Got Clutter? Get Organized! with Janet

The holiday season brings boxes, decorations, guests, new smells, loud fireworks, and a whole lot of chaos — and your pet is experiencing every bit of it. This week, Janet M. Taylor sits down with animal communicator Joan Ranquet to help pet parents think through one of the most overlooked aspects of holiday preparation: keeping your fur babies calm, safe, and stress-free through it all. Joan brings over 33 years of experience in animal communication and energy healing. She is the founder of Communication with All Life University, an online and in-person learning platform offering training in animal communication and energy healing. She is a TEDx speaker whose talk, The Rainbow Bridge: Animals in Transition, has over 473,000 views, and she has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Dateline NBC, and Animal Planet. She is the author of several books including her newest, Animal Chakra Healing, and she lives on her ranchette in Southern California with four horses, three dogs, and three cats. In this conversation, Joan walks through what pets are actually experiencing when the holiday decorations come out, the biggest misconceptions pet owners have during the season, and which decorations pose hidden dangers to curious animals. She explains how to arrange your holiday tree with pets in mind, how to handle guests when your animal gets nervous or overwhelmed, and why the holiday season is absolutely not the time to push a shy or anxious pet into social situations. Joan also demonstrates the bladder meridian sweep from Chinese medicine as a powerful calming technique, introduces EFT tapping for pets, and shares practical advice for traveling with pets to someone else's home during the holidays. Janet shares a funny story about a very friendly dog who tracked her down in a client's basement while she was trying to work, and offers her own perspective as a non-pet owner on learning to read animal cues and give animals the space they need. This episode also includes Organizing with Janet, Taylor's Tip Time with four strategies for decorating your home with pets in mind, and a Toss It Tuesday reminder to donate old sheets, blankets, and towels to your local animal shelter as you make room for the new season. CONNECT WTH JOAN RANQUET Website: https://www.joanranquet.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanranquet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joanranquet YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/joanranquet Books: Available on Amazon — search Animal Chakra Healing & Emotional Freedom Technique CONNECT WITH JANET M. TAYLOR Book a Session: https://janetmtaylor.trafft.com/ Free 15-Min Consultation: https://linkly.link/2FBkK Website: https://www.janetmtaylor.com Podcast: https://www.gotcluttergetorganized.com Janet's eBooks: Prepared and Organized: https://linkly.link/2Eikc Get Your Affairs In Order: https://linkly.link/2FBnw 7 Affirmations to Organize Your Life: https://linkly.link/2Eikt Amazon Organizing Picks: https://linkly.link/2Zsk2 Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gcgowithjanet Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livinglifetotallyorganized Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janettheorganizer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/janetmtaylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The countdown to the holidays has started, and in this solo episode Janet shares her complete Holiday Organizing Playbook: 15 practical strategies for realistically organizing your home, your time, and your mindset before the holidays arrive. The key to it all, she says, is asking for help when needed, saying no without the guilt, and letting go without regret. Janet walks through the full playbook step by step, starting with a brain dump of everything on your plate, then categorizing it into home, gifts, meals, and travel. She covers building a project checklist with real deadline dates, delegating or hiring help when a task is more than one person can reasonably handle, and focusing your cleaning and organizing energy only on the areas guests will actually see. She shares the lesson she learned the hard way after hosting fifteen people for a Fourth of July dinner she tried to cook entirely on her own, and why doubling your time estimate for any task lowers your stress without adding real time to your day. She also touches on avoiding multitasking, the power of fifteen minutes of prep the night before, and the importance of hydration, rest, and simply stopping when you're tired. In Organizing with Janet, she shares her own story of letting go of holiday perfectionism, including downsizing from a six-foot Christmas tree that once crowded her one-bedroom apartment to a smaller, more joyful version of the season. In Taylor's Tip Time, Janet breaks down how to actually follow through on holiday planning: decide what needs to be done, make the list, schedule each task, block out the time, and celebrate yourself when it's done. Toss It Tuesday tackles kitchen utensils that no longer function the way they should and duplicate gadgets, like extra measuring cups, that are better off in someone else's kitchen. This week's quote: "Let go of perfect. Ask for help without apology. Say no without guilt. That's how you actually enjoy the holidays." Clear the clutter, claim your power. It starts with saying yes to joy and no to everything else that steals it. If today's episode was meaningful to you, please follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your reviews help other women discover the show and remind them they are not alone on this journey. Products Mentioned in This Episode: My Body Passport (click the link before you check out to receive the Janet Taylor