Order Your Life works with clients in the Washington, DC metro area and virtually around the world to help them conquer their clutter, go paper-less, manage money and moves, and make life simpler. Our clients range from age 27 to 97 and include busy executives, parents with households to manage, solopreneurs, and seniors who want to either age in place or downsize. We serve the Washington DC Metro area, but are happy to travel if needed, and can do much of our digital organizing work virtually as well. We abide by the codes of ethics of NAPO and AADMM and are proud to be entering our 10th year in business.
Penny Catterall
Penny Bryant Catterall is the Owner and Founder of Order Your Life, LLC. While Penny was born in Washington DC, she was lucky enough to spend her almost her entire childhood growing up in Africa and Asia as the daughter of a US diplomat. Frequent family moves (every 2-3 years), which involved packing up entire households and starting over at new schools, gave her an early start on developing the social and organizing skills which she now uses daily in her profession, as well as giving her an open and engaged outlook on the world.
Grady Catterall
Grady is Penny’s husband of 30 years, and the reason she knows her way around an Excel spreadsheet. A graduate of Harvard and Johns Hopkins, Grady spent over 20 years working as a health insurance actuary. As penance — OK, not really — he now helps clients navigate their medical claims, as well as providing bookkeeping services and handling other “spreadsheet intensive” tasks to help our clients get financially organized. He also helps with furniture moving, junk hauling, caretaking, and any other odd jobs that come up, because after all those years in the actuarial field, he now realizes there’s more to life (and organizing) than just crunching numbers.
Sue Crow
Sue Crow has moved house a total of eight times in the past 18 years and has become an expert at organizing belongings into all different shape and size houses. After relocating to Bethesda from England, Sue spent the majority of her time restoring the house and garden of her home in Westmoreland Hills in Bethesda. Now she wants to focus on using the skills she acquired to helping others bringing order to their lives.
Sue’s family has worked in the antiques business for over three decades and brings an appreciation for treasured objects. Since she can remember, Sue has always helped friends, colleagues and relatives free their houses and homes of clutter, so it is a great privilege for her to work as a team member for Order Your Life in this area professionally.
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
Little tasks can become overwhelming when there are too many of them. With that in mind, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick has joined the Order Your Life team to help clients organize for peace of mind.
After graduating from American University, Elizabeth began work as a program manager implementing complex contracts for some of the world’s largest multinational firms. It required diplomacy, creative problem solving, team work and an understanding of the bottom line. But wanderlust called and she took a sabbatical to see more of world. She then returned to Washington, DC to marry her native born husband and was hired to turn around the branch of a temporary staffing office. Meeting people where they were in life and giving them practical skills and work experience set them on a path for success. She stepped out of the workforce to be home and raise two children. During that time she volunteered both in school and in the community. As the kids grew more independent, she took time to become certified as a mediator in Montgomery County to help students, families and community members find peaceful conflict resolution. In addition to volunteering as a CRCMC mediator, she works part-time doing events for Politics and Prose, an independent bookstore in D.C.
Amy Nadel
Amy Nadel is experienced with Excel and other spreadsheet programs, as well as cloud and external disk storage, and is an expert at helping others make sense of their cluttered hard drives. Amy honed her organizational skills as President of the Westbrook Elementary School PTA, Treasurer of the Westmoreland Hills Garden Club, and in a variety of other volunteer and fundraising positions. Amy graduated from Mount Holyoke College and worked at a consulting firm, before leaving the workforce to raise her family. With her two daughters now in college, Amy spends her time organizing a lifetime’s worth of photographs, recipes, spreadsheets, financial records, emails, scanned documents, and anything else that can be stored on her laptop.
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