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Unearthing the Power of Simplicity, Organization, and Financial Empowerment: A Deep Dive with Miriam Ortiz y Pino
Ready to embark on a transformative journey towards personal growth and financial empowerment? Our special guest, Miriam Ortiz y Pino, a renowned professional organizer, simplicity guru, and money breakthrough business coach, has got you covered! Miriam pulls back the curtain on her unique blend of organization, simplicity, and financial empowerment, revealing how these three cornerstones can lay the groundwork for entrepreneurial success and self-discovery.
You'll find your interest piqued as Miriam delves into the fascinating world of Sacramenian Archetypes reading, a tool she uses to help clients simplify and prioritize their lives. Entrepreneurs, particularly those hailing from the "woo-woo" community, you'll want to listen closely as Miriam unpacks the concept of money archetype. She shares some invaluable strategies for improving financial well-being, such as embracing measured risks and investing in the right resources to fuel business growth.
Lastly, we delve into the critical importance of developing systems and habits to help entrepreneurs stay organized and balanced. Miriam serves up her top advice on how to start on the path towards simplicity, organization, and financial empowerment. We also chat about how to tackle stress-inducing issues head-on and challenge the misconception that certain tasks demand more time than they actually do. Plus, be sure to stick around for a sneak peek at Miriam's free webinar and her one-minute mail solution for dealing with information overload. Tune in for an abundance of wisdom and practical advice – you won't want to miss this!
Miriam Ortiz y Pino CPO® & Simplicity Expert
More than Organized
miriam@morethanorganized.net
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Hello everyone, welcome to our spiritual spotlight series. Today I am joined by Miriam Ortiz E Pino. She is a certified professional organizer and what is amazing is that she's actually one of the first ones in the world simplicity expert and money breakthrough business coach. Miriam, thank you so much for coming to the spiritual spotlight series. I'm so happy you're here.
Speaker 2:Thanks, you're welcome. Did you all hear my alarm?
Speaker 1:No, oh good, she's like guys got to go.
Speaker 2:You know I'm doing laundry. The laundry went off.
Speaker 1:I love it. I should be doing laundry myself. So, miriam, we're going to jump right in and let me ask you this so you're not only a certified professional organizer, but also a simplicity expert and money breakthrough business coach, can you maybe share the journey that led you to combine organization, simplicity and financial empowerment in your work?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it started with organizing, and as I worked with more and more clients, I realized they often all had the same issues that were being ascribed to the wrong things. So you know, they spent a lot of time rearranging their things not necessarily simplifying their lives and so the first thing I did was start to just strip out all the excess kind of garbage that's out there about how to get organized, and really tried to make it as easy as possible for each of my clients, and because not everybody thinks the same way, I had to kind of bring on some coaching chops to be able to explain in a variety of ways how to get the same result. And so that was the first thing, and that was the kind of result of also practicing voluntary simplicity myself. I like that and I had been doing that for about 10 or 11 years when I realized, oh, there's a need, there's a hole in the market for looking at it in that way, and so that was the simplicity expert. I just kind of made it up.
Speaker 2:The money coaching part was as a result of more coaching and getting a little deeper with my clients. I realized that they all had a really weird relationship with money, and so I was having some money issues myself and not the same ones. I was having ones about running my business and the difference in business and personal finances. But I started getting trained in many mindset and realizing, oh, it's all about your relationship with money and it's the same as your relationship with things. So I just kind of added a couple of credentials around sacred money archetypes and money breakthrough business coaching and it has a lot to do with money breakthrough mindset and using that lens to make business decisions.
Speaker 1:It's something that is so needed and so valuable is like mindset work, money, mindset work and I like the simplicity work that you're doing also Like I just think we have so much clutter, you know, and we don't know where to start. So let me ask you this so you've actually founded, more than organized in 2001 with the goal of creating freedom in your own life. How has your personal quest for freedom influenced the way you guide entrepreneurs and creative individuals in crafting their environments?
Speaker 2:Oh, good question, it is a lot.
Speaker 1:We'll be here all day, guys, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, because I recognize that desire to have freedom but maintain control, and that's what so many entrepreneurs do. They don't release enough control to grow and then wonder why it's not working. And it goes back to many things it's. Is it an abundant or a scarcity mindset? And how can we make it all work together? And the more you get one thing right, the more it leads to the other things going right, and I love that. By making the connection between your creativity, your work you know like what you excel at, your organization, your productivity and your money mindset, everything starts working together. And the more in alignment you are with who you want to be, the easier all those things are as well, because you can then stop listening to other people and listen to yourself and do it that way.
