The Pro Organizer Studio Podcast

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 organizing friends.  Links for Listeners: Tidy Stock Photography site Coupon code: PODCAST20 for 20% off their purchase!   Organizing Essentials (enrollment closes 1/31)   Information about Inspired Organizer

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 Organizing site Information on the Inspired Organizer® program

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 you change from a nine to five job to having your own business--and much more.   LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Information about our Inspired Organizer® community Pro Organizer Studio resources  

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 the changing tastes of generations are impacting the market for collectibles and how organizers can be educated to be able to assist their clients with options for antiques, jewelry, china, and other items you might encounter in a home. Links for listeners: Keys Guild website  Inspired Organizer® program information

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® program

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.com/enneagram-clutter-course/ Use code: POS20 for 20% off this course! Laurie's website, Simply B Organized Laurie's podcast This Organized Life

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/unfolding

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 LIVE WEDNESDAY 10/13 Links for listeners: Information on Pro Organizer Studio coaching programs: www.inspiredorganizer.com  

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 Kistler Instagram Email Brie: hello@bkbrandingco.com Information on Inspired Organizer®

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 for listeners: Pod on SEO: https://proorganizerstudio.com/blog/seo-for-organizers/ Our free workshop: www.poroadmap.com/2021 Music by Atch: First Light - Atch https://soundcloud.com/atch-music   

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 Instagram at @melissakeyser and her website, melissakeyser.com. 

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 Home book  If you want our free workshop, "Your 4-Part Plan for Landing your Dream Clients in 2021"--click here!

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 kids during the last (very challenging!) year-and how many workplaces are migrating permanently to work from home. We can be special advocates to our clients navigating this change and Shari tells us how! Links for listeners: Adore Them Parenting Website: adorethemparenting.com Parenting While Working at Home book: www.adorethemparenting.com/book/ If you are considering starting or growing a professional organizing business, we have a brand new for 2021, totally free workshop you can take that goes beyond this podcast--you can register here if you want to check it out!

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 Instagram: www.instagram.com/lillys_organizing/  

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 founder Jen Obermeier, "Your 4-Part Plan for Landing your Dream Clients in 2021."

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! 

Your website is your employee that works 24/7. Jen and Melissa tackle one of the most important aspects of spring cleaning your professional organizing business--your website, including the supporting players SEO (search engine optimization) and Google My Business. It's Melissa's favorite subject to tackle! Check out our previous podcast with SEO expert Caitlin Strempel here:  https://proorganizerstudio.com/blog/seo-for-organizers/  

In part 2 of our 5 part "Spring Clean Your Organizing Business" series, Jen coaches us on priorities and what Warren Buffett has to teach pro organizers. If you have 100 different things on your priority list--this is the pod for you!