Many of us in the professional organizing community have had to think about alternative income streams as we can no longer go into people’s homes or visit corporate clients. Leveraging virtual operations is a great way to boost your revenue, and in today’s episode, we will be talking about webinars. Our guest, Leslie Josel, is an ADHD-student and parenting coach and an award-winning entrepreneur, having founded Order Out of Chaos, an organization whose mission is to help parents guide their chil...
Mar 23, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Positive psychology is a one that has a positive orientation, with a focus on wellbeing, contentment, excitement, cheerfulness, the pursuit of happiness, and meaning in life. Today’s guest is Jennifer Card, a board member of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association and an Executive Leadership and Wellbeing Coach, who believes that a leader’s greatest asset is their mind. In this episode, she explores why the awareness and integration of a positive psychology mindset will benefit you and your...
Mar 09, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Ever feel like you can't keep up? As a solo-business owner, certified business and life coach, and single mom of two teen boys, NAPO member Carol Williams understands the feeling of being pulled in many directions. Through her coaching, she helps business owners with ADHD become more productive and profitable so that they may live playfully and powerfully, both in business and in life. In this episode, Carol shares a bit about her journey into coaching, including how to decide which coaching pro...
Feb 22, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 71
As we spend more time indoors, our spaces are under more pressure than ever. And while modern parents are more likely to spend time with their kids, we still feel guilty about how well we support our children. Today we speak with organization, productivity, and time management expert Julie Morganstern about how we can overcome our guilt and create homes where parents and children can thrive. We open our conversation by discussing why now is such a critical time for the organization industry. We ...
Feb 04, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 70
As organizers and productivity professionals, we are uniquely positioned to help our clients prepare for inevitable challenges. But how can we best go about it, and what are some of the key challenges? To better understand this, along with how to help clients prepare for the unexpected, NAPO member and professional organizer, today’s guest is Lisa Witzleben. Lisa spent over 13 years working in logistics and worked alongside the State of Alaska, Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Managemen...
Jan 27, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 69
If you haven’t already heard of John Jantsch, he is a marketing consultant, speaker, and the author of several bestselling books, including The Referral Engine and Duct Tape Marketing . Of course, John has endless wisdom to offer on marketing, but what listeners hear more about in today’s episode is his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur . This new guide offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs – and anyone who thinks like one – a much-needed framework for tapping into the wisdom that...
Jan 13, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 68
As work-from-home has become the new normal, we’ve replaced in-person talking with online meetings, often resulting in unenergetic presentations and garbled messaging. Today we speak with body language expert Alison Henderson about proven strategies that will improve how you communicate online. After exploring changes to how we communicate, Alison shares her insights into why standing out as an excellent Zoom communicator will be key in business for the foreseeable future. We then chat about wha...
Dec 23, 2020•37 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Have you got a voice inside your head, telling you that you’re not right for the job; you don’t have the skills; somebody else would do far better, and that you’re terrible at this? Today we sit with Denise R. Jacobs who tells us why this voice is real and more importantly, why it’s wrong about you. As a speaker, author, and creativity evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies around the world, we open the show by exploring Denise’s professional background. We then chat ab...
Dec 09, 2020•35 min•Season 3Ep. 66
‘Brain-based conditions’ is a catchall phrase that encompasses a broad set of conditions that impact cognition, emotion, socialization, or behavior. Here to shed light on the phenomenon and how organizers can best work with those who might fall within the definition is Debbie Stanley. Debbie has been a self-employed organizational consultant since 1997. She has degrees in journalism, industrial and organizational psychology, and mental health counseling and enjoys translating the eye-glazing rhe...
Nov 25, 2020•42 min•Season 3Ep. 65
Interior design and space specialist Tricia Sinon Murray is not only an expert on the subject of Tiny Houses, but she also happens to live in a tiny home with her two children. We open our conversation by chatting about why people are moving into tiny homes. As tiny homes require an extreme economy of space, Tricia reflects on the importance of understanding her client’s lifestyle needs when designing their homes
Nov 04, 2020•30 min•Season 3Ep. 64
Being an industry leader means tackling current events and embracing inclusivity and diversity within our profession. But it’s difficult to know what this means and what change should look like. To answer these questions, we’ve brought in three movers and shakers for a discussion on diversity. Today's guests Tanisha Porter, Cindy Levitt, and Mackenzie Scott, dive into what diversity means, how different generations see racial issues, what it means to create companies based in allyship, and the i...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Today, we are diving into some of the productivity-related challenges that businesses face with Nathan Austin, author, international speaker, coach, and small business and community advocate. In this episode, we learn about the communication and collaboration hurdles that all companies face.
Aug 12, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 62
In this episode, we are featuring Melissa Belliard, a professional organizer at Living Peace in Arlington, Massachusetts, and a member of NAPO New England, a holistic organizers special interest group. She shares some of the ways that she uses her own intuition, what that might look like, and how you can tap into your own intuition in a way that will improve your personal and professional life.
