Best The Lazy Genius Way Podcasts (2025)

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44. You Say You’re Scared of Video…but What About Being Overlooked? 59:42

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You know what's scarier than showing your face on camera? Spending the next five years wishing you had! In this episode, Chelsea and Kayla are talking about the thing that keeps SO many agents stuck: the fear of getting on video. They're breaking down the excuses that keep you hiding behind graphics and carousels, what to do when you hate how you s…

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DEEP DIVE: Kendra Adachi (The Lazy Genius) on Compassionate Time Management 45:04

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We're so glad to be talking to ⁠Kendra Adachi⁠ again this week. Kendra is the host of the⁠ Lazy Genius Podcast⁠ and the two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen. In this interview, we discuss what Kendra calls "compassionate time management" and her newest book, ⁠The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a…

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What to Do When Everything Is a Little Annoying 52:59

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Sometimes I feel like it’ll take just one sassy comment or one missed homework assignment or one line at the store that’s longer than I expected before I just lose it. Sometimes life is like that, and it’s normal and okay. But most of us don’t want to stay there for very long. Today, I’m going to share with you five things to remember and five thin…

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12. The Need for External Validation 41:00

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In this episode, hosts Sarah Dosanjh, psychotherapist and author, and Stefanie Michele, certified coach and somatic practitioner, dive into the complex psychology of external validation—why we crave approval, how it shapes our sense of worth, and what it means to find confidence that isn't dependent on others. They explore how early attachment expe…

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Fresh Take: Irin Carmon, UNBEARABLE 43:07

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Content note: This episode discusses complications of pregnancy, including pregnancy loss and maternal death. Amy and Margaret sit down with journalist and author Irin Carmon to discuss her new book, UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. Through research and deep reporting, Carmon exposes the complicated reality of being pr…

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Introducing: So Your Parents Are Old 3:53

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Sharing an episode of the new podcast So Your Parents Are Old. Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents. From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it’s a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. Come for the…

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How Kids Spend Their Time (And How They Should) 45:06

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How are our kids actually spending their time — and is it aligned with what we value for our families' lives and for our children's well-being? This week, Amy and Margaret discuss: How sleep too often loses out to homework and activities Time tracking and the sobering truth it can show about how many hours a week our kids actually spend on screens …

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Dr. Natasha Bhuyan Introduces Amazon One Medical Pay-Per-Visit 22:04

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This episode is brought to you by Amazon One Medical. Ever notice how kids only seem to get rashes in the middle of the night? Or get pinkeye only while you’re on vacation? It’s what we like to call a typical “mom worst”—and here comes a great new solution: Amazon One Medical Pay-Per-Visit is now offering trusted care through telehealth visits for …

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43. Repeatable Content That Will Make People Click Follow 1:05:11

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If someone asked your followers why they should follow you, could they easily answer in one sentence? In this episode, Chelsea and Kayla are breaking down the secret to getting people to remember and talk about your account: signature content. You'll learn why posting less but better is the move and how to pick your "thing" without overthinking it.…

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DEEP DIVE: Laura Vanderkam on "Tranquility By Tuesday" 35:20

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Laura Vanderkam⁠ is the author of several time management books, including the just-out ⁠"Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters."⁠ She hosts the every-weekday-morning podcast "Before Breakfast" and also co-hosts "Best of Both Worlds" with Sarah Hart-Unger. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and…

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#440 - How to Make the Rest of 2025 Easier 46:18

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It’s around this point, towards the end of October, that we all start feeling the pressure. The rest of the year is coming like a snowball rolling down a hill. Today, we’re going to tend to that energy and create some ways to make the rest of 2025 easier and also more joyful, grounded, and rooted in whatever matters to you. Helpful Companion Links …

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Fresh Take: Kate Rope, STRONG AS A GIRL 35:45

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Amy and Margaret speak with Kate Rope, award-winning journalist and author of STRONG AS A GIRL: Your Guide to Raising Girls Who Know, Stand Up For, and Take Care of Themselves. Together, they unpack the unique challenges and opportunities facing today’s girls—from body image and social media to perfectionism, mental health, and the pressure to be “…

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When Stress Becomes Burnout (and How to Tell the Difference) 45:17

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In this episode, Amy and Margaret explore the crucial distinction between stress and burnout—two experiences that often blur together in the chaos of parenting, but which are very different in presentation and the attention they require. Stress might be unavoidable, but it can also be motivational and lead to further growth. But when stress becomes…

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42. This Marketing Tool is Free But Can Cost You Everything 55:30

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Pop quiz! When someone asks "How's the market?" do you launch into interest rates and inventory stats, or do you paint a picture of what's actually possible for them right now? Your answer to that question is either filling your pipeline or killing it, and we're breaking down exactly why. In this episode, Chelsea and Kayla discuss the most underrat…

