EXTRAORDINARY Women - Your Next Chapter

It’s funny though because as we reflect back, we always remember the BIG changes in our lives! Those changes that in a moment shifted our lives in an entirely new direction. The birth of our first child, a divorce, a death, a new love, a move to another city or even country. These are the changes we remember but what about the little changes we made when we adjusted to life on almost on a daily or weekly basis?In many coaching programs, you create a 90-day or even a one-year plan. Oh, ladies, I love big picture plans. I love vision boards! Yes, it is so fun to close your eyes and imagine yourself as though you’ve achieved all your listed goals for the year!Yet, if you’re like me, most of the time those BIG goals aren’t accomplished because there are no little changes made to ever get to those big goals.

Are you wondering about working with others to "create magic" in your business or life?  Does the very idea make you nervous or excited? Collaboration means to work with someone to produce or create something, and yet it really is so much more.  Healthy collaboration creates life-changing energy, benefitting your business and personal life in amazing ways.  In today’s episode, Sharri Harmel shares how collaborations with like-minded "extraordinary women" have infused energy into her business and made a positive impact on her mindset about working with others who also benefit from the collaboration.Resources and Links:Sandra Sigman, Les Fleurs, Lesfleurs.comListen to Extraordinary Women Episode #93: Talking Les Fleurs with Sandra Sigman Monica Michelle, BloomTV Network, www.bloomtvnetwork.comListen to Extraordinary Women Episode #91 Bloom TV Network with Monica MichelleDiana Wentworth, “Send Me Someone” and “Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook,” www.dianawentworth.com Jo Packham, Women Create, www.womencreate.comAmy Kupec-Larue, Garden Guide Paris, www.gardenguideparis.comExtraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel 

Can you imagine creating a business that brings together your loves, your interests and your expertise?   Listen as Sharri Harmel speaks with Bonnie Ashley from Bonavista Optics, Inc.  Bonnie is not your typical eyeglass maker. She has designed eyeglasses for the movie industry for years and more recently, she created an entire line of eyeglasses for the fabulous Downton Abbey!  Her story has so many good nuggets from which to draw inspiration and lessons on how to create a business that is successful while also bringing personal joy and satisfaction. Bonavista Boutique-Downton Abbey Eyewear – Downton Abbey Eyewear® by Bonavista Optics.  Exclusive 20% discount code until August 1st for EW listeners, use coupon code,  "GQBFP9MG"Bonavista Optics, Inc. website, www.bonavistaoptics.comBonnie Ashley on Facebook, www.facebook.com/bonavistaoptics/ Bonnie Ashley Instagram, www.instagram.com/bonavistaoptics1/ Chateau Diaries, www.youtube.com/c/TheChateauDiaries/ Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel 

Do you still struggle with trying to get where you know you're supposed to be, but just not making it there? Many of us do and Sharri Harmel explains how a struggle with limiting beliefs (often rooted in our childhood experiences) can impact our success today.  No amount of hard work will allow us to move forward unless we uncover those pesky unconscious beliefs and deal with them in the here and now, re-building ourselves, and our worthiness to have a happy life.   Listen as Sharri offers up a recent example of her own unconscious beliefs and shares her roadmap to a better way past them.Resources and links in this episode: Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

Feeling feminine is so important throughout our lives; whether we are young women or women of a "certain age"... and whether we have a partner or not! Femininity is much more than the youthfulness that American women seek after; it is the essence of being female and it is vital to a life filled with joy.In today's episode, Sharri shares how the French culture celebrates femininity and how this attitude may be the very source of the "French mystique" so adored by many women, especially in the United States. She also explains how femininity is tied to our self-esteem, our self-confidence… and even our everyday mindset.Resources and links in this episode: Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine  Cadolle Lingerie Atelier, on rue Saint Honore in Paris, FranceWebsite: https://www.cadolle.com/en/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maison.cadolleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cadolle_official/Style at a Certain Age with Beth Djalali Website: www.styleatacertainage.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/styleatacertainage/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BethDjalaliCuup, virtual bra fittingsConnect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

