Today we’d like to introduce you to Taryn Mclean
Hi Taryn, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
In 2014, Caroline Smith and I met for coffee and two hours later, Help You Dwell was born. What began as the two of us helping folks love where they live has now grown to a team of 28 incredibly talented women with years of experience and lots of compassion serving families and individuals in their homes through professional organizing, packing and unpacking for moves, holiday decorating, and walking with families through the downsizing or loss of a loved one process.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
The journey of Help You Dwell from February 2014 to today has been mostly a road full of beautiful surprises. We never dreamed that the little company would grow to employ so many women who love what they get to do or that we would meet clients who then became friends, but that is what has happened.
So many mentors, business partners, and even clients have supported us in countless ways with referrals, ideas, and advice. The biggest challenge in growing the business is that neither Caroline or I had any business background. It was lots of on-the-job training. Our mentor, Bruce Charles, has played an integral role for us as we’ve grown. His business experience and understanding of numbers gave us insight on where to spend our money, how much we could afford as we grew our team, and he’s helped us connect with other small businesses to grow as well.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Help You Dwell?
We help you love where you live. No matter the size of your home or your season of life, Help You Dwell offers services to bring order and peace to any space in your home or workplace, through professional organizing, the moving, downsizing, or loss of a loved one process, and with holiday decor and event planning.
We offer customized in-home or virtual consultations where we listen to our client’s specific needs and then create a personalized action plan to achieve his/her goals. Clients can then use that action plan to do the work themselves or hire our team to do any part of it that they would like assistance with. These consults are conducted for all our services including organizing, the moving process, loss of a loved one or downsizing, and holiday design or event planning.
What sets our team apart from others is our experienced team of 28 professional organizers with unique skill sets to meet any client’s specific needs. Our team is compassionate, patient, resourceful, and efficient as we organize spaces in homes or pack and unpack for clients during the moving process.
Over the last 11 years of serving clients in the East Tennessee area, we have been fortunate to receive feedback from clients that has allowed us to refine our skills and become experts in our field. Nothing brings our team more joy, once a job is complete, than knowing our clients can enjoy the space they live in without the stress and shame of clutter or sleepless nights trying to prepare for a move.
Knoxville is our home and our relationships with the clients we serve, the small businesses we partner with, and the non-profits we donate to and volunteer with are very important to us. Having the privilege of donating over $13K of funds and gift cards to local non-profits and schools, as well as over 600 hours of volunteer service these last 11 years, is one of our biggest motivating factors as we continue to grow Help You Dwell to serve for families and individuals.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
We love to collaborate with small businesses, realtors, estate planning services, senior care services, moving companies, and non-profits of all kinds. Whether that is through co-hosting events, volunteering together, or other ideas, we believe that partnerships are an integral part of a healthy small business ecosystem and we can learn so much from each other.
Our relationships with small, local non-profits is incredibly important to HYD. Being able to connect our client’s donated items with specific individuals in our area who need them is a big win for us and our clients.
Our team also enjoys teaching organizing, holiday decor or moving/downsizing workshops to community groups, at lunch-and-learns for businesses, and on the How-to Stage at the Dogwood House & Garden Show.
This past year we had the privilege of partnering with several small businesses to teach workshops together in their spaces. We love to share tips, advice, and ideas on loving where you live, how to prepare to downsize, and so much more!
The best way to support the work we can to do is to share about our services with others, thank you so much!
Pricing:
- $125 In-home, customized consultation
- $70/hr per organizer
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.helpyoudwell.com
- Instagram: @helpyoudwell
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helpyoudwell
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@HelpYouDwell
- Other: info@helpyoudwell.com
