#MomCrush Monday: Meet Sahar Manley, Fashion Expert and CEO of CAMILLA SERETTI
1.) You’re a fashion expert, serial entrepreneur, and the CEO of CAMILLA SERETTI, a luxury jewelry brand based in Los Angeles – the list doesn’t end there, you’re also a licensed real estate agent and most importantly, a loving mother. How do you manage to juggle all of this so successfully?
Well, sometimes I don’t juggle it all successfully. I think as I’ve become older, I have learned that it’s not important to juggle EVERYTHING “successfully,”but more important to feel balanced, and just happy. Know what your priorities in life are, and then work as hard as possible toward your goals, without jeopardizing your priorities. My main priorities are my children. I have been fortunate enough to be able to travel to every single trade show for the last 2 years with my daughter, so it allowed me to spend time with her, as well as keep building my business, which is also really important to me.
2.) You were busy raising your daughters but managed to build and run your business at the same time. That’s pretty amazing! For our readers who think they can no longer work toward their own goals since becoming a mother, what do you have to say to them?
I’m not going to sugar coat it…It’s definitely more difficult building and running your own company, while raising young children. I know firsthand how much time it takes to really build a company from the ground up, and how much time we, as mothers, devote to our children. My advice is to really find a healthy balance, but while not ever feeling guilty for either side. I think mothers tend to feel some bit of guilt when we choose to spend time on ourselves, or our career, instead of spending that time with our children. The most important thing I have learned through experience, is that by thriving ourselves as working mothers, whether it be socially, spiritually, financially, or in any way that makes us feel good, and is our goal, then we have the strength to be the best moms we can possibly be.
3.) If you had to share 3 things about your journey to this incredible success, what would you share with your readers?
Wow, only THREE THINGS?!! Haha…. It’s easy, Number 1: Staying true to myself during the whole process of building my brand has been crucial. Which also means always being fully authentic with my clients and my team. I think it makes it easier to attract people with the same passion. Number 2: Trusting MYSELF (my work ethic, my instincts, my business sense…my sense of style….whatever) has really pushed me to do things that I never thought I could do. To me this has been the best part of building CAMILLA SERETTI on my own. Really learning to Trust myself during this process has given me confidence in ways that I never had before and is the driving force behind my constant desire to support women. It also shows how much more we are capable of, if we give ourselves the chance, and have the right people around us.
Number 3: How GRATEFUL I am for the people that have come into my life, through building CAMILLA SERETTI. I never, ever could have imagined how enriched my life would become though all of the incredible people I’ve met, whether they are store owners that carry my line, clients who have purchased my jewelry, and have become friends, photographers that I have met on set while shooting my pieces, or the stunning model wearing it…or my employees, which I have learned so much from (good AND bad). I am beyond grateful every single day for all of these new relationships that I have been fortunate enough to create.
4.) I love your motivation to empower women all over the world. Why is this so important to you and how do you plan to help with this movement?
I definitely do have an incredible urge inside of me to help empower women all over the world. I am a girl’s girl! And I have 2 incredible daughters that are my absolute WORLD! I want them to grow up to be powerful, happy and kind women – that also want to help other women…because that’s what it’s all about. Helping each other and learning from each other. I’ve always felt that all of my mistakes and life experiences are worth so much more, if I can share them with other women, and maybe make their life experiences a little better, and their mistakes, a little smaller.
5.) What is your favorite song lyric? Why?
“Just throw it in the bag” by Fabolous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOeXh6HyvU
