Podcasts about personal photo organizers

Who wouldn't love more energy and freedom in daily life? Have I got the perfect guest to let you in on some of the secrets to having exactly that! Her can-do perspective is underscored by her commitment to staying on the leading edge of the highest standards and ethics in her field. She continually educates herself: she even has a Juris Doctorate which comes in very handy in guiding people though the thickets of complexity in modern life. Many facets of her work have endeared to her to clients, who collectively inspired her to rename her business to celebrate what they always tell her gives them: Hope.  Hope is powerful, fueling optimism, relief, favorable outcomes, and even feelings of trust. • • • In this episode: Janet shares a “Wow”  “Organizing brings forth positive energy and makes you more productive and efficient!” Janet shares a “Whisper”  “The impact of the work I do on people; clients cry from happiness. Clients call me a godsend, a miracle worker, a healer, an angel.. ” • • • Episode Quote: “I inspire my clients. Organizing heals...gives you freedom...improves relationships and careers.” — Janet Fishman, Hope Organizers About my special guest: Janet Fishman, J.D., C.P.D.S., Professional Organizer, President and CEO of HOPE Organizers, Inc., fully understands the organizing needs of people and how being organized benefits their well-being.  With a juris doctor law degree, Janet worked in the legal field for over 25 years while raising four children as a single mother (triplets + 1).  Janet has extensive experience organizing paper and decluttering rooms. She is a certified paper document specialist, a member of NAPO-the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, ICD-the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, APPO-Association of Personal Photo Organizers, and AADMM-the American Association of Daily Money Managers. Janet has been recognized by Expertise.com for three years in a row as one of Los Angeles' Top 20 Best Organizers. • • • We'd love to hear from you. Your ideas and comments are most welcome about what this episode awakens within you as we share this journey. A special offer to listeners: “How to Love Organizing your space in 28 Days Go to website and request and email her directly To continue getting tips, ask to be added to Janet's mailing list (she won't overload you!) or like the Hope Organizers Facebook page • • • How to reach Janet: Website hattp://www.hopeorganizers.com Social Media links  https://www.facebook.com/HOPEorganizers/ https://twitter.com/HopeOrganizers https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetfishmanorganizer/ https://www.instagram.com/hopeorganizers/ https://www.pinterest.com/HopeOrganizers/ • • • Our Podcast PSA for this episode highlights The Library of Congress, “The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its  many diverse collections.”  Visit them online: https://loc.gov https://www.facebook.com/libraryofcongress/  

"We have to watch the THOUGHT we have about the "things" as we DeClutter." ~Christine Maziarz 3 Areas that people dread and do not know how to deal with: Pictures and other memorabilia Household Paperwork Time Management Your Empty Nest Coach, Christine Maziarz https://youremptynestcoach.com/blog/ Association of Personal Photo Organizers is now: The Photo Managers and can be reached at https://ThePhotoManagers.com    

  In episode 040, I'm talking to the Founder of the Association of Personal Photo Organizers, Cathi Nelson. This group is a lot like us in the documentary community—it's not about the “pictures” per se, it's about people + stories. Cathi talks to us about photo organizing for yourself & as a lucrative business. Enjoy the story. FULL SHOW NOTES: http://www.fearlessandframed.com/040 

Our guest, Bonnie Shay, breaks down solutions for organizing, digitizing, and preserving your most sentimental items. Do you have boxes and boxes of printed photos/movies/slides/memorabilia that you haven't done anything with? Are you overwhelmed with a huge quantity of digital photos and videos you’ve collected on your computer, camera, tablets, and smartphones? Today we’re dedicating this episode of Spark Joy to one most high anticipated and feared signature KonMari Categories - Sentimental Items. Bonnie Shay joins us today to talk about managing our digital legacy. Bonnie is the founder and owner of Mariposa Photo Organizing established in 2007. She’s managed a photography business for over 20 years and is a Certified Member of the Association of Personal Photo Organizers. She currently curates family photo and video collections that are, shareable, enjoyable, manageable, safe and secure, both now and for generations to come. NOTE: We should remind our listeners that the Sentimental clutter category is the absolute last category to declutter. It should be handled with care and only after you warm up by addressing Clothing, Books, Paper, and Miscellaneous items in that order. If you still have some tidying work to do, we suggest heading back to Spark Joy Episode 1: KonMari 101. Also, if you’ve paused your KonMari progress after addressing miscellaneous items - then this is the episode for you. We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show. While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast. In this episode, you’ll enjoy: - How Bonnie believes she was genetically predisposed to making order out of disorder - How Bonnie's 20+ experience in both general residential organizing and photography triggered her current business of curating family photo and video collections - How Bonnie discovered the Associate for Personal Photo Organizers - The tipping point for sentimental clutter in our home and why quality over quantity is important - Reasons why we delay processing sentimental clutter - How you should get started curating your collection and selecting things that spark joy - How to "pile" your digital clutter and some unexpected places it could be hiding - Marie Kondo approved Sentimental item tips - How to grab your content from antiquated media formats - The two ways you should organize digitized sentimental content - How focusing on your intent helps you shape your digital legacy - How to handle inherited collections or digital files that are "trapped" on antiquated machines/formats - Why you should start locally to find a archival service via APPO Partners APPO Partners or Save Your Photos - A backup related rule of thumb Bonnie's favorite tidying tip: Set a timer that gives you a sense of urgency and celebrate at the end What sparks joy for Bonnie: Her dog's morning happy dance :) Bonnie Shay can be found at www.mariposaphotoorganizing.com . She has a special offer just for Spark Joy listeners. Visit www.maraiposaphotoorganizing.com to sign up for Bonnie’s newsletter and receive the Top 12 ways to curate your photo collection. You can also connect with Bonnie on Facebook and Twitter Gems: - "Let's look at the best of the best that tells your story and focus on that." - "Any pile of stuff...represents a pile of decisions left unmade." - "We don't necessarily want the item, but you want to remember the sentimentality of it." You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy Special Guest: Bonnie Shay.

