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. Melissa, welcome to the organized 365 podcast. Thank you so

much. This is exciting. I was wondering how did you first find organized 365? Well, the year

2015, I lost my dad to cancer, and I think part of my grieving process was trying to find some

control in my eyes. And that led to all things organization, which is kind of a natural,

I'm a natural organizer, planner, detailed oriented person. And I felt really out of control

during that time. So it was podcast after podcast productivity, organization, all the things.

And you popped up during one of my searches. And I remember being on the lawnmower,

smelling my grass, and your words, and I just thought, yep, this is it. This is what I need.

It was the mindset that really hooked me, the mindset shift.

Well, I'm sorry about the passing of your file. Yes, it was a hard battle.

Yeah. It's not easy. Do you have any siblings? I don't. I'm an only child.

Yeah, everybody processes it differently and in different ways. And so then you have that as well

and family and yeah, it's just not an easy season to get through. I built seven vegetable gardens.

Well, I think that every box in my home.

When my parents got divorced, I like totally tore out my pantry and rebuilt it and

sledge hammered off a window ledge and put in one that would hold a yanky candle. Did not block

the drafty winter from coming in, but you know, I could put a candle up there. And I remember with

both of those experiences, exactly what you said, like trying to figure out how do I get control over

something? I do not have a control over. And my husband, in both situations, just watching sports

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