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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Let's get real, like for real, Let's get let's get
let's get real for a second. I mean in this
business seventeen almost eighteen years, doing this show for ten
Let's in my hair is like crazy, Let's get real. Hi,
Welcome to the s RS Show with James lot Junior.
I am James Loginis organizer. It is Monday, September eighth, right,
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I think, say yeah, it is twenty twenty five. Before
we get real. I always want thanks in gratitude. I'm
gonna give things in gratitude to everyone over the last
few months who's been there for me and for various reasons.
I appreciate you more than I know you guys have
shut off for I've seen a lot of my friends
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in the last month or so, doing lots of visits
and just having just amazing time together. And it's just
been talking friends on the phone and talk to you
a long time, longtime friendships, newer friendships and were tween.
I appreciate all of you. They help me keep going
for whatever is going on my life, good or bad.
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And so I just I appreciate that completely. I just
I do, and so I'll make sure I say that
what about this getting real. I'm talking about is time
to unbeautify this organizing business, because I you know, so,
I have a blog and a lot of heelp dot com.
I'm a blog and put out every day and I've
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been I've been super real over there, and I've been
having the best responses, views, comments of people are appreciating that
because I think everything is so heavily curated online where
such words. We're all online now right, I'm online. Everybody's
on line. Everything is so heavily curated, so heavily placed
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and put and it's this and it's that, and that
organizing is cute and pretty and this and I I
am done with it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm over that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm over I'm wanting to okay out fit. I'm ONARNR shirt.
It's hot hair in Los Angeles. My hair is all frizzy.
I didn't do my hair. I'm on here, and I'm
just like, there are a lot of people out there.
Eighty percent of people out there are just real folks
who want real help. And I understand marketing and I
understand all this stuff and I understand them all. I
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get all that stuff. But I'm just I'm over it.
I'm successful as an organizer. I'm successful, and you know,
I know, if you're new in the business, you're trying
to gain attention and you want to make sure. And
for some people out there, when they see things neat
and orderly and everything is prim and proper, it attracts them.
We have to understand in this business that it's very
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it's as diverse as the person we're talking to. Every
the audiences are all over the place because this is
something that you and I can agree on. Everyone needs
at some point, so it's all over the place. So
it may not be really talking to a person who
works with their hands, who work, so he's a blue
collar worker, tran somebody who's not rich, somebody who you
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know their houses is overrun and they're not fancy, and
it's just like there's so much people people out there
looking for help. So for me, it's been very much like, Okay,
I'm just done with all the cutes. I don't wear
cute pants when I know I wear shorts a lot
of times while I do it organizing over size shirts,
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hairs and a bun I'm not wearing a cute outfit
to organiz I'm here to work for you because to me.
I like presentable obviously, but my thing and I smell
good and all that. But my whole point is I'm
here for you because you have an issue and you
want it fixed, and you're coming to me as the
expert to fix it or at least assist you in
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fixing it. That's me is way more important, you know,
and I you know my in my in my media business,
we taught this also where people are going to do
great intros, great outros, graphics out that you hat blah
blah blah, and they have nobody watching. But then somebody
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bare bone. I'm like barre bones. I mean, I may
have a theme song for a show. I may have
a quick graphic and slay called slate, and I get
right to the point where it's an interview or my side,
get right to the point, and I get lots of
views because it's the it's the meat potatoes, and organizing
is the meat potatoes that need to be fixed. They
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need to be helped. That's what we want. We want
to be able to go in and get this, get
the ship done. Maybe I'll somethinguse I'm an older organizer,
maybe that maybe that's something because I'm a guy, I
have no idea. I know that the younger generation doesn't
view stuff the same way we do.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'm gen X.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't know. A few thinks a little differently, but
the boomers a few thinks everything we do. We're kind
of we're almost like the boomers a little bit. But
the millennials Gen Z you not for the things they're
thinking of stuff very differently. Would have to bend and
move and pivot as they as they start getting older
and coming up with when it comes stuff with you know,
becoming clients of yours. I just you know, sometimes y'all
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say anything correctly. Sometimes you may use your words grammatically incorrect.
It's okay, I think this, uh you know, this whole
neat and tidy and all. It's just like it's not realistic.
It's like, just just talk about the nitty gritty, because
I know when I'm out there with my clients, we're
in spaces that are personal and need to be worked at.
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It could be bathrooms, under sinks, under bands, like we're
in there. You know this, You guys out there, you
know we're in there. We're in the trenches of people's stuff.