The pursuit of a passion can often take you in a very different direction than you would expect!  Sandra Sigman, the founder and CEO of Les Fleurs (a beautifully French inspired floral home and garden shop in Andover, Massachusetts) learned to appreciate the beauty around her at the elbow of her mother and her mother's work in floral design. She first travelled to France in her early twenties, as a professional ice skater for Holiday on Ice.  Loneliness brought her to the flower shops of Paris, and a dream was born: she came back to the U.S. with plans to open a floral shop of her own. Listen as Sandra and Sharri Harmel discuss their shared love of French culture, creating beauty from ashes, and how being brave in the adventure can lead to accomplishing great things!Resources and links in this episode:Visit Sandra Sigman at Les Fleurs, Lesfleurs.comThe Stevens-Coolidge House and GardensStudio Carta, founded by Angela LiguoriVivi et Margot, online French homewares founded by Charlotte Reiss Sharon Santoni, My French Country Home magazine Foire deChatou, antique & flea market For real estate, Aaron Lippert / aaronlippert@kw.com, https://www.larochegroupe.com | US: +1 617 821 6406 | FR: +33 (0)7 85 66 72 08Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri HarmelFind this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel.

In today’s episode, Sharri discusses how sometimes we need to put that big “20 year dream” to the side and focus on figuring out how we want our lives to be on a day to day or a week to week basis … and plan no further out than one year! While asking herself practical and pointed questions (and even though it might be shocking for a coach to say it), Sharri demonstrates how you might get even more clarity on want you want to create in your life when you pull yourself into the present.Resources and links in this episode:Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

On today's episode, Sharri Harmel speaks with Monica Michelle, founder and CEO of BloomTV Network, a video network dedicated to highlighting the diverse world of flowers and guided by professionals across the globe. Viewers are immersed in a world of floral fantasia, through education, health, flower-focused recipes, crafts, design, gardening, and so much more.Monica shares not only her start up journey – which is loaded with ideas and tips that you can use if you are building a business – but also how to get involved in BloomTV Network if you are a creator with flowers!  If you simply want regular access to ideas, products and even the emotional healing benefits of flowers, be sure to investigate the beautiful work Monica is doing at BloomTV Network.Resources and links in this episode:BloomTV Network, https://bloomtvnetwork.com/Interested in being a creator on BloomTV Network? Email Monica Michelle at monica@bloomtvnetwork.comExtraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

Busyness, cultural messages, and a reluctance to be vulnerable often get in the way of listening to the messages of our hearts, that "inner wisdom" that knows the right thing for us, at the right time and place. In today's episode, Sharri Harmel details how we lose sight of our "heart wisdom" and gives practical insight on how to start listening carefully to what your heart says, and how to remain open to possibilities!Resources and links in this episode:Episode 83: A Conversation with Beth Djalali Episode 88: Jeepers Creepers, It’s Imposter Syndrome, Again! Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

What business you start will many times come from what you are most passionate about.  Doni Belau, founder and CEO of Girls' Guide to Paris, started exactly that with her fabulous women's travel company that goes far beyond Paris.  In our conversation, Doni details her story and drive in building a company around what she loves, safe travel with and for women, and encourages all women to consider taking an entrepreneurial road like she did.  Doni also shares about an upcoming program that she's offering called Women's Travel Wisdom, with a retreat to a beautiful part of California for four days. This wellness retreat, however, is also a journey into learning more about ourselves as individuals, something that is so important to creating a joy-filled life.  Yes, eating right and exercising are important aspects of wellness, but self-discovery, mindfulness and empowerment are all key factors in the success of your business, too.  Listen as Doni Belau gives us insight into this different but necessary type of exploration.Resources and links in this episode:Girls’ Guide to Paris, https://girlsguidetoparis.com/Doni’s upcoming excursions, https://girlsguidetoparis.com/trips-for-women/Doni Belau on Instagram, @girlsguidetoparisDoni Belau on Facebook, @GirlsGuideToParisWomen’s Travel Wisdom, https://womenstravelwisdom.com/start-here/Carolyn Ray at Journeywoman, https://journeywoman.com/Lola Akinmade & Loung Ung (speakers at Women’s Travel Wisdom) Conscious Connection: Reframing Mental Health to Create a Thriving Life by Sarah Wayt (book) Red Tent by Anita Diamant (book) Eve Ensler, author of “Vagina Monologues” writes on women and power Tara Brach, meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including international bestselling Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineConnect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

