Happy 10 Years on the Air!

June 5th 2015 , JLJ started this show! Today he celebrates 10 years on the air! Thank YOU listeners!! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is episode two hundred and seventy of this alliteration
of the show. It is my ten year anniversary on
the air. Hi, I'm James Londjunior super organizer, and I
decided this year, even though it's a huge number number ten,
I decided to not have a guest. Yeah. I decided

(00:34):
to pare it down and just talk to you. And
that's how it started. Just talking to you and ten years,
two hundred and seventy episodes of this alliteration. I have
about sixty episodes. The first sixty episodes are not on
the air. Shipped them up. It's a lot of work

(01:00):
early ones. There'll be a project I'll do ten years
by what can I say? I look at this logo.
The guys are watching. You can't see it, but we're listening.
You can't see it, but we watch it. That logo
is designed by someone who's longer with us. That's how
ten years have changed. I don't have the original files

(01:23):
of it. He's had the pictures of it. I don't
even have. They could be somewhere on old flash drive somewhere.
I have no idea, but I don't even have some
shouts that person who I love this log I loved
this logo for so many years and they fit just
what I needed. And it's masculine because of a man

(01:48):
in the business. Uh. And I wanted to think of myself,
but they heard a super organizer, a woman. Know, it's
just not a chick. Not I'm not a female. It's
a you're getting a man who's come. I love these
colors burn orange and yellow, my colors and blue. It
just fit and I just I wanted something that was

(02:12):
just like saying strength. And I stand by him. I's
always saying a good change of logo because I've changed.
I've updated my show logos and stuff for years. I
would played them several times. I've changed the name several times,
and I did understand this logo. The first sixty episodes

(02:40):
are from June fifth, twenty fifteen. Sometimes November twenty sixteen.
I was on a radio station, a Drenne radio shout
out to Brian Leone for engineer producer, and then I
went on to my Frank Cameron Lewis network. That's what

(03:02):
most sixty episodes are. So I haven't gone on training
radio to see if the old episodes are on there.
That's a good question. I have to look. One day,
I was looking around on the interwebs and then out there,
so I don't know where they are. I have a
flask drive with all the episodes somewhere, so I should
find it. Maybe Hi's might upload them for me. And

(03:27):
feeling all this stuff in my early years, I'm that
first year and a half will be doing it. But
on this channel, theog media, I took it over this.
I do it myself. But when you go shout out
to Cameron Lewis, who taught me a lot about podcasting.

(03:47):
It starts with December one, twenty sixteen. That's the first
episode that starts here. And now it's two hundred and
seventy of these, so I overthrew some odd of these
shows out there. Also. I have a side show that's
out there from after Bust TV. I did twelve episodes

(04:09):
of a show called she Broke on Christmas Show, and
I actually have the video version of that on my channel.
The playlists you can. I think I watched that, but
the audio versions, because it was made for Twust TV,
is out there under after the CV under that show,

(04:33):
so you can find if you want to hear me
for twelve episodes a little spin off show and it
was getting successful again. I mean I got a lot
of great ratings. People were comedy, which they loved it.
I had fun doing it. It was a fun. It
was give to me by default. Should I tell that story?

(05:00):
Why not? Expet I tell you lies Sposy. So my
previous boss, I won't say his name, but you know
where I worked. I'm trying to get this my computer
sellings us nor patience. You can't stop them. Trying to

(05:21):
stop them. One stay everybody, I see that's not it.

(05:41):
That's not it. That's not it. That's not it. Yeah, no,
let's go back in there anyway. Okay, I look at
it later. So my boss at the time, this network,
and I you want to do a twenty four seven

(06:04):
Christmas channel. Christmas is big business, folks, so several years ago,
very smart. This was in twenty when did I do
this thing? And then twenty nineteen and go away? Things
to go away? Some just popped up and I'm like,

(06:25):
go away, go away, and he was like it was
like over a year, you know, you're just start stuff
over a year. Even think about this, like starting twenty
four Christis channel, which I think is ambitious. But I
think it's smart because you want to do on other holidays.
You do Christmas in July, Christmas in June, all these
other things are happening on TV now and I love it.

