Community Highlights: Meet Jennifer Vazquez of JV The Coach

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Vazquez

Hi Jennifer , can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
In October of 2016, I moved to Nashville. I finally felt like I’d found the place I could truly call my home. As I was forming this great relationship with my new home, Rich, my first true love and best friend of 25 years, suddenly passed away at the age of 46. This tragic, unexpected episode course adjusted my 35 plus year career path as a singer, songwriter and guitarist to becoming a professional declutterer, organizer and mindset coach. Let me explain about my business before sharing how the deep grief I experienced from losing Rich opened up a beautiful door a few years later which brought music back into my life.

So, I started my business in 2017 as a way to support my music career. Waitressing, bartending and catering had burnt me out. I have always been a self-starter with an entrepreneur’s mindset so I began asking for support from friends and other successful entrepreneurs around what I could do.

After much research and meetings with professors and small business owners in Nashville, I chose to do something I had always been skilled at; decluttering and organizing. I added the mindset coaching aspect into it without even knowing exactly how it would all fit together. Then it hit me as I continued growing my business. The mind and the home are truly interconnected. If one is cluttered, the other will suffer. I know people may immediately think of clutter as just being defined as having too much stuff, but clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. It’s anything that does not support your better self. To take this thought a step further, I’ve found that the key to getting rid of the clutter, particularly in one’s mind, is to first find the root of the problem. Once the root of the problem is spotted, the removal process can effectively begin. Then, one can truly experience a life of calm, clarity and ease. So decluttering, organizing and mindset coaching truly go hand and hand.

If I broke it down in the simplest way, as a declutterer, organizer and mindset coach, I go into people’s homes and guide them out of overwhelm and into action to create calm spaces that are easily accessible for them to maintain. I also help people downsize their items to get them ready for a move in the most seamless way possible. During the process, I provide each person with mindful tools and techniques to keep their spaces as manageable and serene as possible on a daily basis.

As a mindset coach, in particular, I coach people individually or in a workshop environment, to get them unstuck in their life. I take people through a four step process I developed to see where their block is. That is, to see what limiting beliefs and thoughts have been stopping them from truly living a life that they love. I give them tools and techniques to apply to their daily life to create a life they love and choose ON PURPROSE.

Over the past years, I have learned so much about the business I was intuitively inspired to create. The most important factor of my buisness is that I am a mindset coach who helps people get out of overwhelm and straight into action without judgement or blame. My willingness to continue to learn as I go has given me a career that I continue to be excited about.

My clients have become my greatest teachers. Observing their ways of being and adjusting the way I do each job to fit their needs is the key to my continuing to grow a business model that truly brings gentle transfomation and joy to every person I work with. I use every aspect of myself when working with my clients which I’d say benefits everyone involved. Every single client becomes part of a special family of bright lights. They have all truly done the work to change the course of their lives in many ways. The communities I have become a part of have aligned me with so many other people in need of my guidance and support around decluttering their minds and homes. My goal is to keep spreading my light around as far and wide as it can go.

I am in the works of self-publishing a book I just completed writing. There’s still much work to be done. I hope to get it out by the end of 2025. It’s a tools and techniques book that helps people get out of their own way, each and every day, and live a life they love; free of self-sabotage.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
As I mentioned in the last question, the roughest part of this journey has been my unraveling the deep grief that came from the sudden loss of Rich, while also wrapping my head around shifting gears and course adjusting my 35 plus year career path as a singer, songwriter and guitarist to becoming a professional declutterer, organizer and mindset coach.

Let me share what happened after finding out on October 9, 2018 that Rich passed away. I was taking a walk in Shelby Park in East Nashville when I got a call from Rich’s best friend telling me this horrible news. I couldn’t comprehend what I was being told. It made no sense. After processing it with Rich’s best friend, I drove back home, went into my bedroom, stood still and started crying. My heart never hurt so much. I couldn’t stop crying. I felt so confused and in shock. This didn’t make sense.