Jul 29, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Kristien Bertilson, the brains behind Queen B Organizing, shares her thoughts on the responsibility of running a company and being in charge of so many salaries and gives us all-round inspiring advice in the realm of doing things in a way that suits you as well as your employees
Jul 15, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Today we get an inside peek into the world of masterminds from a real expert. Aaron Walker is a vastly successful entrepreneur and someone who attributes a lot of his success to the masterminds he has attended. He makes some strong arguments for community and how isolation can lead to the death of your dreams. We also talk about accountability, networks and the formats that masterminds groups can take for optimum results.
Jun 03, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Mridu Parikh shares a bunch of valuable strategies that she uses to increase her value, credibility, and visibility to make sure that corporations and associations keep on engaging in her services. We talk to Mridu about website curation, consistent content creation, and her routine outward marketing strategies. Mridu shares her advice for dealing with rejection, tailoring pitches, and a whole lot more.
May 20, 2020•38 min•Season 2Ep. 58
As we find ourselves in an uncertain and unknown climate, businesses are having to rethink how they operate and move forward. This clearly applies to the organizing industry too and today we have an amazing guest with us to talk about how your business can not only survive the crisis but more forward and adapt to the different opportunities it presents. Mark LeBlanc's main message is one of consistency and focus; he believes that through a steadfast, yet adaptable approach to your offers and sal...
May 06, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 57
In this episode, we're sitting down with Carol Kaemmerer, a nationally recognized speaker, coach, corporate trainer specializing in personal branding and LinkedIn for executives, and author of the book, LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive. Here, Carol shows us how we can use keywords, video, logos, and the LinkedIn headline to make our profiles truly shine.
Apr 22, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 56
The onslaught of coronavirus has affected businesses and entrepreneurs all over the world, with professional organizers being no exception. In today’s episode, we get a chance to speak with Kathy Vines, a brilliant mind in the organizing space who has been ahead of the curve as far as offering virtual consultations for some time already. Kathy is a Certified Professional Organizer, the owner of Clever Girl Organizing, and she has also written a book called Living with Less. Our conversation with...
Apr 01, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Living as a celiac or sufferer from severe allergy-based food avoidance is burdensome, and being organized is an essential part of coping. Today’s guest is Susan Bailey, and she is a certified AllerCoach, meaning she helps allergy families manage by becoming more prepared and organized. Susan speaks about her experiences as a celiac and how that feeds into the work she does as an AllerCoach. She gets into the services she offers through her company, Cygnet Organizing, from recipe design to meal ...
Feb 19, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 54
NAPO star June Carter is an entrepreneur, professional organizer and house stager. She is also founder of Corporate Interior Solutions and Get Your Stuff Together Solutions. June is here today to talk about her belief that it’s never too late to transition into the career of your dreams in organizing and productivity, house staging, or any other subset of organizing.
Feb 05, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Today we warmly welcome Jenna Redfield, founder of the wildly successful Twin Cities Collective, onto the show. Jenna shares some of the insights she has gained along the way to being the social media strategist, online community leader, and Facebook group administrator extraordinaire that she is.
Jan 22, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Conference Chair for NAPO 2020, Wendy Buglio, a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) with a background in advertising, shares the direct impact that attending these yearly events has had on her business and career. She also tells us more about the NAPO 2020 theme, schedule, the four different tracks attendees can follow, and the unique educational, certification, coaching, and networking opportunities that will be available to attendees
Jan 08, 2020•35 min
Conference Chair for NAPO 2020, Wendy Buglio, a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) with a background in advertising, shares the direct impact that attending these yearly events has had on her business and career. She also tells us more about the NAPO 2020 theme, schedule, the four different tracks attendees can follow, and the unique educational, certification, coaching, and networking opportunities that will be available to attendees
Jan 08, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 50
We are joined by Christine Stone of Neatly Organized! Our main topic for today is client interaction and the most important things to bring to these relationships. Christine believes strongly in honesty, confidence, and experience as pillars that make for healthy interactions through potentially difficult waters.
Jan 08, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Today Leslie speaks about how she applied the skills she learned in helping her own son to become the absolute best in what still remains a very niche market. Leslie gets into how and why she keeps coaching while having so much on her plate and constantly traveling.
Dec 18, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Today, we are joined by friend and special guest, Annette Adamska, founder of Back Up Your Life and Back Up Your Business, to talk about the ins and outs of backing up
Dec 11, 2019•35 min•Season 2Ep. 48
In this episode, we’re once again niching down and exploring the world of photo organizing! After managing a photography business for 20 years, Bonnie Hillman Shay started her own photo organizing business. She is a certified photo organizer who helps her clients manage, edit, backup and print their most treasured memories, whether in print or digital format.
Dec 04, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 47
We talk about Anna's upbringing and how this connects to her work now and from there we start to look at the characteristics of each generation and how they are connected through families and organizations. Anna shares some of the defining attributes and recognizable features of each generation and how picking up on these cues can help us with clients. We also discuss complex spaces that might serve many different needs and expectations, misunderstandings and landmines with inter-generational co...
Nov 20, 2019•40 min•Season 2Ep. 46
We are joined by a mover and shaker, Nacho Eguiarte, who shares his experiences from the Mexican organizing industry. He gives us some insights into how he has grown his business in this burgeoning market and how anyone in similar circumstances can do the same. He also stresses the importance of continued education, rather than simply relying on what you know.
Nov 06, 2019•30 min•Season 2Ep. 45