Speaker 1:That is beautiful. Honestly, that is beautiful. So let me ask you this the concept of organizing goes beyond tidiness. It's about who and how we want to be. Can you maybe elaborate on how your approach to organizing encompasses personal growth and self discovery?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's really cool. So one of those connections I discovered is that as we would go through people's things, we would discover who they were.
Speaker 2:Or I would they might not realize that that was happening until I pointed it out. But I was always like you're telling me you're this kind of person and yet I look at your things and none of that supports any of the things you say you're doing or want to do. Yeah, it's all this other stuff, it's all the busy work, it's all the extra, it's all the shoulds and expectations of other people, not yourself. So, looking at it both ways, like who would you like to be, let's reverse engineer it from there. And or well, if you aren't sure what that is, let's figure it out by actually looking at your things. What lights you up as we go through your things? So it works both ways, but I love. I love that approach to it, because the more we can become who we want to be and how we want to be, the more the things in our lives align up with that.
Speaker 1:That is such a good point. Like as you go through things in people's homes and helping them to organize, you do identify, maybe, how they represent themselves, Like what is their personality, what are their hobbies, what are their interests? Like, you come to my house you'll see wow, Rachel, you have a lot of crystals. That's weird. But I mean it's common sense. But you're like oh yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 2:I know there's a joke. I don't know if you saw the image, but I have a picture of myself in front of a wall of calendars and clocks.
Speaker 1:I don't think I saw it. I like this one.
Speaker 2:But it's the same thing, like I'm just kind of a productivity nerd and so I have a lot of project management tools and things that I'm always evaluating, but I've decided this year I'm actually stopping, that I'm just doing my own process and letting the rest go. Other people can do their own thing and I'm going to stay in my lane Until someone asks me to actually evaluate something for them.
Speaker 1:That is perfect, I will say, in this past year, productivity and really just honing in on what matters and what should I be focusing on, because I do think and you said this in the beginning we get this overwhelm of well, I need to do 7000 things, but really maybe only need to do two, I would imagine. Do you help people simplify? I know you're simplicity expert so I bet you do. How do you figure out what people's priorities are and what they should be focusing on and what goes to the trash?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I use a couple of different assessment tools actually. Then it just reveals itself as we work. But I use the Sacramenian Archetypes reading that gives some guidelines and structure to it's basically a personality quiz, but for whatever reason, this particular modality really resonates with me and my clients A lot of who are entrepreneurs and a lot of them are healer entrepreneurs or creative entrepreneurs, so they tend to be a little more on the woo-woo side. But there's also an aspect to it that's very rooted in mythology and in literature. So even my more professorial type clients and scientific clients like it as well.
Speaker 2:Then, how our brains actually process information so many of my clients have executive function issues, adhd that's interesting. Then when I start talking about it as a different way of looking at it or approaching it, it becomes a no-brainer Like, oh right, I was doing it the way my grandmother, who was a very different personality type and a different processing type, did it. No wonder it doesn't work for me. What is available to me which I put in my toolbox? So that's kind of how I approach that.
Speaker 1:I like that you do the money archetypes. I will say that archetypes is definitely becoming more and more known and you don't have to be in the woo-woo industry but the mass that we wear and the personalities that come forward, and I like that it's specific to money. So is there like maybe one money archetype that you could share with us?
Speaker 2:Well, the beauty of the archetype structure is that it's three archetypes that work in conjunction.
Speaker 2:So we all have one, that is, us that are natural best, and then there's two that help support it, like a three-legged stool. So if you're kind of wonky on one way, you can just rebalance the other way. I'll just share mine, because I don't know what, what you are at this point or anything, but I happen to be a ruler, alchemist, maverick, so it's a really nice one for an archetype, I mean for an entrepreneur, right, except that two of the three are not really that interested in money. It's interesting an idea, like all of them are. I do a great, and so you know there are some struggles with that. But I have to do and I know what to focus on to make getting the money easier and growing a business.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's perfect. I love that. I love that. That's an interesting I'm having a moment, so let me ask you this. So we're kind of talking about the money mindset. So as a money breakthrough business coach, you help entrepreneurs build wealth through organization. What are maybe some key strategies or mindset shifts that entrepreneurs can implement to improve their financial well-being?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you said one of them systems set you free. You know, have some systems and it all Starts coming together. So when you have a little bit of structure, you know what to work on and when, when you become aware of the identity, who and how you want to be, you can shed the identities that don't serve you and get in the way, and so that also helps. But the scarcity mindset, you know, when you go from being An employee to being a business owner, you got a shift and become a little more in line with taking a few risks. They can be measured risks, but you got to take risks if you want to run a business. There's no way around it. So how do you start figuring out what is good for you to invest in, what is a good point based on your archetype, that you might put into place that Helps you Get to the next level, yeah, as it were, and how to have an obstruction your business. So you're running, you know, especially when we're solopreneurs or small businesses.
