The most important thing that I have learned through my decade of working in domestics is that we are not alone. Everyone struggles with mess, from clutter in the house to complicated emotional knots. Some messes seem too difficult to clean up, and some knots feel too hard to untangle, but now I know this to be true: we just need help sometimes. I know this because of the support I have received from the people in my life who have walked with me me on this journey to build this very business. That includes every one of my first cleaning clients, all the way to you. 

I am a Philadelphia-based author, homelife consultant, artist and owner of Volta Naturals. My work has aimed to help analyze and reveal the ways in which people can achieve a more sustainable, gender-equitable and sacred space within the home. In addition to my professional mission, I wrote a feminist domestics advice column for the Philadelphia-based sustainability publication, Grid Magazine, three years prior to self-publishing Confessions of a Cleaning Lady. 

During the time I was writing my column, I launched my first radio show out of G-Town Radio, called, Confessions of a Cleaning Lady. Shortly after, I launched my now ongoing radio show and podcast titled, The Everyday Feminist, where my co-host and clinical psychologist, Dr. Stephanie Heck, discuss where relationships, feminism and mental health collide. 

Stretching out of my business and into my community, I also work within the local politics of domestic workers’ rights in Philadelphia through serving on the Philadelphia Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Task Force and through the Agency Council with the national domestics organization, Hand in Hand.

I also am a Co-Founder of The Hermitage Philadelphia- establishing a retreat center for community mental health professionals  in Fairmount Park.

xo, Lois