Thursday, August 12th (9-10:30) *Virtual Meeting

NAPO Nashville Monthly Chapter Meeting

Are you a professional organizer or interested in becoming a professional organizer?  Then join us for our chapter meeting - meet local organizers and enjoy our terrific speakers and panel discussions.  We focus on organizing principles and concepts as well as networking.

*This meeting is not for those interested in learning about how to organize or hiring an organizer - it is for industry professionals or those interested in joining our industry.

Visit our NAPO Nashville website to register.  This meeting is free for members and $15 for guests.  You will recieve call-in information upon registration. 

This month: Green Organizing!

Linette and Jan are active NAPO-Chicago members, Certified GO System trainers and Certified Professional Organizers®.

TOPIC DESICRIPTION

POs Going Green Organizers Linette George & Jan Wencel will lead us in a discussion on the greening of our profession. Learn new reduce/reuse/recycle techniques, share your tried & true methods, and brainstorm the next level of helping residential & corporate clients operate in a more sustainable manner.

Linette George founded Get Organized by George, Inc. in 2003. Through individual consultations, presentations, and group training sessions, she helps clients better manage not only their “stuff” but also their lives.  Linette’s goal is to help clients live and work better with less, and go green. To that end clients are consulted on conscious consuming, non-toxic cleaning options, reuse, recycling, proper disposal of hazardous waste, and donation opportunities. Ultimately she streamlines and declutters clients’ lives and offices while raising their environmental consciousness. Linette heads up the NAPO-Chicago Green Team and the NAPO National Green Organizers SIG (special interest group). She is a member of Green America’s Green Business Network™ and is a board member of SCARCE.

 

Jan Wencel founded Life Contained, Inc. in 2005. She specializes in teaching busy professionals how to get work stuff done so they can live their life more joyfully. She often plays “email therapist” to professionals whose email inboxes are piled high with messages and gives hope to those who have a sense that there is no possibility of catching up. In 2001 Jan and her husband streamlined their possessions, pushed them into a storage locker, & took a year-long, life-changing travel sabbatical. Living from a backpack, she learned she can live happily on far less. She’s a NAPO-Chicago Green Team member, contributes ideas to the Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee where she lives, and volunteers for the Green Earth Institute, an organic farm in her community.

 

Monday, August 16th (6:30-7:30 PM)

NAPO Newbies

Interested in becoming a Professional Organizer?  Join us for our quarterly coffee at Panera Bread in Brentwood (in the Target Plaza right off of Old Hickory & 65) to ask all of your questions.  NAPO Nashville board members will be on hand to help you figure out if this is the right profession for you, how to get started, common pitfalls and more.  No reservation is necessary but if you have questions - give me a call (615-509-1933).

Previous (and still cool 'cause you can check it out even though it's over) event:

Monday, May 31st, 2010 with full episodes available on the A & E Website!  I'm in the "Kim" episode.

Catch me on Hoarders on A & E!

I recently worked on a shoot of an episode of Hoarders and the show will air on March 8th!  I was thrilled to participate in this and our client was delightful to work with.  We made a lot of progress and it was exciting to be involved 'behind the scenes'.  You probably won't see much of me being a supporting player but check it out anyway - you'll be glad you did!

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

NAPO Nashville Domestic Violence Center Community Service Event

The YWCA Weaver Domestic Violence Center provides safe shelter for women and children in crisis, and responds to crisis calls from the community.  NAPO Nashville is giving back to the community with the gift of organization.  Projects will include transformation of the shelter's basement where donated personal supplies and baby items are stored for the residents, organizing a toy closet and school supply closet where items are kept for the children of the shelter who are forced to leave their own possessions behind in order to flee a domestic violence situation.

This is done and over but check out my blog post on how it went!

Thursday, January 14th (1-2PM CST)

Blog Talk Radio with Julie Verleger of The Organized Home

"Organizing Kids and Their Stuff" Q & A

Join me & Julie while we talk about how to help kids get and stay organized!  We'll discuss where all the stuff comes from, what to do with it all, how to help kids get rid of things, and setting routines. 

 

 

 

March 1, 2007… I would like to express my sincerest thanks for the thoughts and prayers from my friends, family, clients and business acquaintances during my recent, and successful, battle with thyroid cancer. Many have asked how I knew I had it. Well, I didn’t, but I knew something wasn’t quite right when I kept feeling an odd pressure in my throat. So, I offer my greatest gratitude to Dory Turney at Dr. Frank Caprio’s office with Heritage Medical Associates for hounding me to get in for an ultrasound, which resulted in finding nodules on my thyroid. Special thanks also to Dr. Rekha Pandula, my endocrinologist, and Dr. Kathleen Crews Williams, my surgeon. My recent scan, after my radiation therapy, showed that the cancer should be eradicated from any thyroid cells and lymph nodes. Now, it’s a matter of regaining my strength and stamina. The hardest part for me has been accepting the help and support of others, which is difficult for someone like me. I just want these people to know how much they are appreciated, and how much they helped me get through this. And for anyone who doesn’t feel quite right… please have it checked out, even if you are the one who is always taking care of everyone else—take care of yourself first!

— Liz


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