“I started this business in Los Angeles,” Asaro says. “I’m now in New York City. And so, you know, there’s a lot of cacophony. It’s very, very loud here.”

“I just used to have regular AirPods, and I switched to AirPod Pros, and I was like, ‘Oh, the noise canceling was just a huge difference.’ I’m on the move, and I’ll have to take calls in between coming from the subway, walking up, going uptown, going downtown, and it’s just really nice to be able to drown out that sound.”

And, sometimes we all just need a really good playlist or our favorite podcast to keep us on track when we have an endless to-do list.

“It just makes me maximize my time more,” she says. “So they’ve become my precious item that I hang on to… I would take that over the regular ones because, again, I think drowning out the outside noise makes it easier for me to concentrate.”

Once all the noise is drowned out, Asaro gets to putting things in order with Notion.

“I just started using it during probably the past six months, and I really thoroughly enjoy it,” Asaro says. “It’s like an organizational app, kind of. I mean, there are so many out there, but this really helps: You can make tasks, you can make to-do lists. It’s a different version of a spreadsheet. I don’t mind spreadsheets, but I’m also very much a girly who likes to write things down and physically cross them off. You can set it up like that. You can cross them off.”

And if you’re someone who always has many tasks running at once like Asaro, it can really be an organizational lifesaver. 

“It’s really good for keeping my organization of candidates sometimes, when I’m trying to staff a household,” she says. “There’ll be so many moving parts to it. We’ve interviewed one, we’re holding, we’re waiting for a response. It’s very easy to see what process each candidate is in. So I’ve really grown to love it.”

If you’re someone who needs a creative touch in your everyday life, but you’re not exactly a design person, Asaro heartily endorses Canva Pro as the way to go. 

“The regular Canva is fine, but the Pro has infinitely better templates,” says Asaro. “They’re just so good. I use it for everything. Marketing. I use it for Instagram posts, in-feed posts. I just couldn’t live without it. It is invaluable, and it is worth the price.

“I think it allows people to unlock a part of them that they didn’t really know they had. I found myself really diving deep into it, and I’m like, oh, you can really go far with it. And I think you can really pull a lot of that creativity out of someone who may otherwise think that they can’t do it.”

Having Canva comes in handy when Asaro starts pairing her clients with the right staff: “I like to present candidates to my principals,” she says. “After I interview a candidate, I like to create a pitch deck for each of them. So like a little portfolio where it has a photo so that the principal can put a face to a name. And I like to go into the background, how they got into it, whether it’s house managing, estate managing, private chef, and then I can throw in their resume. It’s aesthetically pleasing, it’s palatable, and it's very easy to digest.”

The platform itself keeps things simple so anyone can get their creativity flowing

“It’s really easy to edit once it’s saved in there,” Asaro says. “If something changes, I can just pop it in. 

“I think for someone who, if you’re not a designer, you don’t have to be into design to really master it, which is really, really nice. Especially when you can figure out your aesthetic, you can plug and play with a lot of them. So it’s made my life so much simpler, too.”

“I am a coffee-drinker,” Asaro says. “It’s my ritual. I mean, obviously I’m dependent on caffeine, but it is just how I start my day. Sometimes those mornings can be a little hectic. I just love the idea that I can make myself my perfect latte, my perfect temperature, and say, take a couple sips.” 

What keeps this mug at just the right level of warmth is its charging coaster. All you have to do is set it to your perfect temp, and it will stay there until you’re ready for the next sip.

Or, until you remember you had it in the first place: “[After] I have back-to-back meetings for two hours, I have forgotten about it,” says Asaro. “What’s nice is I can go right back to it and grab it and it’s at the same temperature. Sometimes I have to run out the door post-meeting, and I can just grab it, take it with me and it’s at the same temperature.”

“It doesn’t even have to be if you are having a chaotic morning or you’re just on the go,” Asaro says. “Some people are just slow coffee drinkers, or tea drinkers. And so you’re just kind of able to keep that temperature and slowly enjoy it and savor every moment instead of having to chug it.”

But, with another gadget comes another charger to remember.

“The only downfall, again, it’s one of those things. I mean, we have to charge our electronics. If you forget to charge it, then it’s not there the next morning.”

“I really feel like in a time where everything lives on our phone, it is so nice [to have],” Asaro says about her Polaroid camera. “We don’t do big catering weekends, but I like to call intimate dinner parties and events, I always love having that to give people a physical, tangible photograph to hold.”

“Sometimes you are kind of behind the scenes, so you’re catching moments that people aren’t,” she says. “And everyone loves it. People have the opportunity to grab one, take it home with them.”

It also helps her with her more day-to-day work, especially when it comes to visualizing:  “I also sometimes use it for mapping out a client’s home,” she says. “So if I’m organizing — because this business has evolved into so many different branches of services that you can bring into someone’s home — it’s kind of like a Marie Kondo in someone’s pantry. I like taking a Polaroid sometimes. And if I’m working on a client’s pantry, take pictures in between and just see the progress physically. It’s just something I really enjoy. And it’s, again, a tangible thing that I keep in a folder and it’s nice to look back on.

But if you’re still someone who needs your phone to keep things on track, Asaro says the Polaroid Lab Instant Printer can still give you that tangible effect. 

“They also have a Polaroid printer, so you can actually take the photos from your phone and print it onto a Polaroid, which is cool,” she says. “But I just think that in moment, instant, just the act of it, [the camera] is just nostalgic. It’s fun in a digital world. It’s just great to have.”