Organizing for Beautiful Living: Home Organizing Tips, Sustainable Organizing Tips, Decluttering Tips, and Time Management Tips for Working Moms and Busy Moms

Stress is inevitable, but Cathy Nesbitt has found interesting and fun ways to de-fuse her stress! Cathy is a worm composting (Vermicomposting) aficionado, and a laughter yoga teacher. I loved learning about Cathy's unconventional and interesting life, and her unique responses to stressors over the years. Cathy shares how she approaches composting with worms indoors, and tells us how we can ge...

I'm taking you with me to a kitchen organizing mini-session today! I just had a recent session with a client to declutter and organize her kitchen, and you'll hear the process I followed, the challenges of the space, and two specific decluttering and organizing tips that I left my client with. Tune in to have a sneak peek into what a professional organizer does on this mall project! List...

The truth: I've lost plenty of stuff in my own house. Why? Because I didn't put it back where it was supposed to go! Sound familiar? In this episode, you'll see exactly how the Simple Single makes it possible for you to never lose anything again - whether it's stuff in your house, or digital files on your computer. The Simple Single fits right into the CLEAR5 Framework for decl...

2025 can definitely be the year you become organized for beautiful living! In this episode, I'm sharing the 5 simple steps that I use for every organizing project I do, whether for myself or for clients. It's my CLEAR5 Framework: Clarify Limit Edit Assign Homes, and Review You'll hear exactly what each step entails, and how to get organized in a sustainable way. Don't forget to...

Are you ready to be organized in the new year? Well, to make it easier to get, and stay, organized, I've got 5 habits that I use all the time that I think will help you, too! They are: Micro-organizing Quick Meal Planning Do laundry often Make your bed every day, and Weekly Planning. Put these 5 habits into your "organizing toolkit", and you'll find that being organized doesn&a...

This is the simplest way I've found to reflect on the past year, in a way that sets you up to create your 2025 goals and action plan. In today's episode, I'm giving you my template for completing your 2024 reflection. You'll look at the good things, the bad things, and just so-so things that were in your life and work last year, because one thing we know for sure: If we don&apo...

If you're a working mom, whether you work from home, you own your own business, you work in an office, hospital, university, garden or zoo, you know you need to plan so you accomplish the things you want in 2025. But how do you make sure you stick to your goals and actually achieve them? What types of goals should you be setting as a working mom or entrepreneur? In this episode, I'm shar...

There's a (not-so-secret) secret reason why some people can get organized quickly and stay organized easily: they know their Organizing Personality! I've identified four main Organizing Personalities that will tell you the way you should get help and support to get organized. The four personalities, that I've named just so they're memorable, are: The Sustainable Sophisticate Th...

Are you traveling for the holidays? Then this episode is perfect timing! These are my best little tips for staying organized for your holiday travels! Keep a packing list for vacation, and one for work, and reuse them Use packing cubes (of course) Treat your suitcase as a drawer at your destination Bundle your kids' outfits together for each individual day Use a cord organizer pouch - but use...

Thanksgiving prep is exciting -- at first! And the clean-up? Ugh! I've got 10 hacks to streamline your Thanksgiving prep and the cleanup this week. These are hacks I use every time we have a big gathering at our house. Feel free to use these to simplify your hosting, no matter the size of your home, or the number of guests you've invited! In the kitchen, use command hooks to hang multipl...

We've changed our name! Organizing for Beautiful Living podcast is still all about sustainable home organizing, decluttering and lifestyle tips for working moms and entrepreneurs. It's simply that Organizing for Beautiful Living aligns more closely with my mission to help moms organize their homes sustainably without sacrificing all their time so that they can live more socially with les...

Looking for sustainable holiday gift ideas? I've got a gift guide for you this week! Ideas include: Experiences DIY gifts Consumables Secondhand gifts And I also share how I  think about sustainable gift giving so you won't have to rely of "gift guides" each year! Don't forget our Fall Special: buy any organizing package through the end of November, and revise a FREE Home...

