About Me

Vision Statement

YOU are a Convivial creation. A living work of art.
The paintbrush, and the canvas.

When you curate your world with a flair for adventure, goals become actions; self-care, an anchor.

Creation is a celebration. Decision-making, a delight.

WE are Convivial Creators. Hell-bent on self-love.
The artists, and the collectors.

When we embrace a convivial reality, obstacles are banished;
self-doubt, cast out.

Strategies take flight. Mad missions ignite.

THIS is the Convivial Society. Let’s shatter some ceilings, shall we?

About Me

It might seem peculiar, but a Barbara Walters interview changed my life.

It was an interview with Julia Roberts about her latest project—the rip-roaring heist movie Ocean’s Eleven. When asked to describe her experience on the movie set,

Julia replied, “Convivial.”

CONVIVIAL: occupied with or fond of the
pleasures of good company.

Convivial. The word opened up a whole new world for me, and came to represent my spirit, my talents, and my intentions here on earth.

I’m Cheryl Chavarria—affable introvert, insatiable globe-trotter, radical life strategist, Convivial Woman. And while I’m at it, let me add, third shift writer mama.

This online space is a public record of my quest to curate a more convivial world—a world fit for strong-willed, sublimely complex, defiantly creative spirits. My purpose is to praise and promote the work of art that resides within in each individual, to instill a prodigious sense of self-respect, self-adoration and self-worth in every single person who endeavors to express themselves artistically.

My path to convivial living was far from a straight-shot.

I was born in Odessa, Texas, and named after Cheryl Lynn—a ‘70s disco diva who reminded fans ‘round the world that they “Got To Be Real.”

My family shifted to Bucktown, an inner-city ‘hood in Chicago, where kids from Puerto Rican, African-American, Mexican, Brazilian and Polish families mixed and mingled with oblivious ease.

Three elementary schools, three high schools, and three colleges later, I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a BA in Finance. A short-lived career in banking turned into an even shorter-lived grad school experience. With half a Master’s degree in Literature and a whole lot of nerve, I ventured south of the border. And it was there, in the town of San Miguel de Allende, that I began to construct my convivial self.

I’ve voyaged from corporate finance to off-grid travel, from magazine publishing to social media, and from j-o-b-s to full-blown entrepreneurship. I‘ve learned to leverage my introspective nature as a source of power, rather than a social limitation. And I’ve learned that ignoring your muse will just make her bellow at you even louder. So you might as well listen up, and take action. You’ll never regret it.

I’d love to help you demolish the (creative) self-limiting beliefs that hold you back from a fully-realized convivial life. Sign up to attend my next event for The Convivial Supper Club, where I create the opportunity for you to recognize and rekindle your status as a living work of art among a coterie of fellow creatives, or drop me a line at Cheryl@theconvivialwoman.com.

Let’s shatter some glass ceilings together.

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