Getting Organized with Jane Stoller

Welcome back to My Gratitude Attitude Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Lindsay Lesage interviews Jane Stoller, a Swiss-Canadian author, speaker and life-biz organizer. Jane’s passion is to de-clutter spaces and to organize business processes. Jane wrote her first book, Organizing for Your Lifestyle: Adaptable Inspirations from Socks to Suitcases in 2016 to help friends get more organized, but it ultimately gained international attention allowing Jane to turn her passion into a profitable business, Organized Jane. Jane travels all around the world working with clients ranging from individuals looking to revamp one space, to large corporations needing a complete business overhaul.

Episode Recap: length 36:12

• What is a Life Biz Organizer? Jane shares her passion for helping individuals declutter their spaces, as well as organizing businesses and processes for entrepreneurs and small businesses. (3:00)
• Why has organization become so trendy, especially in North America? (4:30)
• “Clutter in your space is Clutter in your mind.”  (5:25)
• Jane shares how she works with individuals by drilling down into their individual specific needs and lifestyle by way of a lifestyle questionnaire. (6:45)
• What is a Time Cube and how does it help organize your time and keep you on task? (7:10)
• Switzerland is truly an organized country in every aspect. Hear Jane and Lindsay talk about their favorite organized systems in Switzerland.  (9:48)
• Jane is now writing the Decluttering for Dummies book.  This reference tool will include practical terms for all to use.  Janes shares her biggest takeaways from writing this upcoming book. (11:40)
• Janes shares three general tips to help you get started with being more organized. (13:48)
• Lindsay asks Jane how to navigate around our loved one’s who’s love language is all about giving gifts to our children. How do we navigate around all of the gifts without being overwhelmed? (16:45)
• Jane and Lindsay discuss organizational tips and strategies for school teacher’s resources. (20:30)
• How a laser-focused closet can help eliminate laundry hassles and 60 hours of wasted time in our closets per year!  (23:40)
• Jane shares her journey on how she became an expert in organization & entrepreneurship along with beneficial tips to help you get organized in your own business. (26:08)
• Jane’s cool take on resourcing tasks such as accounting & marketing.  (28:40)
• So much to be grateful for.  A special share from a failed business to today’s book & Organized Jane’s success. (29:25)

Links:

• www.mygratitudeattitude.com
• My Gratitude Attitude Facebook Group
• www.organizedjane.com
• Organizing for Your Lifestyle: Adaptable Inspirations from Socks to Suitcases
• Decluttering For Dummies
• https://mygratitudeattitude.lpages.co/mgaideafilter 
• Rasa Coffee: www.mygratitudeattitude.com/rasa.html