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Today is episode 465, ask me anything, so we have never done an episode like this before,

and I'm so excited to do it today. We put a call out in the latest lazy letter, which is our monthly newsletter for any questions that you all wanted to ask me, and we got so many great questions that cover the gamut. We'll talk about Desert Island snacks, and how I came up with my kids' names, and how I became friends with other authors, and so many more.

I know this isn't like truth or dare at a sleepover, like shock or I was pictures, but it feels fun, like we're eating popcorn and cozy pants, just chatting about nothing

“important, but it's also like the most important because it's fun, so that is today's”

episode. After that, we're going to have a little extra something where I share a couple of my favorite adjustments to my famous granola recipe. Yes, we are going to dedicate a segment to granola.

As always, we will celebrate the lazy genius of the week, which is a great tip for kids,

chores, and then we will end with a mini-pap talk for when you are personally drowning in chores. Double chores to close our episode today, and because we have so many questions, we're just going to jump right in with a fun one first to kick us off before we hear from our sponsors.

So, Katie asks, "Do you play in the instruments?" I know you love music and your kids are in band, just wondering how you started your music journey as a kid? Did you sing? Were you in band?

“Were you listening to cassettes and CDs and albums?”

Etc. Yes, I do play instruments, I play acoustic guitar and piano, both like just enough to sound like I kind of know what I'm doing, but do not take me out of my comfort zone, or I will

never sound like I play either instrument, I've never played them before.

Yes, I have a very small zone, a very small zone of like mediocrity in both instruments. So I grew up in a musical family, built in my parents' room, musicians, and songwriters, we had music going a lot for when I can remember. I would often listen to Amy Grant and Gloria Estifon on the same day, on vinyl. Music was part of me from early on, I sang in children's choirs and sang in middle school

and high school and chorus class, I was the baker's wife and my senior your high school production of into the woods and sang in that, I was in my youth group's worship band, like I've always loved to sing and play music, especially with other people. So I took piano lessons as a kid, and then I stopped probably around like age 15 maybe, and then that's when I picked up guitar because I wanted to impress who I thought would be

my future husband who ended up being my future husband, who also played guitar. Like it was my way to get him to spend time with me, long game, long game, baby. But yeah, I've always loved music, always cost us two, my husband is two, he plays guitar, he loves listening to music like I do.

“We don't have a ton of overlapping taste, but it's pretty important for both of us”

that we have music in our individual lives and then in our home too, like before we had kids, we decided to prioritize having music in the house. Like listen to it, we wanted to have instruments around, even if our kids didn't get into it, like we were, we wanted them to have the exposure in the options since it's something that we both love so much.

So like when we got our first house instead of buying furniture for the formal living room that we did not need, we bought a baby grand piano that was on like crazy sales. Well, we still have it, it was the best kickstart to family music ever, like I have videos of tiny Sam playing on the piano, like already starting to make music and it makes me very happy.

So now we have two boys in band, both of whom made all-state band for North Carolina this year, by the way, just so fun.

who lives to sing and performs at school, we have a future band director in Sam for sure.

“Like it's pretty fun with that piano and that intention started for the family.”

So that's my answer to, what's your music history? There it is. Alright, so we have so many more questions to come, but let's take a quick break real quick to hear from our sponsors who make this show free for you to listen to, so we're so grateful for them.

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All right, let's get into more, ask me anything questions. We have a few categories that we're going to work through, work/lazygenists, questions about my family and then some random ones just for fun. Okay, so we've already had one fun/family question, but we're going to stick with the work /lazygenus ones to start.

Let me ask what advice would you tell Tiny Baby Lazygenus Kendra when you were just starting out? I've been here since the Lazygenus Grills and have loved watching you and the Lazygenus grow. All man, the Lazygenus Grills, you guys, that was up to 26.

This is up to 465. That was years and years ago. Thank you, Kami.

For being here that long, that's amazing.

“So I think I would tell Tiny Baby Lazygenus Kendra that steady is better than flashy.”

In the early days of growing the business, especially as I watched the job of content creator become a real thing, like you used to say podcast or people like, what are you talking about? You can make money that way or they didn't even know what that was, you know? So as the job kind of became a credible job over the building of this business, and

I kind of felt like I had to be great at all aspects of this growing industry, you know? I needed to grow fast, make shiny content, take up all the trends, you know? Like I just needed to grow, grow, grow. I remember back when Jennifer Shure of the office ladies and Jennifer Shure first shared my podcast on her Instagram feed, according to that saved real, that was 375 weeks ago.

I do not have the capacity to do that math right now. But she shared my show.

“And for a second, I was like, is this what propels me into the stratosphere of success?”

