Do professional organizers need help getting organized too? YES WE DO!!!!!

I am excited to welcome back my friend Missi Mills of Clear Spaces Organizing to talk about what happened when she hired her own team to help pack, unpack, and organize during a recent move.

It quickly became a powerful reminder of what our clients experience every day: overwhelm, embarrassment, decision fatigue, and the huge sense of relief that comes when someone steps in to help.

Are you noticing that clients aren’t booking the instant you finish the consult?

How things are changing in 2026 and what to do plus other current events!

Breaking news for professional organizers: The Container Store + Bed Bath & Beyond merger is here…

and it could impact your organizing business more than you think.

We are breaking down what this shake-up could mean for professional organizers who rely on The Container Store, and business owners who need better systems, stronger backup plans, and smarter strategies in a changing market.

When I have something that I can’t work through, I go to Cabri—because she gives me no nonsense advice.

Today, I spill a story about how MY garage—became overrun with my client’s stuff because I didn’t have the right expectations in place.

We’re talking through it and how even experienced business owners fall into this trap!!

In Part 3 of my Minnesota Organizing Besties series, we got real about what our professional organizing work actually is — and it’s so much bigger than bins and labels.

We talked about boundaries (yes, even bed bugs), burnout, trusting your team, ADHD and intuition, and the moments when organizing truly changes someone’s life.

This episode is about kindness, leadership, growth, and why what we do matters more than we sometimes give ourselves credit for.

Melissa has officially become…an influencer.

Except instead of influencing you to buy something, she’s influencing you to do something wildly radical in 2026: delete social media from your phone.

Cabri is talking about how she built a multi-6-figure organizing business by realizing she needed great people to help her! She has built a great team and we’re talking through all the key parts of that, including:

• Cabri’s “accidental team” origin story (spoiler: a huge, fast-moving client project forced the leap)

• Why hiring is a slippery slope in the best way once you experience less burnout, less emotional load, and more time and bandwidth

• The profitability reality: how teams shift you from “time for money” to scalable profit

• The hard parts no one glamorizes, like cash flow and payroll pressure, team emotions and conflict, and protecting your team from difficult clients

In this episode, Melissa is back with her Minnesota organizing besties (Missi, Cori, and Kielyn) for an honest conversation about fear, authenticity, mistakes, and doing business scared anyway.

If you’ve ever:

• Frozen because you were afraid to make the wrong decision

• Stayed in a bad situation because you feared a bad review

• Wondered if you’re “professional enough” to be yourself

• Procrastinated something small but important (👀 invoices, SEO, phone calls…)

…we FEEL YOU!

This episode is part mindset reset, part business strategy, part group therapy—with a lot of laughs and very honest moments along the way.

What happens when four professional organizers (who are also actual IRL dear friends) finally manage to get on the same schedule… before 2031? 😅

In this episode, Melissa brings on her Minnesota organizing crew—Missi, Cori, and Kielyn—for the start of a longer, multi-part conversation packed with business talk, mindset shifts, team leadership, and the kind of honesty you only get from friends who’ve seen each other’s mail piles.

Goal setting doesn’t have to feel overwhelming—or soul-sucking.

In this episode, Melissa shares a powerful goal-setting workshop from inside the Inspired Organizer community, led by Cabri. Together, they walk through how to reflect on last year, set goals that actually fit your life and business, and create a plan you’ll stick with—without burnout, guilt, or arbitrary pressure.