Got Clutter? Get Organized! with Janet

Cookouts, pool parties, family reunions and fun in the sun is your home ready for Summer time guests or full of clutter?   Tune in and get tips from guest expert Felicia Wallace Benton and get your home ready for entertaining indoors and out. Felicia’s firm Designing Your Vision is a full service Interior Design Firm that provides “One of a Kind” interiors for residential and commercial spaces. Her team feels your home or business is more than just a space – it is a reflection of you.  Designing Your Vision helps you to see the full potential and the most effective use of your space. 

Can I really do two things at once or am I making more work for myself?  Tune in and get the facts about multitasking from Bonnie Dewkett, The Joyful Organizer and how you can make it work for you. Gain tips to master your time. Bonnie Joy Dewkett, CPO® is a nationally recognized organizing expert, author, motivational speaker, and internet radio personality. She began organizing as a child, and she has been organizing ever since. Her company, The Joyful Organizer®, creates and implements organizational systems for the home and office. These changes allow her Customers to create calm from chaos at work and at home. Bonnie is passionate about helping her clients meet their organizational goals, and loves to see the positive impact that getting organized has on their lives.

As a Mom are the kids, the job, the business and life, making you want to go someplace where you can be alone and scream?  If you feel overwhelmed and stressed join me and returning guest Asake Denise Jones, M.SW. M. Ed. Certified Empowerment Coach as she provides techniques for Moms to better manage their stress. Asake has 20 years in the fields of education, personal development and entrepreneurship.  She holds two Master’s degrees, one in Educational Administration and the other in Adult Education.  As an undergraduate she majored in psychology at Spelman College. She is a graduate of The Institute for Professional Empowerment Coaching (iPEC); an International Coach Federation accredited professional coaching school and a certified entrepreneurship instructor with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Now that you have settled into retirement, have you decided to downsize?  Or are you someone who needs a caregiver or companion in your home but due to clutter are unable to get someone to assist you?  Are  you just not sure what to do or where to start?  Join me and my guest as we share techniques to help you and those you love declutter, downsize and get organized for this new phase of life. 

Do you often say, I know I saved it somewhere? Our desktops, laptops and tablets have become as clutter as our homes and lives. Join me as I share techniques I use that can help you conquer your digital clutter and organize electronic documents so you can find them the first time you look.  Tune in and get tips to help you at home and in the office. As a Life Strategist I have been helping clients get organized in their homes offices and lives for more than 20 years.

It is time to move again and you have purchased the boxes and tape and marked the date on your calendar but why are you once again feeling overwhelmed? If you are moving with kids, pets across town or across country you need tune in and get tips to save time, money and avoid scams as I interview a representative from Mayflower. Mayflower Transit has been moving families around the country and across towns since 1927 with great care and expertise. More than 40 million Americans will be “packing it up and taking it on the road” as they move to new homes this year. With Mayflower Transit, you can depend on quality service that’s unsurpassed in the moving industry

As you Spring clean your closets is it time to do the same in your pantry and refrigerator? What about your snack drawer at work? Join me and my guest Tambra Raye Stevens as she shares how we can get the junk out our diets to eat healthier and feel better. Honored as the 2014 "Nutrition Hero" by Food & Nutrition Magazine, Tambra Raye is an inspiring speaker, writer, and food justice advocate. The award-winning Tufts-trained health communicator has emerged as a media source on healthy eating and living with appearances on NBC’s The Grio, WHUR-FM, Huff Post, Washington Post, Sirius XM Radio, NBC Nightly News, BET.com, TheRoot.com, and New America Media. She has spoken at Library of Congress, US Department of Agriculture, WK Kellogg Foundation, Howard University, American Public Health Association, and National Association of Black Journalists to name a few.  