discount): https://www.mybodypassport.com/contact NOK Box: https://linkly.link/2FBkO CONNECT WITH JANET M. TAYLOR Book a Session: https://janetmtaylor.trafft.com/ Free 15-Min Consultation: https://linkly.link/2FBkK Website: https://www.janetmtaylor.com Podcast: https://www.gotcluttergetorganized.com Janet's eBooks: Prepared and Organized: https://linkly.link/2Eikc Get Your Affairs In Order: https://linkly.link/2FBnw 7 Affirmations to Organize Your Life: https://linkly.link/2Eikt Amazon Organizing Picks: https://linkly.link/2Zsk2 Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gcgowithjanet Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livinglifetotallyorganized Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janettheorganizer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/janetmtaylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk a lot about organizing our homes, our closets, and our schedules. But there is one area most people never think to organize — and it could be the most important one of all. This week, Janet M. Taylor welcomes back returning guest Wendy Coulson, founder of My Body Passport, for a conversation about getting your medical information organized and accessible before you need it most. This episode airs during Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a timely reminder that taking care of your health information is an act of love for yourself and everyone who depends on you. Wendy created My Body Passport after watching a friend arrive at the emergency room on morphine with no one able to provide the basic medical history doctors needed to treat him properly. That experience, combined with confirmation from her sister, a general practice physician, that this happens all the time, led Wendy to develop a simple, physical health information tool that does not require wifi, a password, or a software update to work. In this conversation, Wendy walks through what My Body Passport contains, from medical and surgical history to medications, allergies, immunizations, labnumbers, and healthcare providers, and explains why having a compact snapshot version on your refrigerator could be critical in an emergency. She shares how drop-down menus in digital health systems create more opportunities for medical error, why electronic health records are still not as connected or reliable as most people assume, and how the tool supports communication between multiple specialists, family members, and caregivers so no one is scrambling for information during a health crisis. Wendy also shares a simple five-minute body scan exercise anyone can use to get started organizing their health information today, without feeling overwhelmed. Janet shares a personal story about managing her mother's health information as a caregiver, a client who needed her medical documents organized before major surgery, and her own experience catching a pharmacy error because she had her information with her at the appointment. Got Clutter? Get Organized! listeners receive an exclusive 10% discount when ordering through mybodypassport.com — just tick the box at checkout. This episode also includes Organizing with Janet, Taylor's Tip Time with a step-by-step approach to sorting and organizing your medical documents, and a Toss It Tuesday reminder to shred outdated paperwork and clear expired medications from your medicine cabinet. CONNECT WITH WENDY COULSON Book a Session: https://www.mybodypassport.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mybodypassport/ CONNECT WITH JANET M. TAYLOR Book a Session: https://janetmtaylor.trafft.com/ Free 15-Min Consultation: https://linkly.link/2FBkK Website: https://www.janetmtaylor.com Podcast: https://www.gotcluttergetorganized.com Janet's eBooks: Prepared and Organized: https://linkly.link/2Eikc Get Your Affairs In Order: https://linkly.link/2FBnw 7 Affirmations to Organize Your Life: https://linkly.link/2Eikt Amazon Organizing Picks: https://linkly.link/2Zsk2 Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gcgowithjanet Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livinglifetotallyorganized Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janettheorganizer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/janetmtaylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For millions of cancer survivors, the end of treatment is not the end of the journey — it is often the beginning of one of the most disorienting and isolating chapters of all. This week, Janet M. Taylor sits down with Talaya Dendy, a 15-year cancer thriver, board-certified patient advocate, health and wellness coach, and 2025 Bush Fellow, for a deeply personal and profoundly practical conversation about life after the fog of cancer treatment. This episode airs during Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a tribute to every survivor, caregiver, and anyone navigating a major life transition. Talaya's work as a Cancer Doula bridges the critical divide between the medical and emotional sides of cancer. She is the host of the podcast Navigating Cancer Together, a Cancer Health 25 Patient Advocate, and the founder of On the Other Side, where she provides holistic whole-person support for individuals across the cancer continuum with a specialty in the post-treatment phase. In this conversation, Talaya shares her own journey from noticing a lump on her neck in 2010 to receiving a Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis a year later after a doctor initially dismissed her concern, and how that experience gave birth to her identity as a fierce patient advocate. She explains why the day treatment ends is often when survivors feel most lost — their medical team disappears, their calendar empties, and the people around them assume that because the cancer