Professional Home & Small-Business Organizer in Dunwoody, GA — Serving Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville & Peachtree Corners

I'm Jana — born and raised in Atlanta, mom of twins, and the person your friend probably texted to ask which bin to buy at Target.

Looking back, I think I've been quietly training for this work my whole life. In every retail and customer service job I had as a young adult, I'd quietly reorganize the back-of-house and rewrite their processes — not because anyone asked, but because seeing a system not work felt physically uncomfortable to me.

Then I spent seven years as an elementary school teacher, mostly working with ESOL students. Teaching kids who were learning English while learning everything else taught me how to meet a person exactly where they are — without judgment, without rushing, with whatever tools work for that specific brain. I bring that same heart into every home I walk into.

After that, I stayed home with my twins — and that's where the organizing really started. Between the constant changes my kids were going through and the sheer volume of stuff small humans accumulate, I had to figure out how to make our home as functional as possible just to keep my head above water. I couldn't drown in clutter. So I built systems. I rebuilt them when they stopped working. I learned what actually holds up in a busy household and what just looks pretty for a week before falling apart. This is where I got my real training — not in a classroom, but in my own home, every single day.

Hey Friend started almost by accident. Once my kids were a little older, I worked as a personal assistant through My Panda (short for "My Personal Assistant Nextdoor"), and I'd jump on every organization request that came in. My clients there kept saying the same thing: "You need to start your own organizing business." Then my husband — who'd watched me reorganize our own home for the joy of a good "after" photo — said the same thing. "What would you have me do as the CEO of our household?" I asked him. "Start your own business," he said. So I did.

A lot of my instincts come from my mom, who can literally do anything — she once refinished our hardwood floors (I'll never forget trying to help her wrestle that sander up the stairs) and built a recessed shelf in our wall just because the space was there. She showed me that homes are puzzles to be solved — that there's always more space, always a smarter system, always a creative way to make a room actually work. That's the lens I bring to your space.

Here's the thing I think a lot of organizers don't say out loud: I'm not naturally tidy. I had to train myself into it. As I've gotten older, I realized that clutter was costing me peace — and the only way out was to build systems that worked for the way my brain actually operates, not the way Pinterest told me it should. That's why my work doesn't look like a magazine spread. It looks like real life, beautifully sorted.

Outside of Hey Friend, I play guitar and sing in a band called Sassfolk. Fun fact: if you hear music in the background of my Instagram videos, that's usually me double-dipping with Sassfolk. I'm also raising twins, and I genuinely love a good before-and-after photo. If you ever wonder whether I'll judge your space — please don't. I've seen it all. I've lived it all. I'm just here to help you find your way to a home that finally feels like yours. 💛

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