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You're listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently on this show. We value contentment, compassion and living. In our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. And I'm so glad you're here. Today is episode 449, my favorite discoveries of 2025. Oh man, this is gonna be fun. This is a roundup of all my favorite things that I have discovered and loved this year only. And it's a really fun list. We will send this out in email form on Friday to those of you on the podcast recap email list. 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Okay, we got a long list of 20 favorite discoveries, so we're just going to go ahead and jump in with a couple before we take an ad break. My first favorite discovery of 2025 is the show the Diplomat. You guys, I don't know where I've been this show, which is in its third season on Netflix and waiting on the fourth, it is scratching every itch. I love Carrie Russell like, a ridiculous amount. She's so good in the show as the new U.S. ambassador to England. There's intrigue and treason and explosions and love triangles and it is such fun storytelling. I love it and I'm so behind in loving it with the rest of you. I'm trying to catch up. I promise. Number two Albanese gummy bears. Guys, there are no other gummy bears worth your attention. Like, I don't even like gummy bears and I could eat a giant handful of albanies without hesitation. That we are a candy household. Kaz and Annie especially really love candy and it's nice to have for like the tiny little compartment in their Planet box lunch boxes. Now I'M not a huge candy person. Like, it's fine, but I would much rather have ice cream or something baked as a dessert as opposed to candy. But Albany's Gummy Bears are the exception to every rule. They are just the most delicious flavor and and texture of any candy ever, and our whole family loves them. There are maybe four foods in all the world that all five ADACHIs are obsessed with, and Albany's Gummy Bears are one of them. They are that good, and I just discovered them this year. Ugh, what a loss for the other years. Number three is the Libby Pause. Okay, y' all are familiar with Libby. It's the app that allows you to borrow ebooks from your local library. Well, Libby and I are on a short break because I just cannot be at the mercy of of when a hold is ready. However, there is something that I discovered this year that I've utilized several times to help me with that, and that's the hold pause. When it's your turn to get the book, Libby asks you, are you ready to download this or upload it or whatever the word is? Or do you want to pause your spot? If you pause, it'll send the book to the person in line after you, but you still get to keep your spot at the top of the line. It is a brilliant invention for when you're just not quite ready to borrow a book yet. Love the Libby paws. All right, one more quick one. I discovered flossing sticks and tiny toothbrushes this year, so I started at Invisalign early in the year, and I have, like this little pouch of tiny toothbrushes and flossers so that I can tend to my teeth no matter where I am. Well, I will keep this pouch even after I'm done with Invisalign. These tiny toothbrushes, they are so great. They make dental hygiene habits easy. And I love it when annoying things are made easy. Okay, we're gonna pause for an ad break, which makes this episode free for you to listen to. So thank you to our sponsors. Also, here is your quick reminder that we send out a podcast recap email every other Friday. It's called Latest Lazy Listens and it summarizes the episode shares the lazy genius of the week as well as other segments we have on the show. And it has a little extra note from me to help encourage you through the weekend. The next one will have this whole list of discoveries with links to anything linkable. So if you would like to get that recap, you can head to thelazygeniuscollective.com listens. This episode is sponsored by Wayfair. The holidays have this funny way of showing up fast, and even when you're not scrambling, there's usually something left on the list. A little decor to make things feel finished, A gift you forgot to grab. Maybe a guest room that could use a quick refresh. Wayfair is kind of perfect for that. 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Okay, we call it bee sauce at my house and we even decant it into another container because two of my three children are very offended seeing the actual word on the container. But this sauce, particularly with bell peppers dipped into it, is one of the best things ever. There are only two grocery stores in my city that carry it, and one of them has not carried it in almost two months, which is devastating. I need more access to this sauce. Just the original Costco has the giant chipotle flavor. I don't want the chipotle flavor. I want the original one. But anyway, it doesn't matter. I love it. I love it so much. I love that it also helps me eat more peppers, which I like. Kind of loathe everywhere else, so this stuff is great. All right, we're on number six. Number six, merit beauty. So I started