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the pro organizer studio podcast
Professional organizing changed my entire life. After 20 years of working at huge companies, I started working for myself, opened an organizing business and grew it to six figures. And now I spend all day, every day at Pro Organizer Studio teaching professional organizers around the world how to grow the business of their dreams.
This podcast gives you ACTIONABLE strategies you can take into your business right now! It’s the go-to pod for great pro organizers and I can’t wait to have you as a listener!
Popular Podcast Episodes For Professional Organizers
245 | “Sometimes entrepreneurship is just…accidental.” | Building a multi-6-figure business with Cabri Caldwell
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
244 | Do It Scared (but do it anyway) with my MN organizing besties
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.
243 | 4 Organizers = A Million Ideas
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.
242 | 2026 (FUN Non-soul-sucking-boring) GOAL SETTING!
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.
241 | You Don't HAVE TO! Part 3 with Kim of Rustic Home Organizing
This is part 3 of my convo with Kim--and this one, we're talking about how you can (really, you can)--think about your obligations and your electronic life.
These are the hard things of modern life and we have some ideas on how you can make it better!
240 | "I needed a dopamine detox" (and you do, too!) Part 2 with Kim of Rustic Home Organizing (2 of 3)
This is part 2 of my important conversation about burnout with Kim Snodgrass. We are talking about dopamine detox—which is something you might not know you need (but I’m guessing you really do, because I did!)
239 | Year 4 of Organizing: Kim Snodgrass of Rustic Home Organizing (Pt 1 of 3)
There are few episodes each year that get more feedback than when I talk to my friend Kim of Rustic Home Organizing.
She's back to kick off 2026 with us and is telling us about her 4th year of organizing, which brought challenges she never envisioned. She has so much to say and I'm excited for you to hear it!
238 | Are you tired? We are.
This podcast is a real one. Cabri and Melissa are talking about burnout, how our phones are making life really hard for everyone, boundaries for 2026, and so much more.
We hope this helps you know you're not alone!
237 | 15 minutes of nonsense
The title says it all. It's just 15 minutes of Cabri and me talking about 100 different random things.
236 | Don't fall for this scam
Today we have a quick but hopefully impactful episode to help you avoid a common (and expensive) scam in the organizing industry.
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