Meet the Chaos to Calm Summit Speakers

Meet Your Host

Deanna Yates

podcast host and wannabe minimalist

Deanna Yates is the host of the popular podcast, Wannabe Clutter Free, where she helps busy families learn how to let go of the stuff holding them back so they can stop spending their entire weekend cleaning house and start enjoy more time together.

Deanna's positive attitude and down to earth nature has propelled the Wannabe Clutter Free podcast to the top 1% of podcasts and has reached over 1.5 Million listens. With expert guests, and tips and tricks from her own experiences she has helped women from all over the world discover the freedom that comes from living clutter-free.

When she's not helping clients realize their dreams, you can find her paddle boarding, searching for the tastiest breakfast burrito, or balancing her love of world travel with her love of snuggling up on the couch.

Meet your Speakers

Adrienne Bishop

Life Coach for Highly Sensitive Parents

Adrienne Bishop is a Life and Parent Coach specializing in helping overwhelmed and anxious highly sensitive moms parent their highly sensitive kids with confidence and without losing themselves in parenting (or yelling all the time).


She is a Certified Integrative Life Coach and Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator who loves helping moms unshame and process their feelings so they can feel free, at peace and confident and love themselves more.


Alicia Cohen

Productivity Expert

Alicia Cohen is a wife and homeschooling mom. She is also a business owner and blogger. Through her business, Alicia Cohen Designs, she teaches busy moms intentional planning, effective productivity, and high-impact mindset shifts to increase peace, calm, and confidence in their lives while also being focused on what matters most.


Alicia built her business based on her own journey of overcoming her overwhelmed and frazzled life -- what she calls the "hamster wheel marathon" -- and now teaches the methods that she discovered (and uses personally) to other women.


Ali Wenzke

Author of The Art of Happy Moving

Ali Wenzke is the author of "The Art of Happy Moving: How to Declutter, Pack and Start Over While Maintaining Your Sanity and Finding Happiness" and a real estate broker with Compass in Winnetka, IL.


After moving 10 times in 11 years, Ali's decluttering technique is "imagine you're moving". It works wonders.


Alli Williams

Money Expert

Alli’s work has been featured on Business Insider, Nerdwallet, Channel 7 News, and more. Alli has her MBA in Finance and lives in South Carolina with her husband and 2 sons. She spends her time at football games (Go Gamecocks!) and with a Starbucks latte in her hand.


Amanda Jefferson

Tech Whisperer | Podcaster | Speaker

After 20 years of trying to keep up with the “shoulds,” Amanda left it all behind to help others learn to let go of what isn't serving them.


She's the owner of Indigo Organizing, the creator of the Organized Every Day™ online course, and one of the world's first KonMari consultants.


A TEDx speaker and co-host of the Good Enough-Ish podcast, Amanda has been featured in Real Simple, the Wall Street Journal and Better Homes & Garden, among others.


Emily McDermott

Decluttering Coach

Emily McDermott is a wife, mother of two energetic boys, and simplicity seeker.


She is also the host of the top 1% globally ranked podcast Moms Overcoming Overwhelm, where she helps moms declutter their homes, heads, and hearts.


Emily enjoys writing poetry, dancing, and eating peanut butter out of the jar.


Deanna Yates

Podcast Host and Wannabe Minimalist

Deanna Yates is the founder and CEO of Wannabe Clutter Free and the host of the popular podcast, the Wannabe Minimalist Show, where she helps busy families learn how to let go of the stuff holding them back so they can enjoy more time together, stop spending their weekends cleaning house, and wake up excited for the day ahead.


Hunter Clarke-Fields

Mindful Mama Mentor

Hunter Clarke-Fields is the host of the Mindful Parenting Podcast ( Top 0.5% podcast ), global speaker, #1 bestselling author of “Raising Good Humans” and “Raising Good Humans Every Day,” Mindfulness Meditation teacher and creator of the Mindful Parenting Course and Teacher Training.


Hunter has over 20 years of experience in meditation and yoga practices and has taught mindfulness to thousands worldwide.Her work has appeared in CNBC Make It, Parade, Motherhood Moment, The Hollywood Digest, along with NBC Boston, ABC Portland, NBC Milwaukee, and CBS South Bend, Kansas Public Radio, and many podcasts.


She is the mother of two active daughters, who challenge her everyday to hone her craft!


Ingrid Jansen & Lesley Spellman

Professional Organisers

They are also no strangers to public speaking both at conferences and home improvement shows. They contribute regularly to TV, radio and the media and have been featured in The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Good Housekeeping and the BBC.


Janet M. Taylor

Professional Organizer

Janet wears multiple hats, serving as the host and producer of the acclaimed "Got Clutter! Get Organized!" podcast, ranked #1 in Organizing and Decluttering. Additionally, she contributes her expertise to Peirce College as a valued member of the Advisory Board for the Business Division.


Jeannie Stith

Founder/CEO of Color Guru

Jeannie is a mother of two girls in Arden, Delaware. You can most often find her playing in the creek with her daughters, salsa dancing, or watering her current collection of 55 house plants.


Jenny Layton

Organizing and Time Management Coach

Jenny Layton is a leading expert in organization, time management, and mindset. It is her passion to help busy, ambitious women accomplish their goals without sacrificing what matters most.


She is a regular guest on local lifestyle television, and her signature systems and programs have transformed the lives of thousands of women. You can learn more about the works she does on the Life Organized podcast, or at www.thehappygal.com.


She lives in Utah with her husband and five kids and spends her free time with them travelling and in the outdoors.


Kara Livingston & Nicole Boynton

Co-Founders

From high school friends going through each other’s closets for outfits to wear to the next party to mom life friends going through their kids’ closets to keep their growing kids clothed.


Kara & Nicole have been friends through many ages and stages of life, navigating high school, college, married life and now motherhood. They started blogging, podcasting and making planners as the duo Simply Whole Moms. After talking to a lot of mothers, one thing they discovered is the power of moms to completely change the world.Somewhere along the journey this idea of Hand Me Up came to be, and they knew they could make an impact in the world of textile overwhelm and the fast fashion industry through secondhand kids' clothes.


Kerri Thompson

Certified Your Enneagram Coach and Priority-Based Productivity Coach

Kerri Thompson helps overwhelmed women create sustainable rhythms and routines based on their unique personality so that they can have more peace, priority-based productivity, and purpose.


She’s a wife and mom to two children.


As a Certified Enneagram Coach, she helps women discover the strengths in their unique personalities to experience personal growth and have the confidence to take the next step towards thriving. This strong foundation leads into strategies to transform their day-to-day and gain the confidence and skills to live their dream live and accomplish goals.


Risa Williams, LMFT

Therapist and Time Management Consultant

Risa Williams is an award-winning book author, a psychotherapist and a time management consultant.


She's the author of five self-help books: The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit, The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit and The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit (JKP Books), The Procrastination Playbook (coming in 2024) and The Motivation Mindset Journal.


She's the host of the popular productivity podcast, The Motivation Mindset, which features time management tools. She's been featured along with the tools from her books in Forbes Magazine, Wandermind, Choosing Therapy, Business Insider, Therapist Magazine, HuffPost, Wired, Breathe Magazine, Psych Today, Best Life, Marie Claire, and Real Simple.


Toni-Ann Mayembe

Podcast Host

Toni-Ann is a full-time dentist, a reservist in the Navy, and the podcaster at Real Happy Mom.


She is a wife and a boy mom that understands the struggle of juggling work and home. When she is not working, she enjoys watching WWE and watching stand up comedy.

...more to come!

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