using merit beauty products this year for the first time, and it's a truly great brand. I use all of their makeup products. The foundation stick, the bronzer, the highlighter, and the flush blush many days of the week, especially depending on, like, how. How long I want to look more made up. But the foundation stick, I use every day. It is my go to foundation for sure. Better than anything I've ever tried, including foundations by other favorite brands. It's just so good. It works great for me. I love that it is a stick formula. And then the brush, the merit brush, it smooths it out so fast. Now, I tried this foundation formula earlier in the year, and I didn't like it. That's because I chose the wrong color. It didn't look good because it didn't match my face. So that's just really important. With all makeup, right, the colors need to be right. Foundation needs to match. Your face blushes need to match, like, the warm or cool undertone of your skin in order to really pop. I think most makeup that you see on people that works is. Is more about getting the colors right than the makeup itself. Not always, but sometimes. I know that's been true for me. So I love merit. I love their blushes, which are so great to, like, pop into a bag because they're just, like, really tiny. I. I love blush. Like, I love blush. I have several brands that I rotate through. I choose usually based on what color I want, based on what I'm wearing that day or how long I want something to last. So I have an RMS powder blush I love. I have three colors of road blush. That stuff is sneaky good. And maybe my favorite formula, that's Hailey Bieber's line. And I have this one color in Glossier's new cream blush. That is the red of my dreams. But merit blushes, they often make an appearance. They're more subtle, which some days I need. They feel more like getting A quick glow up than makeup, you know. Oh, and the merit mascara. Oh my gosh, the merit mascara is so good. It's so good. I had two other go tos of mascara and now Merit has bumped both of those off the podium. It is like, it's just a great brand. It's made for people like me who don't want to look super made up, but just want to look like a little more awake and bright and like yourself, you know, And I just really love it. Such a great discovery this year. Okay, number seven, the main Ready or not hair brush. I shared this on the most recent episode of what's Saving My Life. And this brush is still saving my life life. It is the best. It is the best brush. I don't understand it. Actually, we now have two since Annie stole mine. And I. I just have never been this impressed by a hairbrush in my life. I didn't even know that you could be impressed by a hairbrush. Plus, after I talked about it on the podcast last time, a beauty influencer who I think is like a professional hair stylist and who has like a couple million followers, she caught that I was talking about it. She reposted the clip of me talking about it, and then her caption in the share was, see, I've been telling y' all this is the best brush. So then I was like even more convinced because she's a pro. It is so good. It's just so good. And it makes my hair look better than it should like every single day. I love the mane. Ready or not. Hairbrush number eight. This year I discovered that I should always order a flat white at a coffee shop. I love a flat white. I love it. It's like my perfect coffee drink. It's what I make at home. That or a cafe au lait. A flat white is espresso with milk, but with less milk than a latte and like no foam, really. And I don't love foam. And then a cafe au lait is like pretty much equal parts strongly brewed coffee and milk. But a flat white needs to be my go to because what often happens when I'm out with friends or like a couple of months ago we went to this. We went on a thrifting trip, a group of us, to like the next city over. And we stopped at a cute shop for coffee and I got mesmerized by the menu, as I often do. I see words like pecan and brown sugar and Lord help me, chai. And I think I should get that. Y' all. I don't like chai. I keep trying to like chai, and I just don't. So it was on this thrifting trip. I ordered a dagum chai latte. I was done after two sips, and then I took a sip of my friend's flat white, and I was like, listen, new decide once, order the flat white. Doesn't matter. Just get the flat white. I always love it. I'm never disappointed. So why I keep trying other things is beyond me. I am a girl who loves her flat white. Done deal. Great discovery. Keep the chai away. All right, number nine. This year, I discovered Cozy Earth sheets. Cozy Earth is sometimes a podcast sponsor, and they sent me a set of sheets to try before an ad campaign. Y', all. I just. I. I cannot. I cannot explain. I cannot explain how magical these sheets are. This is not an ad. Although I have said these words in an ad, they are the best sheets I've ever slept on by a country mile in my whole life. I do not understand how they are so soft and warm and also cooling at the same time. They are a perimenopausal woman's dream. Now, they are pricey for sure. That to me, like, they're worth spending money on because