NABPO General MEETING

Location:  Virtual Meeting Only

Topic: Launching, Building, and Marketing a Podcast Panel

This month's Panelists:

Amelia Pleasant Kennedy

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 on Round 3 of long distance parenting + marriage with her husband and has been managing multiple households since 2019.

Amelia’s expertise has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR’s LifeKit Podcast, Real Simple, Time, Forbes Home, Medium, The Spruce, U.S. News + World Report, and many more publications and podcasts.

Regina Lark, Ph.D, CPO, CPO-CD

Before “neurohacking” became a trending term, Dr. Regina Lark worked to decipher how the brain’s “executive functions” impact household management and organization — and expose the related outcome of the unequal distribution of labor at home. She founded A Clear Path in 2008 to provide professional physical, emotional, and psychological support to people who wish to clear clutter and chaos from their lives. This award-winning Los Angeles area-based Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) and Accredited Senior Move Manager has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, the New York Times, and many other newsworthy publications.

Dr. Lark holds a Ph. D. in Women’s History from the University of Southern California. Her work in that field informs her third and most recent book, Emotional Labor: Why a Woman’s Work Is Never Done and What to Do About It, Lark helps women rid their lives of emotional labor by offering concrete ways to identify and mitigate the costs of women’s unseen, unnoticed and unwaged work at home, an unleash women into the full potential in the paid workplace. She delivers keynote addresses, retreats and corporate speaking engagements on women’s leadership, emotional labor, time management, productivity, hoarding and ADHD. Dr. Lark is a TEDx speaker, and also the author of, Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship Between the Stuff in Your Head, and What’s Under Your Bed (Kindle Direct Publishers, 3rd ed., 2017)

Dai Smith

Dai Smith is the owner + founder of Simplicity By Day, a business strategy & productivity coach for mompreneurs and female founders. She is a certified Profit Coach, a tech & systems specialist and a modern mompreneur balancing business and babies with ease, style and grace.

Janet Taylor

Janet, the influential voice behind the renowned podcast 'Got Clutter? Get Organized with Janet.' With more than three decades of expertise in transforming cluttered spaces into realms of clarity and creativity, Janet stands as a pillar in the organization community. Her podcast, a favorite among listeners, has surpassed one million downloads and is celebrated as the top Organizing and Decluttering Podcast. Janet explores diverse topics such as wedding preparations and pet organization with ease and insight. Her notable contributions to HGTV’s 'Mission: Organization' and her memorable feature on 'The Rachael Ray Show' have further cemented her status as an expert in her field

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