Meet Jennifer Guadron-Wyatt

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jennifer Guadron-Wyatt. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Jennifer, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
For small business owners, imposter syndrome is a real feeling for many of us, especially in the early stages of launching your business or adding on a new service. As a professional home organizer & styling service provider, this showed up for me mostly when discussing pricing (or increasing pricing) and work I could do for clients. It was like a feeling of being shy to ask for what was required, not being good enough or questioning myself if I really belonged in this profession. What helped me overcome it was simply just getting more seasoned and confident in the work my team and I could do, not settling for any client just to have one and setting healthy boundaries with clients regarding our pricing structure and time. I have even updated our prices and contract language to reflect this and help provide clarity. This is something I am still working on but have come a long was over the last 3 years.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Hi friends! My name is Jennifer Guadron-Wyatt, owner and CEO of J’Arrange Your Space Home Organizing & Interior Styling services. We have been serving clients in the DMV region since 2020 and actually just celebrated 3 years in business this July. We help busy professionals and their families restore peace and order in their homes and work spaces through the art of home organizing using a proven 3-step method: Reevaluate, Refresh and Reorganize. ™️ Partnering with each client and providing support through their project allows them to build trust with us and feel confident in making decisions to let go of clutter and take intentional ownership back over their spaces. What excites my team and I most about this work is making real changes in clients lives and getting them to adopt new habits regarding decluttering and home organization. We believe your home is your sanctuary and should reflect your individual personality and be a collection of things you love and use, not become a storage unit. We started offering styling services back in 2021 because it often goes hand in hand with organizing and refreshing a space, but it didn’t get much traction until late 2022 into this year. We are happy to now be offering a combo service package to clients interested in both reorganizing and styling a room in their home so it can happen simultaneously as 1 project. I also am now offering coaching services to aspiring home organizers looking to get into the business. I believe there is room for us all in this work, so I want to help give guidance and support where I found I needed it most when I was new and figuring it all out.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
There were definitely 3 things I could name that helped me find success and drive when initially getting my small business off the ground. The first being an area of knowledge: utilizing free social media platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, to connect with colleagues in the field, potential clients interested in services and a place to showcase my projects and skills. It took time for me to fully realize the benefit of being back on socials, and not letting it become a distraction even when some of that imposter syndrome creeped in as people I know in real life started following me. But it has proven to be a great tool for business promotion and I have had several clients come from IG to date, so well worth the time and effort. The second is more so a quality that I have always had which is to be open to learn and know that you don’t know it all. Sometimes I find entrepreneurs get into their own little world of “this is what I do and I’m the best at it” and that attitude blocks blessings and growth in my opinion. Being open to learn about new ways of working or another style has allowed me to connect with super seasoned professionals in my field and change my offerings as I need to. Never stop learning! The third is a skill that has impacted my journey so far: the skill of time management. I learned my first year in business that I can’t do it. I can’t be everywhere doing everything for everyone and doing it well without complete burnout. We just can’t! So I got comfortable asking for help, seeking professional expertise and skills when I needed it and open to pay for services to help me build. Without that, I feel I would still be at square 1, could have never scaled up at all and would have totally lost time for myself and family. Time management is key friends!

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?
Feeling overwhelmed as a small business owner is definitely not a foreign feeling. Some weeks you feel like that once or twice, other weeks it’s every hour of everyday. But how I have been able to reduce feeling overwhelmed is by learning to trust others with aspects of my business. What I mean by that is by building my team from just myself to 6 organizers, including 2 leads, to carry forward work on projects when I am not available or need a day off to rest has helped greatly. Also investing in other small business to provide services I simply do not know how to do and do not have the time to learn about. (Ex: website building, presentation creation, printing materials, etc.) That absolutely takes trust and patience, but has been a saving grace for me and my sanity. Now when I do get to a point of feeling overwhelmed about a project, client, or situation, I always take a step back and reassess. Can I be doing something differently? Can I use another approach to find success? What is within my control to change this situation? Taking a few minutes to breathe and think of solutions helps me greatly and I have been able to pass that on to my team so they too can work and thrive without the overwhelming feelings taking over and killing the good vibes.

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