'Nice and Neat Homes' — a business spearheaded by Salt Lake City entrepreneurs and sisters Alexia and Priscila Halliday — has received a $10,000 grant to continue expanding its business, which employs several stay-at-home moms who provide organizational services at homes.
SALT LAKE CITY — Nice and Neat Homes — a business spearheaded by Salt Lake City entrepreneurs and sisters Alexia Halliday and Priscila Driggs — has received a $10,000 grant to continue expanding its business.
The co-founder noted that she had applied for the grant because it didn't "hurt to apply and see where it goes." She was then awarded the grant this August in the career builders category. Having a new van will be especially helpful, she continued, as their small cars can get crowded after her employees fill them with stuffed bins and other items the clients no longer need.
"You feel peace when you leave a space that's organized, and when they come into the spaces, you see their faces and see the relief and the weight lifted off their shoulders," Lang said. "When that happens, I feel like then they become great moms, then they have the energy to put towards their families because something that has been troubling them, the burden, has been lifted.
The job itself doesn't just assist stay-at-home parents with organizing their lives, but it frees up time and space for their employees to spend time with their families, Armstrong and Lang added.When Halliday was building her business, she noticed that many stay-at-home parents exemplified the qualities she wanted in her employees — having great prioritization, time management and an understanding of how to organize messy homes.
"It doesn't create that guilt feeling, that anxiety feeling where I'm missing out on my kids' lives or at home," she said. "I still can come home and make dinner.
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