Organize 365 Podcast

• Coffee Chat - The 2025 Holiday Blitz is Here!

  This is your friendly reminder to get registered for the Holiday Blitz…it’s FREE!  A great gift to yourself for the holidays would be some sanity. This blitz is designed to help you be present and enjoy the holidays too. We are where the holidays come from. But did you ever stop to ask your family if everything you are doing is meeting their holiday expectations. Often times we have so much fun with one idea that it almost turns into an obligation in the following years. If you stop and just ask your family what makes the holidays special, you may find you can eliminate a lot of things you are doing. Turns out my kids didn’t care about decorating all the cookies I made from scratch. Now i just buy the chocolate chip cookie ingredients and my daughter makes them. I don’t have to do any of it!!   Take advantage of this free Blitz to see how you can simplify your holidays. Dream about what is possible for the upcoming holidays while you have time to plan. I know if i don’t plan, my expectations for the holidays don’t even get considered. This way I plan how to execute how I want the holidays to look and feel while confidently meeting my families expectations too.  Registration is open now, Videos drop Oct. 27th!! You get to enjoy the holidays this year too! EPISODE RESOURCES: Holiday Blitz 2025 [email protected] Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media.

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• 680 - (Re-Air) The Future of Housework Research. Where Organize 365 is Going.

  I really love Lillian Gilbreth’s focus on efficiency for the American home. I’d like to think I’m picking up where she left off. After the war, “men took back their jobs.” But did it ever occur to you that women worked at these factories and there were dual income homes before the war? It had not occurred to me.  I wanted to be home but some women wanted to be at work, working in their uniqueness making a paycheck. Now that the soldiers had returned to work, more women were home, the big packaged food companies marketed to her about how to make her life easier.   Past Mistakes In the past science has just determined the definition of housework and completed their studies based on it. And human nature is to do the household tasks of your gender, as you saw displayed growing up.  But there’s a new sheriff in town and I asked the public how they defined housework and I am so excited to publish my findings. In conducting studies in the past they also used a convenience sample group for their studies; like all college students.  This gave skewed results.  In one study, they used married couples with children. This also resulted in what I call “He said, She said” about who is doing what housework. And who is doing more. That convenience sample was ok in the 80’s because that was roughly 60% of the population; married with children. But now? Married with children only represents roughly 25% of the population. My sample groups will be large and mimic the US Census to accurately reflect the general public.  I want to be able to focus on teaching efficiency for all genders, all ethnicities, and all family compositions. Because I want a single mom, a multigenerational home, or a nuclear family to learn how to get organized, leading to productivity, that reduces household work. 1 Problem 1 Product It’s easy to want to solve one product for one problem but there’s an underlying problem. This is how people try to start to organize often. I used a child getting ear infections as an example. The first infection, one product for one problem. But then too many infections and now we need to look at the underlying problem. When you look for one product for problem, you get in this cycle of decluttering to organization and back to decluttering but you never get to move on to productivity because the skill of organization has not yet been learned.   But just like getting a celiac diagnosis, you must modify your environment to achieve your desired goal. The Productive Home Solution teaches you to declutter, organize, and modify your home. The Paper Solution® teaches best information management practices. The Sunday Baskset® provides a system to optimize all your household manager responsibilities.  The first time around decluttering and organizing can take some time but then it’s just maintenance. New milestone, then you modify your environment again but you don’t have to learn the skill all over. You just apply it to the new phase of life you are in like a new baby, home, job, or milestone birthday. The Mission By now you may have heard Organize 365® is decluttering all work related products and services as of December 31, 2025.  This will allow more time to focus on universal application of the systems Organize 365® offers. I want to answer what is essential housework? How can housework be most efficiently optimized and operationalized? How can we all do less housework? And I plan to focus on testing and disseminating results from studies about systems and methods in the marketplace and in academia. Here’s to the next chapter of Organize 365®. EPISODE RESOURCES: The Sunday Basket® The Paper Solution® The Productive Home Solution Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter  Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media!

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• Friday Workbox Farewell FAQs

  Last Friday I announced the Friday Workbox® and all related work products will only be available for purchase till December 31st or while supplies last. But I don’t think I explained it very well so I wanted to record this episode to address concerns and reiterate what is going on at Organize 365®.  No One is Going Anywhere… Please do not worry, no one is getting laid off. No one who works at Organize 365® is going anywhere. Steph who runs the Friday Workbox will still be here. Stephanie, my Chief of Staff and Anna are also still here. They are doing more behind the scenes things. But no one is going anywhere, we’re just all going in a new direction.  Got Distracted For about a year and a half I have been trying to support both home and work organization.  You see, as an organizer, I get people going in the right direction and then I want to follow them into that thing that they discovered they are good at. But in doing that I now see that I am leaving people behind. They’re ready to get off the declutter cycle only to find me miles ahead helping people in work areas. I started Organize 365® because I feel like I am called to help women organize their homes and then they are forced to struggle with what they are uniquely created to do. I want that evolution back. Someone gets decluttered. I help them to get organized and productive. Then they are ready to fly the nest to a coach, start a business, get into a hobby, whatever their next chapter is. I’m just refocusing more narrowly on the home. And this way too there is one clear message for you to share to others who need to get organized. Silver Lining The silver lining in all of this is great pricing now till December 31st or while supplies last. 50% off all work related products excluding the Income and Expense Planner. You will still get the full course, the community, and workbooks.  In 2026, the courses will simply move to legacy status. You will still have the community to support you, but there will no longer be someone from Organize 365® leading the community or holding co-working time.  And if you are in need of a certified organizer or still want to get certification, it’s not too late. The certified organizers for business and the Teacher workbox will be available till December. If you want to get certification or add certification, you can still purchase those. I really tried to explain, in this episode, what the pre-requisites are for adding certifications and how long each one takes. If you want to get inventory, it’s deeply discounted for our certified organizers.  It’s been tough to make the decision to discontinue products that are lucrative to the business and that the community loves so much. But it is time for me to go back to center and focus on that initial transformation I used to get so much feedback about. Thank you so much for all your encouraging words in this transition. After reading so many reactions/responses I feel confident in this decision.  I encourage you to listen to episode 680 (re-airing right after this one) again for an extended explanation of all of this and what the future looks like for the current work related products, services, and communities in 2026. There are also links to all the products in episode 680. And if you are still left with questions feel free to email customer service at [email protected]. EPISODE RESOURCES: The Sunday Basket® Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter  Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media!

