The Lazy Genius Podcast

Bonus: How to Lazy Genius the Start of a New Month

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today is a quick little bonus episode - How to Lazy Genius the Start of a New Month. We’re a whisper away from October, and anytime the calendar tur...

#281 How to Get Dressed Without Losing Your Mind

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we had a longer-than-usual episode about how to find your personal style. So much of it is about how you want to feel, but there are also s...

#280 - How to Find Your Personal Style

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a very unofficial poll on Instagram asking what clothing-related problem was your biggest challenge, and finding your ...

#279 - How to Fix Dinner When You’re Never Home

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We have a lot of things we’re managing right now, and the one thing that never goes anywhere, no matter our season or stage of life, is food. We hav...

#278 - How to Manage Your Time This Fall

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Labor Day here in the US, and fall is decidedly about to start. We’re eager and excited, going up the hill of the first drop of the fall roll...

#277 - How to Connect with Friends More Regularly

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I want to give us a bigger picture of what we expect from our friendships, and then after the break, I’ll share a couple of friendship princi...

#276 - How to Pack Lunch for Work

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I’m excited about this episode because when I went looking for grownup lunch help, I found very little that would work for a variety of people. Most...

#275 - What’s Saving My Life Right Now

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I love doing these episodes because they are a reminder for me as I create them and you as you listen to them that we can always pay attention to what...

#274 - The Back to School Starter Pack

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Remember back in episode 200 where we did the Lazy Genius starter pack and listed 20 of the best episodes that will impact your life right away? This ...

#273 - How to Cross the Summer Finish Line

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The summer-to-fall transition can feel murky, especially if you have kids or work in education. There’s not a clean mark between the end of this and...

Bonus: How to Transition Your Routine From One Season to Another with Ashley Brown

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s bonus episode day! Today, I’m chatting with routine expert Ashley Brown about transitioning your routines from one season to another. I love ...

#272 The Complete Guide to Seasonal Ceremonies

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I haven’t talked about opening and closing ceremonies (or what I now have shortened and broadened to seasonal ceremonies) in a while. Even though a ...

#271 - How to Fix Summer Dinners

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yeah, we need to fix dinner, as in make it. But also summer dinners feel a little broken, especially around July, so we’re going to fix them that wa...

#270 - A 2022 Midsummer Pep Talk

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s do a quick little midsummer pep talk for the year of 2022 that just keeps outdoing its big brothers, 2020 and 2021. There are so many things t...

#269 - How to be a Tourist in Your Hometown

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s summer, we’re traveling, and faraway places seem lovely. But so can home! Today, let’s Lazy Genius how to visit where you live like you’v...

Bonus: The Lazy Sisters' Season Passes

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes we need a break from things like homework and time management and how to get dinner on the table. And right now is a perfect time for a brea...

#268 - 10 Summer Reading Ideas for Your Kids

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we talked about finding your own summer reading rhythm as a grownup, whether you’re home in the summer or just existing like the rest of ...

#267 - Find Your Summer Reading Rhythm

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My goal is that you listen to these next twenty minutes or so and you leave with the following pieces of information: what matters most to you about y...

#266 - How to Lazy Genius a Summer at the Pool

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

First, there’s a different strategy when you’re visiting the pool once or twice versus going to the pool again and again. If you’re going as a g...

#265 - How to Come Home from Vacation

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I am very excited about this episode, you guys. I think there are so many opportunities to just Lazy Genius the mess out of coming home from vacation,...

#264 - What Should Be In Your Bag?

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Carrying a bag around is such a simple, daily thing but super important because most of us leave our homes fairly often and sometimes need different t...

Bonus: What’s the Deal with Bestseller Lists?

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We just launched The Lazy Genius Kitchen into the world, and it became a New York Times bestseller which is so much fun and I’m so grateful. I often...

#263 - How to Still Have a Weekend

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Weekends are supposed to be restful and rejuvenating and fun, and yet our weekends are filled with more obligations and responsibilities and activitie...

#262 Answers to The Magic Question That Paid Off

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Magic Question is what can I do now to make something easier later? The smaller the something, the easier the solution. When you ask the magic que...

#261 - The Recipe Decoder

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In my book that released last week, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, I shared something kind of revolutionary. A cooking formula that could change how you app...