You're in garages that have things from forty years ago,
and it's dusty and it's dirty, and there's spiders and
there's dead roaches, and no one talks about that. It
seems like it's always that. I mean, besides horders. I mean,
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and I want to get to this point that not
everything is horder.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm not talking.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean, for ten years I've talked about this. Not
everything is that extreme either. There are a lot of
folks who are somewhere just in the middle. I have
no fat background right now. I do no only have
a background. Yeah, I got I gotta, I guts, send
that box out, have a finger out where my finger going.
I send that box out. I've been there for two days.
I'll get it out, but I will buy. I'm doney
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yet I'm actually organizing my room. So I'm in different
stages and so it's a staging table. I got some
stuff on there.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's life.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Not all organizers are perfect either. We're not perfect human beings.
There's a few organizers out there who I do love
their content because they really show all sides of it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I mean, yes, I get the point before real start
because life coach and all that. I get the point,
like why would you follow somebody if they're messy. So
for you t about that they're messy, I'm coming to
them for what I have to see the context. Are
they messy? They are truly messy and unorganized, and yeabviously
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gon'na use them. But is it because they've been busy
working on other people they haven't gotten home take care
of their own stuff. That's real. A lot of times
my house isn't order. And my house basically is an
order for the most parts, so everything has a place
and everything. But there are times when i'm super busy
or life like I'm also kickering my mother, life gets
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in the way that yeah, there's a pile on a table, okay,
I but see what's great about love was organized is
that it might be a pile, but we know where
the public once you put it away, it's a way
we know where to put it because chances are we
have systems in our own places already set up. It's
just a matter of putting it away. Sometimes you don't
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come home and just and you put you know, the
jacket is, you'll hate the jacket up. It's okay, so much,
just don't Sometimes you do. The jacket may sit there
for a day.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It just happens.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You know, my desk. I finally cleared my desk off,
but a few days there wasn't cleared off.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That happens. So I just really I want people to
really feel.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The normalness of life doesn't mean you're a bad organizer.
I said, unless you really are a messy, nice person,
then you shouldn't do anything. But for most of us,
even if it still comes out of place, we have
a place for to put it back in place, so
you know, the message is still there as we're talking
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to you. By I don't recognize that. Something For some
folks even that is they won't they won't follow. They're like, no,
I'm good, that's fine. But a lot of folks out
there they don't care. They don't coach your house looks
like they don't. They don't really want to see it.
They're they're like, what can you do for me in
my space? And if you are good, that's all it matters,
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no matter. I just I'm just I just it's this,
this heavily curated world is really starting to get to
me a little bit of how is for you guys?
I follow a lot of organizers. I just see all
their beautiful stuff everywhere. It's nice to look at. I
love things organized, like a lot of looking at pictures.
But I'm just like, but are you? Are you being
real to your clients? I can't answer that, of course,
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that's just that's your answer. I mean for my fellow
organizers out there, are you? Are you being true to
your clients? Are you making an impact?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
What you post?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Does it really make an impact? Are you just posting
pretty pictures? Are you posting platitudes that you think anybody
wants to hear?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Clean house? I'm messing you deskuse like those, that's all cutes.
But are you? I always challenge you. Are you making
an impact? Is that? Is that something that? Are you
literally making an impact?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And why am I front like, oh my god, that's
a video and that to me is just it's to me,
it's more important than having ten thousand people follow me
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on Instagram and you have three people who answer, who
say anything. Nowadays, it's engagement. Do you have I put
up these posts? I can engagement. People say things to me,
Oh my god, James, I read that post today. I
ton't relate to it. That's what I want to hear.
That's what I want to hear. I don't want to
hear the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I want to hear that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And I think that's what's important. Are we really are
we servicing our clientele honestly, professionally, personally, emotionally, and are
we are we really giving them something that is adding
value to their lives? I ask that's your and that's
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and that's just if you're any kind of sales or anything.
Are you as coaches too, are you really being there
for your clients? I feel like I am. My clients
get all of James a lot of genius organizer, and
they get all they get the best parts, and I am,
you know, I'm here to assist them and getting themselves together.
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When I leave, they seem to feel better about things.
That's the greatest feeling in the world. They feel better. Okay,
we're good, We're good. Life's good. And that's very important,
very very very important. So I I just I'm just
a big fan of that, and I kind and I
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would say about to the episode, like I'm coming back.
I'm doing a couple of episodes in a while, and
I want to come back. And it's our tenth season.
The whole thing and this show. This show is a
hit for us, and I just I love it, but
I just really want to I want to say something
to you guys that you know, I see you, I
feel you, I feel the pain of just like if
this is so my room, I can't function in my
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room where it's this this, I can't park my car
in my garage. I understand that pain. The backyard is
a mess, you know. The living room is just too
is too much. I can't open doors all the way.