Do you have folders on your computer, and notebooks in your office, filled with notes, ideas, articles and passages you wanted to keep at one point, but they've now become files and notebooks you never look at anymore? Maybe those notes that you took time to compile just feel like a huge mountain of information to sift through, and so it sits there, unused! In this episode, I'll tell you...

Are you finding that the small "ugly stuff" in your house - cords from your computer, mismatched coffee mugs in crazy colors - is making your house feel a little chaotic? In this episode, I'm sharing some tricks to easily hide the ugly stuff in your house without much hassle. Don't forget that our Fall Special is happening right now until the end of November! Buy any organizing...

You KNOW toys are coming during the holiday season...eek! So it's time to declutter, right? Toys can feel hard to declutter, but once you understand what makes some toys worthwhile, and how your kids should be playing with their toys,  it'll become painless to declutter the kids' toys! Also, if you're in Miami, don't forget that our Fall Special is going on now until the e...

Have you been thinking you should have a home inventory, but just know it's a ton of work? This week, I give you the steps to create your home inventory, and we also have a Fall Special going on where you receive a FREE home inventory with the purchase of any organizing package! This is a $350 value that you get first access to as a podcast listener :) Spots are limited, and the offer is vali...

Do you love Halloween as much as I do? If so, it's probably hard to curb the urge to add to your Halloween decorations each year, right? I've got 4 ideas to embrace the all-out Halloween decorations while still living a more minimalist lifestyle: Crafting Choosing where you store your decorations Picking decoration zones Using lighting and music I'd love to hear if you do what I do,...

In this mini-episode, I'm sharing with you what my friend, Ellen Faye, author of Productivity For How You're Wired told me about 2 years ago: A "B' is good enough! It took a while for me to absorb this, and it may take you a while, too. But I share this with you wholeheartedly: perfection may not be what you need right now. Get to that "B" in your home, have more peop...

Are you feeling like "doing a little bit of organizing each day" is getting you nowhere? It might be because you're focusing on the wring TYPE of clutter. There are 5 types of clutter that affect us: Physical Clutter Mental Clutter Digital Clutter Environmental Clutter Social Clutter Once you identify which type is keeping you stuck, you can declutter and organize it using my CLEAR5...

Do you sometimes feel like the clutter is everywhere? On this episode, I've got easy two-in-one fixes for clutter hot spots in your home. These are fixes that not only organize these spots quickly, they also make them more stylish. The most cluttered areas that I have two-in-one fixes for are: the kitchen counter the bathroom counter your bedside table the flat surfaces in your home (coffee t...

Are you worried about decluttering things because of "What If?" What if I need that notebook from the class I took 8 years ago in my next job? What if we could use that wig for a future Halloween costume? I used to get stuck with the What Ifs too. So I tried a bunch of different decluttering methods to see how to get past those. In this episode, I'm sharing 5 of those methods with y...

Do you ever feel like other people are just naturally organized, but for you, the thought of getting your home organized is so overwhelming? After a grocery store conversation, I realized that so many people are intimidated by "organizing". But I know that often, these folks are getting stuck in one (or more) of the 5 steps of my organizing method. In this episode, I'll share which...

This mini-episode will introduce you to my "secret weapon" cleaning tool that helps me daily, even when I don't feel like cleaning (which, let's face it, is every single day!). It's not such a secret, actually. It's the hand vac! You can hear how I use it and where I keep it, and why it's been such a game-changer for me in keeping cleaning time to a minimum. That...

I you're a bit sleep-deprived and time-strapped, but still want to create magic for your kids with the Tooth Fairy, then this episode is for you! I have 3 last-minute Tooth Fairy ideas to help you out! Two of them aer incredibly simple, one if definitely super-spy-level. And by the way, if you like fun conversations like these, and you're willing to share your time-and-sanity-saving idea...

Do you start each work day with a To-Do list that you know you'll never get to the end of? It happens to all of us. In fact, it used to happen so much that my days felt overwhelming and chaotic, from the moment the kids woke up, to the minute I finally fell asleep at night! When I started using my 4-Stage Daily Plan, things were very different: I know my Essentials for each Stage, and I worke...