While the internet does sometimes work like that, it's not really the kind of business I want to create even if I could make it work for me that way. I genuinely want like steady growth, consistent care for listeners and readers and a level of excellent excellence and transparency that you all trust. Like you trust me, you're trust in me.

That is my greatest currency. And that is built by steady work day after day, not flashy things. Now what's fun is that Jenna and Angela, eventually invited me to be their first show on the office ladies network, I've been working with them for a couple of years now, they've

been the most amazing partners, they also don't require me to be flashy and shoot for

like being viral or whatever. That's not a sustainable business model nor is it what I want to do, you know, constantly chasing the moment that might make everything like better and great, like no, that is not

And as we know, the same is true in life, right?

We can spend so much time like chasing the system or the approach that's going to finally

solve everything and it's just not how life works, just like how that's not how business works either, that's the same thing. So if I had to go back to tiny, baby, lazy Jesus Kendra, I would tell her that steady is better than flashy and to just keep like making work, she's proud of being the top podcast and selling a bazillion books is not the goal, consistent, excellent work while still

maintaining who I am, even if it's at the cost of quick growth is the far better goal for me. Next is a very observant question from Brita.

“Why did you stop numbering your episodes after 460?”

Brita is right a few weeks ago, I think it might have even been like a little earlier than 460, we stopped putting the numbers of the episodes titles just for the first week when they were after they were released. The biggest reason is because when you browse Apple podcasts or Spotify or anywhere that you listen to podcasts, you get like a limited amount of space to see the title of an episode.

And I notice that the number, you know, episode 465, like the hashtag 465, space dash space, and then the title, all of those spaces were taking up valuable space from actual words that might encourage someone to click through and listen. So now when Leah, I produce our publishes the episode, she leaves the episode number off the title.

Then the next week, she adds it back in, since it's not as high in the charts anymore and it doesn't matter as much, it's just like a little tweak to make the content where eye-catching for podcast browsers, so good eye, Brita. Our next question is from Julie, were you and your author friends friends before you all

“wrote books or did authoring books bring you together?”

Very good question. I can only speak for myself and my own author-friend journey, but mine didn't start as author friends at all. My gateway into this world was Emily P. Freeman, my dear friend who quite literally lives a few blocks away.

We can walk towards each other from our houses and can hug within 10 minutes. It's pretty great. So Emily and I have gone to two different churches together. We have lived on the same side of town twice, but different sides of town, but we moved at the same time.

I have locked arms with her in this work from the very beginning. Now she went first. She went first.

She started writing books first and being on the internet far earlier than I did.

I helped her host a weekend for high school girls, years and years ago. It was a weekend on like being someone who tries really hard and learning to let that life go.

“And it went so well that after a while she was like, hey, I think I want to write a book”

about this and that book became grace for the good girl. It's wonderful. But she started writing and working on the internet, like even before that, like way before that book too. So once I started my own thing on the internet, she was such a cheerleader.

She sent her people my way. The same happened with her sister, Michael and Smith, aka the Nestor.

The Nestor was making amazing home content on the internet and she also championed anything

that I did. So those two relationships in particular, they gave me an audience, but they also gave me confidence. And also a chance to interact with friends that they had made in the internet blogging of an actual publishing world long before anything I made a podcast or a book for on the table.

Then I think the more I got into the podcast space and the more that I wrote books. The more I realized that this work is rather lonely. It's so hard to do this without colleagues, without people who can help you process what's going on. Like none of us have a boss.

I also started feeling more confident in myself just as a person and I decided to go first and a few online relationships that are still going strong today. But like any relationship, a similar job doesn't equal like automatic rapport or a lifelong friendship. Sometimes you meet people, but those friendships stick because of something deeper than just

like being in the same office together or in my case, being authors or being podcasters or whatever. Like you live life together, you celebrate and you grieve. And even though most of that interaction is digital and long distance, I think it still counts, I have a really rich group of friends who also do this work.

And I think we just kind of seek each other out when you see someone making work that you are proud of, that you want a champion, you're kind of like, I want to be friends with

I want to seek that person out.

“So, I'm really grateful to the internet and to Emily for being my initial gateway into”

those relationships. Okay, the final question about like work staff is Kimberly. Kimberly asks, "I love sharing the lazy genius principles with my college students who are becoming teachers. They apply so perfectly to teacher life.

How did your experience as a teacher influence your thinking on these topics?" Okay, this is actually a common assumption. I went to school to become a teacher. High school English teacher, specifically.

I even got like a teaching scholarship, but I never actually became a teacher, not officially

at a school. So I took some time off in college in the middle of college to tend to some family issues and when it was time to transfer to a more local university so I could stay more connected to those family issues.