The first few years after Richard’s passing, I couldn’t pick up a guitar. I couldn’t even listen to music. It was too much. My heart couldn’t handle it without crying. So, I stayed focused on just making money through catering and meaningless jobs to keep my head above water. I hadn’t yet even considered that the decluttering, organizing and mindset coaching business I’d started would ever become a full-time career. It was an idea I had put out there and was going with the flow, learning as I’d go. I can’t even say I missed playing music or writing. It was like my entire passion for creativity vanished. I lost hope, drive and my purpose. I just woke up each morning knowing I was on that rollercoaster ride again and I just had to pray there was an ending to this one.

Over those years, I wrote three songs and they were all about Rich. Then, as I kept showing up for my life, going to grief therapy and grief groups, the rollercoaster ride started to become less bumpy. I was still on it, but it was manageable. Then, I was inspired to record one of the three songs I’d written called, “You Made Me See.” Phil Solem (The Rembrandts) produced it and I’m so grateful for that. I also did a music video for it, which was directed and edited by Cee Cee Debut and filmed by Wonder Machine Media. The song is about moving forward in grace as grief continues to remain within me. That project was released in July 2022. It’s on YouTube under @JenniferVazquezMusic. The song can also be listened to on Apple Music and at JenniferVazquez.com.

Now, as for the biggest career struggles I’ve faced, I’d say it was around trying to build a business while not knowing what I was doing. I had to figure it all out as I went. I have a very strong faith in something greater than myself, so to be honest, I was walking through each day on faith and intuition. I would just listen to my gut and let the next door open. It’s not been a comfortable journey in any way but it has paid off in so many ways and it continues to do so.

The other struggle I faced arrived at the beginning of my career shift, which was during the pandemic. It was then that I decided to bite the bullet, go off unemployment and see if this decluttering, organizing and mindset coaching business could financially support my life. It was definitely scary, but that leap of faith decision has made all the difference. It’s is paying off every day, as the doors continue to open in ways I never could have imagined or planned them to.

I’d also say that being a business owner means creating your own system where you balance your day to day agenda. It’s crucial to fit in time for learning, building your social media platform, being in environments where you can share what you do to let people who need your services know you’re there, as well as attending networking groups and events regularly. Once that system starts working smoothly and you have a regular client base, the challenge then becomes creating space for self-care and grounding activities that keep you healthy and focused on your goals. There’s no one telling you anything, so it’s up to you to keep reaching out and asking for the support you need as your business grows. ALL of these things are very confronting and scary. None of it is exactly fun to do in the beginning. But as you continue to see your progress, you realize all of it had to be done.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
I’m Jennifer, aka JV The Coach, a professional declutterer, organizer & mindset coach based in the greater Nashville area. In short, I declutter minds and homes.

I help people, who are feeling stuck in their mind and /or home, get out of overwhelm and into action in both areas. Together, my client and I declutter and organize their mind and home so that calm, clarity and ease can return to their lives.

I work with clients ranging from 27 to 85 years of age to declutter any and every area of their house, as well as home office spaces, garages, storage units; on site and off.

If I broke it down in the simplest way, as a declutterer, organizer and mindset coach, I go into people’s homes and guide them out of overwhelm and into action to create calm spaces that are easily accessible for them to maintain. I also help people downsize their items to get them ready for a move in the most seamless way possible. During the process, I provide each person with mindful tools and techniques to keep their spaces as manageable and serene as possible on a daily basis.

As a mindset coach, in particular, I coach people individually or in a workshop environment, to get them unstuck in their life. I take people through a four step process I developed to see where their block is. That is, to see what limiting beliefs and thoughts have been stopping them from truly living a life that they love. I give them tools and techniques to apply to their daily life to create a life they love and choose ON PURPROSE.

Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
Coaching a person, getting them to see their blocks and then slowly guiding them towards letting go of their limiting beliefs – through decluttering their mind and home. Then, from that, having them see their true worth and giving them tools and techniques to help them live a life filled with joy and purpose.

Why? Because life is so much better when we all see our true light, what we were brought here to do and who we were meant to be. 🙂

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jvthecoach.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jvthecoach/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jvthecoach/
• Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GXa9iOx5YE
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jvthecoach