#260 - Let’s Lazy Genius Your Kitchen

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I shared part one of The Lazy Genius Kitchen where I teach the five steps, and today I want to apply those five steps to a few specific area...

#259 - 5 Steps to Lazy Genius Anything

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are just about one week out from the release of my second book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and in that book, I share five steps to Lazy Genius...

Bonus: Moms Don't Have Time with Zibby Owens

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zibby Owens joins me for this bonus episode where we talk about what can be helpful and enhance our lives as moms who read. Even if you’re not a mom...

#258 - The Seven Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rest itself is such a needed thing for all of us. After all, a Lazy Genius principle is to schedule rest, mostly because we just let it happen and it ...

#257 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Work-Life Balance

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is not a magical formula that achieves the perfect balance between life and work. There’s just not. You’re not missing something. You’re n...

#256 - How to Make Time for Fun

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are very good at talking about productive things, domestic things, hard being-a-person things, but we don’t often talk about specifically fun thi...

#255 - How to Name What Matters

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is one of those rare ones that I’m like - wait, did we not do that yet? It’s so desperately essential to living like a Lazy Genius, a...

#254 - Chores I Do Every Day

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I don’t have a lot of time, you probably don’t either, and even if you do, most of us don’t necessarily want to spend all of it doing chores. So...

#253 - How to Give Yourself Permission with Kate Bowler

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A note from Kendra: In this conversation, Kate and I exchange a joke about going to prison for someone we love, and I have since been shown the harm t...

Bonus: Sister Speed Dating with The Lazy Sisters

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Surprise! We’re experimenting with where The Lazy Sisters Podcast lives. Today, you’re getting a bonus episode from Hannah and me. We’re sister ...

#252 - How I Choose New Recipes

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re always on the hunt for new recipes, right? We want variety and beautiful meals, and we think that repetition is somehow a sign of laziness in ...

#251 - What's Saving My Life Right Now

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This kind of episode is one of my favorites to put together. Barbara Brown Taylor coined the phrase “what’s saving my life right now,” and I lov...

#250 - How I Make This Podcast

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this 250th episode, I’m going to tell you how I make this podcast. I asked y’all on Instagram what you wanted to know about the behind-the-scen...

#249 - How We’re Lazy Geniusing the Boat Situation

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You might have heard that all the copies of my next book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, were on a boat that had a rough day and lost some of its cargo. Tod...

Bonus: How I Lazy Genius Air Travel

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Airports and airplanes have a lot about them that’s the worst, but flying is also part of life for a lot of people so why not Lazy Genius it? I’m ...

#248 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Easier Travel

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is heavy on the practicality, y’all. There are so many decisions we make when we travel, and I want to give you just a slew of ways you...

#247 - What to Do Now to Make Spring Cleaning Easier Later

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not spring, y’all, I know. Tomorrow is the first day of February and that is decidedly winter. However, the whole point of the Magic Question...

#246 - 5 Essential Mindsets for Time Management

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We all have time, we all have expectations about how we want it emptied or filled, and we have a lot of hard, busy, stressful days that we need to man...

#245 - How I Personally Meal Plan

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s funny - I talk about meal planning a lot here on the podcast, on Instagram, and in my upcoming book that I can’t wait for you to read, The La...

Bonus: How to Listen to Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus episode, Hillary talks about why our bodies aren’t what we look like, how to engage with our bodies in healing ways, and what it means...

#244 - How to Choose the Right Lazy Genius Principle for You

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In my book The Lazy Genius Way, I share 13 principles you can use to Lazy Genius any situation in your life. Sometimes you might need one principle, s...

#243 - Lazy Genius Questions for the Start of 2022

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the first Monday in January which always has some fun energy to it. Fun? Is fun the right word? It has an energy to it. The level of fun depend...

#242 - What I Learned In My 40th Year

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You guys, it’s the last episode of 2021, and it’s also my birthday today. And not just any birthday; today I turn 40! In early January, in episode...

Bonus: Your Holiday Horror Stories

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A few weeks ago, I posted on Instagram asking for your holiday horror stories. You know, that time you tried to be either super lazy or super genius d...

#241 - A Quick Holiday Pep Talk

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I always find that this week of Christmas I don’t need more information; I just need encouragement to be a person and exist in the information I alr...