Today on the podcast, Sharri Harmel talks about the dreaded “imposter syndrome” and some ways you can push back when you start to hear those internal thoughts of self-doubt. The definition of “imposter syndrome” is severe self-doubt. It’s primary symptom is questioning your abilities to accomplish whatever it is you are trying to make happen regardless of your intelligence, your talents, your training or even your prior successes! It's a stumbling block to your success, and there are ways to defeat it!Resources and links in this episode:Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel 

Can you imagine that sweet spot where you can create and build a business that is the intersection of what you love, where your talents lie and maybe what people need?  In today’s episode, Sharri Harmel speaks with Mindy Miraglia, owner of Berkshire Camino, who walked the 500 mile Camino de Santiago not once, but twice!  When Mindy Miraglia returned to the beautiful Berkshires of Massachusetts after walking the Camino de Santiago, she created a similarly wonderful experience closer to home and Berkshire Camino was birthed out of that intersection of her own life experiences, the beautiful surroundings of where she lives and an awareness of what people need.Resources and links in this episode:For more information on Mindy Minaglia and Berkshire Camino, visit the Berkshire Camino website: https://berkshirecamino.com or reach out on Facebook: @berkshirecaminollc or IG: @berkshire_camino_llc  Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineFind this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel 

Throughout our lifetime, we all have things we love… and yes, that can change over time, depending upon our circumstances and life stage.  But it is the passion for those cherished activities and interests that can guide us to our next exciting business, if we investigate them with intentionality!In today’s podcast, Sharri talks about exploring the things you love as a really fun way for you to land your business idea and encourages you to get started reimagining your life! Are you ready?Resources and links in this episode:Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineConnect with Sharri Harmel Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

Thinking about writing a book? Wondering if there's someone who can "come alongside" you and help you get published? Listen as Sharri Harmel talks with Morgan Gist Macdonald of Paper Raven Books. Morgan Gist Macdonald reveals that publishing is not even that difficult, that you can get visibility, reviews on the book and really connect with the right segment of readers, in this quickly changing publishing world when you get the right kind of help.Resources and links in this episode:Paper Raven Books website: www.PaperRavenBooks.comFacebook: @PaperRavenBooks LinkedIn : @paper-raven-booksPinterest: @paperravenbooks Instagram: @paperravenbooksteamExtraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri HarmelFind this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

Wish you could wake up every morning excited for the day and look forward to what you're doing? What if you started with believing you've earned every wrinkle, sunspot and cellulite you have? Being proud of your age and how there is purpose to your life and business really comes down to loving who you are and what you're doing. So many of the women Sharri speaks with describe the joy their business gives them because they interact with others with purpose, and bring something to the world that the world needs (even if they aren't the only one doing it!) You can have this joy, too! Resources and links in this episode:Extraordinary Women magazine is the “must-have” digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips, and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri HarmelBeauty Pie, Marcia GilgoreThe Art of Growing Up, Veronique VienneStyle At a Certain Age, Beth DjalaliLa Cuisine Paris, Jane BertchArt for Cure, Belinda GrayFind this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel

