Katherine Picott
Katherine is a professional home organizer and certified KonMari consultant with over 5 years of experience helping clients get their homes in order. She launched her own professional organizing business, Tidy Milso, in the summer of 2020, to help reorient those feeling overwhelmed with both clutter and disorganization in their homes.
Highlights:
- Featured in Voyage Baltimore, Columbia Life Magazine, Military Families Magazine, Goop Magazine, and The Spruce.
- She has also been a podcast guest on "Moments with an MEO", "The Life Curated", and "Plastic Couch."
- 2021: Guest speaker at the How-to Summit, a conference for organizers by organizers.
- 2022: Guest speaker at the Independent Wellness Summit, a week-long conference for military and first responder spouses.
- Volunteers at the Generations Family Success Center of New Jersey to provide families with tools through her monthly workshops to help them get and stay organized.
Experience
Katherine has been organized for as long as she can remember—her mom even kept her school notebooks to show her future grandchildren how immaculate the pages were. She is often asked what spaces she likes to organize, and to be honest, she can’t pick a favorite. She enjoys helping others transform their lives—and the look on her client's face at the end of a tidy session, which she says is the "avocado on toast for me."
While Katherine launched her business in June of 2020, Tidy Milso was in the making long before that. In February 2017, her husband went away to basic training. With motivation from the book, "Live More Want Less" by Mary Carlomagno and in pursuit of staying busy, she reorganized and decluttered their home. The name of her business, Tidy Milso, is a nod to that experience, as "milso" stands for Military Significant Other in the military community.
In 2019, she stumbled upon "Tidying up with Marie Kondo" on Netflix, and everything clicked. To date, she has logged over 500 hours of organizing with her clients using Marie Kondo’s KonMari method.
Clients seek her services when they are feeling overwhelmed with both the clutter and disorganization in their spaces, often due to their busy schedules and absence of time management. These clients desire a gentle nudge and an accountability push to get the ball rolling.
Education
Katherine graduated from Old Dominion University with honors and earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications. In September 2020, she completed her KonMari Certification Course, and in August 2021, she became a Certified KonMari Consultant.
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