Speaker 1:Oh, true where so many hats?
Speaker 2:and there's gonna be pieces of the puzzle that you don't enjoy doing, and so having some Systems in place, especially around the marketing and the money, helps you Bring everything together, so it becomes easier. You know much you're charging. You know what you're selling Hmm. You know what your clients are. You know what to say to get your clients right. All of a sudden, you're not working on 12 different things, you're working on the one thing serving the client, hmm, and it makes it much smoother and easier to not get distracted by the bright, shiny objects.
Speaker 1:That is such a good point as a solar Prenuer. That's what I am. It's, I will say, what has helped me in the past year is really implementing structures. Yeah, having a day that I do this, a day that I do that, and then just, and then it doesn't matter, that's what I'm doing. I still get, though, bogged down by shiny things. So I do need to kind of work on that, and it sounds like I maybe do some money mindset training on it. Okay, but you know what I mean. You've probably seen it as an entrepreneur like oh, I need to that train. Oh, I should implement that marketing. Oh, I got to do that, that membership group.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the money break through. Business Stuff really lays a foundation. So you have that stuff in, like laid out. Yeah, that's perfect. So then you're not as. Oh no, I have that piece of the puzzle. There may be something new there and I can watch that training or decide on that training from a different perspective. Right, but I don't have to have it. It would be extra or an improvement, or maybe I can let it go and just be aware that it's there.
Speaker 1:I Love that. Oh, let me ask you this Can you maybe share a success story from your work where your guidance led to significant positive changes in an entrepreneur's life or business?
Speaker 2:I'm deciding which one I know that question.
Speaker 1:I'm like I should word it differently. Can you share 15 examples like right?
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think who's had. Okay, so I worked with this mediator who was running her business from her home and had been for a while and used to be a big time lawyer and then switched to mediation so she could work a little bit less and on her own terms and all that, and she Kind of set up her home office. And this was even before COVID. We started and Just working at home, working at the dining room table, not really no more files were Feeling a little less than confident in her ability to run a business versus being a worker, be in a big firm and you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:So All we did was go through her stuff and make an actual office where things had a designated home and she had kind of the outline of her life structure for each day where she would contact clients, she would work with clients, she would do the paperwork, she would do the research, whatever she needed to do. And Within a year she had like doubled her the number of people she was helping and feeling like she was working less and gardening more. Wow, just because she wasn't working in circles anymore, she had a plan and a purpose and was thinking about it differently.
Speaker 2:It was no longer this thing she had to do to bring in a little extra money so she could make ends meet in retirement. It was, oh, I get to build this as big as I want it. And so you know, we just looked at her five essential business systems and set them up. I love that. That is amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so cool. So let me ask you this you're the creator of the streamlined solution. Can you maybe explain what the solution entails and how it helps individuals can connect control and freedom in their lives?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's um Basically a five step program that I do the streamlined. I know this is getting in the weeds a little bit, but there's a system I use with all my clients called the streamlined system. The solution is how I apply it to my business clients really, but it involves dreaming a little bit. So what do you really want? Who do you want to be? Let's figure out what would be a satisfying and meaningful life for you. We do the money mindset, but we also do decluttering and designating the homes and spaces for where the things go. So that can be actual things, or it could be the business systems, like where are you processing your money? Where are you processing your marketing? Then we develop habits so that you use the systems and they work for you instead of against you. Then you get to delight in the results.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's wonderful when people become entrepreneurs. They have great ideas, but then they get overwhelmed by everything that you're responsible for. It's not just the product, it's the marketing, it's the services, it's the taxes, it's everything. It's a lot, and I don't think it's not something that's easy for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a lot of the information out there is either how to set up a very large startup style business or how to be just a consultant. There's very little information for other kinds of services and stuff that's specific. I mean, there's more the last five years than there has been in the last 25 I've been working. It's always like, well, where was that information when I needed it? There is a way of looking at it that by using this structure. That's a flexible, adaptable structure. It doesn't matter what kind of business you're in. It's always going to lead to the same results if you apply it in the ways I suggest, by first figuring out who you want to be and then having a space for each of those things and thinking the system through for what you do. So it's both very repeatable and customizable.