No one wants to live that way, no mind really
nobody wants to. And there's no shame. And you can't
beat yourself up and give yourself grace. Things don't happen overnight.
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Things happen over time, and I don't. For me, I
was like, I like with my own health, I was like,
oh my god, where you know? I uh, well, you know,
I'm how'd.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I get here? You start thinking how did I get here?
How'd I get here? It happens.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We have a lot going on our lives, a lot
of us a luck going out of the world, and
your and your brain takes so much at a time.
It's just it's just it's it's it's a lot. And
you have to kind of go, Okay, I get it.
I'm here now, I'm recognizing it. Now there we go.
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You can't you can't beat yourself up. So I'm here
for that too. It's about being real and like just
like being real, just going. You know, I got in
some situation. It is unfortunate. I don't like it. I
want to change it. That is the bravest thing you
can do. That's the most exciting thing you do, is
say I want to change the situation. And I hope
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you guys either, if you're not doing it yourself, you
are finding people can help you. Finding organizers out there
can help you. Sometimes to the people out there who
are not organizers. And I don't both watch my shows.
I want you to feel like you can go to
somebody or if you can do yourself by following one
of us, let me say that you pull it together,
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because there's nothing like living in a way you don't
want to live. We're only here for a finite amount
of time, and it goes by fast and and and
also there's times where for some of you out there,
it is beyond your help. It is it's it's something
it's like a lots are going on and don't be
afraid to get help, whether it's a therapist or a psychologist,
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or a coach or a friend that you can trust,
or a pastor or you know, whoever, go.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
To them, talk to them.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You know, some some things are out of our you know,
we can only do so much, but we need assistance.
And there's nothing wrong with getting assistance. And that's being real.
Also again, it's just being real about that. It's it's yes,
we don't know everything. I don't know everything. I'm not
going to proportion to everything. And that's okay. I'm learning
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all the time. Also, and I did a show this
morning where the coach on that show said something that
made me just stand on my tracks. I'm gonna repeat
it for you guys because I love it. Where I
put I was right here. He said, it's not who
you know, it's how you grow. All in it's how
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you grow. That to me, I was like, that's what
it is. It's not who you know, it's how you grow.
And I think that to me said it all. And
it's a really important lesson in chang never stops. You
just keep going, going and going going through life. And
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I don't think you keep learning stuff. So I'm just
like everybody, sit back, relax, no shame, It's okay. You
can help yourself if you're an organizer.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You don't have to be.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Perfect to have clients. You don't have to be perfect.
Just be good and earnest. That's all I passed any
wisdom on from being in this business almost eighteen years.
Just be earnest, have a great attitude, have a realistic attitude,
and just be there. Listen to people, listen to what
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they want, and then try to make it happen. Surely, Yeah,
because as you know out there, people mainly remember how
you make them feel. When your name comes up, it
elicits a feeling. That's what they remember. Maybe not always
what you do exactly or whatever, but but how you
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made them feel. Oh my god, I love James, he's great.
Or Nope, I just I Nope, I'm James did this
to me.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
No, that's what it is, whether you did or not,
or they perceive you to somebody. Well, James threw everything
like I don't many you know I had to do that.
They may think that that's because I didn't make them
feel good enough or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
In my presence.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
My energy did it, and some folks your energy does
not mix. I have I just shows on that. Find
you an organizer that works or a client that works.
Either way you can fire each other. It works, sometimes
you don't work.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So there you go. I just I just wanted to
say that, and I I I love this business. I think.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I think if anybody long term people know that I
love this business, I love it, love it, love it,
love it, love it. And I will be doing this
as long as I am able to do this. You know.
So I'm fail for speaking. If you have a speaking engagement,
you want to come do it, come talk to me.
I I will talk to your people plainly. I'll give
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them tips, i will give them takeaways. But I'm saying
I want to usher in the real air. This is
being this is being real. Let's stop with the QT bullshit. Organizing.
For some people, it's it's death being being cluttered. I mean,
it's it's it's serious, it's impediment, it's paralyzing, it's all
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for somebody, that's really a problem. And for a lot
of people it's just being disorganized is hurting them. It's
making them work harder, not smarter. Uh, and a lot
of us don't worry to begin. That's what week, that's
what we're here for. It helped them begin this new
life because those of you guys who are organized or
pressure organizers know it's better than you organized.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It is the super organized.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The show is on Facebook, It's on x or Twitter
x as the s O Show, s OS on the
Score Show. I'm on a Blue Sky's Super Organizer. That's
on Blue Sky. You can follow us there too, and
I'm on JLJ Media. Of course we're here on Mondays.
I've been gone for a while. Now I'm back some
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more shows and I look forward to seeing you next Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
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