#240 - How to Plan a Personal Retreat

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When I sent out December’s Latest Lazy Letter, I mentioned taking a personal retreat day the week between Christmas and the New Year, and a woman na...

#239 - Five Lessons Learned From Soup (No, Really!)

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s winter, and most people have big soup energy this time of year. I have such energy. I love a good soup. I wish my kids liked soup more than the...

#238 - How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The number of times I have to do stuff I don’t want to do is a very high number, and it’s part of life. I think it’s important to name what we c...

Bonus: The Lazy Genius Guide to Understanding Football

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re doing something a little different around here today with a bonus episode! We might start playing around with some of these that are deeply sp...

#237 - A Quick Word Before Thanksgiving

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to feel like this particular week is pretty condensed. It’s hard, for me at least, to let Thanksgiving just be Thanksgiving. So I want t...

#236 - 10 Things Saving My Life Right Now

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of people on the Internet love to share what’s saving their life, so do I, and so do you! Talking about some favorite things definitely has an ...

#235 - When You Disagree on What Matters

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is dedicated to the hundreds of you who have asked me over the years how you handle disagreeing about what matters with someone you love....

#234 - 10 Rules for Holiday Gift Giving

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You might be done with your holiday shopping already or maybe you haven’t started. Either way, these rules can still add some lightness and help to ...

#233 - Three Things to Continue Racial Peacemaking

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to this episode, I will not speak any of these words as some kind of social or racial justice expert. But I’m learning and want to kee...

#232 - How to Hold Your Own In Conversations You Know Nothing About

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special, unique little episode because I am not alone. My sister, Hannah, recorded this little bonus episode with me to give some fun and le...

#231 - What I Learned During Covid Quarantine

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When the first positive test came back for Covid in my family, I started writing things down. Especially the big things I learned. Even if you’re no...

#230 - How to Feel Like a Person with Aundi Kolber

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I’m speaking with therapist and author Aundi Kolber. This conversation is a rich exploration of how to start small in finding a therapist, ho...

#229 - How to Magic Question the Rest of 2021

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are only 95 days between today and December 31st, and those might be the fastest flying 95 days of the year in any year. Rather than find yourse...

#228 - 5 Ways to Organize Your Books

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking about five different personalities of book organization, so hopefully, you’ll see yourself in one of these. We all have different ch...

#227 - How to Know What to Read Next with Anne Bogel

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You guys, we have Anne Bogel on the show today to help us be Lazy Geniuses about deciding what to read next! She hosts her own podcast aptly called Wh...

#226 - How Batching and Bags Can Get You Out the Door

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the last episode in a quasi-series on getting out the door, we’re going to use Courtney Cleveland’s method of packing for vacation to help us g...

#225 The Shoe Episode

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We are going to plow through common challenges we all face with shoes and apply some Lazy Genius principles to help make those challenges easier. Obvi...

#224 - When Things Don’t Go According to Plan

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was inspired by last week’s episode The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door. One of the reasons we all have trouble getting out the door is t...

#223 - The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A few weeks ago, I asked y’all on Instagram to share the challenges that make leaving your house so complicated. What makes it hard to get out the d...

#222 Taking Care of Yourself As the World Opens Up

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today I want to talk about taking care of yourself as the world opens up. We’ll lay some groundwork and then apply a couple of principles for you to...

#221 - Get Your Back-to-School Life Together

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is the first Monday in August, and August is a unique month. For people with kids or if you’re an educator, it still feels like summer outside bu...

#220 - Kendra Answers Your Burning Questions

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking about everything from what glasses I wear to how to Lazy Genius a marriage in this fun episode where I answer your burning questions (...

#219 - A Midsummer Pep Talk

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re halfway through July, halfway through a crazy year that followed the craziest year of any in quite a while, and I think our bodies and minds m...

#218 - Let’s Talk About the Body, Part Two

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last week was Let’s Talk About the Body, Part One, and I highly encourage you to listen to it if you haven’t already. I’m laying out ten princip...

#217 - Let’s Talk About Your Body, Part One

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a lot I want to cover here, so much so that I had to break it up into two episodes. It was just too long. So next week, we’ll obviously do...

#216 - Navigating Siblings Who Fight

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I’m sharing ten things to help you navigate siblings who fight. To give you some context, I am not an expert. I’m only a mom. I am not a ch...