Do you wish you could launch into something new and exciting but feel discouraged because of your age? Listen as Sharri Harmel talks with Beth Djalali of Style at a Certain Age, who has been writing and sharing for years about the ways women can feel attractive, strong, and even chic, whether 42 or 72 years old.  Sharri and Beth discuss her journey from new blog to her now wildly successful and multifaceted business and how it has brought so much joy to her life.“Reinvention doesn't mean turning into someone else. Reinvention is finding the grace and space to be who you are at 42 or 62 or whatever your age is!” ~Beth DjalaliResources and links: Beth Djalali and Style At A Certain Age can be found at, website: www.styleatacertainage.com Facebook: @styleatacertainage Instagram: @styleatacertainage YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/BethDjalali Twitter: twitter.com/bethdjalali Pinterest: pinterest.com.mx/bdjalali/_created/Find this episode (and more) on your favorite podcast player at Extraordinary Women with Sharri Harmel!Extraordinary Women magazine is the must-have digital magazine for women looking for inspiration, tips and support to create a fabulous business, or just the next chapter. In a nutshell, for women who are ready to make their dreams happen. In the Extraordinary Women magazine and podcast, we hear stories of women who are not celebrities, but women like you and me who have chosen to create and live lives of true authenticity and passion, who focus on taking action on their dreams.Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazine Connect with Sharri Harmel

In today's episode, Sharri Harmel shares important insight about launching your business by looking at the steps a trapeze artist takes to hone their craft, with the goal of helping new entrepreneurs move forward in reaching their dreams.As a trapeze artist, you climb the ladder to the platform, stand ready to grab that first bar. Your timing is perfect as you leap from the platform and grab the first bar. You swing back and forth, waiting for the perfect time to move to the second bar. You watch, you feel and suddenly you let go... to launch your body to the next bar, momentarily flying in the space between, then grabbing on to the next bar for the next part of your routine.  These are examples of the steps that, when taken confidently, can help you succeed in launching your business and attaining your goals!In the Extraordinary Women magazine and podcast, we share stories of women who are not celebrities, but women like us who have chosen to create and live lives of authenticity, passion, and always dream-centered.  The magazine, like this podcast, also has all kinds of additional tips, ideas, insights and even a dose of inspiration to help you to create YOUR amazing and extraordinary next chapter.Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineConnect with Sharri Harmel

In today's episode, Sharri Harmel speaks with Margaret Gay of 27 Teas, who shares incredible nuggets of wisdom as she explains her journey to starting and growing her tea company, the special challenges of an entrepreneur and how to keep moving forward in her dream while simultaneously remembering the importance of generosity.Resources:Margaret Gay and 27 Teas can be found at: The 27 Teas website, www.27teas.comFacebook, @27TeasLLCInstagram, @27Teas Twitter, @27teascompanyor via email to mgay@27teas.com In the Extraordinary Women magazine and podcast, we share stories of women who are not celebrities, but women like us who have chosen to create and live lives of authenticity, passion, and always dream-centered.  The magazine, like this podcast, also has all kinds of additional tips, ideas, insights and even a dose of inspiration to help you to create YOUR amazing and extraordinary next chapter.Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineConnect with Sharri Harmel

Life isn't always happy or joyful, is it? There are times in our lives when we are disappointed or hurt, and often when we face those unchosen (but required) new beginnings!Today, we’re going to talk about how to move through those disappointments that can put huge roadblocks in your emotional well-being and as a result, get in the way of you doing and creating the life you want.Resources:In the Extraordinary Women magazine and podcast, we share stories of women who are not celebrities, but women like us who have chosen to create and live lives of authenticity, passion, and always dream-centered.  The magazine, like this podcast, also has all kinds of additional tips, ideas, insights and even a dose of inspiration to help you to create YOUR amazing and extraordinary next chapter.Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineConnect with Sharri Harmel

You aren't alone: many women struggle to think of themselves as extraordinary. But it is true, and it's time to for you to stop deflecting compliments and appreciation. You are an extraordinary woman, even if you do ordinary things!Listen as Sharri shares what the true definition of an extraordinary woman is, and how believing you are one will open up your life to more goodness, more opportunities and more happiness.Resources:In the Extraordinary Women magazine and podcast, we share stories of women who are not celebrities, but women like us who have chosen to create and live lives of authenticity, passion, and always dream-centered.  The magazine, like this podcast, also has all kinds of additional tips, ideas, insights and even a dose of inspiration to help you to create YOUR amazing and extraordinary next chapter.Subscribe today! Extraordinary Women magazineConnect with Sharri Harmel