“I dropped the education from my English education degree, you know, I wasn't English”

had to grade major in my first college and when it transferred, it was just English. And so I graduated with a degree in English. So after college, I did not go into the classroom because frankly, I wanted to teach a group of students who loved to read as much as I do and I was like, "Oh my gosh, that ain't happened in one of my thinking."

So instead, I became a copywriter at a university. I also had a job as a programming director for a church youth group. That's where I actually met Emily P. Freeman and all of that was before I started writing on the internet.

But I've never had a classroom.

Sometimes I still think about that, like, what if that had happened? What if I had chosen to actually enter a classroom and be a high school English teacher? I do think that I would have found a lot of fun and fulfillment in that, but this was for sure the path that I was supposed to take. However, I do see myself as a teacher.

I've always loved taking complex things and making them simple. I've always loved coming alongside people and figuring out what they personally need to move forward in a direction that matters to them, about whatever it is we're talking about.

“I think I've just always been a teacher, not, but not in a classroom, you know?”

As Hokies it sounds, it's like this is my classroom. It's why most of my podcast episodes and all my books are more how to than essays. Like I'm not a, I don't really call myself a writer. I feel like I'm a teacher before I'm a writer. My passion is to teach it's to help people get from point A to point B with more clarity and

more ease. I just do that with a life rather than with, you know, English literature. Okay, let's do some family questions next. These are all fun. Beth asks, "What do your kids think about your job?" So they don't think anything of it really until a stranger says something to me in public,

or when I have to travel for work, especially for a book launch, which is like a lot more travel in a shorter amount of time, but otherwise like I'm just, to them I'm just a mom who stands still in the kitchen like a robot while her children are at school waiting for them to return. When we had all those snow days back in January and February, I still needed to work

the shock of my children when I kept having to get things done. Why are you still working? They asked, and I'm like, "Dude, it's 11 a.m. This is what I do when you're not here." It's like, "What do you expect?

It's so funny." But they, they do think what I do is cool. They do. At my birthday dinner last December, the kids, like we, we will sometimes do this thing where we will describe the person with like the acrostic of their name, and both the E and

the N of Kendra were work-related, E was extremely famous, that was what Sam said.

The fact that I have a quarter of a million Instagram followers is like positively mind-blowing

to him. I am not extremely famous at all, not by long shot, but he finds my fame extremely impressive. It's adorable, and then N was nice, which is sweet, and New York Times, but seller. That was Ben's. So they do, they think that's very cool, they're very proud, but most of the time they

don't notice their care, like I'm just mom, who, you know, my job is to make them dinner. So, okay, Kayla asks, "How did you come up with your kids' names?" Okay, so my kids' names are Sam, Ben, and Annie. Our last name is Adachi, because my husband is Japanese, and it's a name that sure does get a lot of different pronunciations, despite having only six letters, Adachi, for some

reason, it's like, they add letters that aren't even in it, because people don't know how to say it, it's pretty funny. So because we do their last name would probably be a bit of a hiccup, sometimes we decided that we wanted all our kids to have like, simple, salt-of-the-earth first names to go with

Now I have always loved the name Sam, I've never met a Sam, I didn't like, Sam's

are just like a good time, and my Sam definitely is, well, he's such a good time, cause

“also really loves name meanings, they don't, they're not as important to me, but they”

are very important to my husband, and Sam, you will means, heard by God, well, it took us well over 18 months to get pregnant with Sam, that was a really long journey, it was a hard, really hard season, lots of waiting, lots of wondering, month after month of disappointment, so when I finally got pregnant with Sam, it really did feel like the best name, and all three kids have Japanese middle names and Sam's middle name means

Bright, which totally tracks, so, now maybe we were like slightly influenced to name our second son, Ben, because Sam was so wildly a Sam, with tons of brightness and energy, Ben seemed like close to the ground and kind, which we kind of needed, energetically and our Ben is that way, Benjamin means son of my right hand and his Japanese middle name means elegant tree, we both felt like our second kid would be like rooted and wise and Ben most

“definitely is, he like came out of the womb with a poet's heart and a 401k, he is just”

the dearest boy, and then for Annie, Annie was going to be either Alice or Annie, again like simple classic names, but the more we sat with both, we wanted Annie, we wanted like the fire that every Annie that I have ever known has, and the same was true of her

her name as with the boys, I've never met a Sam, a Ben, or an Annie that I didn't like.

They're just names that have always made me feel good, so we went with Annie, which means grace or favor, since I got pregnant absolutely by accident, her name sounding like spunky and fun, while also meaning gracious favor was like right on the money, and then her middle name as her Japanese grandmother's name, which means sincere child, so that is how we ended up with our kids names.

