Hire Your Own Organizing Team!
There's a certain irony in being a professional organizer: you spend your days transforming other people's spaces, but when you come home, the last thing you want to do is organize your own.
Missi Mills, owner of Clear Spaces Organizing and leader of a 12-person team in the Twin Cities, decided to challenge that idea head on. When life got overwhelming during a move, she did something that felt vulnerable but turned out to be one of the best decisions she made: she hired her own team to help her.
Being Yourself = Getting Clients for your Professional Organizing Business
Here's something that doesn't get said enough in the professional organizing world: not every organizer was born with a color-coded closet and a lifelong love of label makers. And that's not just okay — it might actually be your biggest competitive advantage.
We sat down with Illinois-based professional organizer and Inspired Organizer mentor Sarah Brent to talk about something that feels deceptively simple but is genuinely hard to do: showing up as your full, authentic self in your business.
"Everyone else is doing better than I am." Conquering Comparisonitis as a Professional Organizer
This is a “cute” phrase for something that isn’t cute at all, and this is a problem that can plague ANYONE—even the best organizers.
It is this feeling of, Everyone else is doing better than I am.
Every other organizer has a better business than I do.
Everybody else is doing X, Y, Z, I should be doing that too.
Hi! I’m Melissa. And I want to make your pro organizing business better!
Hi! I'm Melissa. And I love being a professional organizer.
“5 minute podcast” Pitches for Professional Organizers: Just say no!
Have you ever gotten that pitch to be on a 5 minute podcast that will inevitably vault your professional organizing business to the stratosphere? I've warned against them before but our intrepid organizer slash undercover agent Missi McKown of Clear Spaces Organizing has done it for you just to talk about it.
2.5 Month Delay for Organizing? She’ll Wait!
Last week, I had a client agree to wait 2 months to work with me because some silly words I put on my contact form.
Meet my friends at Meat & Potatoes Organizing in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul
When I worked in corporate America, we did NOT like our competitors. Then I became a professional organizer, and I found out that I LOVE my competitors! I’d like you to meet one, my friend Cori of Meat & Potatoes Organizing.
"We Are Not All The Same!" - Getting Great Organizing Clients By Being The REAL You
Sarah Brent of Practical Harmony in Illinois and Tidy Stock Photography is talking to us about something she (and I!) are equally passionate about. As she says, “We are not all the same!” Professional organizers are all very different and showing up as the REAL you when you talk about your business is super important.
Reflections and Transformations with Jen Kilbourne, Founder of Pro Organizer Studio
Jen Kilbourne is on the interview couch today. She is the founder of Pro Organizer Studio. She is the visionary behind everything that we do here. If you are a longtime podcast listener, you have heard Jen's voice on the podcast so many times—she began all of this magic. She started the Inspired Organizer program, which has helped 900 women across the globe on five different continents start or grow their organizing businesses. Everything you see at Pro Organizer Studio was her vision.
“Don’t Mess with Eyeballs!” (safety moment!) and “A Message from Mom.”
Here is one not-great story and one wonderful story from awesome professional organizer Kim of Rustic Home Organizing. I wanted her to tell the first story because it’s a great reminder that we have to stay vigilant as organizers to stay safe and healthy; and the second story is just super heartwarming and I want everyone to hear it!