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DEEP DIVE: 8 Ways to Make Better Decisions 47:24

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There is no magic formula to making the perfect decision every time, but there are philosophical principles, or "razors," you can use to pare down your options and see your problem more clearly. These razors can cut through the clutter of complexity and help us see the forest for the trees. And while they weren't designed with parents in mind, they…

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#439 - Chores I Do Every Day, Part 2 50:13

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Chores I Do Every Day, Part 1 is one of our most popular episodes we’ve ever done, but it was three and a half years ago. A lot has changed in our home and family in that amount of time, so I’m excited to share an updated version Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Episode #254: Chores I D…

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Fresh Take: Jean Twenge, 10 RULES FOR RAISING KIDS IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD 38:31

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Amy and Margaret sit down with Dr. Jean Twenge, renowned researcher of generational differences and author of the new book 10 RULES FOR RAISING KIDS IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD. Dr. Twenge shares what her research reveals about smartphones, social media, and gaming—and how they impact kids’ mental health, sleep, and friendships. From the rise of teen depr…

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Mom Worsts 44:55

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Mom firsts? We prefer to reminisce about Mom WORSTS. In this episode we relive some of our all-time lousiest experiences as mothers, from family-wide Coxsackie virus to elaborate homework assignments achievable only with extensive parental participation. Margaret mentions the song "Tim Finnegan's Wake" in this episode, which you can listen to here:…

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41. Fall Content We’re Loving Right Now 51:09

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Time to grab your favorite sweater, light a pumpkin candle, and lean into the coziest content season of the year! In this episode, Chelsea and Kayla are breaking down how to warm up your content for fall without overhauling your entire brand or spending hours creating seasonal graphics. They're sharing bite-sized ways to make your account feel like…

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DEEP DIVE: What Can We Add? What Can We Take Away? 42:31

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The human tendency to solve problems by adding something is called "additive solution bias." However, sometimes a problem is more quickly and effectively solved by taking something away. In this episode we talk about how "additive solution bias" can play out in our parenting strategies, and how we can become more aware of the times when what we act…

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#438 - Office Hours: Routines 43:46

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We have an Office Hours episode once a quarter where you send in your questions and I answer them here on the podcast. This is the first time we’ve had a themed Office Hours episode, so that is very exciting. Before we get into a whole episode answering your questions about routines, remember that a Lazy Genius routine isn’t about the steps. It’s a…

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Fresh Take: Suzanne Warye, THE SOBER SHIFT 42:41

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Margaret sits down with Suzanne Warye—sobriety influencer, host of The Sober Mom Life podcast, and author of the new book THE SOBER SHIFT. Suzanne shares her story of walking away from alcohol, the truth about moderation, the concept of gray area drinking, and why sobriety can feel like abundance, not deprivation. Together, they explore how alcohol…

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When Does "Typical" Behavior Become Something More? 44:23

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Is your kid extremely resistant to the simplest of requests? Or completely impossible to wake up in the morning? Or sure their peers don't like them, despite pretty clear evidence to the contrary? All of these are extremely typical kid behaviors. All of these also have more intense manifestations—PDA, DSWPD, and RSD, respectively— which meet clinic…

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40. Quarter 4 Motivation 42:58

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Quarter four is just around the corner, and Chelsea and Kayla are here for every second of that back-to-school energy that makes you want to get your life together and finally stand out in your market. In this episode, the girls break down how to channel that "fresh start" feeling into the most focused 90 days of your year. You'll learn how to iden…

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DEEP DIVE: Why Women Have Less Free Time 44:13

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A recent report found that the division of home responsibilities is still grossly unequal. Mothers—whether they are married or single—do significantly more than fathers. In fact, the ⁠“The Free-Time Gender Gap” ⁠report found that “simply being a woman is linked to spending more time on unpaid childcare and household work, and having less free time,…

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#437 - 10 Things I Always Do When I Have People Over 38:35

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This is a community that values people and relationships and connection, and having people into our homes is so integral to us building homes, neighborhoods, and entire cultures that tend to each other, that enjoy being together, and that let each other in. I’m sharing what personally matters to me about hospitality and the ten things I always do t…

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11. The Inner Critic: Origins of a Misguided Life Coach 42:57

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Most of us know the voice: the one that points out what we should have done differently, or insists we're falling short. In this episode, Stefanie Michele (coach and somatic practitioner) and Sarah (psychotherapist and author) unpack the inner critic—where it begins, how it shows up, and how to shift it from a harsh opponent into something more use…

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Fresh Take: Carla Ciccone, NOWHERE GIRL 35:48

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What happens when you finally, as an adult, understand for the first time that your brain has been wired differently all along? Writer and mother Carla Ciccone joins Amy and Margaret to discuss her memoir NOWHERE GIRL: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation. Together, they explore how ADHD in women often presents differently than the “hyperacti…

