The Organized Coach - Productivity, Business Systems, Time Management, ADHD, Routines, Life Coach, Entrepreneur

Are you working full-time while trying to grow your life coaching business?

In this episode, Tracy welcomes Tanya Engesether. Tanya shares her 27-year journey in the healthcare industry, the impact of COVID on her role, and how it led her to become a certified Christian life coach.

Tanya helps leaders achieve work-life balance and break free from people-pleasing so they can find peace of mind, balance, and freedom from overwhelm while amplifying their impact as leaders.

Tanya is the host of the top 1.5% globally ranked podcast, The Grace Filled Leader.

Tanya discusses her methodologies for time management, developing effective systems, and setting boundaries. She emphasizes the importance of finding one's value internally rather than through external validation.

The conversation also highlights the influence of the Organized Coach Academy and Organized to Profit on Tanya's coaching business.

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In this episode of the Organized Coach Podcast, I discuss organizing your closet and creating a wardrobe with insights from guest Sarah Horgan.

Sarah is a full-time working mom + wife who lived with clutter and found her way to the other side. She radically changed her own life after a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Forced to examine everything, including her perfectionism and people-pleasing, she realized all the stuff (and not just the physical stuff) was standing in her way of living her life, her way.

After embracing minimalism and finding her way to simplicity, Sarah started Simple + Intentional to support other women in doing the same. She encourages and inspires others through her blog, Instagram account, and podcast.

Sarah lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. She loves the outdoors, a strong cup of tea, and is following her dream of writing a book!

In this episode, Sarah shares her personal journey. She emphasizes that decluttering is not about the stuff but about understanding our buying behaviors and the psychology behind clutter. We focus on the importance of an organized wardrobe, offering practical tips for decluttering and organizing clothes to reduce decision fatigue and enhance personal style.

We also delve into the relationship between our belongings and self-perception, advocating for a mindful approach to consumerism and the benefits of a minimalistic lifestyle.

Sarah provides specific strategies for building a versatile, comfortable, and loved wardrobe that aligns with personal style and body image, ultimately promoting self-care and a more organized life.

Some things to listen for that really impacted me:

• Don't start your day with negative thoughts.

From our conversation, I'm doing the following to create an easy closet I love to walk into every morning:

• Choosing my favorite items - analyze what I love about them.

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And, I reveal the most downloaded episodes.

Furthermore, I outline my personal growth, the enjoyment of connecting with guests, how I come up with content ideas, the challenges and rewards of content creation, and my contemplations on potential changes and continuous improvement for the podcast.

I cannot do a podcast like this without a heartfelt thanks to you, my listener, for taking the time to listen each week, sometimes listening to an episode more than once, putting into practice what you've learned, and sharing it all with me. Your encouragement means the world to me.

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Ever wonder how to make more money with just one thought? One belief?

My coach shared that she saw results with the thought, “The more I love myself, the more money I make.”

It's making a difference in how she feels and, therefore, the actions she takes and the results she is having.

A form of this thought that really got me excited was, "The more I love my offer, the more money I make."

I already believed this because I knew that if I really loved my offer, I would show up with more excitement, share often, and talk about it with more energy. And if I loved my offer, my students would love it as well.

But I also knew that I could love my offer even more!

So, I came up with ten questions - journal entries or thought prompts - that I could use to FALL MORE IN LOVE with my offer.

Listen to this week's episode as I go through the questions using my offer of Organized Coach Academy as an example. 

Here are the 10 questions to prompt you to love your offer more.

1. How does your offer help people?

Let me know how you use these questions to love your offer and how that changes your results.

Your organizing coach,

Tracy Hoth

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Do you...

• Struggle to organize your workspace? And then keep it organized?

Today, we are digging deep into these topics with a very special guest expert.

Amelia Pleasant Kennedy is a Certified Life Coach, Professional Organizer, Fair Play Facilitator, and the CEO of A Pleasant Solution.

As a Clutter Coach, speaker, and top-rated podcast host, she helps folks who are frazzled, busy, and overworked uncover the root cause of the clutter in their lives. With a keen ability to listen for what goes unsaid, Amelia coaches from a space of total curiosity and non-judgment so that clients build a deep sense of self-trust.

Amelia is a caregiver for her mother, who’s living with dementia, a mother of 3 (including an elite athlete), and a lover of visual art, nature, books, and meaningful conversations. She's currently in Round 3 of long-distance parenting + marriage with her husband and has managed multiple households since 2019.

She will give us a peek into her life's organizing journey, including downsizing, running multiple households, and organizing nuggets that might just blow your mind. They did for me, and I've been organizing professionally for over 15 years.

What Amelia shares will help you in more areas than just organizing your home or business. She gives insights and solutions about...

• Questioning if the item is "paying rent"

Your Organizing Cheerleader,

Tracy Hoth

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After a year of podcasting, I thought sharing a little about me would be fun so you know who I am.

Well, get ready. I started from the beginning and gave you a chronological overview of my entire life. 🤣

I share about my childhood in Minnesota, the big move, high school in El Paso, Texas, and college in Denton, Texas. Then, my "be-crazy-before-I-get-tied-down" decision to move to California, where I made a defining decision that changed the course of my life. Then, I moved to Kansas City, Missouri, to work as the Girl's Program Director in an inner-city ministry. In Kansas City, met my husband, and we grew our family.

Life was so good. I recognize and continue to see the blessings I was given in my life - things I had no control over and others I worked hard for and chose. 

