Today we’d like to introduce you to Jordan Wilson.
Hi Jordan, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start, maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
In 2016, I connected to someone in my neighborhood through the Nextdoor website. She was a recent widow with three pre-teen kids and needed help bringing some order to her house, going through paperwork/mail and figuring out what things to purge and what to keep, etc. I started helping her on nights or weekends when I had some free time. I loved it! Just getting to help someone and be there as a sounding board was life giving. As time went on, I would offer to help people from time to time, and at the end of 2019, someone recommended I get a Thumbtack profile to help advertise my services. I set up my profile in December 2019 and got a few hits here and there with people looking for help organizing their homes or packing/unpacking with moves. I was working a full-time job, so I only had nights and weekends available to work with people and that’s what I did. I would work about 20-25 hours per month, and in June 2020 I felt God told me to give up drinking alcohol for a while, so I did! In July 2020 I worked 66 hours! Almost triple what I had done in the previous months. It was at that time that I felt God strongly telling me to leave my full-time job and pursue this full-time!
In August 2020, I went to my amazing bosses, who knew I was doing this business on the side, and told them what I was feeling and that I would be leaving at the end of 2020. I wanted to give them enough notice so that we could find someone to replace me and have enough time to train them. Several things happened with that: 1) they told me how excited they were for me, 2) they appreciated that I gave five months notice, 3) they offered to let me stay on as a contractor into the following year to help me transition into the new business (which I did through August 2021), and 4) they offered to help me with my website that I was building. It was a total God thing how blessed I was to not only keep a full-time job when so many people lost theirs, but to also build a business in 2020! I am still blown away by the blessings of all that!
Today, I am still running the business with 10+ regular clients, some that I work with weekly. I have been blessed with not only some of the best clients, but have become friends with several of them! I get to help people bring order and structure to their homes, which is one of the best feelings ever, and I have a lot of fun doing it! Not to mention, I get to make my own schedule and have an amazing work/life balance.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It has been a fairly smooth road! I’ve just trusted God to lead me and build the business and have barely advertised for it besides the build-in advertising that comes with Thumbtack. The clients have come through Thumbtack, friends and word of mouth. I think the hardest struggle has been being consistent with my schedule. Consistency is my top strength and because of the nature of the business, I have had to be very flexible when scheduling work, not like a normal 9-5 job. But I feel like this past year I have finally gotten into a solid rhythm with scheduling work.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a professional organizer for homes/apartments/offices, any space really! I bring order to chaos by taking messy spaces and finding proper homes for the items cluttering up the space or purging items that are no longer needed. I also offer packing, unpacking and furniture assembly services. You name it I can do it. I am known for friendliness, skills with packing, utilizing existing items/systems but tweaking them to make them even better, my speed, being down to earth, and just jumping in and getting started on the project. I am most proud of the space I give to people to help them process while we work. Our sessions are like therapy sessions in a lot of ways, in the way that my clients open up and share things with me that they sometimes haven’t told anyone else. It feels nice to be able to hold space for them. I feel like the joy and peace that I bring with me helps set me apart from others. I also don’t like to force people to get rid of things with which they aren’t ready to part, because I feel like that could cause more trauma for them than what has gotten them to this point of holding on to more things than they have space. I like to ask “what’s going on with this?”, and as they answer they realize they don’t need said item anymore, or they recognize how important it is for them.
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
I feel like the most important lesson I’ve learned along my journey is trusting God, that He is going to provide the clients and business for me. He called me out to do it and he will take care of me.
Pricing:
- $75/hour with a $100 deposit that goes towards the first job.
- 3 hour minimum per session
Contact Info:
- Website: www.jordanelisabeth.com
- Instagram: jordanelisabeth_llc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JordanElisabethLLC
Image Credits
Logo by Jeremy Wells