Alright, next question is another Katie, this other Katie asks, if you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself when your kids were little, oh my gosh, just like hold fast, and also like don't worry about mopping the floor, I was so obsessed with mopping the floor, like it was so dumb, come on, but having tiny kids is just not the season for consistent housework, you do you can, man, you celebrate tiny winds wherever you get them,

and you're kind in that season, that's, that is the simple answer, hey, hold on, don't worry about the floors, okay, that was a quick one, the next is Allison, Allison asked, what has been the most surprising thing about raising teenagers, so the most surprising thing is probably how funny they are, it might feel different to me if I started with girls, but having two boys who like eat a lot and kind of smell, and they just like were as each other

constantly, it's surprisingly entertaining, we laugh a lot as a family, like a lot, and I'm so grateful for that, and the boys and Annie, like Annie's a troupe, but she's not a teenager yet, but everybody's sincerely funny, like it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a group of comics, man,

“we're, we're, we're joking all the time, I think I'm also surprised that my teenage boys”

still seem to like me, like Sam is an incredibly affectionate, he gives me hugs all the time, like even in front of his friends, that is definitely surprising, Ben is less physically affectionate, but he's just as warm, I mean, I'm their mom, and I get on their nerves, and I would not be called their friend in any way, because I'm not their friend, I'm their mom, but as their mom, I think they genuinely like me, and I think they like their dad too, like we all still,

really like each other, and we laugh more than we argue, which I feel like that's a win, that also says how much we laugh, because arguments definitely happen, but that's not something I expected having teenagers, and I'm, yeah, I'm really grateful that it's, it's that way for us. Okay, Sherry asks, how does the way you manage your household differ most drastically from the way you managed it when you were newly married or a new mom, and what's one thing you can laugh about now,

but was an epic fail back then, so the annual chore chart comes to mind as my most epic fail, so I tried to manage my household as a new wife and a new house with the intensity of like an Olympic athlete, it was a coupant, I had like, I had a calendar on my fridge, it was a full-year calendar, like with boxes, an annual calendar, and I had chores listed in every single box,

insanity, an absolute insanity, I never followed it, I always felt bad about it,

I could never catch up, it was just the dumbest choice from like precious, young, tri-hard-kindra, I think that's why I'm so passionate about speaking into household systems now,

it is just not sustainable in any way, it also sucks the life out of life,

who wants to see a year's worth of chores when they get ice cream out of the freezer, that's ridiculous, so we have a home now that is in a flow, you know, like things are relatively tidy and clean for the most part in a rhythm, but that's after years, years, of small choices, tiny adjustments, and patience, figuring out how to run a house does not happen overnight, and I tried to make it happen overnight so many times, as a young wife and mom, it just sent me back a lot,

because starting over doesn't do much of anything except set you back, so I've become more patient, slower, and smaller, and how I keep things going now, and it is so much better this way. All right, those are the family questions, let's finish up with just some random fun questions. Okay, Ashley asks, what does your go-to car snack? Actually, I'm not a snacker, I'm not a snacker,

“I'm also not a snack in the car person, like I'm barely a snack in the house person. I think it's”

all the stupid protein I'm eating in the morning, like I just don't get hungry or snacky,

but I've also never been terribly snacky, I'm like a, I'm a dream of the next full meal,

kind of girl, and while I am in the car for like a couple of hours at a time on intense carpool afternoons, my sustenance is not snacks, it is books, I will not leave my house without a book or my AirPods so that I can keep listening to my audiobook, so that's my, that's my snack, stories are my stuff. Amy asks, you have been, oh, you've given great board game recommendations in the past, and he new ones, your family is loving, oh my gosh, actually yes, so in an episode

444, in a little extra something, I have to look it up, I shared a couple of our favorite games. Those were just one, which is a fantastic group guessing game, it's great for all ages, it's so much fun, we love it as family, and what do you mean, which is like apples to apples type game, where you match meme images and captions, Sam, our resident eldest teenager is obviously the

“best at this game, he is so good at that game. Others, I think I have mentioned at some point,”

either on the podcast or in the latest lazy letter are using cues, which is a color guessing game, it's just like weirdly fun, tellostrations, which is if dictionary and telephone had a baby, and it's like a great way to laugh, overrated underrated, which is a game where you like try and guess how much a person likes or heats something, and then we played the classics like Uno and Life and Monopoly, but one new game that we got, just a couple of weeks ago, that is really fun,

is called Thing Thing, it's kind of like New York Times connections, so everyone gets dealt a hand of cards, and each card has like a thing on it, so words are like pliers, birthday cake, and Oprah, one of the cards literally says Oprah, each person takes a turn being it, and that person has to create a category that connects as many of their cards as possible, then you go around the circle, and everyone else gets to add cards to that category if it fits, right? The only catch is

if another player adds a card to your category successfully, when you're the person who's it,

“you have to draw another card. So you're trying to create the most unique narrow categories you can”

to prevent other people from playing their own cards, so that's the challenge, it's also fun when someone lays a card that is wildly disputable and should not count, and that category at all, the rules of Thing Thing have a process for that, but I find that process to be fairly complicated and not great, so I saw this board game store owner talk about this game, Ty heard about it, and he was like, "Hey, the only hiccup in the instructions is how to deal with disputes." So

he was like, "I just say stick to the simple majority." Like if the majority says the word counts, it counts. If the majority says it doesn't count, it doesn't count, and that person's turn is over.

