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Announcing a new podcast! An Imperfectly Perfect Life – Life Unscripted. One that’s part life coaching, part laughter, and all about transformation. I’m launching this podcast just a few days before by 54th birthday – while I am also in the process of ending a 26-year marriage, I’m turning the page to a new chapter […]

Pick Up the latest issue – May June 2023 – of Success Magazine – Shari shares journaling tools that work! Available everywhere magazines are sold!

Spring 2023 Gladys Magazine What an honor to be included in this list of women who inspire me! Check out Gladys Magazine’s Spring 2023 edition!

Meet the women of the book,  Make Your Mess Your Message This week I spoke with Linda (Chapter 21 “Letting Go Of The To-Do List”). Linda’s creative energy, entrepreneurial spirit, and her superpower of being a “Super-Connector” is evident in all her ventures.  A devastating stroke and discovery of a brain aneurysm while just in her […]

In recent years, economists have estimated that 600,000 US businesses have permanently closed each year. Due to the pandemic, that number has skyrocketed with an estimated additional 200,000 permanent closures of businesses — or about a quarter to a third above normal. How can small businesses make it in our new normal?  Susan Slater Cotter […]

Here are 5 Practical How-To-Steps from a Life Coach In a 2018 poll conducted by Pew Research, Americans rated their jobs and careers as having a substantial bearing on how highly they rated their satisfaction with their lives. Jobs and careers were mentioned by a third of all respondents when they were asked to describe what […]

Tangible solutions to an increasingly common problem. By Sharon Feiereisen March 24, 2021 for Real Simple®https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.448.1_en.html#goog_137821576Share: Tactics for Finding Happiness During Times of Isolation and Loneliness×Direct LinkYou might like×1How to Stay Focused on Saving for RetirementThe Best Finance Podcasts for Beginners, Investors—and Everyone ElseYou Should Try a Toe-Dip Trip This Summer12 Fruits and Vegetables That […]

When I was training to become a certified life coach through, I learned the founder of the school’s philosophy: Everyone we meet is both our teacher and our student. Those words instantly resonated with me. From the moment I heard those words, I stopped looking at others as a lesson or a blessing and instead […]

It is New Year’s Resolution time—time to set intentions and goals for 2021. I’ve personally set New Year’s Resolutions each year since I was a 10-year-old. As a life coach, when December rolls around, many of my clients spend a full one or two sessions with me to discover and develop their goals for the […]

At the beginning of 2020, I was successfully serving women around the country as a life coach, excited to have my first book released in the Fall and anticipating both of my kids leaving for college on opposite coasts for Fall semester. My husband of 23 years and I were set to become empty nesters. […]