Today we talk digitizing and organizing images, and why and how to share our special photos. Special guest Cathi Nelson is the founder and CEO of the Association of Personal Photo Organizers which has 1,000 members worldwide to help people with their photo collections. And their home movies. And how to share them for those special anniversaries, wedding, births and any occasions. As a lifelong scrapbooker, Cathi found herself helping friends organize their photo collections who were willing to pay her. We talk about how technology has helped us take more photos, but often contributes to our growing problem of organizing and sharing. Cathi’s first book is available on Amazon entitled “Photo Organizing Made Easy: Going from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed” and was published December 2017. Come visit us at http://storyical.com to find out more. Find Cathi’s websites here http://cathinelson.com www.appo.org www.saveyourphotos.org

Cathi Nelson, author of Photo Organizing Made Easy, is the founder of the Association of Personal Photo Organizers, a membership organization dedicated to helping hundreds of entrepreneurs from around the globe build successful photo preservation and organizing businesses. We discuss: How to listen to your audience for business opportunities How to look at other models to develop multiple revenue streams How to identify your core offering as your base The power of collaborating with other business owners How solopreneur experts can start developing recurring revenue Considered a trailblazer in the photo organizing industry, Cathi has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and Better Homes and Gardens, and is a regular contributor to Houzz. She is also a sought-after speaker, presenting at numerous conference on topics related to photo preservation, storytelling and the art of creating an entirely new industry. Learn more about Cathi at Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thephotoorganizers/) . (http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smashing-the-plateau) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 0Shares

Cathi Nelson fell in love with photography as the photo editor of her high school yearbook. She soon found herself working two jobs to save enough money to buy her first professional camera. From the day of that first purchase, Cathi became the photo historian of her family and friends. Years later, after her adopted son was placed in her arms, Cathi developed a passion for creating life book photo albums that she used to tell his personal story and how he came to be part of their family. She soon found herself sharing this passion with others and ultimately she built a profitable business out of teaching others to create life book photo albums of their own. By 2007, Cathi noticed a change as consumers shifted to digital photography; she found herself helping people not only with their printed photos, but with their growing digital collections as well. Recognizing that this problem was only going to accelerate, she founded the Association of Personal Photo Organizers; a community dedicated to serving the needs of its members through training, support, and collaboration with industry partners. APPO has also played a key role in establishing a code of ethics that sets high standards for the rapidly growing life photo industry. In addition to being the CEO of APPO, Cathi is a sought-after speaker and author of Photo Organizing Made Easy. She remains firmly rooted in her vision to empower others to use visual storytelling as a means of preserving and sharing their personal life journeys.

“For me the end goal is always to help people tell a story with their photos. I realized in the process of helping my clients do that, if they couldn’t find their photos and they didn’t know where they were, they couldn’t even get to that next step.”  Cathi Nelson founded The Association of Personal Photo Organizers which aims to help clients organize important family traditions and memories that are captured through pictures.   Cathi Nelson, Treasured Memories Through Photos A picture paints a thousand words, but a group of pictures tells stories of memories and traditions that are treasured in our minds. In the fast paced development of technology the number of pictures taken has more than doubled and more memories are being captured every minute of every day through our handheld devices. The storage of digital memories has become more complicated, especially with the advent of the cloud. Many memories are wasted because of unorganized pictures.   https://www.stacybrookman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/appo.png ()Cathi Nelson has formed a group of professionals who specialize in photo organizing called the Association of Personal Photo Organizers (APPO). Photo organizing, creates a story and helps relay the story with the digital or printed memories. Organizing pictures lets you see the life story behind the photos and help pass those memories and stories on to another person. According to Cathi, “We take photos chronologically, but we live thematically; in other words we live through our family stories and traditions a lot of times.”   One of Cathi’s favorite quotes is from Ursula Le Guin: “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel but there have been no societies that did not tell a story.” Says Cathi, “I believe the reasons we take photos is to tell the stories of our lives. Our photos connect us to the past, present and future. The problem is often folks are too overwhelmed with their photos, they don’t know where to begin and they feel overwhelmed by the organizational process. I created the ABC’S of photo organizing to help.” Cathi shares an easy way to sort through both electronic and physical pictures call the ABC method that anyone can do. She explains how to document your family stories: “It’s okay to create the story, to tell the story, to set it up; and then use photos as a prop to document your story.”   Take Home Message There are different methods of organizing photos which can enrich the memories and stories of family and friends. Cathi’s ABC method is in her free download: https://thephotoorganizers.leadpages.co/photo-organizers-guide/ (Ultimate Guide to Photo Organizing) If you’re interested in a career helping people tell stories with photos, Cathi has a free e-book which is available at http://www.appo.org/ (http://www.appo.org/) called “Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Photo Organizer.”     Free Download: Does Your Scrapbook Have a Story Arc? https://lifestory.leadpages.co/leadbox/14709b273f72a2%3A14b4a7bd3b46dc/5641332169113600/ (Does Your Scrapbook Have a Story Arc?)   About: Cathi Nelson Cathi Nelson founded the Association of Personal Photo Organizers (APPO) as an answer to the growing challenge of our digital age – an easy solution for organizing printed photos, digital photos, videos and everything in between. Some five million photos are taken every day and in a world where technology and camera shutters move too quickly for people to catch up, families and organizations find it increasingly difficult to sort through, organize and preserve precious memories. APPO provides a solution by connecting trained small business owners with clients who require photo organizing services. Today, APPO serves hundreds of members throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. As a pioneer of the growing photo-life management industry,