Emilio Jose Garcia

Born: Barcelona, Spain

Languages Spoken: Spanish, Catalan, and English

Short Biography

Emilio is a playful & passionate teacher, speaker, & coach. His mission is to make intentional living simple, fun, & available to every person on the planet. He is the co-founder of KW Professional Organizers. Emilio’s teachings are simple, inspiring, and actionable. Join Emilio live every week, enroll in one of his courses, join his circle called “Your Thriving Lifestyle”, or book a 1-on-1 call with him.

Long Biography

Emilio has always been a magical human. From the age of 16 he was seeking answers for his family’s shadows by reading Dr. Wayne Dyer’s Your Erroneous Zones.  He won the lottery when he was a young adult that allowed him to attend trades school instead of serving in Spain’s Military. Because of his education he knows things like how to build an elevator, how plumbing works, how to pre-wire homes, how to make anything out of wood, and much more.

Emilio’s life has always been heavily influenced by his relationships with others. He is very much the human who prefers deep connection over superficial conversation. He prefers to play sports, of all kinds, as oppose to watching them. As he matured in his hometown of Barcelona, Spain he filled his evenings and weekends with volunteering with the blind, rock climbing in the mountains, rollerblading down extreme hills, mountain biking, salsa dancing, playing beach volleyball, and going for adventures whenever time allowed.

But despite your first impressions or judgements of reading this information – life wasn’t easy for Emilio. Emilio was learning how to survive and thrive in a challenging environment. His sister, Lidia, became diagnosed with Schizophrenia at the age of 16.  In and around the same time Emilio’s father, Emilio, also was diagnosed with being Bi-polar.

Over years and years of continued learning and un-learning, Emilio has come to a beautiful place of empathy, compassion, and wisdom. If you are new to learning about Emilio Jose or KW Professional Organizers – he co-wrote a semi-biographical book in 2017 called A Recipe for an Extraordinary Life: Organization | Self Care | Minimalism. The book details more of his story and his discovery of organization, self care and minimalism.

Becoming a parent in 2019 has had a most profound impact on his life. His discovery of unconditional love, childhood wounds, heart-swelling pride, and soul crushing frustration has aided him forward in his journey of healing trauma. He is awakening to gifts he never knew he possessed like: Tapping, Meditation, Story Telling, Unicycling, Juggling, Flamenco guitar playing, Podcasting, IMAGO dialogue communication skills, and so much more.

In 2023, Emilio intentionally put a pause on his life in Canada to take a sabbatical year with his family. Journeying back to Barcelona, Spain to live for 365 days to give the gift of language, culture, and time to his daughter, friends, and family. Stay tuned for the ever-evolving shifts that Emilio is making by joining his weekly events on Insight Timer.

Samantha Kristoferson

Born: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Languages Spoken: English and Spanish

Short Biography

Samantha is a direct, but compassionate teacher, speaker, yoga instructor & artist. Her mission is to heal herself and share her learnings through events and music. She is co-founder of KW Professional Organizers and the coordinator of “The Studio: a healing place” in Waterloo, Ontario.

Long Biography

For years, due to her inner saboteur, Samantha has been in hiding from the person she really wanted to be. The saboteur would whisper that she couldn’t possibly be an artist.  However, after renting herself a studio space in 2022 and giving herself permission to try to embody her inner child the results are in! She’s definitely an artist.

At the age of 38 she started taking weekly piano lessons and completed 300+ hours of Yoga teacher trainings. Samantha accredits her accomplishments to her bullet journal, the unconditional support of her women’s circles, parents, partner, friends, family, community, guides, ancestors, the four directions, the land, the water, and her own spirit.

Samantha’s magical life has seen her embody many roles and characters each with their own lessons and gifts. Samantha is a sexual assault survivor and works from a trauma informed approach. She has also been alcohol-free since 2011. Currently, she is using her sabbatical year to perform music and expand her “chops” on the guitar, hand drum, piano, and loop station. To stay informed of her progress you can tune in to her Youtube channel.

Our Story 

We are Samantha and Emilio, the husband-and-wife duo behind KW Professional Organizers (KWPO). Since 2012 we have been helping people transform their lives through organizing their belongings. Our goal is to share proven organization strategies to help you create more time, space, and energy – to do the things that you love and create your desired lifestyle.

Emilio, Eva, and Samantha

We met in 2011 at the Botanical Gardens in Wellington, New Zealand, after traveling for a few years around the world with just a backpack. Emilio was a waiter and Samantha was eating carrot cake and sipping tea with a friend. Through this fortunate coincidence, our fruitful partnership began and we have been together ever since.

In 2012, we came back to Canada and decided to take full control of our lives and our time. We decided to pursue our passion for helping others eliminate frustrations, struggles, and wasted time.

Using our experiences and skills from travelling the world, and constant personal and professional development, we have helped many clients, workshop attendants and students since 2012. We would love to guide you to living a more meaningful and happy life.

We harness the power of organization, minimalism, and self-Care to help you find your own “Recipe for an Extraordinary Life”.

We live in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with our little daughter, Eva and our lovely cat, Negrito. We are business and life partners. We love traveling, anything outdoors, playing squash and spending time with friends and family, and we are always learning and getting inspired by others.

We are real people, too. We also face many challenges and know not everything in life is nice and easy. We have found a way to make life work for us, and we want to share this with you so that you can also create what you want to see in your life.

You Are Not Alone!

We are here to guide you through the process of organizing and support your needs. Many of our clients have told us about their challenges: 

“I feel overwhelmed!”

“I don’t have the time!”

“I don’t know how to get started!”

Imagine how much better life could be if you could eliminate these frustrations and create more time to do the things that you want to do. How would you feel? What would you do?

We have seen so many transformations, and we know that it’s possible! You can do this, and we are here to help you get it done.

Read more about us below!

Who Are Emilio and Samantha?

Travelling built our sense of gratitude and perspective

We both had very different reasons for leaving our comfort zone to travel and try something new – but the outcome was very similar. We both went through a journey of personal discovery, and we did it through being exposed to many other different cultures and lifestyles.

Our journeys around the world helped us develop a deep sense of gratitude and great awareness about the amount of control we have over our time and lives.

We believe in you!

 It’s never too late for a fresh start. It doesn’t matter where you are right now.

 We can’t wait to see your transformation.

Ready to Start Your Journey?