you sleep on them every single night. Plus, you can just put a pin in this next time they have a sale and get you some. Or don't. I mean, I'm not sharing my discovery, so you have to use them too. But, man, am I glad I discovered these things. I absolutely love getting into bed now more than I ever have before in my whole life. Okay, number 10 is another sleep related discovery. I discovered that if my back or my neck or my shoulders are hurting, which is, you know, fairly often because I'm getting older, I can sleep on my back for, like, two nights straight and it goes away. Now. I used to sleep on my back every night, but, y', all, that is, like, not fun. I love sleeping on my side in a ball. And sleeping on your back is like, the literal opposite of that. But during a stressful season or like, just a weird angle when I'm sleeping, or maybe if I, like, have some airplane travel, I'm going to experience some back pain, right? But two nights of sleeping on my back, it actually, like, zips me right up again. I love knowing this because it still lets me sleep on my side until the need arises. And I know that just a couple nights on my back is all it's gonna take to make things better. Number 11, this year, I Discovered the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler. So I've always liked Amy, but also, there are, like, so many podcasts in the world. I just assumed it would be like any other celebrity interview podcast. And I wasn't. I wasn't that interested. But then Leah, my podcast producer, she was like, no, you have to listen. It is so good. And so I did, y'. All. It is so good. I look forward to episodes because of how good it is, and that does not happen very often with shows. She is such a good interviewer. It is indeed a good hang. And as a podcaster myself, I appreciate some of the small decisions she makes to make the show, like, better. I like that she claps before ads. I like that she talks to someone else connected to her guest, and they talk well behind the guest's back. I like that she does her little polar plunge at the end where she shares a little something from her life. But mostly I just love how she is with people. She's so authentically herself. She's genuinely interested in her guests, and they seem like they are more of themselves on her show than on other people's shows. I just love it. Some of my favorite episodes are with Seth Meers, Andy Samberg, Leanne Morgan. That one was so funny. Olivia Coleman was super funny. Kristen Wiig, Maya Hawk was on recently. It was so good. I do think my favorite of all of them that I've listened to is Kate McKinnon. That one was really special to me. Like, I have so many episodes to catch up on, and I want to listen to every single one, which is, like, such a rare thing for me on podcasts. I love this discovery, and you can discover it, too. Just, like, keep listening to. To me too. You know, just keep listening to my podcast all, too. Although I get it if you have to choose, Amy, sometimes. I do. I get it. I get it. She's that good. Okay, number 12. I discovered Columbia coats this year, and I don't think I'll ever go back. There are plenty of coats that work great for different climates and reasons. And sometimes you want, like, a pretty trench or a peacoat or, you know, something cute. But for when you want to be warm, there's a reason that Columbia has been around forever. There's also a reason their coats cost a little bit more. It's because they put wizard magic into their coats. And I'm guessing that wizard magic costs a lot. So we ended up getting Columbia coats for the entire family. Before we went to New York, we snagged some during an Early Black Friday sale, which was great. Since all of my children had grown out of their current coats. We wore them during very cold days in New York, where we were outside for hours and hours at a time. These coats were everything and more. My body was never cold anywhere the coat was ever. It was crazy. Because of the magic of podcasting, you will be listening to this episode the day after I'm back from London. But of course, I have to record this before we leave for London. We're wearing these coats in London, and I have full assurance that they will be spectacular. They are warm, thin, simple, stylish. I just love these coats. I love them. I have the Columbia heavenly long puffer jacket, as does Annie, just in, like, the kid version. And Kaz and the boys all have the men's powder light hooded jacket. The thing that I think you want to look for to, like, stay warm is the Omni heat feature. That's like the aluminum foil looking stuff on the inside and that just traps in all the heat is so great. And it's a feature on multiple styles of Columbia coats, so you could just look for that. But I. Oh, I love this discovery so much. Number 13. This year, I discovered tiny silverware. You guys, I am obsessed with tiny silverware. So back in January, so like a literal year ago, I ordered some long handled stirring spoons for my coffee. They're gold and pretty, and I wanted a little something special for my morning coffee. Okay, well, these little spoons have become workhorses in my kitchen. I mean, holy moly. I use