MOVING FORWARD MATTERS Ottawa Home Transition Specialists
When it comes to helping people move forward in their lives, especially during overwhelming challenges, Pierrette Raymond has been a leader and an advocate for those wanting to move through life’s major changes.
She started Moving Forward Matters to help families and individuals who are faced with a transition that requires a specialized team of caring and professionally trained experts. As a certified home transition specialist herself, Pierrette and her team coordinate every step of decluttering a home, downsize or re-size of a home, moving or relocating a loved one to a retirement community or long-term care facility or helping a family prepare a loved one’s home for its sale following a death.
With a background in Psychology and Education and subsequent training in death, dying, bereavement, funeral services, grief recovery and certification as a Certified Relocation & Transition Specialist, Pierrette is a woman who understands the challenges you face following major life changes including death, loss and aging.
She has been described as compassionate, caring, having a huge heart and always working passionately and diligently for her clients.
1-800-GOT-JUNK?
Since July 2000, I have been operating the Ottawa franchise of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? with my business partner, Luc. This professional and industry-leading business has helped thousands of families and businesses responsibly recycle, donate and dispose of what they no longer need, use or want.
For us at 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, it’s Earth Day every day. In addition, we see this business as a way to help people move forward in their lives. Many of our clients are going through transitional periods in their lives and they need the support of a caring and professional company. Either they are going through a separation or divorce, have lost a loved one, are moving or are cleaning out the old to bring in the new, we at 1-800-GOT-JUNK? understand their needs.
With Pierrette’s professional business acumen and specialized training, she is the woman leading the way to living life more freely and authentically by removing or reducing the physical elements in one’s life that is potentially holding them back.
PREVIOUS BUSINESSES
Women Moving Forward/Successful Women International
In October 2002, Pierrette founded Women Moving Forward to help herself and women like her live life to the fullest while taking care of themselves. For more than six years, women met in person and online to discuss topics relating to health & fitness, business & career, humanitarism & community, family and fun. Pierrette was the host of her own internet radio show whereby she interviewed leading women from around the world on topics that would motivate and inspire women to step out of their proverbial comfort zones and try new things. Through her work at Women Moving Forward, Pierrette also provided a yearly retreat for women where they could be adventurous and try new things while taking the time to reflect and nourish their soul.
Without the help of social media, Women Moving Forward (later changed to Successful Women International) grew to more than 2000 members in more than five different countries.
Breakaway2Success
Because of Pierrette’s experience and expertise in the fields of business and personal growth, she is often asked to speak to entrepreneurs, corporations, associations and community groups. Under the banner of Breakaway2Success, Pierrette has spoken to and inspired thousands of people to look at their lives through the lens of possibility to create the future of their dreams.
Her further studies in death, dying and bereavement and the numerous and varied personal losses she has had to experience throughout her life and most recently have expanded her depth and knowledge to the point where she is a leading voice in helping people move forward professionally and personally.
The Pampered Chef
This is when the entrepreneurial bug bit Pierrette. In 1997, Pierrette attended a Pampered Chef home cooking show. At that time, she was a substitute teacher who was raising her two children at home. When she saw the products for the first time, she knew she wanted to own them. What better way to do that then start a business showing her family and friends these wonderful cooking tools.
For three-and-a-half years, Pierrette sold the Pampered Chef kitchen tools through home demonstrations and made her way to being one of the top in the company. She recruited and trained more than twenty-five women to own their own businesses and she also earned two incentive trips – one to Hawaii and the other to the Dominican Republic. Her additional income and success allowed her and her husband to move from the small northern Ontario town of Timmins to the nation’s capital of Ottawa to start their very successful business called 1-800-GOT-JUNK?.