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• 680 - The future of Housework Research. Where Organize 365® is going

  I really love Lillian Gilbreth’s focus on efficiency for the American home. I’d like to think I’m picking up where she left off. After the war, “men took back their jobs.” But did it ever occur to you that women worked at these factories and there were dual income homes before the war? It had not occurred to me.  I wanted to be home but some women wanted to be at work, working in their uniqueness making a paycheck. Now that the soldiers had returned to work, more women were home, the big packaged food companies marketed to her about how to make her life easier.   Past Mistakes In the past science has just determined the definition of housework and completed their studies based on it. And human nature is to do the household tasks of your gender, as you saw displayed growing up.  But there’s a new sheriff in town and I asked the public how they defined housework and I am so excited to publish my findings. In conducting studies in the past they also used a convenience sample group for their studies; like all college students.  This gave skewed results.  In one study, they used married couples with children. This also resulted in what I call “He said, She said” about who is doing what housework. And who is doing more. That convenience sample was ok in the 80’s because that was roughly 60% of the population; married with children. But now? Married with children only represents roughly 25% of the population. My sample groups will be large and mimic the US Census to accurately reflect the general public.  I want to be able to focus on teaching efficiency for all genders, all ethnicities, and all family compositions. Because I want a single mom, a multigenerational home, or a nuclear family to learn how to get organized, leading to productivity, that reduces household work. 1 Problem 1 Product It’s easy to want to solve one product for one problem but there’s an underlying problem. This is how people try to start to organize often. I used a child getting ear infections as an example. The first infection, one product for one problem. But then too many infections and now we need to look at the underlying problem. When you look for one product for problem, you get in this cycle of decluttering to organization and back to decluttering but you never get to move on to productivity because the skill of organization has not yet been learned.   But just like getting a celiac diagnosis, you must modify your environment to achieve your desired goal. The Productive Home Solution teaches you to declutter, organize, and modify your home. The Paper Solution® teaches best information management practices. The Sunday Baskset® provides a system to optimize all your household manager responsibilities.  The first time around decluttering and organizing can take some time but then it’s just maintenance. New milestone, then you modify your environment again but you don’t have to learn the skill all over. You just apply it to the new phase of life you are in like a new baby, home, job, or milestone birthday. The Mission By now you may have heard Organize 365® is decluttering all work related products and services as of December 31, 2025.  This will allow more time to focus on universal application of the systems Organize 365® offers. I want to answer what is essential housework? How can housework be most efficiently optimized and operationalized? How can we all do less housework? And I plan to focus on testing and disseminating results from studies about systems and methods in the marketplace and in academia. Here’s to the next chapter of Organize 365®. EPISODE RESOURCES: The Sunday Basket® The Paper Solution® The Productive Home Solution Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter  Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media!

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• Coffee Chat - Going All In On Household Management

  Are you sitting down? I have some very exciting news and I have some shocking news but I am here to explain myself. What do you want first? The exciting news or shocking news? I’m dying to let the cat out of the bag so be prepared to be shocked! Organize 365® will no longer be supporting work.  This decision was not made lightly and I’m still nervous announcing it. As the visionary of Organize 365®, I have to make tough decisions. I started Organize 365® focused on the home. I branched out into all of these other areas of life to support the community and have recently found myself spread too thin. I am narrowing my focus on the household manager again. I am getting the PhD to do research and it is research on the home. I know three things. I want to focus on the home not to be distracted by work which is so individualized and I want to provide the most benefits possible. The second, work, is never done. And it’s difficult to universally strategize work for each individual’s work. With the house you take 18 months to three years and you have completed your home. I want to get people to the point where they have to struggle with themselves to decide what to do with their extra time and no more house holding them back.  And gosh darnit, I’m good at helping household managers to systematize and optimize their homes. That’s the third thing!  This is the light in me that I want to shine for others. This is what I was uniquely created to do!  Now, get excited because there are some deals to be had in this transition! Products are 50% off while supplies last until December 31st.  -The Friday Workbox is going away  -That includes the teacher/education workbox because it’s work related. I explained all the deals, courses, and clubs that will be discontinued or put into legacy status.  -The Ashland University course will no longer be available. -The Meeting Agenda Course will be discontinued. -Workbox Planning Day and subscriptions will be discontinued. -Certified Organizers for Business and Education will no longer be listed on the Organize 365® Website. However we will be sending emails to the community who has those products with a list of organizers. Please print this out and put it in your Friday Workbox® for future reference.  There is no need to panic. If there was anything you wanted to add to your supplies or certifications for work, you still can until the end of the year. Take advantage of these amazing deals because I want to see you continue to thrive in work.  EPISODE RESOURCES: [email protected] Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media.

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