	before deciding to do things your own way. So tell us about your personal background
1:12.4	and how the podcast came up and then the book. Yeah. Well, I've been writing on the internet for
1:18.2	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. So this is my third. This is my third business. But all of them
1:30.5	kind of built on each other to bring me to this place, which is I just become so sad and tired of
1:39.4	watching my friends and women on the internet and just in life in general, be sad and tired.
1:44.9	Like we're all just struggling and working so hard, trying to keep a smile on our faces
1:49.0	when we're just run into the ground with all the expectations that are put on us.
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