I am so thrilled to welcome Jenny Albertini, who is one of the very first professional organizers I ever met, and who was a great part of my organizing life, to the pod! She is the author of Decluttered: Mindful Organizing for Health, Home and Beyond--and it's a book that will help organizers with clients by connecting health (mental and physical) with the organizing process. 

Two of my favorite people I've met in all my years of organizing are back with me here on the podcast! I am having a fun convo with Brandie and Ryan of Home+Sort in northern California, who are the founders of the How To: Summit. The summit for 2024 is moving to Austin, Texas in the end of September--and tickets are almost gone! We're chatting about everything that's in store this year for the 6th year of the summit. 

One of the most popular topics we cover is social media for professional organizers—how to use it, when to use it, why to use it. There are a lot of misperceptions about how social could or should be used in our business—and, in my opinion, way too much emphasis on it as a way to get clients! This is an episode you don’t want to miss if you are looking for tips about social or are looking for permission to do it a lot less—or even if you love it. This episode is for EVERYONE!

Helping clients who need professional organizing while they're struggling with grief can be very challenging--and today we want to help you with some concrete ideas to help your clients. My guest is Missi McKown of Clear Spaces Organizing in Maple Grove, Minnesota, and she is graciously sharing some of her personal stories of loss to help organizers work with clients.

We are back with organizer Michelle Parravani of Designing With Less in Atlanta, and we are talking about some easy sustainability tips for organizers working with eco-conscious clients, and Michelle gives us a FABULOUS idea for a pricing differential that I had never thought of before! 

I am so happy to welcome my guest Michelle Parravani of the Atlanta, GA professional organizing business Designing With Less to the pod--she is talking about entrepreneurship as a single woman which is a super important subject, and I can't wait for you to meet her!

When I added photo organizing to my list of client services, it was one of the best decisions I made for my business. Clients are overwhelmed with the volume of photos—physical and digital—and helping them release that burden as a part of the home organizing process is a great gift to give them.

It's one of the hardest parts of professional organizing entrepreneurship--telling a client "sorry, I can't help." This is part 2 of my conversation with Melissa Gugni of her eponymous Bay Area organizing business.

Have you ever wanted to say to a client, “I Quit!!” Today we are going over the how and why of exiting a bad client (or not starting with them at all!)

This is going to be the first, and not last!, conversation we have about organizing clients with ADHD, and being an organizer with ADHD. Neurodivergence is the hot word right now--but we are diving into a discussion on how you can help clients even if you yourself aren't fully up to speed on all things in this realm.