(06:49):
So I thought, oh great, and they were like, we
want you a part of James because you have the
Hallmark Channel crowd and you love Christmas and you know
that stuff. And I was like Thanksgiving and somebody was
like you, I love all that stuff. So I was
really kind of like, Okay, I love it. I was
in the initial emails an emails. Let stop getting into

(07:10):
group emails. I stopped getting good emils. They're just they
just there was no discussion. I just they just stopped.
So then there's the announcement of a show and I
was gonna be just one of the co hosts the show,
and my name was not announced on it. This happens

(07:33):
in Hollywood all time, right, the very Hollywood story. And
I was like, okay, I was pissed. I said, I
was pissed, and I just kind of I wrote back
to me. I was, I wrote back to this like, like,
what's going on? Well, we decided to go to the
direction usual stuff. Well, however, Comma, I guess they saw,

(07:57):
Hobbs said, I was. They did kind of do me
wrong by not talking about it or anything. You know,
they don't owe me anything, but just just like I
was part of the discussions, I was part of the
beginning and just you know, you just obviously just dropped me.
They told them that the other producers give James whatever
he wants for the channel because you have to populic
channel too, and so they would think, good, we'll start

(08:20):
our show. And they came to me and said name.
They came me to James. The person they had the
channel said, Nelick said, give James whatever he wants. You
want to give a show? What do you want to do?
We can't show do you want? And I said, you know,
so it goes to show. I went from being a
sidekick on the show to get my own show. So

(08:41):
that's better. I'm like, okay, that's your better. So I'm
thank you very much. And I said to myself. By then,
twenty nineteen, I've been business for like ten years to
eleven years, and I was like, you know, I have
a brand. And see by now I was also on
television doing soaps and stuff like that, but this is
my original brand. I have a business super organizer, and

(09:05):
I said, I wondered something where I talk about organizing
this thing over here, organizing because that is something that
it's my life. We will need it and maybe and
now I don't have anything video really at this point

(09:26):
besides my show here and there. I'll still do most
of the audio. My first sixty or first like one
hundred and some episodes were all just audio. There's no
video for them right now, they're at all because they're
just me. Just they're radio and stuff we can say.
But there's like twenty twenty A we started doing audio
and video. But that's why nineteen I was like, I

(09:47):
don't play any video, so there's gonna be a good exposure.
You can see who I am, and it's be fun
with the network. But I said, I want to work
with this. One guy was Stephen Lebu. I said, I
trust her as a producer, He'll get my vision going.
He totally got into it. He had ideas, I had
ideas I will and I will say this, I know.

(10:08):
He was actually one of the best producers I've worked
with in terms of just a single show. I've had,
I mean, other producers, but not works on the show.
I had my girlfrother Saraphini, know the another amazing producer.
We did shows like what it Calls the Heart, and
she would just a lot my other shows with some
people who've done great production too. But I was saying,

(10:28):
in terms of starting a new show where they're the
producer director, I'm just a talent and creator. It was amazing.
We we were, we were, we were in sync. We
just we did a couple of shows at a time.
He was, he was really into it. He gave me
some great ideas. We did some great promos that are
out there in the ether because I was always game, like,

(10:52):
what you want to do? You want to promote my
my my show? Sure, how do you wanna do it?
We found we had a we had a white room,
so we were doing a green screen stuff. He was
it was good, it was really good. It was fun.
So we so we did that. So that was that
was all fun. So then so we created twelve episodes
of that and we were airing them and looked at

(11:13):
the numbers and they were doing better than the original
show after a while, and we had a little drink
on that one yummy, and I was like, okay, but
I was on by faint. I was on it something
and I had a purpose and another show promoted my show.