You are clearing your clutter and toss the broken and useless items.  Every wonder where some of your trash goes?  Join me as I interview Joel Spivak and Neil Benson members of the Dumpster Divers of Philadelphia and discover how our trash inspires artists and their creations. The Dumpster Divers of Philadelphia are a group of over 40 found object artists, their artwork as diverse as the group and materials used. They were officially recognized with a 2012 City of Philadelphia Mayor’s Tribute for “helping to raise the consciousness of art lovers and heightened awareness of taking a creative approach to support a more sustainable city, country and world.

With the arrival of Spring are your gardening supplies piled in your garage, basement or the side of the house?  Would you like to learn how to organize your supplies so you know what you have in your inventory?  If you answered yes, join me and Amy Andrychowicz as she shares secrets for you to be an organized gardener. Amy Andrychowicz is a passionate gardener who has spent most of her life with a pair of pruners in her back pocket. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Amy gets her green thumb from her parents. Amy writes about her gardening experiences on her popular gardening blog, Get Busy Gardening!, which she started in 2009.

The toys, clothes, school work where did all this come from and where will it go?  Join me and guest Rowena List, Professional Organizer as she shares techniques to clear your kid's clutter so you can see their bedroom floor. Rowena List is a Professional Organizer based in Vancouver, British Columbia and the owner of Getting It Together.  Rowena believes that externals, such as image and environment, have a significant (and often more immediate) impact on confidence, success, happiness, health and quality of life. As a professional organizer and image consultant, Rowena applies this outside-in approach to achieve quick and tangible successes.

Do you feel like the walls are closing in on you or wondering if your piles have somehow multiplied overnight?  Are you ready to take a dumpster and get rid of all the stuff you don’t use or need?  If you answered yes, join me and returning guest Jessica Joyce of Bed Bath and Beyond as she shares techniques to kick our Spring cleaning in high gear and get your home in order. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is a chain of domestic merchandise retail stores across the United States,Canada and Mexico. Formed in 1971, the stores sell goods primarily for the bedroom and bathroom, as well as kitchen and dining room

Join me as I celebrate Women’s History Month with the founders of Fierce for Black Women Sheree Crute and Yanick Rice Lamb as we discuss the great balancing act women deal with every day managing business, family and you. Fierce is for black women by black women. It is a new venture led by veteran journalists who are experts in health, fitness and social media. Editor-in-Chief Sheree Crute is an award-winning journalist with decades of experience exploring health and medicine in books, magazines and online. Publisher Yanick Rice Lamb is an award-winning journalist with three decades of experience successfully launching digital and print media platforms. Together, they are building Fierce into a new and exciting digital home for women who want to live their best lives.

Has the Target scare made you think more about your credit and how to protect it?  Are you finally ready to get your credit in order? Join me and returning guest expert Tara Colquitt and learn how to manage your personal credit.   Tara Colquitt, The Credit Woman assists clients in learning to manage credit, money and debt to create opportunities in real estate, job creation/retention and overall financial health.  She has actively assisted clients in credit counseling, money management, debt elimination and negotiations. In other cases,  she has assisted small business owners who have “mixed credit scores” that interfere with their ability to secure business contracts.

Feeling overwhelmed with running your business?  Wondering how to stay in business beyond 5 year mark? Curious has to how other business owners keep things going?  Join me as I share a few tips on how I was able to maintain a sustainable business.  

Feel you need more space?  Wondering what to do with all your stuff? Ready to sell your home so you can have bigger closets?  If you answered yes and join Janet and guest expert Felicia Wallace Benton, Designing Your Visions as she discuss creative ways to store items in your home and life. Felicia’s firm Designing Your Vision is a full service Interior Design Firm that provides “One of a Kind” interiors for residential and commercial spaces. Her team feels your home or business is more than just a space – it is a reflection of you.  Designing Your Vision help you to see the full potential and the most effective use of your space. Her team works to translate your needs and wants into an environment that displays your style. Thus, the end result is a polished space that reflects your personality, enhances your lifestyle, and most importantly, exhibits your vision.