Irene W.
Digital Wellness Advocate - 3x Founder - Tech Entrepreneur at The Digital Life Academy
Professional Training and Coaching
Education: Baylor University
Nashville, TN, USA
Biography
They say you should only take directions from someone who’s been where you want to go. If you’re an entrepreneurial woman ready to move in the direction of personal and career transformation, you can confidently get directions from Irene Williams.
Irene has transformed her life and career more than once—each time overcoming challenges to find success while holding true to her core values and inner peace.
As a 20-something, she left a bad relationship to move across the country and begin a new life in a city where she didn’t know a soul. Only a year and a half at her job in that city, she boldly told the company president she wanted the directorship of her division when the position opened; he happily promoted her though some thought she was too young. Next, she took the leap to work from home (nearly unheard of at the time!) for an agency with clients across the globe. During the economic downturn of 2009 that caused that agency to falter, she negotiated a pay cut with the caveat that she be able to seek client work directly. That parlay resulted in Irene opening her own firm specializing in the then-new industry of social media marketing. Along the way, she developed a novel QR code-driven mobile app that sold to a corporate client, and she began writing and speaking for national outlets.
Most recently, Irene exited the thriving digital marketing agency she led for 13+ years to launch entirely new ventures that reflect her evolving personal growth and professional expertise. While some of her other transformative moves were precipitated by external upheavals, this one came completely of her own volition, motivated by her desire to create and contribute to the world in uniquely meaningful ways.
-- “Declutter Your Digital Life” - After overcoming her struggles with digital overwhelm, Irene developed teachable frameworks to help others get organized and be digitally well. The Digital Life Academy is her company dedicated to training and coaching individuals and corporate teams to live healthy, productive digital lives.
-- “Design a Life that Sparks You” - Thanks to getting digitally decluttered, Irene had the time and mental energy to become a student of neuroscience and the life coaching and personal development industries. Today, she is certified in Applied Neuroscience for Coaches and Trauma-informed Life Coaching. Through irenewilliams.com, she shares evidence-based self-leadership strategies with entrepreneurial women who’re ready for amazing change and growth.
The Irene you’ll meet through her professional endeavors is the same Irene you’d run into anywhere else (i.e. - a neighborhood restaurant since she doesn’t cook or on the lake trail where she goes to watch her beloved birds). She’s known by clients and friends alike for her humor, gift of writing, intellect, and warm personality.
Ready for those directions on the road to personal transformation? Reach out to Irene anytime via irenewilliams.com. She’d be so happy to hear from you!
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Origin Story
IRENE'S PATH TO DIGITAL WELLNESS FOUNDER AND ADVOCATE:
Over 10,000 phone photos, four email accounts with tens of thousands of messages, dozens of social accounts between personal and professional life, and 100% overwhelm…
It was at this make-or-break point that entrepreneur Irene Williams developed a system to declutter, organize, and manage her digital life.
The solutions she created immediately improved her day-to-day productivity and, long-term, proved to be effective, simple, and sustainable. She gained hours back in her week, grew her business, and unlocked time and mental energy for creative pursuits. She knew she couldn’t keep her approaches for tech transformation to herself, so she began speaking and teaching “Declutter Your Digital Life” at conferences and online.
Today, Irene is founder and lead educator of The Digital Life Academy. An advocate for digital wellness, she offers neuroscience-informed, practical courses for digital decluttering and organization to individuals and teams. Her evidence-based approaches address all aspects of digital life: email, social, phone use, photos, files—even virtual meetings. She gets to the heart—and mind—of the matter so executives and team members can experience lasting change and gain translatable soft skills to help in other areas of career and personal life.
Beyond her passion for helping people cut the digital clutter, Irene is also an emerging voice in the personal development space, offering life coaching and resources for entrepreneurial women. She holds certification in Applied Neuroscience for Coaches and Trauma-informed Life Coaching.
These professional pursuits and qualifications are a world away from her previous role as a digital marketing agency owner and something Irene could never have imagined for herself prior to decluttering her digital life. As she says, “Digital decluttering was the one thing that changed everything for me. It’s amazing how far and fast you can go when you finally remove the road block!”
Find more information and resources at thedigitallifeacademy.com and irenewilliams.com.
Example talks
Creative Flow and Collaboration: Harness Your Focus, Then Join Forces for Team Success
In an increasingly virtual, fragmented world, how can leaders reclaim creative focus and teams come together for collective success?
Learn evidence- and experience-based strategies for individual team members to get--and stay--in the zone and come together to cooperatively innovate.
Marketing entrepreneur and digital wellness educator Irene Williams and her hit songwriter husband, both certified life coaches, share practical, tactical insights...as well as a few original songs!...to inform, educate and inspire.
Digital Wellness & Organization: The Modern Mental Health Issue and Work/Life Skills Everyone Must Address
Though we often hear ideas for improving work-life balance, physical wellness, and mental health, we rarely hear of a root cause of issues related to those things: digital clutter and overwhelm. The organization and use of technology is perhaps the least discussed but most essential soft skill for success and well-being in modern times.
FACTS
Stats show unmanaged, persistent tech use affects mental health. You need to prioritize your digital wellness.
Digital disorganization costs untold $$$ in the form of time lost scrolling, searching but not finding the email, photos, or digital files you need.
We’re on the cusp of advancements like AI, VR, NFTs, and Web3 becoming ubiquitous. How can you be future-ready if you can’t manage your email inbox?
Learning Objective #1
How to stop the frustration/self-judgement about tech overwhelm and disorganization. There are key reasons (so relevant and interesting!) why this stuff can be challenging. Once you know those, you’re free from the stigmatization and positioned to move forward.
Learning Objective #2
Why you should prioritize digital wellness. Tech’s impact on mental health today is undeniable. However, we can’t just walk away from tech in the modern, connected marketplace and world. We must learn to master it so it won’t master us.
Learning Objective #3
Three things you can do NOW to alleviate tech overwhelm and free your mind. These quick tactics are immediately implementable and can bring relief nearly as fast. By applying these, you’ll have a base insight into other strategies you can use long-term. Side note: if time allows, you’ll get two more tactics for a total of five.
Learning Objective #4
Three things you can do EASILY to improve your digital organization. These simple standards are easy to put into practice and will begin to enhance your digital organization and access to all the materials you need anytime, anywhere. Stop burning precious time searching and scrolling; find what you need right away.
Go “Marie Kondo” on Your Digital, Social, Mobile Life: Practical Tips to 10X Your Productivity & Peacefulness
Without ongoing management of our emails, computer files, photos, and time spent on social media, we will drown in overwhelm and disorganization. However, you can tame the deluge of digital and sea of social with concerted strategies that become natural habits. These tactics will improve the productivity and peacefulness of not only your business endeavors but your daily life!
In this session, you’ll learn...
-- Practical methods for decluttering your digital life through a major clean-out and on a daily basis (and why this matters in relation to how our brains are wired to deal with constant input)
-- Strategies for managing and conserving precious time, energy, and resources when using social media to support your business goals and for personal networking
-- Ideas on photo organization and archiving that will help you access what you need from all your devices at any time without swallowing storage on your phone
-- The skills to truly prioritize and simplify for increased productivity and creativity in the long-term, including the 4-Ds of email management and the “it doesn’t matter” assessment strategy