(11:38):
I promoted their show. Of course, it was because we
were the same channel, and I thought, this is really great,
and because I did a Halloween Christmas Halloween special I did. Chris,
I got my friend who Robin Gunn Jones gun who
was a writer of Christmas Hallmark. We were like, I
was like, anything, Chris, I get this show is as
sous potential and uh and then a million twelve episodes

(12:03):
and then covet it in twenty twenty and then that
company went out of business. So six years later I went,
I would stay here for some of the ten diversary
episode of this show. I am thinking about reviving it
on some level. Obviously it would be on my network

(12:29):
now and I may change the name slightly, not sure.
But then on for this Christmas thing about doing a
little mini series, and I'm thinking that could be cute
where I just focus all on holidays. They're just so
I'm thinking about it, so let just keep that so
so just you know, I'm looking into that right now.

(12:51):
But I said, I haven't talked about it with anybody yet.
I thought this could be something that people might have
guests to my show about organizing plant. We just like
strictly Christmas related, but I love their idea of all
year long. I was like, I wish I could do
a Christmas channel. I have content that kind of I

(13:13):
have a lot of Christmas kind of concept throughout my stuff.
I like I could pick and choose. But that's it.
I can't start. I got, I can't start another channel.
I got, I gotta handle this one. But I would
comma Christmas. Christmas material is always a hit, folks, So
maybe a new version. This is what come outs. So

(13:36):
we will see stay tuned for that. But that's out
there for some moving this June. It's it's it's a
fun stuff. I know, me got ideas, but it would
be a mini series. But if I did, it just
be a mini series for that time period, possibly throughout

(13:57):
the year. Like I say, they have Christmas, July, Christmas, June.
Who else. But it's it's yeah, we're okay. So I
got a text. Okay, So there's that that. I did

(14:24):
a video only series during the COVID era in twenty
twenty called a by the Super Organizer, you know in
a black person a black man in the super organizer industry.
That's right, the Internet. A Black Man in Pression Organized
Industry series I did a bunch of I did like
a deaf test host episodes. They were very successful. Also

(14:46):
to here on YouTube, I did that. There was there
was COVID. Then there was a lot of racial divide
in twenty twenty. Some things went down in real life,
and I spoke out on them and a lot of
organizers of color, which there are more of than I

(15:08):
thought they would be. So I come out of the woodwork,
and nobody's kind of speaking out. So I was invited
to several meetings to speak on the subject just being
a black person. But you know what we go through.
Possibly that if you're not black, you don't go through
cultural difference. There's all kind of stuff, cultural difference as

(15:30):
you work in a black Latino household, how they view
organizing me being a man, how they view me as organizing.
I was like, I want to give you any insight
to what I've gone through. And I did a small
many series of that, but but that one was like,
it was pretty good. It was very it's very open ended,
and it was pretty ended. It's like, it's pretty self contained.

(15:52):
I spoken all I think. I feel like I hit
all the points that I needed to hit. There's anything
else more for me to say about being a man
had been since they'd in that series, So you can
check that out here, but it's not audio, it's only video.
And because I had some I had some hostility from
some of the white ladies in this business, open hostility

(16:15):
during that time period, and you know, and I just
you know, I don't flincher or get angry easily. I
just try to talk through it. And they were I
was getting told, you'll get your own profession. You know
you're a man. Why you're an organizer? Like organizing a

(16:35):
gender specific like not at all? Right, and many of
you out there have male client I mean, like everybody's organized.
I was told taking my black stuff somewhere else. I mean,
I was all called names. It was. It was crazy.
And I have out this person if you know you watched,
I had a I thought was a friend in quotes,

(16:59):
fellow organized who invited me on and we had a
really and I believe, a really amazing teachable exchange. I thought,
I thought this some time to make sure make sure
use always carefully because because I really thought, because I

(17:20):
really did think it was a great exchange, and it
was live. I was invited on to this person's live
on Facebook, and who was there and watched it live?
So I thank god you didn't see it. But in
some ways it was very brave of this person because

