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Live Well Anyway

S5 Ep177: Become a Lazy Genius with Kendra Adachi

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6605 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa chats with Kendra Adachi. Kendra is a writer and podcaster, as well as a wife and mother to three beautiful children. Today MacKenzie talks with Kendra about her new book The Lazy Genius Way and what it means to make it easier to do the things that bring you to life. (Affiliate links are used in this content.)

  • What the basis is for the “Lazy Genius Way”
  • Figuring out what matters to you and what you need to make the most of your time
  • What MacKenzie loves about this book and why she thinks you need to read it
  • Letting ourselves be honest about what it means to be a person with unique needs and wants
  • Recognizing and naming what matters to you

If you don’t name what matters underneath it all, you are just going to keep trying and being tired.

Kendra Adachi  
  • Observing your own life and noticing what works and what doesn’t work for you
  • Stop using levels of order or messiness as a measure of morality
  • How the book is broken down into principles for every situation
  • Navigating this season in our lives with grace and a teachable spirit
  • A typical day in the life of Kendra and her family
Current Lovelies-

Kendra: painting her nails almost daily and loving it for the first time in her life

MacKenzie: curating her family’s playlists for different times of the day

Resources Mentioned- Books:

The Lazy Genius Way

On the Bright Side

Stand All the Way Up

Podcasts:

Tsh Oxenreider and The Good List

The Lazy Genius Collective Podcast

Kendra’s episode: How to Make the Perfect Playlist

The Popcast

Music:

Penny and Sparrow

Movies:

Sense and Sensibility

Find Kendra-

You can find Kendra on her website The Lazy Genius Collective. You can also follow her on Instagram.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on InstagramFacebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.

Thanks to Our Sponsors-

Today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely is sponsored by Magic Spoon Low Carb Cereal. Visit MagicSpoon.com/LOVELY to order a variety pack, and use code LOVELY get free shipping!

Cultivating the Lovely is also brought to you by Crayola School Mask Pack. Get your family a mask pack today at schoolmaskpack.com/LOVELY.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

the gift of like hacks and practical stuff and systems and tips and whatever is when we can use

0:08.8

those in support of what we have already named. Welcome to Cultating the lovely.

0:25.7

I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.

0:27.6

And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely.

0:34.0

So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information,

0:38.2

and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more,

0:42.8

you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community

0:47.3

at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of

0:52.5

my favorite places to interact with all of you.

0:54.6

You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today.

0:59.9

Ladies, if you follow me on social media or you are over in Patreon, then you have heard me

1:04.6

talk about today's guest and her new book over and over and over again because I am so excited about it. Very few books do I feel like

1:13.4

nail the productivity thing as well as this one does. It's not oppressive. It's not unrealistic.

1:21.8

It is just so straightforward and helpful and I am so thankful to Kendra Adachi for coming up

1:27.4

with the lazy genius way.

1:29.3

Personally, I think it's brilliant. It allows us to all care about the things that actually matter

1:33.5

to each of us, which are individual but still have this baseline idea of how to get things done

1:39.0

in our lives without feeling overwhelmed. It has ways to cut some corners or just think smarter

1:43.9

about the things that we

1:45.0

need to get done. And I love her sense of humor and her straightforward approach to how she

1:51.0

wrote her book. It is so much fun. But before we get there, we're going to have a little part

1:55.8

of the show that's called The Call to Action, which basically just means I'm going to ask you to do something because you

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