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Hi there. Okay. We have some really exciting news to share.
We do. Jenna, tell them.
All right. My husband, Lee Kirk, is directing a movie called New Year's Rev.
And me and Angela both have parts in it.
We do. I'm so excited.
Tell them what it's about.
Okay. Well, this is a story that he wrote with Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
Because, you know, Billy Joe starred in Lee's movie Ordinary World.
That's right. And they stayed friends all these years.
His family is very good friends with our family.
You know that this delights me.
I know. You're very tickled by it.
I am. And so the two of them came up with this story, and then Lee wrote the script.
He's now directing it.
Here's what it's about.
It's about three high school kids who get pranked into believing that their punk band was picked to open for Green Day on New Year's Eve in Hollywood.
Yes. And so they take this crazy road trip across the country.
Yes. All the while believing that when they eventually get to LA, they're opening for Green Day.
And of course, a bunch of crazy stuff happens on the road.
And some of the stuff that happens on the road is based on stuff that actually happened to Green Day during their years of living in a tour van.
The movie stars Mason Tames and McKenna Grace, along with a whole bunch of other folks like me and Angela.
It also stars Fred Armisen, Sean Gunn, and Bobby Lee.
And the movie features a ton of Green Day music and ends with a Green Day concert.
And unfortunately, me and Angela don't have any scenes together, but we both have such fun roles.
Yeah. So, you know, we got to do this table read.
The script. He's now direct.
Much fun with that table read, lady.
So fun. I can't wait for people to see the movie.
Jenna, tell them who you play.
Okay, I'm playing Jodi.
She's the mother of Tommy, who's played by Mason Tame.
and she's a widowed mom who's doing her best to get by and support her family.
She's a waitress. She has kind of like a rock and roll past and she's just trying to do the right thing by her kids.
Well, I am playing Wilma and I just love that my character has that name because my mom had a sister named Wilma who I love dearly.
Your Aunt Wilma. My Aunt Wilma from Mississippi.
Well, this Wilma is a loud and kind of a foul -mouthed proprietor of a rough -and -tumble roadhouse in the middle of Oklahoma.
Y 'all, I was born to play this role.
I know this woman. I know her.
I have met her. I'm telling you, I'm thinking about like in my hometown, there's a Legion Hall where you can go have an adult beverage.
I know her. Well, it is such a great, fun part.
You are going to shine.
I can't wait for people to see you in this and can I spoiler alert Angela you have been growing out your roots for this role that is how committed you are I am you have not been coloring your hair because for a month y 'all look at me I'm like y 'all for a month I just felt like Wilma probably wouldn't fuss
with her hair she's busy she's running a bar yeah she is yeah but I do think she gets her nails done I haven't shared that with you yet oh okay I do yeah Because in my family, the Southern gals, they never miss their nail appointment.
Everything else might be falling apart, but their nails are done.
Yeah. I like this choice.
Well, we had a big conversation.
Does my character have a tattoo?
Because of her past.
And I said, she definitely has a tattoo.
I think the question is, is her tattoo in a place you can see it?
Because it could be somewhere that you wouldn't see while she's just at home having coffee.
What'd you decide? She has several places that you can see and not see.
Oh, so there you go.
That's what we went with.
Okay. All right. So we're sharing this with you because we are off this week.
We are shooting the movie.
We're in Oklahoma. We are.
So today we wanted to bring you something that truly helped both of us so much as we kicked off 2025.
Yes, it is Kendra Adachi, a .k .a.
The Lazy Genius. It's episode 399, titled It's a New Year.
Let's Name What's Working.
Yeah, so for some context, as 2024 was wrapping up, Ange and I sat down and we talked about what do we want for the new year for office ladies?
You know, this is that time of year where you reflect.
You reflect. Yeah. You set goals.
That's right. And we both had some of the same shared goals for how we wanted our podcast workflow to go, and we were in this sort of reevaluating mindset.
And then on January 1st, this episode of Kendra's dropped, and I listened to it, and I immediately texted Ange about it.
I was like, this is what we're doing.
Angela, I need you to hear Kendra's approach to this conversation that we had already started, but she frames it in such a delicious way.
I know. Kendra is so good at this.
You know, She offers up such an accessible way to think about what is working for you, which in turn makes it's episode 399, titled Three Rules, Three Questions, and Three Categories to Help You Ask Yourself What's Working in Your Life.
And lady, I loved that.
I loved coming from a place of positivity rather than negativity.
Yeah. And now our office ladies team keeps using this phrase, what's working?
What is working? Yes, this has totally crept into our conversations during our team meetings.
And using this, we have created new strategies to manage our workload.
We've created new routines.
It has been great. And we're using it at work, but it really can apply to every aspect of your life.
So to relationships or maybe just even the rooms in your house.
After I listened to this episode, I walked through my house and I would look at a room and be like, what's working here?
Yeah. And that simple question helped me appreciate this little caddy that I bought to hold pins and pencils and scissors.
It was just like in that little nook in my kitchen where all the random clutter goes to pile up.
Well, guess what? It's not piled up anymore.
It's in a little caddy and it's working for me and that small thing makes me happy.
I love that. But that's just such a small little thing.
But when you look around and see what's working, it makes you want to do it to the other rooms of your house.
It's like this wonderful domino effect or to your relationships or to your workflow.
It's like, OK, well, this one thing is working.
How can I make the rest of it work for me as well?
Yes. So I have to eat a pretty specific diet because of the cancer medicines that I'm taking.
I have to eat like high protein, lots of fruits and vegetables, high fiber, low sugar.
In fact, if I don't eat this diet, sometimes I don't feel well.
Like it has a direct impact on how I feel in the day.
And I was getting really overwhelmed with meal prep, like mentally, like mentally figuring out how every meal was going to fit into this very specific box was exhausting.