is gone, everything is fine. She walks through the reality of chemo brain, scanxiety, fear of recurrence, physical long-term effects of treatment, and the grief many survivors carry for the person they were before diagnosis. She also addresses the identity shift that cancer forces, how it impacts entire households and caregiver relationships, and why the medical system was simply never designed to treat the life that comes after. Talaya closes with a powerful message for every survivor and anyone in a life transition: acknowledge what you have been through, give yourself grace, ask for help, and take it one small step — even one minute — at a time. She also shares a Lena Horne quote that carried her through her darkest moments and continues to guide her work today. Janet shares her own personal experience preparing for and recovering from a hysterectomy, including how she organized her home, stocked her pantry, set up her space for easy access during recovery, and leaned on her best friend and her community of food angels to get through it. This episode also includes Organizing with Janet, Taylor's Tip Time with five strategies for accepting help and staying organized during recovery, and a Toss It Tuesday reminder to clear out the medicine cabinet of expired medications and outdated medical documents. CONNECT WITH TALAYA DENDY Website: https://www.ontheotherside.life Podcast: Navigating Cancer Together — available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talayadendy All Links: https://solo.to/cancerdoula Survivorship Fundraising: https://givebutter.com/SurvivorSerieswithTalayaDendy CONNECT WITH JANET M. TAYLOR Book a Session: https://janetmtaylor.trafft.com/ Free 15-Min Consultation: https://linkly.link/2FBkK Website: https://www.janetmtaylor.com Podcast: https://www.gotcluttergetorganized.com Janet's eBooks: Prepared and Organized: https://linkly.link/2Eikc Get Your Affairs In Order: https://linkly.link/2FBnw 7 Affirmations to Organize Your Life: https://linkly.link/2Eikt Amazon Organizing Picks: https://linkly.link/2Zsk2 Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gcgowithjanet Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livinglifetotallyorganized Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janettheorganizer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/janetmtaylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and returning guest Dr. Angela Chester joins Janet for a conversation about clearing more than clutter. Dr. Angela, a pastoral counselor in Long Beach, California, and a breast cancer survivor of over 15 years, shares how her diagnosis forced a life audit she never chose: what she prepared for physically, what she released emotionally, and what she learned about loving herself through a body and appearance that no longer felt like her own. Dr. Angela describes the "nesting" instinct that took over once she learned she'd need chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, and why she chose to cut her hair short before treatment rather than watch it fall out on its own terms. She talks about the people around her as "co-survivors," each carrying their own version of the experience, and reflects on the fear that keeps so many people holding onto things long after they've stopped serving them. As a pastoral counselor, she connects that fear to faith, explaining why releasing what's broken makes room for what's next. Janet shares her own story of caring for her mother through leukemia treatment, including the day she cut her mother's hair, and the recovery pillow she held onto long after her own surgery had healed. In Organizing with Janet, she opens up about clothing she kept for years after a hysterectomy recovery until a friend encouraged her to let it go. In Taylor's Tip Time, Janet walks through how to decide what to release during a health recovery, how to find the right place to donate it, and how to take a moment to say thank you for the healing itself. Toss It Tuesday tackles old medications, medical supplies, and equipment that no longer serve your health. This week's quote: "You don't have to hold on to every reminder of what you went through. Letting it go doesn't erase your story. It honors how far you've come." Clear the clutter, claim your power. It starts with honoring your healing by clearing the space around it. If today's episode was meaningful to you, please follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your reviews help other women discover the show and remind them they are not alone on this journey. Connect with Dr. Angela Chester: Website: https://drangelachester.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drangelachester Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrAngelaChester PASSIONEER Magazine: https://passioneermag.com Products Mentioned on This Show: NOK Box: https://linkly.link/2FBkO My Body Passport (click the link before you check out to receive the Janet Taylor discount): https://www.mybodypassport.com/contact CONNECT WITH JANET M. TAYLOR Book a Session: https://janetmtaylor.trafft.com/ Free 15-Min Consultation: https://linkly.link/2FBkK Website: https://www.janetmtaylor.com Podcast: https://www.gotcluttergetorganized.com Janet's eBooks: Prepared and Organized: https://linkly.link/2Eikc Get Your Affairs In Order: https://linkly.link/2FBnw 7 Affirmations to Organize Your Life: https://linkly.link/2Eikt Amazon Organizing Picks: https://linkly.link/2Zsk2 Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gcgowithjanet Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livinglifetotallyorganized Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janettheorganizer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/janetmtaylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices