Organize 365 Podcast

666 - Audience Q&A 7 - Organizing Kids of All Ages

Bundle Sale July 7-18

If your heart is longing to get the Complete Sunday Basket® or the Complete Home Organization Bundle…this coffee chat is for YOU! I am so excited to announce that now until July 18th, we’ll be offering a 20% discount on BOTH!! You just heard me in episode 665 talking about the time both will require, all the goodies included in each bundle, and the transformation that could be your life in one short year. If you have decided “This is the year for me! I’m doing it! I’m going to put in the time an...

Coffee Chat - Back to School Blitz

Don’t have kids? Not so fast, this is for you too. I use this every year for myself to get prepared for the 10 most productive weeks of the year that starts after Labor Day! This FREE Back to School Blitz will help you to better plan for the amount of time and money you need for getting the kiddos and or yourself ready for the next season of the year. I offer this free blitz every year for you to take 5 days to think about your clothing, command center, your office supplies, personal grooming, a...

665 - Upleveling the Sunday Basket and Complete Home Organization Bundle

Happy Monday! I am constantly asking myself “Knowing what I know now, if I had to start all over again from scratch, would I still design these programs, products, and services the same way? Or would I do them differently? This summer I answered this question by saying yes I would do something different and the Organize 365® team confirmed my ideas. Changes with the Sunday Basket® The Sunday Basket® is a combination of your gifts, strengths, and orientation coupled with your life experiences and...

664 - Audience Q&A 6 - Physical Household Management (Visible Work)

I’ve answered questions about the invisible work we are all doing and today I am answering questions about the visible work we do. A good example of visible work is everything you would do inside of The Productive Home Solution™. I explained the evolution of the program from it’s inception as 40 weeks One Home to the “exhausting” 100 day program where I realized not everyone has kids, to today The Productive Home Solution™. I have been refining this program for 10 years to help anyone be able to...

Transformation with Lauren H

In this episode, I introduce you to Lauren H. who is married and has a blended family with three kids and two dogs. Her mother actually lives on her property too in a separate dwelling. Lauren has been listening to the podcast for past 9 or 10 years. Only in the last 5 has she officially started her organization journey when she had her son, her mom came to live “with them”, remodeling their home, a booming business, her daughter starting Kindergarten, and oh yeah covid for the perfect storm to ...

663 - Audience Q&A 5 - Paper Information Management (Invisible Work)

We are moving on to the questions about paper management. You become responsible for more paper as you get older. It starts with car titles, insurance, and institution degrees. Then you graduate to information about your health, your home, and your growing family. Before you know it you may be caring for a parent or settling an estate. How do you control all the paper? Financial Binder The Paper Solution has two steps to it. There is the great sort. You may need Sunday Baskets® to initially sort...

662 - Audience Q&A 4 - Routines! (Invisible Work)

Happy Monday! This Connections Episodes is all about Routines. Energy is a word that keeps surfacing in these questions and conversations within the community. We are busy ladies! So how do we establish and stick to these routines? It’s important to regularly evaluate your routines and determine if they are still serving you and your house for the phase of life you are in. Energy for routines and sticking to them regarding family Right out of the gate Mary asked about sticking to routines now th...

661 - Audience Q&A 3 - The Sunday Basket (Invisible Work)

I’m sticking with answering your questions about the invisible work we do. And today is all about the Sunday Basket®. I didn’t yet have a name for it. But I’ll never forget the sense of accomplishment from the first time I tried my idea out that became the Sunday Basket®. In 2012, Joey went down for his normal 20 min nap, and I, Lisa Woodruff, actually got a few calls made and checked a few things off my list. The more I did it the more I realized this was something all household managers needed...

Transformation with Carly L.

In this episode, I introduce you to Carly L. is married with two children. Carly was looking for paper organization solutions and came across the book “The Paper Solution.” Paper has always been Carly’s nemesis but it was to a point where she couldn’t locate important papers. Her daughter would be starting Kindergarten soon and she knew she had to do something with all of her disorganization. Carly joked she was so disorganized that she missed the Black Friday sale to purchase the Sunday Basket®...

Audience Q&A 2 - Decluttering and How to Get Started (Visible Work)

Ok, this is so much fun answering all of the questions that have come in. I decided to organize the questions in the same order in which you would experience in The Productive Home Solution®. In the next 10 episodes, we are going to look at all of the visible work we all do. When it comes to getting organized we want to eliminate the overwhelm and disorganization and get to being productive and organized so you can do what you are uniquely created to do. Decluttering comes first and it is gettin...

659 - Audience Q&A 1 - Lisa Answers Personal and Family Related Questions

Happy Monday! Anna had this great idea for this summer on the podcast; the idea was to address questions from the Organize 365® community. I asked Anna if she thought we’d get any responses? We did. We got 70 questions in the first 24 hours. So, today we’re getting personal answering questions about my family and how I navigate incorporating my business. Family Involvment The question was asked about what I do when my family members don’t want to participate in organization. I reiterated many ti...

658 - The Current State of Housing in America

Transformation with Amanda A.

In this episode, I introduce you to Amanda A. who is married with three kids. Amanda found herself with compounding Golden Windows which created a little chaos in her life. She had just started back to work, went to transfer files to her dropbox and stumbled upon an old bundle she’d downloaded years prior - the Ultimate Bundle. It was exactly what she needed and her “relationship” with Organize 365® took off from there. Amanda had tried a lot of other organizational systems but none of them seem...

Coffee Chat - Customer Appreciation Days are HERE!

Yesssss, announcing Customer Appreciation Days!! This Thursday through Monday at midnight. Boy do I have some great deals for you. If you have had your eye on a product for a while now is your time to get it at 15% off. Also, there will be daily deals too! There are videos each day to keep you in the loop of everything Organize 365®. Thursdays deals are geared towards all the new products and “while they last” products. If you feel like you have a handle on your home and work, this is the day fo...