In 2016 came the hardest challenge of our lives - my son's c5-c6 spinal cord injury.

I share how I started my organizing business, how life coaching came into my life, my decision to get certified, and how I transitioned my business to fully coaching online and then changed my niche to helping coaches organize their businesses. 

Whew! I go through it quickly.

Hopefully, you feel like a friend now! 

I'd love to hear your story. Tag me on Instagram to share your story or ask me questions. Maybe I'll do a follow-up "get to know me" episode in the future. 

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Guess what! Caryn has offered to host a Values Workshop for my listeners and students! You won't want to miss this. Register now by clicking here.

Caryn Gillen helps coaches build spacious lives and businesses so they can live the dream they had when they first became coaches.

I was honored to have this casual conversation with her for this episode, during which I had so many aha moments as we talked about values and how they shape our businesses. Plus, I asked all the questions to get her take on how we use values to organize everything from our digital files to our processes and decisions.

• What are values? Where do they come from? Caryn defines "values."

• When was there a time in my life when I felt out of alignment? Angered? Stuck?

Some of my favorite things she says are:

Tag @caryngillen and @tracyhoth on Instagram and share your values and takeaways from this episode.

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>>> Purchase the Idea Tracker Dashboard today for an exclusive invitation to the FREE workshop on 4/15/24. During the workshop, I'll walk you step-by-step through setting up and customizing your Idea Dashboard. With all your ideas organized, you'll never wonder where that "thing you wanted to remember" is again. 

Overwhelm. We all have felt it.

But the question is, what do you do when you feel overwhelmed?

When was the last time you felt overwhelmed? How often do you feel overwhelmed? What does overwhelm feel like in your body? Then what? What happens next for you?

Overwhelm is a feeling, an emotion in our body. Our emotions are a result of what we are thinking. The first thing to do is figure out what thought is causing you to feel the emotion of overwhelm.

Then, remember, your thoughts are optional. No matter what your circumstances are or what facts are happening outside of you, how you decide to think about them is optional. It's your choice. And that choice, the thought you decide to think, will cause you to feel an emotion. 

We have the option to change our thoughts which will change our emotions, but it's not always easy.

This ONE thing will help you change your thoughts. It's an action step for you to take when you feel overwhelmed. 

Let the feeling of being overwhelmed be your SIGNAL to do this exercise. This is the ONE thing. 

And guess what? This one thing is also the first step to getting organized. By practicing this exercise, you are also practicing the organizing steps! A win-win!

Let me know how it goes. Did it help? Did it shift your feeling of overwhelm? 

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Purchase the Idea Tracker today (the price goes up on 4/16/24) and be automatically registered for the free workshop on April 15 at 12:00 PM Central Time.

In the workshop, I will help you set up your Idea Tracker Dashboard, learn some easy formatting tricks, customize it with your categories, and walk away feeling organized and ready to input all your ideas.

In this episode, I'm delving into six specific ways to refine your coaching program so your students can experience more success and rave about their experiences in your course and with you as their coach.

I drew insights from my students' feedback, the changes I'm making inside Organized Coach Academy, and my personal experiences in the courses and coaching programs I've been in.

Key Points:

➡️  Include a table of contents

Explore the significance of providing a comprehensive table of contents for your coaching program. Learn how it offers clarity and helps students/clients navigate course content efficiently.

➡️  Provide Checklists for Each Module

Adding a checklist can streamline the learning process for participants, fostering a sense of accomplishment as they check items off, track their progress, stay motivated, and celebrate wins.

➡️  Share how you (as the expert) would do it 

Share your expertise on how YOU, as the expert, recommend that they navigate through your program. Guide participants on the ideal approach to maximize their learning experience.

➡️  Review and Recap

Consider incorporating periodic review sessions to reinforce where documents and trainings are, remind them of important features, tour the portal, and assist participants in tracking their progress effectively.

➡️  Open Communication and Feedback

Emphasize the importance of establishing an environment conducive to open communication. Encourage participants to seek clarification, ask questions, and provide feedback on their learning journey.

➡️  Make everything searchable

When you teach your students and clients to search your content for the answers, you empower them. But you need to make it easy! Videos are not searchable, so be sure to include a synopsis with the key search terms or the transcripts in written form so they can find what they are looking for.

Implementing these strategies can transform your coaching program, enrich participants' learning experiences, and enable tangible progress toward their goals.

Reflect on these insights and identify one area within your coaching program where you can improve using one of the six ways to client success.

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Is your home organized? Do you love coming home and being in your home?

In this episode, I share my insights about home organization.

I share my definition of being "organized," what area of my home is a complete pile of clutter, and what I think about maintaining organization.

As a Professional Organizer for over 15 years, I have been in hundreds of people's homes. I've seen it all. When I'm in a home with abundant stuff, I am overwhelmed. I could not get or stay organized with so much stuff. You have to start by reducing the amount of stuff.

There are three ways to reduce what comes into your home by becoming aware of your

• Buying habits, 

Your current home, cabinets, drawers, and closets are the "containers" you must work with. When reducing your things to fit in your "container," start by choosing your favorites—the things you love and use often. Then you can move to the remaining items. This helps make decision-making easier. 

Our 3-fold approach this year in Organized Life Academy includes a monthly decluttering focus, a mindset focus to help you create an organized person's identity, and quarterly projects. 

Listen to the episode to learn more. If you are ready to make organizing your home and life fun and don't want to try to figure it out alone, join us now in Organized Life Academy.

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