(17:44):
they didn't look they weren't in the brightest light. Was
like all saying as they normally are. And I thought
that was important because they served a purpose for a
larger good. They didn't make this person a bad person
like that this person, but this an amazing person. But
what had happened later was that when it was reposted

(18:11):
there were edits, as somebody was said, where's the regular
where's the other version? And this person, it's her channel,
it's there, it's her prerogative. I guess how she supposed

(18:34):
to be seen or not seen shows to edit it,
and I was hurt by that. I thought I was
really hurt because there was no discussion about No one said,
O James, I'm gonna do this, and blah blah blah.
And I think actually it undercut the whole point. It's
uncomfortable when someone we tau was a subject as race

(18:57):
or gender or sexuality, but I learned it was back
to back to business, and this person chose the business
over the subject, over the message, and that's that actually
changed my mind about them. And we're not as close anymore,

(19:18):
but I see his personal line doing their thing, and
I wish them well. I don't wish anything bad on them,
but they're a very early supporter of my show, which
I says, you get older, you can look, you can
you learn how to compartmentalize, you learn how to you know,
you can learn how to accept things. And my thing was,
this person was on my show more times than a
lot of people, always a good guest, always and has

(19:41):
her own empire. So I so I wish her all
that just this one little blip changed the course of
our friendship and how I look at her so business woman,
Oh yeah, she's she's doing good. But I just think, oh,
there's stuff. Yeah, uh, there's that tease that that happened.

(20:02):
So I don't know where that. I'm not telling people
to go find that video because it's not the one
we risually did, so I don't promote that with a
person anymore. But I'm learning, I'm learning this stuff. And
then over the years I've been in Force magazine, quoted
for Things and other I've done many other show people

(20:24):
shows Forbes. The first bit of controversy I got. It's
all ten years for ten years a long time, right,
it like it's a long time. My first time Forbes
was about the u Kan Mari method, the whole Homegirl
from Asia Recondo, the whole let's much you enjoy keep it?

(20:50):
And so it got so big here in America for
a minute. You see it's gone now I went away,
but it was here big. It was big for a minute,
and for some people that works. And so a lot
of my people who are not in organizing world will
coming like James, I did it like I love it.
I organize my place so like I love it. And
I was always like, that's great whatever. See I already

(21:12):
know one size on sit all. So whatever you want
to do, I've always been a component of it. Not
even my way is the only way. So like everybody
asked their way, it just got my nerves. And I'm
totally honest with you guys are here. I got my
nerves that everybody was like, this is the way we
all sho doing this now, and I'm saying, no, we
have we have this, we have to have discussions about that,
and I don't and I will always stand by this.

(21:37):
My clients come first, their comfort and there and come first.
I went through to feel safe when they're working with me.
I will never do anything to shame them or possibly
shame them or accidentally shame them out there from a

(21:59):
position you'll shame asking any of my clients, I'll tell
you I don't do that. I will never do that.
I'll hear do that. I feel very strongly about that.
So there were clients when I was saying, well, that
method doesn't seem to work for me, what's wrong with me?
Oh nope, nope. When I do that, nope, nope, nope, nope.

(22:20):
It's a it's a hot thing they got. It's big
right now, and not saying it doesn't work. But that's
the point. Some people have deep mental things going on
when it comes to their stuff that has to be
addressed and it can't be suddressed in and it's bring

(22:40):
a joy. I mean, for example, okay, this cut, this
mud does being the joy. It's like Shelley, it does
make a joy because I love it and I love it,
But these glasses don't bring me joy, but I have
to wear them. My computers bring me joy, actually brings
me pain at the time. But it's like it's but
it's completely what I need to use to work. My

(23:05):
toast is a mere joy. I guess what it does
not like toast, but it's just like that's just not
that's not that easy, and throw all your stuff into
bed in front of you them to stare at it.
But see what I did was though I gave my opinion,
this show is open to everyone, and I invited people

(23:26):
who are part of the Conmary method and recon method
on the show, and I don't you listen to them.
I don't you listen those episodes. I don't attack them again,
I don't make them so clients and guests on my show.
I will never make them feel shame, never make them
feel uncomfortable. The point is here, tell people why you
love it and why it works for you and maybe