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The Craziest Things We've Done for Our Kids 43:31

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From road trips to reclaim lost lovies to birthday extravaganzas with six-month planning windows, parents will do just about anything for their kids. Amy and Margaret share listener stories—and their own—about the wildest, weirdest, and most over-the-top lengths we have all gone to make their kids happy. Read the saga of the missing Tortellini We l…

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39. Everything We Did When the Market Shifted (and what you can do, too) 1:04:17

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Remember when everyone said 2024 was going to be "the year to lay low" in real estate? Well, Chelsea and Kayla said “hold our pink drinks” and did the exact opposite. In this episode, the girls are revealing everything they did when the real estate market hit a rough patch. From budget cuts to launching a podcast in record time, they're sharing the…

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DEEP DIVE: Dr. Amber Thornton on Finding Real Balance 30:27

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We've all felt the guilt that comes with taking time away from our kids to do something we enjoy. But if we're always being told how liberating it is to do things for ourselves, why do we have such complicated feelings about? Dr. Amber Thornton tells us how we can successfully balance our lives both as women and as mothers. ⁠Dr. Amber Thornton⁠ is …

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#436 - How to Pivot Gracefully: A Guide for the Sick, Tired, and Overwhelmed 45:19

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What do we do when we’re hit with something out of our control within our own bodies, in the bodies of people we love and live with, or from the world itself? What do we do when we are forced to pivot away from what we planned because our energy or our attention can’t function the way they were when we made that plan? That’s what I want to consider…

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Fresh Take: Kate Mason, POWERFULLY LIKABLE 41:16

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How do women balance being both effective and likable? It shouldn't be ours to manage, and yet it is. This week Margaret and Amy talk with Dr. Kate Mason, communications coach and author of POWERFULLY LIKABLE: A Woman’s Guide to Effective Communication. What you'll learn in this episode: Why women often feel trapped between being “powerful” or “lik…

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Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright 4:02

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Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated series. Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (tha…

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Do Our Friendships Have to Be This Complicated? 42:15

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Have female friendships become more complicated than they need to be? Amy and Margaret dig into the dynamics of their own female-female friendships and what the research says: why some friendships last decades, why others drift apart, and why friendship “breakup texts” have become a thing. In this episode you'll learn: Why women expect more intimac…

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38. Instagram Folders, On Brand Albums, and Content Organization for Agents 55:41

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When was the last time you consulted your Instagram folders for content ideas? Or deleted photos from your camera roll? In today’s episode, Chelsea and Kayla are talking all things content organization: from organizing your Canva to creating an on-brand photo album that doesn't get buried under 47 videos of your kids making "movies.” They're sharin…

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DEEP DIVE: Natalie Mayslich and Blessing Adesiyan on the Future of Remote Work 30:58

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Natalie Mayslich is the President of Consumer for ⁠Care.com⁠, where she is responsible for expanding, building and delivering the Company’s portfolio of Childcare and Senior Care products and services. Blessing Adesiyan is the Founder of ⁠Mother Honestly⁠, a platform that provides financial technology and work-life infrastructure to employers and i…

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#435 - Your Five-Step Guide to a Joyful Busy Season 44:53

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October through December sometimes feels like a really fun roller coaster but you don’t always feel like you have time to buckle your seatbelt. This episode is going to help you not just survive a busy season but really enjoy it. Helpful Companion Links Order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Our digital products…

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Fresh Take: Trevor Hanson on Healing Our Attachment Styles 38:45

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Amy sits down with Trevor Hanson, coach and founder of The Art of Healing and the Secure Self Club, to unpack the power of attachment theory and how it shapes our relationships. Trevor explains the differences between secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment styles—and why understanding your patterns can transform the way you love, communicate, and…

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Even More Husband Crimes (Part 2) 41:13

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It's what you've all been waiting for: Even More Husband Crimes, Part Two. This episode's charges include: napping on Mother's Day seasoning food like he's on a cooking show booking weeklong holidays to the in-laws' house Book 'em, Dano. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always fi…

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37. Mini Personal Brand Quiz that makes Staying Top of Mind Easy 59:49

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Mid-episode, Chelsea and Kayla get the most exciting news ever and the best interruption in the history of podcasts!!! And after composing themselves, they break down how to uncover the personal brand you already have through their signature "brand menu quiz.” From figuring out what your best friend would say about you to identifying your little lu…

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DEEP DIVE: Ericka Sóuter on How to Have a Kid and a Life 36:26

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Ericka Sóuter has over 20 years of journalism experience and is a regular contributor on Good Morning America and other national broadcast outlets. Ericka speaks to parents across the country about the issues, controversies, and trends most affecting families today. She's also the author of ⁠How to Have a Kid and Life: a Survival Guide.⁠ In this ep…