Monkey Off Your Back

Specialties

Clutter Clearing

Monkey Off Your Back offers judgment-​free, collaborative guidance for eliminating, categorizing, and organizing the «stuff» in any area of your home or office. We will help you decide what to discard and organize what’s left.

Bookkeeping

As a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor, Monkey Off Your Back uses Quicken or QuickBooks Pro financial management software to help you organize, track, and maintain your personal or small business finances.

Computer Clean Up

By eliminating, categorizing, and organizing, Monkey Off Your Back can help you apply the same clutter clearing process to your computer as to your physical space.

Disaster Preparedness

Do you know what you would do in case of a fire, earthquake, or theft? Can you easily find the deed to your house, your life insurance policy, and your birth certificate? Monkey Off Your Back can these tough questions and help you organize the information.

History

Established in 2008.

In 2008, Julie came up with the idea for Monkey Off Your Back. As she was happily setting up filing systems and online bank accounts for a friend’s new business, she saw how her knack for organization could help people better function in their personal and professional lives.

Julie now works to eliminate monkeys for clients throughout the Napa Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. She and Sam live in St. Helena with their Heinz-​57 mutt, Rosie.

Meet the Business Owner

Julie J.

Business Owner

Julie Jenanyan developed her entrepreneurial spirit and instinct for organizing at an early age. When still in grade school, she started a home cleaning business. Armed with flyers and a vacuum cleaner, she went door-​to-​door in her neighborhood in an attempt to earn enough money to buy a cash register for a future business. She never purchased the cash register, but her penchant for counting money never waned.

After graduating from the University of San Diego in 1984, Julie worked and traveled extensively before moving to the Napa Valley in 1991, where she assumed the management of her family’s small Howell Mountain winery, Liparita Cellars.

When Julie’s son, Sam, was born in 1997, she started her own business, WineWords, specializing in copywriting for the wine, food, travel and non-​profit industries. In between naps and nursery school, she built a solid base of over 40 clients, including Araujo Estate, Copia, and Beringer Winery, and also wrote for local travel publications.