Welcome to the organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity

expert, and motivational speaker, Lisa Woodruff. This podcast will help you embrace progress

over perfection and create lasting, functional organizing in your home. I have so much to share

with you. So let's get started.

Carrie, welcome to the organized 365 podcast.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited. This is going to be a great conversation. Before we get

started, can you tell me how did you first find organized 365? I was trying to figure that out.

I know I listened to you on a Git organized HQ, like a meeting of organizing bloggers.

I don't know if that was the first time I've listened to you, but that is really what triggered,

like I bought the book, and I started really looking into it at that point. That was in 2019,

and I was really, really busy at that point, and I needed some help. And it wasn't like how to

make your own laundry detergent, or I just needed some how to get rid of paper, how to declutter,

really practical things. So who you're busy? Who's in the family with you that you're busy with?

Well, I have a husband who hates clutter. We are complete and utter opposites on that.

I have two kids still at home, one's 18, and he's a senior, and one is 16, and she's a junior.

And then I go in college who's 20, and we have a puppy. Oh, jeez. So they would have all been

in middle school and high school when you first found me then. Yes. Yep. I think one was in middle

school and two were in high school. And those high school years are so busy. I mean, they're just like,

it's just like so busy. It is. Well, and the two oldest are boys. They play football, so that's a huge

time consumption. I was a veterinarian. I sold my practice at the end of 2019. So I had all of the

financial papers and the wrap. Oh, I got to, you know, you sell your business about a month later,

you're done, you take water color class or whatever. It was not like at all, at all. And we

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