(23:49):
some of your client base, because again, there are folks
out there it would work for everything. I just I
just don't want people to think there's just one way
to do it and if you can't do it that way,
then something's wrong with you. No, not at all. So
like everybody has different you know, I get now. So
I do these SOS shorts and gave my op on

(24:11):
things I've learned. And I did one recently on at
will agreements and their folks are like, I don't like that,
Oh my god, and I said, I love it. So again,
one size is the fiddle. I'm sharing what I've learned
over the years and what's worked for me, and then
I guaran to you. Oh my goodness, I gear it

(24:33):
to you, and then you disseminate and if it's for you,
then you take it right. So as one of those
it's just yeah, it's one of those things. So I'm
always about about that. So that's something over the years
that I've had. I also had a really big moment recently.
It was my four year anniversary. I think, to this
day side to my knowledge, I'm the only professional organizer

(24:55):
ever on late night television now besides Baby Mary Condo,
She's been on a couple of shows, possibly late it's
not late night my daytime. At late night. I don't
know if mac Paxston has been on anything late night,
but I definitely and not only was on late night.
I made history in television that stands today. I was

(25:17):
the first guest for Jimmy kimol Ive or any late
night talk show in fourteen months during the pandemic, I
was in the news. I kind of hoped more come
out of it. My website crashed and all that was good.
I got lots of business that was all good, but
I didn't get featured in I think it featured in

(25:38):
some magazines. Word that didn't happen. But for that, for
those for those couple of for that week, though, I
was hot stuff the website, their website a million views
of just that segment. It was ninety nine point nine
sent propositives over. One person called me fat. For the rest,
it was all positive. I got Jimmy k Bath all

(26:00):
that stuff. It was good. But that I was four
years ago on May twelve, So May twelve, twenty twenty one,
I made history. It was a lot of fun. I
represent an organizers, I think, and all organisms are like James,
you did it, so I have something that no one
else has. You just don't. That feels pretty good. I
never thought when I came into this business seventeen years

(26:23):
ago that I would be breaking barriers. That just wasn't
even a thought. I just want to come to my business.
I liked it. I didn't know stuff like that, and
I'm very proud of that accomplishment. I think I'm the
only person or a few that actually has a couple
of songs about organization out there in the world to purchase.

(26:48):
I have a song called Procrastination. I was song that
I did with the group called chog is out there.
I was. I was sung about getting organized. Another song
about getting organ eyes James Aginia come up. I was
talking about want to get organized. So over the years,
I have a whole career. I know, we're told a

(27:09):
renaissance man, right, I have a whole career of music
and put outs and so on. So for my albums,
I put out organized songs and I'm still working off, folks,
the first organized musical. We're going on for like the
last ten years. I'm actually I'm making some leeway now.

(27:31):
It takes time to excited to promote, you know, working
on the book, the story, the songs, everything. So I'm
very excited. I want to get that out there. I'm
very excited. I've seen some plays on hoarding here in
LA and they're okay, but I I I'm ready to

(27:51):
put it something out there about organization. I have several
books out there, are little small books, little booklets of
or parts of I have some more books coming out
organization of all kinds of stuff. So I'm like, I'm
working on this well rounded thing. I actually have a
I think about a series, possibly an audio drama series,

(28:11):
organizing two possibly or short film. So I got I
the organizing space something I love. In addition to this show,
I'm telling you this show, it's been just been wonderful.
And I've had so many amazing guests over the years,
and many of them are presidents of NAPLE. So thanks

(28:34):
to naple dot net as the premiere, I have folks
from ICD this super challenging, this organization, crime, this organization.
They're wonderful. Also, I've had many of the different chapters
of NAPLE on my show. I've spoken, I've spoken to them,
and people still find it. People still find my show

