320 - Find Your Mastermind of Friends

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, Jenn Dickel and I share our experience starting and growing our own small businesses. We discuss starting a part-time business, making the leap to full time self-employment, and learning to network. As women who own businesses, we talk through how we can explore our differences and then come together and support each other as business women. Women do not all have the same gifts, work in the same niche, or offer the same services. Anytime we take on a new dream, we benefit from walking alongside others on similar journeys.

We discuss the Facebook group the Professional Organizer’s Think Tank (POTT). Lisa started (and has supported) this group as a free resource for professional organizers who start their own businesses. They also share information about the POTT podcast where Lisa shares some of the real details and decision making in the early years of her former in-home professional organizing business.

No matter what business or adventure you are considering, women can benefit from finding a mastermind of like-minded and similarly focused friends. When we work together, we have a bigger impact, AND we have more fun! You can have this same experience in your personal life by attending Embrace in West Chester, Ohio June 26-28, 2020. EARLY BIRD PRICING THROUGH FEBRUARY 2020!!! Register at organize365.com/events

One way you can get extra support as a professional organizer is by becoming an Organize 365 Sunday Basket ® Certified Workshop Organizer. Lisa is offering a FREE Masterclass for people interested in learning about becoming certified on Tuesday February 4, 2020 at 1 PM EST. This is an informational class on what certification offers your own professional organization business. Organize 365 wants to support those of you who want to start your own small business helping others get organized. Because of Lisa’s upcoming Book Tour, this is the last time the Certification Program will be open in 2020!

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0:00.0	This week's mailbag comes to us from Helen.
0:04.0	Hi Lisa.
0:05.0	As I watched your Facebook post yesterday about the glue on the boxes,
0:09.0	I felt compelled to write to say thank you to you.
0:11.0	I discovered your podcast in early 2018. I have always
0:15.4	been fairly organized but have saved paperwork over many years and have lots of
0:20.0	boxes full of who knew what. Listening to your podcast combined with a trip back
0:24.4	to the UK spurred me into action. As I looked at my father's house with every
0:29.0	drawer stuffed with photos and papers I realized I had so many boxes I should be dealing with.
0:34.0	2018 was spent joining all access and working through the paperwork and the 100 day program.
0:40.0	Although I still have more work to do on the binders, all the boxes are gone and my house is mainly
0:45.2	organized. Yes, I know I am in the downsizing and legacy phase.
0:49.7	On December 10, 2018, my husband and I woke up to the news that our 28-year-old son had died in bed by his wife's side.
0:58.2	We now know that he had a pulmonary embolism caused by a work injury to his ankle. As I sought to comfort my daughter, husband, and
1:06.4	daughter-in-law, through that terrible time of grief, I know your programs and podcast help me keep
1:11.9	some semblance of normalcy and function. and podcasts were and where his childhood art was, etc. This brought me great comfort and
1:25.3	although I have yet to look at those things as it's too painful I know when I am
1:29.4	ready where they are. As a family we can move into 2020 having been through the terrible year of first, but we are all still here coping as we can.
1:39.0	As a woman of deep faith, I know where my son is is but that does not mean we don't miss
1:44.3	him every day as a friend described to me we are a tree with a limb lopped off
1:48.8	still precious and growing but not in its original beautiful form.
1:53.6	Last year I did some of the 100 days, but to be honest, my heart was not really in it.
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