The Pro Organizer Studio Podcast

Amy Mayorga tells us about turning her personal passion and interest into a strong onine brand, and how to find your own passion for online presence (hint: it's NOT about having to do social media to be successful!) This is part 2 of our conversation with Amy of Minimalista Organizing in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas.  LINKS FOR LISTENERS:  Amy's Instagram @minimalistamom Amy's website minimalistaorgani...

When Amy Mayorga became a mom, she realized that the STUFF of being a mother was overwhelming her. She discovered organizing and minimalism, changed her own home life--and now changes the home life of her 26,000 Instagram followers and her in-home organizing clients in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas metropolitan area.  LINKS FOR LISTENERS:  Amy's Instagram @minimalistamom Amy's website minimalistaorg...

Jen and Melissa are back with part 2 of answering organizer Instagram questions. Today we talk about our own closets and what that teaches us about working with clients, and the pressure we feel to have perfect homes because we are organizers.  LINKS FOR LISTENERS Our new FREE workshop: The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan  Join our Inspired Organizer® program Pro Organizer Studio has resources for pro...

It's another epsiode of "Jen and Melissa get together and record their conversation" for you! This week, we will give you two epsiodes of us answering questions we got from pro organizers on Instagram. We talk about client situations and client questions, home organizing reality shows, and all sorts of things to get you thinking about your businesses.  LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Our new FREE workshop/ma...

In this podcast, we are going over the three mistakes Melissa made early on in her organizing business--so if you are making them too, you know you aren't alone! This is a sneak peek of our NEW one hour free workshop called The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan--If you are interested in watching the full one hour free workshop, click here.  For more information on our Inspired Organizer® program, click...

It is our 100th episode celebration here at Pro Organizer Studio--and we are bringing you an extra special message today. Working with organizers each day--we know that sometimes what we tell ourselves, the story about our capabilities and what we are and who we are--sometimes can stop our progress in our businesses. Today we are bringing you a conversation about the book "Soundtracks" by Jon Acuf...

In the last two years, organizers have discovered that there are lots of ways to help clients--and sometimes, even for a business that primarily helps people inside their house, organizers have been able to move to find an audience online successfully. Today we are bringing you an interview that Jen Kilbourne Obermeier did with Carly Tizzano of The Resolve Podcast, and it is FILLED with insight fo...

Sarah Brent did something awesome with her organizing business, which is she saw that there was a need for something in the market, and she kept saying "someone should work on this!" and then realized someone was actually her. We love when someone takes a challenge and is like, wait, I'll tackle that! So we wanted to have Sarah on to talk about what she's doing...and how it can help all our pro or...

In a new series, we introduce you to an inspirational pro organizer from our community and tell you about their journey. Kim Snodgrass has just taken the leap and started her business, but is already working with clients while she builds the back end of her business. She tells us the whole story about making this leap into full-time professional organizing.  Links for listeners: Rustic Home Organi...

Jen and Melissa open the doors of a recent live coaching event we held inside our private Inspired Organizer® community--we talk about starting this new year out right in your organizing business (and remind you to take care of YOURSELF so you can show up for your CLIENTS!) This conversation ranges from 2022 planning to what's happening in the industry to how do you really change your mindset when...

Do your clients ask you "Hey, what should I do with my..." (Grandma's crystal vases, this antique furniture, this jewelry)? Our podcast guest today, Charles Tinsley of The Keys Guild, is here to help us understand collectibles and how to work with our organizing clients more effectively when they ask these questions. In this episode, Charles and Melissa Klug of Pro Organizer Studio talk about how...

What does it take to have a professional organizing business? When do you know it's the right time to launch a business? What does entrepreneurship look like for a professional organizer? Jen and Melissa answer all of these questions and many more in this episode.  Links for listeners: Free workshop (Your 4-Part Plan for Landing your Dream Clients in 2021)  Information on our Inspired Organizer® p...

Laurie Palau is an organizer, coach, author and Enneagram expert, and she's here today to talk about how understanding the Enneagram can help you better serve your clients--and your own business. Laurie's new course on Enneagram and Clutter can help you and your clients understand more about themselves and how to improve their relationship with STUFF! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: https://simplyborganized....

Our guest Pia Thompson of Sweet Digs, an organizer in the NYC area, talks to us about an incredibly important special event for the home organizing and productivity industry happening this week on Tuesday, October 19 (replays available.) This event is sponsored by The Home Edit, The Container Store, The Neat Method, and YouCopia. Links for listeners: Event registration-- www.gridandglam.com/unfold...

One of Melissa's organizing clients joins us this week to talk about a productivity concept she uses in her life that organizers AND their clients can both use to get huge wins. Boss October is a way to free yourself from those things that hang over your head (you know that email you've needed to send for three months? Yeah--that!) and it might even find you a lot of money.  PODCAST EXTRAS WILL GO...

Whether you've had an organizing business for years or are brand new, today's guest is offering so much wisdom about how your website and branding help you find clients and connect them to your business. Brie Kistler is the owner of BK Branding Co and she knows what it takes for an organizer's website to show off the best of her to potential clients.  Show links:  BK Branding Co website  Brie Kist...

Jen and Melissa got together recently and decided to record all of our conversations so you can feel like you were here with us. Today we are covering both analog and digital--we chat the value of referrals as well as SEO for your organizing business--and we promise, SEO isn't scary! The name of the game is finding clients for your business, and these are two great ways to accomplish this. Links f...

We love when a new organizing show comes out so more people get to know what we do for a living. Today Melissa talks about the new Netflix show from Marie Kondo and how you can use this to your advantage with clients (even if you don't use her methods to organize!) 

Melissa drops in with a minisode about something she read recently in Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss that she is implementing--and wants some buddies along for the ride! 

Melissa Keyser's journey to professional organizing stretched from the Bay Area to the woods of Maine--including selling almost everything she owned to move cross country. Today she joins us to talk about her business, including why it's the ideal career for people who identify as being HSP--highly sensitive people--and who might struggle in a traditional workplace.  Melissa can be found on Instag...

We are back with more conversation with Shari Medini, work from home and parenting expert. Today we talk about great productivity tips for working from home--whether you're helping a client navigate a home office or if you're trying to figure out how to prioritize solopreneur time in your own pro organizing business.  Links for listeners:  Adore Them Parenting website  Parenting While Working From...

Shari Medini is a mom and work-from-home expert. Even if you are not a mom yourself, or if your kids are older or grown and out of the house, Shari has awesome advice for us on how we can be the best professional organizer and coach to moms of kids--whether younger or older. This is the first of a two part episode with Shari. Today we will talk about what we've learned about working from home with...

Xiomara Romero started Lilly's Organizing on a whim one night--and the very next day had her first client! She talks to us about her business growing over the last three years, and about her next unique project--taking her Airstream and her organizing business to all 50 states. Xiomara is a part of our Inspired Organizer® program-- to learn more, click here! Website: www.lillysorganizing.com Insta...

On day 5 of our Spring Cleaning bonanza, we talk about cleaning up your business processes. Looking at your sales and marketing, finance and accounting, operations and human resources (yep, even if you're a solopreneur, you need human resources!) departments and how you can improve your processes is a boss spring cleaning move.  Dubsado for Professional Organizers course Our free workshop from fou...

Do you LOVE doing social media for your organizing business...or does it totally overwhelm you? Either way, we are talking all things social today--and no matter what side you fall on, we can get you back in order. Spring clean your social today with Jen and Melissa!