(28:56):
worthy of notice, which are almost ready crying. I just
I to do anything ten years, folks are the big
deal is a big deal, right to produce something, to
go through the motions and COVID and leaving one radio
station and leaving another station and doing yourself and getting
the guests and booking them and saying them, saying yes,

(29:16):
and now everybody wants to talk. Everybody's talking and stuff,
and now we reveal my hair. My ten year univers
said I would take off my hat a hat on earlier.
This is my un't it here. But I have a
lot of hair signs of shame, of course, so I
just want to make sure I get that out there.
I'm gonna let go, I said, as the show goes on,

(29:36):
I'm gonna let it out. But my hair, I won't
let it oucces to you. It is too too much
right as my pointy tail. There's just I've seen a
lot of changes in the business I've seen. I've seen
the growth of virtual organizing. AI is not coming into
play as a whole shows on AI now because I'm like,

(29:58):
let's get on top of this. I become a life
coach within the last ten you know, but within this
time period I've started. So that's another thing too that
I'm very proud of. It's all the world my show.
A lot of help with James Jr. I restarted my
blog again. It's just doing some great work over there.
A lot of help dot com. I enjoyed doing the

(30:22):
show I do. I thinks a gratitude all the time,
and I normally would I should have I usually open.
I decided this show is gonna be a whole differ
kind of show, different kind of show. It was ten years.
But I think some gratitude really is to every single
person who has crossed this path, and that is former guests,

(30:43):
foreign production people, former studios, anybody who's listened to the
show or watched the show, talked about the show, mentioned
the show. Thank you, jim Me Love, Join Me Live.
Thank you for Cameron Lewis, Thank you Adrenaline Radio and

(31:05):
UH and Brian leone than you Have for a TV
UH and then twenty four seven Channel. Thank you Spotify
and our Radio and Apple and all you guys are
allowing me to do this. Hosting is my first pleasure.

(31:26):
Radio hosting is my first pleasure. Podcast also my first pleasure.
Everything else being on TV and SOUFF that's whatever. But
I love sitting and talking with people about the subject
that I love. I do and this show to Beak
called the Super Organizer Radio Universal Radio show. They went
to see This Organizer show. Now the show with James
Junior Akage organizer show. We're going, and I have no

(31:53):
reason not to continue the show, not not to not
continue to shout saying not to not continue to show.
I plant keep going, keep going. I just have a
guest line doget two guests that I have to come
out of show, and we're gonna be interviewing them, and
so life will continue. I'll continue doing this with shorts

(32:14):
doing the regular episodes, interviews, all kinds of goodies. Like
I said, I might bring back some goodies. I might
start another side segment. Who knows that's audio or video.
But I I am committed to the organizer and the brand.
This logo may stay, it may change, who knows, But
I am very committed to this. And I just think

(32:37):
all of you for the support. I mean, any just
one person watches this or one person listens to this,
my job is done. And they say we, I mean
from this alliteration web over one hundred thousand downloads or whatever.
So I mean, it's just it's it's a hit for
me and for in podcasting. So I'll tell it. There

(33:01):
are a lot of other podcasting, a lot of other podcasting.
There are not too a lot of other organizing podcasts.
Some have died out over the years because this is
this is work. To do this you have, this is work.
And some you know, they probably once in a while
or whatever, but I support them. There's no competition and organization.
There's so many great organizers out there that are wonderful

(33:24):
doing wonderful work, doing and forworative work, doing transformative work.
That's where it all comes from, and it starts from there.
I'm an organizer first, and I love this professional with
all of my hearts. I mean that at the bottom
of my heart. I knew that. So that's the deal
for me. That's how I was leaving here my ten

(33:47):
year anniversary. Have you ten years to me? I can't
believe it. As I head towards my sixties. I started
this in my forties. We're doing that, kids, We're doing that.
Anybody wants to be on the show, come on, I'll
talk in the organizer for organizing Chance organization. That's my
organization with me. I'd love to If you want to

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be on my show, contact me. Tam will either the
spot for you. I'm James at US an organizer, and
I will talk to you next time.