So we have adopted that rule, it works great, especially in a family of five where there's never a

tie, you know? We have only played it with just the five of us, but we're having dinner with some friends this weekend, and I have every intention of bringing it with me to play as a group. It is a little bit more challenging for younger kids, because conceptually, they try to find connections, and they don't know who Oprah is, but they also have like more creativity and they can think outside the box in a way that adults might not be able to, so my recommendation is if you're playing with little kids

kid is a team, and then compete as teams. So again, that game is called "fing thing", "fing thing",

“it's so good. Okay, next is Jenna. Jenna asks, "What is your favorite cake from MaxiBees?" That is”

someone who lives in Greensboro where I live. So MaxiBees is a local bakery in Greensboro. It is

quite lovely. The line is always up the door, because the decor is amazing, and they have a million

cakes to choose from. It's like a cake bakery that everybody goes to. Now frankly, I'm not a girl who loves lines, so we rarely go there. Our family preference is a cookout milkshake, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't turn down a chance to eat MaxiBees, and it has been a while since I went, but I feel like the strawberry short cake cake was great. Anything with like berries, lemon, and cream will always be my pick, and any bakery, like forever always. Okay, Emily asks, "You love to bake

me too. What's the most annoying thing to bake that you still bake because you love to eat it?" So actually, I find cakes kind of annoying to bake, like lighter cakes. I don't know how these

bake-offbakers do it in four hours with like the whole thing. I'm accurately decorated.

“I think it's just all the steps like baking the cakes and then cooling them, and then you got to”

make the frosting. I also don't love American buttercream, because it's so thick and sweet, but making Swiss meringue buttercream is like such an ordeal, but man, when you have a layer cake done, and it's time to eat it. Is the best? Is the best? The, yeah, I think any type of layer cake. Like, I'll do the work for bread and pastry. I don't mind that. Actually, like that, but I have to like really gear myself up to make a cake. Okay, Sarah asks, "Do you ever abandon a book

midway through reading?" If so, what makes you stop or let's you stop? Oh my goodness, Sarah. I've been a book's all the time. I do abandon them less than I used to, just because I think I know what I like and don't like butter and butter the more I read. I can tell from the description of a book, like the words used to describe it, if it's going to have a good shot with me or not. So like, anything described as beautiful, a family saga or poetic. It better have circuses in it or be written

by a friend for me to pick it up, probably. I just know what I like. I don't like beautiful family saga. There's maybe tired. So, but I do like a lot. Like, I don't, I don't love those, but I do like a lot of other things. So, it's easier for me to quit a book because I'm like, I just don't, I'm not enjoying this. Like, I don't want this to be a slog. I want, I want reading to feel easy and like I look forward to it rather than like, ugh, I need to pick

that book up and finish. For example, I recently quit reading like recently as in like four days ago in Coldblood by Truman Capote, like it's a classic. It's the original true crime, really. I just cannot get into a man. I couldn't. I can do it. So I stopped. I have too many books that I want to read to spend time reading something that I'm forcing myself to finish. It took a few times of

quitting. I will say, it took a few times of me quitting for me to be okay with it because at first I,

I, I felt bad quitting. I also like, I felt bad. Like, it was insulting to the author. Like, they would know that I quit their book, but it's not hurting anyone, but me. You know, it's only hurting my own reading enjoyment to keep reading something I don't enjoy. Like, I just love reading too much to be weighed down by that. And so after the first few quits, it was like, oh, this is great. No cares. Like, I'm just moving on to something I like. So yes, I, I DNF, I do not finish

“with zero shame. I think others should too. It might take a little practice, but start practicing,”

not every book is for every person, not every book is for every person. So if you read a book that isn't for you, like, keep moving, keep moving until you find one that is. Okay, Debbie asks, desert island, one album and one snack go. Okay, as I said before, I'm not a snacker, but I am guessing this is not, this is, this is a snack in addition to meals. Right, Debbie, I'm going to assume this. Like, I don't need to pick a snack. This is going to cover all nutritional bases.