them to, like, mix up yogurt, dips and parfaits. I use them to scoop out anything from a jar. I use them as tasters when I'm cooking. My kids love to eat with them. They are so good. So in January, I bought a set of four, and then a month later, I ordered another set because I kept running out of the four every single day. They're so great. Then recently, I was like, hey, I really enjoy eating with these tiny spoons. The actual spoon part is tiny, even though the handle is really long, that I enjoy the experience of eating with these tiny spoons. And then I was like, wait, why not extend this to a fork? You get tiny, tiny dessert forks at restaurants and stuff, right? So I ordered some tiny forks. Annie loves them more than I do, but we both use them for all kinds of things. Now, I will continue to keep an eye out for tiny forks at, like, thrift stores now because I. I like the idea of my tiny forks having. Having a story but either way, tiny silverware was all the rage in the adachi house in 2025, and I am so glad. All right, number 14. This is another kitchen item I learned about from Brie McCoy, who is my favorite kitchen tastemaker. These are colander storage baskets from the brand Win Proper, and they have saved me so much money in fruit. Like, for real, it is a plastic container with a colander inside and an airtight lid. So you rinse your fruit in the colander, and then you store that fruit inside the colander, inside the container. So the fruit, it's always clean, but it never molds. I cannot tell. I cannot tell you how it has extended. The life of our berries and our grapes and our lettuce is amazing, genuinely. Some of the ones that we use, they are quite large because of how much fruit we consume as a family. But I'm happy to shift my fridge organization a bit to fit these things inside. They are so fabulous, and they keep produce lasting as long as you need it to. They are so good. Okay, number 15. This was the year that I discovered how much I love weightlifting. I am currently, like, a little hit or miss because of travel and just the busyness of the season, but that's okay. I still love doing it when I'm able. I. I look forward to getting into a little bit more of a rhythm in 2026, when things slow down, but also, like, it's okay if it takes a while, and I adjust that. But I started lifting to videos by a woman named Caroline Garvin on YouTube. She's a great instructor. She's a great accent. The videos are anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes long. I usually only did the ones that are like 10 or 15. For months and months, I used my barbells that I actually. Not barbells, dumbbells. I had dumbbells that were like. I had a 10 pound set and a 15 pound set, and I really enjoyed myself using those. But then I started doing my own routines because I knew the exercises that I liked and that worked for me, and I understood, like, interval training or whatever. And then I bought a set of dumbbells with graduated weight where you can adjust how much weight you're lifting for any exercise. They're kind of enormous. And the heaviest weight that I could use, I probably won't ever be able to lift, but that's okay. I genuinely love weightlifting. It just feels so good in my body. I can do it in a short amount of time. I can feel myself getting stronger, and I get to do it while, like, watching a show or listening to an audiobook or something. It's just really. It's just really Great. Okay, number 16. This year, I discovered the quince sling bag. All right. I've never been a sling bag person. They just sit weird on me, and I thought I would be doomed to wear a crossbody or have to carry a tote forever. Well, a few months ago, I decided to take a risk and try the quince sling bag. Quince never steers me wrong, so I figured that if any brand could nail it, they could. Well, they did. This is the best bag. It's the best bag. It's just the right size for what I need. It lays really well on the body, like, even for people who have, you know, a little bit going on up front. And it looks great. I have used it almost every day for several months, and it is truly a fantastic bag. Number 17. This year, I discovered that my kids have, like, super specific jobs that they love to do in the kitchen. It's so cute. They like washing rice. No idea why, but both Ben and Annie are, like, super happy to wash rice whenever we have it, which is quite often. Ben and Annie also love trying to find. They love trying to find the bay leaves and a pot of curry. Like, they fight over the spoon to try and fish it out. I don't know why, but I do not argue. Now, before I discovered that they love this, like, Annie walked into the kitchen one night to see me pulling out the bay leaves from the curry, and she was like, mom, I wanted to do that. So I literally put the leaves back in the pot I stirred, and I just let her find them again. And it was so weird, but so cute. The kids, they also love using the Gal cheese grater. That's the one that sticks to the counter with suction and grates cheese and many other things. Like a dream. They like setting it up and using it, which I get. It's so easy and satisfying to use. But now I'm just