Daily Inspiration: Meet Renee Edsall

Today we’d like to introduce you to Renee Edsall.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?

Our story starts in Florida, raising my children with my first husband who was very ill for many years. I owned a healthy living center there, however we decided to leave that behind and move to Michigan in 2010 to be near family. I worked at a health food store for eight years after this where I continued to absorb a well rounded knowledge of natural and alternative living practices. During this time, my first husband passed in 2015 and my daughters went off to college in 2018. I decided to create a new business that would help people who are going through similar journeys that myself and my family had experienced. I believe in spiritual gifts and I have discovered that mine is to help people in this particular way. In Florida, my business was retail-oriented. Given my increased understanding of diet with regard to health and wellness I wanted to take it to the next level. In my experience at the health food store, I would talk to a person for maybe 30 minutes. They would ask for advice and I would take them around the store showing the products that would help in their particular situation. Talking as fast as I could to upload as much information as possible so it might help to start them on a healthier path. Sometimes others would stop to listen to what I had to say and ask more questions.

Overwhelmingly, the number one comment I received was, “Can I take you home with me?” So, there you go, My Health Freaks, Lifestyle Management was born. Unlike a health coach, we help with the follow-through. Whether it’s cleaning their home with our own products, doing their personal shopping, bringing order to the home and casting out harmful toxins, finding solutions for them through project management, the list goes on… Our goal is to reduce inflammation through diet and stress management while removing toxins in their environment. Currently, I am very happily remarried to a fellow health freak and now business partner Joseph Edsall. Joe is actively involved with the day to day management of our business. He is our handyman extraordinaire and project manager. He juggles a whole host of projects while supervising a number of focused cleaning jobs. Amy is our scheduler as well as our social media marketing manager. Along with those responsibilities she handles a mountain of other tasks and is the glue that keeps us going. Together we make a fantastic team with great communication that keeps our clients so happy!

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Well, there have been a lot of obstacles for sure! Being a caregiver for my ill husband for more than 10 years was by far the most challenging. However, leaving my much loved business in Florida genuinely broke my heart. Moving my family over 1,000 miles from the only home they knew was no easy task. Continuing to manage caregiving with a job I loved and then becoming a single parent when their father passed presented even more challenges. Starting over with a new business was terrifying! Another was developing natural cleaning supplies we provide to all clients, it was plenty of trial and error for sure. However, we now have a great formula that all our clients love! By far the biggest issue since owning this business is staffing! We could help so many more individuals if we could find just the right people who get this type of lifestyle. So, WE ARE HIRING!

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
We are a healthy home lifestyle management company. We primarily provide healthy home cleaning with artesian cleaning supplies, deep and focused cleaning, personal shopping with an emphasis on non-toxic, non-GMO, organic healthy home products and foods. We also provide project management services for a majority of home maintenance issues, start to finish. Indoor/outdoor… we have dozens of trades people we have developed a relationship with and they make our clients a priority. I am most proud of our work with the Susan Mast ALS foundation. I personally go to patient and caregiver homes to bring order, whatever that means to them. ALS makes people very physically limited and caregivers quickly become overwhelmed. I know this from personal experience. My first husband had cancer then ALS which he eventually passed from.  My daughter who’s autism initially started me on this healthy journey and  other family members with debilitating illnesses like parkinson’s and dementia. We strive to develop a rapport with our clients that feels like family. If we are cleaning, we aren”t just cleaning, we are polishing. If we are project managing, we aren’t just a presence with a clipboard. We are an advocate for the client so they can live their lives and do what they do best. We are the best at what we do and our clients trust us with their homes, top to bottom, inside and out. Please visit our website and like us on FaceBook where you are sure to find many who sing our praises!

So maybe we end on discussing what matters most to you and why?
Leaving a space picture perfect and smelling like heaven! There is something peaceful about coming home and everything is done to perfection and My Health Freaks provides you with comfort in knowing your personal environment is beautifully clean with no hidden toxins.

Pricing:

• First time/One time clients rate $55 per hour. 3 hour minimum
• Regularly/ Routinely scheduled clients rate $50 per hour. 3-4 hour minimum
• Handyman Services $75 service call, However we waive this fee if the project takes more than 90 minutes and charge $55-50 per hour plus parts/supplies
• Project management, 25%-15% of total/final cost

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.myhealthfreaks.com
• Instagram: myhealthfreaks
• Facebook: myhealthfreaks