Correct? It's just a true, down the middle snack. So that's the case. I would choose, this is hands down. I would choose lays, kettle cooked, salt and vinegar chips. They are my favorite chip, of all time. I have tried every brand of salt and vinegar chip, everyone, like legit, everyone, tried and lined them up because that's how much I listen. This is how you be a genius about

bags and you try them and you decide which one's the best because I don't want to keep wasting my time,

buying chips when they're just a better chip in the store. So lays, kettle cooked, salt and vinegar is my favorite chip. I would give up all other chips in the world just to have those. They make me make noises when I eat them. Like, I love them. So that would be my snack. It would not be my meal. It would not mean my dessert because clearly a snack is not the same, it's dessert and I still get dessert. Okay. And then my one album, that is so hard.

“I think it would have to be something with some life to it. Otherwise, the desert island would just”

get depressing. Oh my gosh, do you know what I would pick? Do you know what I would pick? I'd pick the soundtrack to Hamilton. I mean, that's kind of the perfect pick, right? It has everything. It has energy, heartbreak, hope. It's beautiful. It's fun. There are so many words that you can spend your desert island time memorizing. You can do the dances. You can belt it out, like pretending like you can sing like Angelica Skyler. I think that's the pick. I think it's the Hamilton Soundtrack.

I feel really good about that answer actually. Okay, Laura asks, is there a hobby that you have been interested in but never tried? Okay, two things come to mind. I've always wanted to try pottery. One day, I'm gonna take a class. I'm so drawn to like mugs and bowls and the imperfect nature of pottery. I would just love to try it for myself. But I just never have. I haven't even looked up

“pottery classes around me. I think I'd want to do it with somebody. It's just one of those things”

that I've never tried but I would really like to. And then the second one is, I've always wanted to

play the drums. Like it's been on my list for a long time. I don't know if I'll ever create the time to make it happen. I've made it like the step. I've made it as far as asking a friend of mine who plays the drums. Hey, man. How do I learn how to play drums? That's as far as I've gotten. It would be so fun to make pottery and play drums so good. Okay, Kimberly asks, imagine that you're being offered of this question's crazy. This is great. Imagine that you are

being offered $100,000. For each month, you can spend and total isolation from other people. You can choose your location, design the housing, and select the amenities, and they will be provided at no cost to you. The months must be consecutive, and you can spend the time however you want, but no human interactions are allowed. No phone calls, texting letters, online chat, etc. How many months would you stay and what accommodations would you choose? Okay, I would not last

a month, like not even one. I don't even know if I could do it a week, truly. I would shoot for a month, so I could do the bare minimum and get the $400,000 to help pay for my kids going to school, going to college. But after one month, I would be running back to my people. It would be the longest month of my life. However, I would give it a shot in a penthouse overlooking central park on the upper west side. Quiet, lots of trees, big windows. I'd have big cushy chairs, so many books,

and espresso machine. I'd want a bird feeder on my window, because obviously lots of plants,

an amazing bed, a big TV and a baby grand piano that would not bother the neighbors that I could

like be loud and no one would hear me. I would have food delivered. I would walk to restaurants close by. I would walk through central park. I would walk to the met, and go see art. I would do all kinds of New York things, but I would not speak to anyone. I would not speak to anyone. Like, I don't want to be rude. Like, I want to say thank you to people, but I wouldn't interact with anybody. I'd go to musicals and the library and the strand. I'd walk to Brooklyn just because I

“could. Like, I think New York would help me. I love New York if you can't tell. I love New York.”

I think it would help me fill the time. I would get a dose of humans, even though I can't talk to them. And it would be an adventure. And then I get my $100,000 and then like inhale my people upon return. That's a really fun question. That's a great dinner party question. And our last question is from Sarah. Sarah asks, "I know you love where you live, but if you had to live in another city or place where would it be?" See the answer above. I really do love New York. If I had all

the money and could live somewhere quiet there. I would really, really love to live in New York. But I think that's the answer. Although I did do a book event in Franklin, Indiana. That city was

town like that. Or like I also went to Orange, California, and Orange County, but the city of Orange

“for Work also. And that was adorable. Like you could just walk everywhere. And there's those”

little cottages and coffee shops. Like that would be, that would be fun. Like a little the biggest city in the world or a tiny walkable cottage town that would be my answer. But I will,

I don't want to leave Greensboro. I do love where I live and I never want to leave it.

Okay, that was the last question. That was so fun, you guys. I hope that you enjoyed this episode. It's obviously different than what we normally do, but hopefully it was fun. If you did, if you did like it, I'd like to see another one again. Feel free to DM me on Instagram, at the lazy genius, or you can shoot us a quick email. We genuinely love hearing from you about what you like about the show. And so if you're like, oh, I love that. Can we do that more? Or if

you're like, that was really fun and also please don't make that a regular thing. We want to know.