#215 - Hospitality on the Fly

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wished you were one of those people who could welcome anyone into your home for a meal or a hang without plans? Or maybe you’ve experi...

#214 - Your Guide to Summer Meals

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The energy around cooking this summer is a bit of a situation. So we’re going to talk about how you think about your meals, cook them, and eat them ...

#213 - Create a Summer Reading Club

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Obviously, summer reading is a big thing for a lot of people, and if you’re new around here, reading is one of my favorite things on the planet. Tod...

#212 - A Guide to Summer House Rules

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A House Rule is something that could keep that first domino from teetering and knocking over everything else. All of us have different kinds of summer...

#211 - How to Plan a Summer Day

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I want us to plan a summer day without turning into robots or without leaving literally everything to chance where we’re playing it cool on the outs...

#210 - How to Lazy Genius Kids’ Screen Time

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s here, you guys, it’s here! This is such a highly requested topic, and I think now that we’re about to go into summer, we could use some per...

#209 - How to Keep Your Surfaces Clear

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Clutter is a real thing. It feels like there’s never a clear spot to put anything down, and I think it’s safe to say that when surfaces are reason...

BONUS: A New Way to Think About Money with Rachel Rodgers

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Lazy Genius Podcast is not an interview-style show, so when I invite a guest on, I make sure they are a Lazy Genius at what they do. I’m thrille...

#208 - Essentializing Your Phone Apps

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I want to help you essentialize your phone apps. In this episode, we’re going to specifically apply the Lazy Genius principle of essentializi...

#207 - The 15 Moments That Shaped the Lazy Genius

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I get asked about the origin story of this business a lot, especially when I do our Ask Me Anything sessions on Sunday nights on Instagram. I get a lo...

#206 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Buying Great Gifts

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s April, and we’re entering Teacher Appreciation Week soon. Then it’s Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and the end of school. And pandemic g...

#205 - How to Lazy Genius a Wedding

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

First things first, you do not have to be planning a wedding to find this episode relevant. This is one of our Lazy Genius Brain episodes where we pra...

#204 - How to Rally on a Bad Day

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We all have bad days and for different reasons. There’s something about being inside a bad day that feels like there’s no way out. You kind of jus...

#203 - 10 Things Saving My Life Right Now

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I love sharing lists like this and also encouraging you to make and share your own. We are still in it after a very long year, and paying attention to...

#202 - Revisiting Your Morning Routine

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I want to revisit the concept of a morning routine, especially in light of still living kind of in a pandemic, and give you one question you can ask y...

#201 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Moving

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s finally here — an episode about moving! Good golly, I’ve been getting asked to Lazy Genius moving at least once a week for the last two yea...

#200 - The Lazy Genius Starter Kit: 20 Episodes That Will Immediately Change Your Life

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Two hundred episodes is a lot, and it’s likely you haven’t listened to every single one. Or maybe you have but it’s been a while and you need a ...

#199 - 7 Ways to Get Out of a Dinner Rut

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Most of you live in the United States, many of you have kids, all of us are living in varying degrees of isolation still because of the pandemic, and ...

#198 - How to Lazy Genius Your To-Do List

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

People have always had stuff to do, but let’s think about it. Our culture and lives have evolved to such a point where if we don’t write down what...

#197 - How to Navigate a Faith Crisis

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a heavy topic, I know, but I want to give some language and space around this thing that many people in the Christian faith are struggling with...

#196 - How to Lazy Genius Adult Screen Time

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I love my iPhone. I love my apps. I love Instagram. I love it all! And because we love it, we’re on it a lot, and while that is not a universally ba...

#195 - Creating Your Own Holiday When There’s Nothing To Look Forward To

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

February and March struggle to bring the thunder. I mean, it’s just the way it is. We’re past the lovely winter holiday gauntlet, we’re past the...

#194 - From Selfies to Politics: How to Share Yourself Online with Laura Tremaine

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a rare episode where I talk to another human, and I only have humans on who are actual Lazy Geniuses at what they do, and you guys? Laura Trem...

#193 - What I Want To Do in My 40th Year

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a year I want to pay attention to in ways I’ve never paid attention to a year before. So in today’s episode, I want to share some things I...