But I did not have the luxury of being lazy about this.
Right. I had to do it.
So I used her philosophy.
I asked myself to look at each meal from the framework of what was already working.
because in the moment, it felt like nothing was working.
But actually, when I looked at it, my breakfast is working.
It's easy. I eat the same thing every day.
It's great. My dinners were working because I was already planning and prepping family meals that pretty much met my criteria.
So really, the only thing that wasn't working was my lunch.
And Kendra suggests that you ask yourself if you can apply what is working about one routine to your routine that is not working.
So when I dug deeper, I was like, well, why is breakfast working?
And it's pretty much because I eat the same thing.
And I don't care. I don't care that I eat the same breakfast.
So I tried to apply that to my lunches.
I picked three lunches that I could prepare easily, quickly, and that I could make in batches of like three to four days worth.
So my three lunches now are soup, chili, or tuna salad.
Done. They have all the stuff in them that I'm supposed to eat.
And now I'm not making a new lunch every single day.
And you're not stressed about it.
No, and it's working.
Now all three of my meals are working.
That's great. I know.
It's such a simple question.
And I think that's why it's so easy to act on.
Yes. Maria. So really, the only thing that wasn't working was my lunch.
Start the new year.
And just know we are having a good time in Oklahoma.
We can't wait to tell you about it.
Exactly. But now here is the Lazy Genius episode.
It's a new year. Let's name what's working.
Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast.
I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
Today is episode 399.
It's a new year. Let's name what's working.
Today is the first Monday of January, which might feel any number of ways for you.
But just in case you have scattered, oh no, it's the first Monday of January energy, or if you need a reminder that you don't have to chase greatness at the gate, this episode is for you.
The beginning of the year, or the beginning of anything, often has us rethinking our routines and rhythms and systems and choices to see if there's anything we want to change.
That path is well and good and likely necessary on occasion.
I love identifying small problems, applying small solutions, adjusting over time, and then slowly building rhythms and systems that work from those small decisions.
It's a slower go compared to big black trash bag energy where you just start everything over, but it lasts longer because you don't keep starting everything over.
So before you start to put on your problem -solving glasses, utilizing that new year January energy to make everything fresh and ready to begin, let's name what's working, okay?
I have three rules, three questions and three categories to help you think this through.
You can take whatever helps and just leave the rest.
You can be as detailed as you want, write stuff down, or you can just think about it in your head, decide that this particular thing is working really well, high five yourself and move on.
You use the content in this episode in whatever combination and intensity you want.
So three rules, three questions, three categories.
Let's start with the three rules.
Rule number one, when you're naming what's working, the smaller, the better.
Naming small things that are working in your life are weirdly powerful.
You might try and say, breakfast is working pretty well, but the specificity and smallness of having muffins in the freezer and protein yogurt drinks in the fridge are working super well for everybody.
The smaller the thing, the greater the opportunity for you to truly understand what is working.
You can see the particular moving parts of the thing, rather than just like a large ambiguous category.
So rule number one, the smaller, the better.
Rule number two, when you're naming what's working, working doesn't mean perfect.
We're naming what's working.
We're not naming what's perfect.
Very little is and very little will be.
Perfect is relative and arbitrary anyway.
So as you assess and decide what's working in your life, be kind about that word.
Working doesn't mean perfect.
It's working. It might be a little janky and how it's working, but it's working.
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Rule number three, when you're naming what's working, now isn't forever.
What's working now might not and likely won't work forever.
That can swing both ways.
You can have something you love that's working now.
And also it's good to remember that we have to hold these things with an open hand.
It might not work for us to understand what is working.
you can see the particular moving part, something that's working, but it's connected to something in your season of life that's frustrating to you and you wish it were different.
That's okay. Now isn't forever.
It probably won't always be this way.
So try not to resent where you are.
Either way now isn't forever.
So those are your three rules.
As you move into naming what's working.
The smaller, the better.
Working doesn't mean perfect.
And now isn't forever.
With that perspective in mind, let's move to the three questions you can ask to help you narrow your focus on what specifically is working in the categories that we'll name in a minute.
The three questions are, what problem does this solve?
What do I like about this?
And how does this make me feel like myself?
First, what problem does this solve?
When you're looking at an area of your life and you're identifying what's working there, naming the solved problem could be super beneficial.
You know, maybe it's solving a problem that you've had for a long time and naming that the problem is solved is worth celebrating.
Maybe it's solving a problem that you're spotting in other places.
So seeing the success of your solution in one place, it might help you get ideas for another place.
Essentially, like what problem does this thing that's working solve for you?
We have a drink spinner on our counter.
It's just a wooden Lazy Susan on the edge of our kitchen island.
And I put it there years ago to try and solve the small problem of glasses and water bottles being all over the house.
Kids would leave bottles and cups on random surfaces.
They'd be in different places in the kitchen, which made the kitchen feel visually cluttered.
It was a small problem, but an annoying one.
So I thought that a great way to maybe solve this small problem would be with a small solution of one place where the cups and water bottles go.
They have a holding pen and unless they're being used, that's where they live altogether.
It's like one big beverage family.
The drink spinner works beautifully now.
It took a while for kids to remember, but it has become second nature to everyone in our house.
Your cups and water bottles, they live on the drink spinner.
End of story. If I walked into my kitchen and I noticed that drink spinner as I'm looking at my life and being like, you know what, what's working?
Let's celebrate what's working.
I would say this is working because it's all the problem of keeping track of cups, but also of my silent rage about seeing cups everywhere.
Let's say I have silent rage about something else that seems to live all over the house.
Noticing how the drink spinner is working helps me recognize a small solution for a separate small problem.
So as you're identifying what's working, that's the first specific question to help you see why it does.
What problem does this solve?
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