“We really do want to know. But it was fun for today. So thanks for your questions, everybody.”

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my granola recipe that have made it amazing in every way. So first, the best granola recipe is on

our website. I mean, it's there. My granola recipe is so good. It's a winner. It has been for years. People make it all the time. And for years, people have made it. It's there. Go to. I just googled best granola recipe just to see what came up. And I was deeply surprised that the lazy genus post was like number four in the search results. This stuff is seriously so bad. And so it's just what you want granola to be. We'll put a link in the show notes. Anyway.

But as amazing as it is, you can make it as it is. It will say amazing. It will also be amazing if you remove the ginger that's in the recipe. If you don't like ginger, it still tastes great. It will be amazing if you use instead of almonds that I list in the recipe. If you used pecans or use walnuts, it would still be great. It would be great if you prefer the flavor of honey to maple syrup. I do not. I prefer maple syrup. But if you love honey, make it with honey.

It'll still be awesome. It's just a really solid ratio of ingredients. But you can sub about the different kinds of ingredients as long as you do the same amount. So if you've not made it before, it's wildly easy. The instructions are simple to follow. They're also quite fun. I try to save you from washing unnecessary dishes. And then you have delicious granola that cost barely anything compared to like $8 a bag. You know? Okay, but here,

here are the things. Here are the changes I've made that made it even more amazing.

There are three things that I've done recently to my granola recipe that I've just like skyrocketed, the flavor and texture. The first is the oil. So the recipe calls for granola oil. You just need some fat to hold everything together. If facilitates flavor, that's one of the great jobs of fat in any recipe is it carries flavor. And it also adds texture. Okay, I have used granola oil forever for granola. Well, for my birthday, Emily P. Freeman, she gave me, among

some other things for my birthday, she gave me a bottle of blood, orange, infused olive oil. You know those fun stores that sell like all the different kinds of flavored olive oil? Well, this one smells in taste of orange. And one day, I was like, "Huh, I love citrus and everything. I wonder if this will work a macronola?" It did. It was absolute heaven. Like, I used the last of

“the bottle a couple of weeks ago making macronola. That's what I just used it for completely after”

the first time. I was like, "Oh, this is the use. This is what this is the purpose. This is the life purpose of this bottle of orange olive oil." And it was, it makes it so good. I was cooking the last batch with the orange olive oil when I was on a team meeting with Team LG. And I told them I was like, "You guys, my house smells so good. I think I need to make this granola recipe idea a little extra something in an episode." So if you cannot get blood orange olive oil

fret not, just grate some orange zest into the granola or even just toss it, toss the zest in, like when the granola's hot out of the oven, orange is sublime with this recipe. That is the point. Another thing I've done that has worked so well is to add hemp seeds to the granola. Now, this is not a new idea. People have been adding seeds to granola forever, but I also don't really

and crunchy and like just awesome across the board. And some healthier granolas don't have enough

“sweetness or flavor for me or the flavor is like too much because of all the nuts and seeds that”

are added. Now, that's great for people who love that kind of granola, but I do not. However, I am a woman in her mid 40s trying to eat more protein as we all are. So this last round of making granola, I added like half a cup, three quarters of a cup of hemp seeds to the mix. Just for a boost of protein, just to kind of see if it would work and it did. It worked so well. I was worried that all the tiny hemp seeds would sink to the bottom and like not matter. You know, they just be there

and I wouldn't eat them, but they did get caught up in the oil and the maple syrup and they are parts of those amazing clumps of granola, just like the oats and the almonds in the coconut

are. So I will always make it with hot now always because it doesn't change the flavor or texture

that it absolutely changes the protein content and getting more. Listen, take it where you can get it man. And then the last thing is that I'm just not stirring it as much in while it's cooking. In the recipe, I say to baked a granola low and slow for at least 75 minutes, stirring it a

“couple of times throughout. I still think you should do that and stir. But I can find my stirring”

to the front half of the big time to the beginning and then I let it bake unsturred the rest of the time and even have been adding a little bit longer to the cook time until the whole thing was totally golden brown. And then I let it cool without stirring it, too. All of the choices create more delicious chunks of granola instead of granola that's PC like cereal. This is so good. So good. Now the way that you can ensure that all your granola gets evenly browned

without stirring it as much is to bake it on as big a sheet tray as you can muster. I mix the granola with like glove cans. I have cooking gloves. I use all the time. And I mix the granola on the sheet pan. No bowl even. Like I didn't have any dirty dishes. It's the best thing ever. So I would mix it on the sheet pan like massage the oil and make the syrup into all the ingredients or whatever. And then press all the uncooked granola down in thin layer on this huge pan.