Speaker 1:Which is perfect, which is what you need. I feel like a repeatable system helps you to stay organized and helps you to stay clear in your mind where you're not overwhelmed. So let me ask you this so, in your journey as an entrepreneur, blogger and TV show host, what valuable lessons have you learned about balancing a fulfilling career with personal growth and well-being?
Speaker 2:goodness, this is going to be kind of not contrarian, but in my case I love systems. So anytime I get to help a client I actually really enjoy it and my biggest thing is stopping work not and not busy work, but actually oh, let me investigate this and figure out how it works, or could that improve my situation and my client's situation and work. You know like I just kind of geek out on that stuff. So for me the biggest struggle has been learning to let go of work and then apply my enjoyment of systems to my own life or other things I do, other activities I'm involved in. But there was something else I was going to say and now I can't remember what it was from the phrasing of your question. I don't know, it'll come back.
Speaker 1:Okay, I love it. I mean, I do think it's important, you know, and I like that. I like systems in my personal life, like I like to be organized and I like to have a system and I like to plan out my day and I like that makes me feel fulfilled when people you know when I'm throwing it at. I know sometimes maybe a little more flexible in my life, but it's. It's hard when you're like you have an idea in your mind and then it's like I like that, I like to have an idea and a plan and it's a song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I know. The other thing that's really taught me is to trust my own intuition about things, because I don't know what happened to me earlier this year. I had long COVID. I'm going to blame it on that. So, wow, that's really to deal with. I finally started feeling a little better and I'm like and this is the year I'm going to put all the finishing touches on all the things I've been trying to implement Right, and instead of just doing it, I went and signed up for like 12 new classes to teach me how to do it and I'm like, couple months into the year, going I knew this, I knew it, I knew this. I'm sitting in all these classes going I teach this. I don't know why I signed up for this particular class and it was. I think it was a brain fart and or something to help me realize that I am an expert. Like somehow I forgot during COVID, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But a reminder is good. I would agree with you, even as someone like myself. I'm a spiritual healer and you know I'll sign up for a class and I'm like I already know how to do this. Like, why is it for confidence? Is it just for reassurance? Like, is it to learn another insight? And then I and then I I've stopped signing up for things I pause before I sign up and then I'm like do I really need this, rachel? Yes, you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I now have implemented a system for deciding which classes I'm going to take and when. So, yeah, that helps, that's perfect. But really it was such an eye opener and so enlightening to realize I already had all the pieces of the puzzle Right. I just somehow dropped them under the table for a minute, it's okay.
Speaker 1:COVID causes a lot of fogginess. I want 100% understand that. So let me ask you this Before I ask you the last question if anyone is interested and you know, because you offer a lot of different services if anyone is interested in, you know, reaching out to use booking services, can you tell us a little bit about that and where to go?
Speaker 2:Yeah, everything I do can be found at more than organizednet. I run a free webinar a couple times a month for people. Right now it happens to be the declutter masterclass, so that's a really good way to start. There's the information on sacred money, archetypes and there's. I love organizing paper, so my free offer right now is also the one minute mail solution, which is how to deal with your incoming mail and email and all the information overload.
Speaker 1:That is so important. My goodness, how many different emails do I have to check a day? Wow, I'm signing up for that. I am signing up for that. Yeah, I do. I am Like, can we? Anyway, last question, as we conclude our conversation, we'd like to turn to our listeners. Based on the bio, on your bio and the work that you do, what may be some advice or insights do you have that might help individuals on their own journey towards simplicity, organization and financial empowerment?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the beautiful thing about the way I approach it is there is no correct starting point. So start with what is frustrating you. Where is that major dissatisfaction that every time you open that one cabinet or every time you have to deal with that one activity at work just makes you grit your teeth and cry? Then look at that. Why is that happening? What is the problem? And fix that one thing so that you can always be improving one little step at a time.
Speaker 1:That is such good advice. Tackle the thing that is maybe giving you a lot of stress and I would imagine people wouldn't, and they actually do it. It's not that bad.
Speaker 2:No, Because we really misrepresent or misunderstand how much time things take. So people will say I don't have time to sort my mail and it literally takes 10 seconds. But they or they'll say oh, I don't have time to cook dinner, so I'll just run through the drive-thru as if that takes longer than I mean is faster than heating up a can of soup.
Speaker 1:You know exactly, really, so true or honestly 20 minute meal that's healthier, it's tastier, it's less expensive, it's exactly 100%. Well, miriam, thank you so much for coming on the Spiritual Spotlight series. I look forward to talking to you again in the future. Yeah, I'd love to Thank you so much, rachel. It's been fun.