657 - Boundaries ?

Summer planning round 3, ding ding ding. I share a lot of my life because I am part of the Organize 365® brand. I’ve been podcasting for over 12 years and over that time I have shared a lot about me, my life, and my family. Recently I shared how I wanted to spend the next 120 days upleveling the upstairs of my house. Those plans changed when Abby decided to have back surgery. And once again those plans have changed. And when evaluating my boundaries, I asked to share some news on this podcast I’...

656 - Closing a Family Business

Life can really get challenging when you lose someone and they owned a business. Emily and I had to face that, with our dad, and I’ve shared about it and now Anna Hall is sharing about her dad. Anna has two younger brothers and she was kind enough to share their experience with settling his estate, taking care of his business and employees, and the family house her father built with his two hands. It couldn’t have come at a more complicated time for Anna. She and her husband had just built a hou...

655 - Organizing Your Role as the Executor of an Estate

If you find yourself in this role as Executor of an estate, I want to make sure to support you best during this time by providing a little food for thought. How do you want this time to look? It’s not easy losing a loved one and hopefully this episode provides emotional support in the form of considering your mindset during this time. And we found it is best practice to have ONE executor! Emily and I were both executors but needed to be present for every singing of all the papers and Emily bowed...

Transformation with Eve M.

In this episode, I introduce you to Eve M who lives in Western Ireland with her rescue cat. Eve was first introduced to Organize 365® through listening to another podcast that was interviewing me about ADHD and Organize 365® solutions. Eve became obsessed about this idea of the slash pockets and organizing. She listened to the Sunday Basket® episodes repeatedly. She has a podcast too called Feel Better Everyday that she hosts, author of the book 365 Ways to Feel Better, owns her therapy practice...

654 - Organizing Your Role as a Power of Attorney

653 - Advocating For Your Own Medical Needs

As we are having these necessary conversations on how to be prepared for unexpected medical events or natural disasters, I saw a friend of mine Sarah Hart Unger had one of her own. I asked her to come on the podcast so we could talk about what happened, how she handled it, what she learned from it, and how she may improve her preparedness. I’m Healthy Sarah shared how she was so excited to get back into running marathons. There she was in Miami in about mile 11 of her half marathon when all the ...

652 - Organizing Your Role as a Power of Health Care

Transformation with Amy L

In this episode, I introduce you to Amy L. who is married with a son, daughter, a dog and some chickens. At the time she found Organize 365® she and her husband were working full time and raising cattle. Amy was lured to Organize 365® by the cozy pictures people were posting with a drink and their Sunday Baskets® on Instagram. I had forgotten all about that!! She had to check out what all the fuss was about. Organize 365® became the first podcast she intentionally listened to to learn about orga...

Coffee Chat - Organize 365 Relief App Group - Share your needs and resources with the community

Take Shelter! As I record this coffee chat, our office is under a tornado watch! How timely? If anyone in our community finds themselves dealing with a natural disaster or unexpected event, I have created a space for us to come together and give or get support! The community was able to help victims of Hurricane Helene and now I want for all of us to be able to help or get help in those circumstances. But not all hard seasons of life are because of a natural disaster. So I am calling this a reli...

651 - Productive Disaster Preparation and Relief

While the world seems calm, in terms of natural disasters, I wanted to offer three levels of ways to be prepared. Natural disasters are unexpected events and I want you to be prepared for anything that may come your way. I used two filters to concoct these courses of action to be prepared; “What would be harder to do once the disaster has happened?” And “How can I invest in being more self-sufficient and less dependent?” Preparedness is not a necessity but a way for you to be part of the solutio...

Coffee Chat - Announcing the First Teacher Planning Day!

How exciting Planning Day for Teachers, not to be confused with Teacher Camp. Teacher Planning Day will be July 9th. You will get a workbook and we will really dial in your routines. We’ll be talking about when you first get to school, what do you want your routine to be for when you get a break, and what do you do right before you leave for the day? And as important as those routines are, we’ll be talking about your personal routines too. That will be a total of 6 routines. This will be the fir...

Coffee Chat - Submit Your Questions To Be Answered on the Podcast This Summer

Calling all my inquisitive podcast listeners! I have been podcasting for TEN YEARS and sometimes I wonder if I’ve already talked about the topic that I’m getting ready to record. I shared that Abby is getting ready to have back surgery and I will become Grayson’s primary care giver until she recovers. I imagine I will use all my energy on Grayson this summer. Soooo, when we were discussing the podcast summer plan, as a team, they came up with a great idea! How about the listeners get to ask burn...

Coffee Chat - Submit Your Questions To Be Answered on the Podcast This Summer

650 - Productive Solutions For Easing Teacher Overwhelm

Happy Monday! Today, we’re talking about how to combat teacher overwhelm. In this episode, Lisa is joined by Jayme (from the school pilot) and Anna (a member of the Organize 365 team) to talk all about why teachers are feeling so stressed and what can be done to help support educators. Support for Teachers Some of the resources we found address ways to support teachers who feel overwhelmed by all of the demands of the education field. Some of the ways to support teachers include reducing or stre...

649 - Planning to Care For Abby & Grayson After Abby's Back Surgery

Well the time is here! Abby is finally getting a back surgery we knew would need to be done despite all the cortisone shots and physical therapy. I don’t share this so you can plan when your next family member needs you for a surgery. I’m sharing all my planning thoughts and iterations because where else do we hear this stuff? How do you learn how others plan? This is for any event you have coming up that requires a lot of shifting and planning. I’m going into a time where there will be a plan a...