Stand Out

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 importance of listening and learning from others

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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 sales you can grow in the best way, crisis or no crisis

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. 

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 Kathy begins with some tips from her about how to know whether offering a virtual service fits into your business model or client in the first place.

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 planning and kitchen compartmentalization. Susan also speaks about what it is like to occupy such a specific niche in the business.

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.

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 communication and some of the trends we see in today's landscape.

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.