In this video, we want to share a little bit more about ourselves. We want you to get to know us a little bit better. So my name is Emily Hasegawa. I am originally from Spain from Barcelona. I was raised there. In 2008.

I left Spain and I went on a backpacking trip. That was a trip that was very, very inspiring for me, because I had to pack everything that I own in a backpack. And I traveled for like over three years. I started in India, and I moved my way to New Zealand when I was leaving, and that's when I met Samantha. So we moved back to Canada in 2012. And then we were both very passionate about helping people get organized.

So we created our own business. And since then, we've been able to take full full control of our lives. And we just love what we do. And that's why we share courses like this one with you because organizing is our passion and we have seen amazing results in our own lives. And we feel inspired to share all DOD we audit on with you. And my name is Samantha Kristofferson.

I'm the other half of kW professional organizers. Like Emilio, my story is very similar, but very different. So in 2007, I graduated from University of Waterloo. And after that, and I fell into what some may say, a very long period of depression for about four years, I worked locally, but basically, everyday didn't really know what to do with my time and just lived at the same story over and over and over again. So after recognizing that I had a substance abuse problem, I was an alcoholic. I spent all of my money on those types of things and really didn't understand that that was a big contributor to my depression.

I bought a one way ticket to New Zealand and with my backpack, everything that I thought I would need for a few years living there, I put it inside and started living a life that kind of felt a little bit more like me. As soon as I got off the plane, I said I was allergic to alcohol to anyone who met me, so nobody offered to me or No one assumed that I drank as much as I did in the past. And although it was an up and down roller coaster for me, I was able to move past that and become sober and start living a lifestyle that felt more like me. So lots of different experiences and meeting lots of people being being inspired by people. And just being away from what I was stuck in before really helped me move forward. So when I met Emilio, and we came to Canada and started this business, it just felt right, and everybody that we were helping, it felt really good.

And the work that we were doing, we were learning more and more about why people have things, why we keep the things around us and how it's not necessarily a determining factor of our happiness. Because I don't think I was ever really happier than when I was just with a backpack with those things on my back. Yeah, for me, it was a very eye opening experience. Why? Because we were both able to experience so many different kinds of lifestyles. We both did couchsurfing if you don't know what that is.

That's an international community of people who are opening their homes to other travelers, and you just basically stay in their homes for free. We have done both sides, we have hosted a lot of people and we have served their country their beds, and stayed with a lot of people. We essentially so just so nobody thinks that that doesn't sound like it sounds, it's an exchange. So generally if you were staying with someone you would be exchanging something whether that be making a meal for them going out and visiting a part of their city spending time learning, not just show up at someone's house, sleep and then leave. And and there was always never any money involved. Nothing like that involved.

It's a really cool experience because everybody who is in the community, the majority of the people are very open minded, and they just want to help and they have been travelers themselves so they know how hard it is sometimes not to have a place to crash on to sleep, and also a summer such as, like exchange your experiences, stories, cook together, do activities together. To show the CD, just do fun things. It's just like a just have fun. So that was really eye opening because we got to be in their lives for a period of time a few days. And after being with so many people, so many different kinds of lifestyles, it was really eye opening. The fact that you got to see so many different ways of living and what people value what's important