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.

Tiara, welcome to the organized 365 podcast. Thank you, Lisa. I appreciate it. Such an

honor. I am really looking forward to our conversation, but first I have to know how

did we start talking to each other through the internet? How did you first find organized

365? Well, I'll try to make a long story short, but basically I was working full time

for a company that I absolutely loved, and then of course in 2020 COVID hit. And when

that happened, my daughter had to start doing school virtually, and so my husband and I

talked about it, and one of us had to come home to be with her. And so after talking about

it for a while, we decided I would leave my company because I could still sort of do

it part-time from home, and that way I could be with her, and also I'd always wanted to

be a writer. So it gave me a chance to also go home and start writing. And so that's what

I did. And then in the fall, of course, of 2020, yeah, 2020, I started getting where

kids could go back to school in person. And so I started looking for kind of part-time

job to bring in a little extra income that was the exact hours that my daughter was at

school. And so I found a wonderful company here that my husband actually works for as

well, and they let me come on as a disinfector of COVID. So I went around the whole corporate

office, and I would disinfect, and I could listen to podcasts. And so funny enough, I'd

have mentioned before that I'm a huge planner nerd. I love planners and organizations.

So I started listening to the podcast by Morgan and Myra, the planners in wine, and then

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