Often times people ask me, wouldn’t it be better if I just had more? I have three bathrooms so I need three toilet brushes, right? This week, I talk about this question, and why having more can sometimes be helpful, but usually isn’t. I also talk about my pledge to try to implement one new…
Rifka is a financial consultant, speaker, and author specializing in personal and small business finance. She is the founder of the extremely popular Facebook group Living Financially Smarter in Israel, an author, and now a course creator. If you need help organizing your finances, please get in touch with Rifka today! Her website is: http://rifkalebowitz.com/…
This week on Journey to organization I speak with my friend and Life Coach – Helen Abelez. We have a great talk about the difference between a life coach and a therapist, how to figure out your mission in life and then how to find the courage to achieve your goals, techniques for staying relaxed…
On this week’s episode of Journey To Organization I answer listener questions. The overall theme of this episode is consume less stuff, but I talk about storing clothing for kids, cleaning routines, during the week and for shabbat, and how to decide what to keep in your home when you are trying to become a…
This week I chat with green architect Debby Schor Elyasy. Debby is an Italian-Israeli architect with experience in architecture, interior design, and green building and has offices in Italy and Israel. We had a great chat and spoke about what to do if you are building a house from the round up, what to do…
During the 9 days we have an extra sensitivity to sustainability because we don’t buy new clothing, many of us don’t do laundry or limit the laundry we do, and we are being extra careful with the things we own. This week we talk about how to talk to our kids about sustainability (hint- a…
Chana Simon, the founder of http://www.respecsframes.org, tells us how Respecs Frames got started, how donating old glasses helps others and the environment, what kind of frames can be recycled, and how they are different from other organizations that collect glasses. Please consider shopping at the store where your purchase helps someone in need, volunteering if…
In this week’s JTO podcast I talk about my struggle with food, how it makes getting dinner on the table a challenge for me, my kids issues with food, and how I manage my time to get shabbat on the table without feeling totally overwhelmed. (Hint: I keep it simple.) As a bonus this week…
This week I interview my mentor and friend, Chaya Hinda Allen who has taught me about mantras and how to let it all go. Chaya Hinda and her course Jewish Positive Thinking really changed my life and helped me make some big changes in my life and feel positive and secure about those changes. We…
This week I was inspired by a podcast with Heather Dean on aish.com http://bit.ly/2K5Se6G when she interviews Rabbi A.L. Nivins. He said something that interested me, time is not our own, it doesn’t belong to us. My other friend said to me, time is like money, you can track it! But I don’t think that…