Almost like a pie crust. This makes it so that you get golden brown granola without stirring. Because it's just a thin layer. You don't have like an inch of granola and the bottom isn't getting toasty. So just cook it on the biggest pan that you have. That's a great adjustment from

how I've always made it in the past. So those are the three things. Add orange either with zest or

some fancy olive oil. Add hemp seeds and stir less and bake longer. There you go. That's today's little extra something. Okay for this week's lazy jeans of the week we have an audio clip from Aaron in Texas. Hi my name is Aaron. I'm in Dallas, Texas and I decide once that I recently implemented when it comes to daily chores for my kids has been to let them spin a virtual wheel on my phone to decide what their chores for the day. There's a lot of apps that I'll let you do this for free.

And because it's virtual it's just it's really easy to customize the options on the wheel to fit what needs to be done on any given day. Before this I was making all these paper charts and those were just easily become outdated or get ruined. My kids like the wheel so much more than the chart. I think they like the luck of the draw aspect. It's exciting for them and I think it feels more to them it feels more like the wheel is giving them the job then mom is nagging them to do a job.

So it is actually helped to buffer some of the conflict that comes with making kids do chores. This is so great. Everybody loves a wheel. Me and let's do the wheels and it really is the luck of the draw which makes it so much easier in many ways. It also the wheel also lets you as a parent customize anything specific that needs to be done that week. That is it every single week. You know what I mean? I love that. You don't have to come up with some like

the same chores we have to week that you can be like what do we need to do this week and put those on the wheel. I also think that Erin's point about the wheel choosing the chore is so important

“and so real. That's why we have a bell. Like when I ring the bell for the kids to end screen time”

or come to dinner or come to a family meeting or whatever so I can be like hey it's time to tidy the yell like whatever it is it really is like the bell is the Summoner not me. I'm not a bad guy. It's like disembodying requests that might make kids more annoyed especially using something that is sensory and fun like a like a bell or a colorful spinning wheel like that's just a great

where would I find one? I'd quickly google digital wheel spinner and the website wheelofnames.com.

“Pop to first. You literally type in whatever things you want and then you spend the well. You press”

a button. It has sound effects. It even has applause at the end. It's amazing. I'm thinking that

once someone lands on a chore and that's their chore for the week you just delete that chore from the list and it automatically takes it off the spinner. Like this is a really fun idea and very easy to implement into your house. We do all kinds of chore things in our house to keep it fun. We have not really used to spinning wheel much so I do think I want to add that to my collection of like ways to make chores a little bit more fun in the dodgy house so this is a great idea Aaron and congratulations

on being the lazy genius of the week. All right let's close with a many pep talk for when you're drowning in chores. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have our own virtual wheel spinner? Hey listen do it might

“help. We recently asked our audience we asked you guys to fill out a survey about chores. We're”

working on a project and wanted to understand the pain points of chores as best as we can. And one of the things that I saw again and again and again and again and the survey results was how overwhelmed everyone is. Even when you have a system for something like dishes or laundry or things

that just multiply or never end it still feels overwhelming. Even if you have a system you still

fill behind the incestant nature of chores is tiring and discouraging even for like the most optimistic housekeeper. So I just want to let everyone know that you're not alone like quite literally. If you are overwhelmed by chores so is everyone else so many people like the vast majority in our survey feel behind like they will never catch up. To all of you to myself too I just want to remind you of something that I said a few weeks ago you will do chores forever

truly you will do all this forever it will never really stop and I know that does not sound like

“much of a pep talk. But I think that when we remember we're gonna do this forever it takes the pressure”

off of today. You will never finish it will always keep going. So instead let forever be a gift and

just stop for today. I know that's easier said than done and I also know that some of you are like I'm already behind Kendra I can't stop if I stop it makes it worse that's fine I can't stop you myself but I do want you to try I want you to try and stop. I wonder what would happen in your own brain in your own body in your own soul even if you stop trying so hard to finish your chores and instead you use some of that energy to be okay with them not getting done today.

Like what might happen if you tried that what might happen if you're just as content with yourself and your day when your chores get done and when they don't. When you simply stop for today and you pick it up again tomorrow. That practice of stillness and rest and contentment and saying you know this is good for today this is enough I'm gonna go play a game with my kid or I'm gonna go to bed or I'm gonna read a book or I'm gonna watch a show whatever it is that practice

might be more valuable in actually getting your chores done than you realize when you give your self permission to stop it's sometimes makes chores easier to finish later and that's a many pep talk for when you're drowning in chores. If this episode was helpful to you or if you've been looking for a way to support the show please share this episode with someone that you know or you can leave a kind review on apple podcasts every mention every share every single thing it makes

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