keeping an eye out for other little jobs they like, because good is here right now, and it's just so stinking cute. Speaking of so cute, number 18 is the cutest thing on this list, and it is the dream egg pool portable white noise machine. Have y' all seen this thing? It is tiny. Like, like smaller. Smaller than a baseball tiny. And somehow this tiny little thing lets out the strongest, loudest white noise. Every single one of us sleeps with white noise at our house. So when we travel, there's no way we're bringing all of our big sound machines. Now I use an app on my phone. The kids don't have that. They have real honking sound machines. Well, we bring the dream eggs with us on trips, and they are so great. The sound lasts for, like, two full nights before they need recharging. But we also usually just charge them during the day while we're gone. So we're like, sure, we have enough. They take very little time to get to full power. They have different sound and volume options. There are even timer options. They are so cute, so tiny, and weirdly so powerful. Perfect for traveling. The 19th favorite thing that I discovered in 2025 was the hair care brand R and co. It's like R +CO. So in our bathroom, we have all kinds of things. Oh, my gosh. We have drugstore shampoo. We have custom shampoo. We now also have R and Co shampoo. We still have drugstore styling products. A couple of other brands that sometimes do really great stuff that we have that I would say that R and Co is the brand that I would choose for my hair if I could only choose one brand. If I had to, like, only use products from one full line, I think I would choose R and Co. So it started for me with their dry shampoo sculpting product. I read reviews that said it worked really well for hair like mine, which is, like, a lot of fine hair. I can confirm it does. It, like, gives me volume without buildup. Plus it has, like, a dry shampoo element that keeps my hair from getting greasy as fast, which is great. Then during a sale earlier in the year, I decided to try a few other products, and all have been so good. I love their volume spray. I'm pretty sure it's called Dallas because of, like, big Texas hair, which is great. Their detangler is the best I've ever used. It saves Annie's hair on a weekly basis. There is a sun protection spray that we used over the summer that was so great on hair. After the pool and being outside, they just make really great products that work. There's no rush to try them. But, like, maybe keep an eye out. You know, you could wait for a sale and try a product that you've been eyeing. Maybe it will become a favorite discovery for you as well. And finally, the 20th favorite discovery of 2025 is how much I love night baking. So I've been baking for years. Obviously, I love to bake, but in the last couple of years, as the kids have gotten older and are, like, doing more stuff as the Business has grown and my time has shifted. I just don't bake as much, especially during the day. And when I do, it's either to like restock breakfast, pumpkin muffins for the freezer, or like maybe we're having breakfast for dinner and so I'm baking for that or like I'm just making cookies because, you know, we make cookies. But like I used to, I used to bake bread. I used to make my own puff pastry. Like full puff, not rough puff. I tried pies with short crust and pies with Pat Sucre. I made biscuits and scones. Like, I just loved baking things and trying things and I have not done that in forever years now. Part of it is that the days are so full, right? There's less time now than there was when my kids were home all the time and I had more time that I could fill up and I would fill it up with baking. Well, this last year I discovered night baking. Now I've only done it a handful of times, but when I do, I never regret it. It doesn't matter that it's 10 o' clock at night. I'm like kneading brioche and I'm very happy. I don't even mind the dirty dishes for night baking. It's like they don't count the same. I don't know what it is about baking when my kids are like mostly winding down or even already in bed and I'm starting something new when it's like dark outside and it's my own actual bedtime that I just find it really soothing and life giving. So I can tell you this, 2026 is the year of more night baking. I am toying with the idea of having a list of recipes that I want to work my way through. We will see how that goes. So to summarize my favorite things of 2025 which will be emailed to the latest Lazy Listens email list on Friday. I think these things are the diplomat Albany's gummy bears is the superior gummy bear. The Libby paws floss sticks and tiny toothbrushes be sauce and bell peppers merit beauty. The main ready or not hairbrush that I should always order a flat white cozy earth sheets. Sleeping on my back a couple of nights in a row will almost like just cure any pain. Good hang with Amy Poehler. If anyone knows anyone by the way, I would really love to meet her and be on her show. So like do your magic Columbia coats, tiny silverware colander, fruit storage containers. I love weightlifting the quince sling bag. My kids have weird little jobs that they