Transformation with Devin R
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I introduce you to Devin R. who is married with three children; two are bonus kids that came with marrying her husband. They have 2 dogs and two cats. In 2018, Devin was looking for help to get organized. She was mowing her lawn when I caught her ear mentioning that I lived in the Cincinnati area. Then Devin’s life hit rock bottom with her work insinuating that she was not a good teacher and then she and her husband decided to separate. She could resonate with my story from 2012.
Devin looked at her life and decided she needed to get control of her life. Once she grabbed a bag and gathered all the papers she felt better. It was like since her physical chaos was getting under control her mental chaos could be addressed. We had a great discussion that all marriages go through rough patches and Devin was vulnerable to share a little bit about her marriage and how they are reconciling after about three years of separation. She shared how her mindset has shifted about organization. She looks around and asks what do I have? Why is it here? And do we even need it? She remembers making her daughter’s lunch recently and didn’t have to trip over the cat to get the things for the lunch. It was all in the lunch making station.
Devin had tried other systems but they never felt like life long solutions to her. The podcast and videos work as reminders to keep up with the systems. They are like a life partner to the systems. And they help with the cognitive load. We talked about the Sunday Basket® and how when you have Prospective Memory and you write something down it’s cognitive off loading to free up your working memory. This is something Devins struggles with because of MS but lets her neurologist know at each visit how much the Sunday Basket® helps and how it could help others with her diagnosis. And then we got into the weeds a little bit about qualitative studies that I want to do based off the information from my (unbeknownst to myself when I started) unofficial quantitative or phenomenological study AKA the Wednesday Transformation episodes.
Devin has been on her organizational journey for about three years now. She’s coped with her MS diagnosis, separated from her husband, and is entering the coaching years of parenting. Because of all her systems, she has more time to really invest in her daughter and being present. She really wishes she knew someone taught organization sooner and found Organize 365® sooner. It takes time to get organized. Devin pointed out that she values the Power of Positivity episode. “Life is not happening to you, it’s happening for you.” With the right attitude you can apply positivity to all journeys, not just organization journeys, no matter how insurmountable they seem.
Devin started working upholstering for her sister after she left teaching. She shared how she got the Friday Workbox®, worked on it with Monique at a paper retreat and how it helps her to stay organized on customers' jobs. I got to offer a little advice on how she could slowly incorporate a part time worker for her to get back some CEO time. A good balance of responsibilities is to spend 80% on production and 20% on admin and lead generation. With the addition of a part time worker, she could add another client and make money to cover the hours of that part time worker.
Devin’s advice is, “Jump in one step at a time. Listen to all the podcast episodes and then the videos from The Productive Home Solution™”
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| 0:00.0 | My favorite thing to do is talk to you. |
| 0:10.3 | Listening to how your life has been impacted and how you have grown in your organizational journey is so inspiring. |
| 0:19.2 | Over the years, I have really internalized for myself and verbalized to you that |
| 0:25.4 | perfect is not a thing. It does not exist. I have replaced the word perfect in my vocabulary |
| 0:32.8 | with the word excellent. I am not a perfectionist. I am a person of excellence. I invite you to come to |
| 0:42.1 | share your story about how you are being transformed from a reactive to a proactive person, |
| 0:48.3 | from an overwhelmed homeowner to one who is now in more control of your time and your spaces. |
| 1:02.0 | We all want to hear what more grace feels like in your life with your unique circumstances. Do not wait until you are a perfectly organized person. |
| 1:06.0 | Remember, perfect does not exist. |
| 1:09.0 | I want to hear from you. |
| 1:10.0 | Please sign up to join me for a Wednesday podcast |
| 1:14.1 | interview at Organize365.com slash Wednesday. Devon, welcome to the Organize 365 podcast. |
| 1:30.3 | Thank you so much, Lisa. It's such an honor to talk to you. |
| 1:36.4 | I'm really excited to dive into our story, but before we do, can you tell me how you first found organized 365? I was listening to podcasts. Actually, I think I just got started and listening to |
| 1:42.5 | podcasts roughly 2018. And I remember mowing my started in listening to podcasts, roughly 2018. |
| 1:45.1 | And I remember mowing my grass and listening to you and you saying something about being |
| 1:49.5 | near Cincinnati. |
| 1:50.5 | And that caught my attention. |
| 1:52.0 | And I really needed help with organizing. |
| 1:54.5 | So I jumped in and was all about listening to all the podcasts. |
| 1:59.3 | Yeah, we were just talking before we got started |
| 2:00.9 | about how we live actually very close to each other. And it is interesting when you find somebody that lives in your area. Like someone said that James Clear from Atomic Habits is actually from Ohio. I was like he is. Really? I mean, like just like, even when you find out, maybe that's wrong. I probably shouldn't have said that. But I think that's true. I don't think he lives here now, but I think he was. |
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