#008: w/ Leah Fisch: How she combined Joy + Humor into a lifestyle biz that lets her travel the world while helping clients get organized and live free

Guest Bio:

Leah Fisch is the Principal of Joumor, LLC.

She provides consulting and project management for industries including: finance, real estate, agriculture, media, and healthcare. Leah has worked with dozens of CEO’s, entrepreneurs, and employees all over the US and internationally to reduce anxiety and overwhelm and improve productivity. She specializes in women’s leadership as well as professionals with ADD and other anxiety disorders which interfere with top performance.

In addition, Leah has helped multiple clients create businesses and non-profits, overseeing the creation of the business’s model, putting contracts and regulations in place, and supporting the development of the hiring process.

After doing professional organizing for nearly 4 years, she moved to London in 2005 and received an MSC in Demography from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine while volunteering as Event Coordinator at the Population and Sustainability Network. Upon her return to the US she became certified in Levels I and II of Narrative Therapy, a deconstructionist talk therapy, at the Family Therapy Center in Evanston, IL. She incorporates some of these skills in helping her clients articulate their goals and better understand their difficulties in reaching them.

Leah hosted The Foyer, the only call-in talk radio show about organization in the nation, on WOR radio in NYC. She founded Joumor, her third business, in 2012 and has been expanding the reach of clients and students through products such as Joumor’s Reorganize Yourself Kit and Spotlight, and programs such as CEO Rise, Productivity For YOUR Brain, and The Game of Time.

She has taught Joumor’s methodology to the public in private venues such as We Work and the National Opera Center as well as in academia at John Jay College and Baruch College in NYC.

Leah is a founding member of Green City Challenge, a non-profit that promotes green living in urban areas, and served 2 years as President of her business networking Chapter. She speaks several languages.

Leah lives in Manhattan, NY.

Specialties:

• Infrastructure analysis and growth
• Project management organization
• Value alignment
• Space and time management
• Personal daily productivity
• Career networking

In this particular episode, you will learn:

• How Leah helps clients reorganize their lives from the inside out
• A technique for dealing with procrastination that involves Russion nesting dolls
• Easy hacks to find greater success

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• http://joumor.com/

Transcript (edited for length and clarity):

(Transcript for this episode available only to select private program members)