love doing the kitchen and it's totally adorable. The Dream Egg Portable Sound Machine R and Co hair products and that I really really love night baking. It was so fun to gather this list and it will be even easier next year when I'm using my yearbook playbook all year long to catch my favorite discoveries as they happen. Because there's a page in there for that. So hopefully you have found a discovery or two of your own from my list. But more than that, I just hope you make your own. Like it really is such a fun practice to notice your life and what's making it enjoyable. And those are my favorite discoveries of 2025. This episode is sponsored by Groons. The holidays are basically a marathon of sugar travel and trying to remember what day it is and it's easy to feel totally off balance. That's why I'm so glad Groons exists. If you haven't heard me talk about Groons before, they're a daily snack pack of gummies that packs in everything you need. Not just a multivitamin, not just a greens gummy, not just a prebiotic. It's all of that and more at a fraction of the price. And the best part? They actually taste great. Each snack pack has 6 grams of prebiotic fiber that's 3 times the fiber of leading greens powders and more than two cups of broccoli. 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Their calendars are set up by Seasons, which is right up my alley and I love them. A great gift for anyone who likes simple organization would be an Essential Calendar. I also really love the business Inkwell threads. They are also woman owned. Great for bookish people. I actually am currently wearing like right now the Netherfield Walking Club sweatshirt from Pride and Prejudice. Oh my gosh. I have a couple of other T shirts. They're all actually Pride and Prejudice themed. That's what I've gotten from Inkwell. They're so great. I get compliments on them every single time I wear Inkwell thread stuff. I have more small businesses obviously, but those are two in particular I wanted to mention. Now we also asked our Playbook people Facebook group some of their favorite small businesses to support and these three that they suggested stood out to me. If I scroll for longer than three scrolls, you know I'm all the way in. So the first is Enderley Coffee Company. It's based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. But they ship. So if you want to buy from them even though you're not local, that's great. Now if you are local to Charlotte, they do something so cool. They do this Friday delivery of small business items, which is such a fun idea. It's like you can shop from local Charlotte businesses and then Enderly Coffee will deliver those things to you along with a bag of coffee. Like it's so fun, but anyone can get their coffee. I love the mission and the feel of the whole company so this is such a fun discovery. The second small business I noticed from the list that got a ton of scrolls from me was Walker Goods. So this is a family. It looks like that makes travel gear and wow, do these bags look amazing. I kind of wish I was in the market for a travel backpack right now because I would snatch one up so fast. Really lovely bags are something that most of us don't buy for ourselves, which makes them a really fantastic gift to give other people. And then the third business mentioned on the Facebook group was Tiny and Snail. Tiny and Snail is this magical greeting card company. It's run by two sisters who have a truly inspiring story and the cards are stunners. Like stunners. I'm so glad to have found this little business and will definitely be buying some cards for next year's birthdays. And Notes to friends. I love small businesses. I appreciate the support of small businesses, being the owner of one myself, so it's really fun to highlight some favorites of mine and yours. So again, that's essential. Calendar, inkwell threads, Enderley Coffee Company, Walker Goods and Tiny and Snail. And that's today's a little extra something. Now it's time to celebrate the Lazy Genius of the Week. This week it is. Bethany from Texas. Bethany writes, A long distance friend and I stay connected regularly through Marco Polo, which has been so helpful for us, but we also wanted to build in real time conversations instead of just sending videos back and forth. Almost by accident, we started keeping a list of what's saving my life right now and now we facetime at the end of each season to share those lists with each other. It's been such a meaningful practice, not only for personal reflection, but also for deepening our friendship. At the end of each call, we schedule the next one about three months out. The date usually shifts a little, but having the placeholder and helps us prioritize our seasonal call and reminds us to keep track of what's been saving our life that season. This is tremendous. Like just tremendous. I love the value of self alongside the valuing of the relationship. I also love that this is like a quarterly connection that's so doable that starting small in a super tangible way. Bethany, thank you for sharing this with us. I'm so excited for other people in the community to feel inspired by it and probably do it themselves.