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bestseller, The Lazy Genius Way. Embrace what matters, ditch what doesn't, and get stuff done. She's also the host of

the lazy genius podcast and has a blog. In fact, all of this together, she calls the lazy

genius collective, which I think I might have to steal. That's like so genius. Anyway, Kendra lives

with her husband and children somewhere. Welcome, Kendra. Thanks so much for coming on moms, don't have time to read books. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited about this. Oh, I am too. Oh, my gosh. You, I feel like your book, it was like, here's how to live your life a little bit better than you're doing. Here are all my tips, and I just took all those, and I'm like, I'm running with these now. Thank you very much. I'm so glad. I'm so glad. And who knew that we would also have a pandemic that we would need to sort of manage? So the timing is not great, but also really great. So I'm so glad. I'm so glad. Well, I'm sure the timing for you is not great with the launch. But as a reader, the timing is pretty great for the

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