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Join me for the Women’s Tuscany Trip of your dreams!
You’ll enjoy small-group, Chef Julie-led tasting, cultural, & pampering experiences through Florence and the Tuscan countryside with other fun loving women just like you.
Come solo or grab a friend – you’ll make memories for a lifetime and return home inspired by the talented female chefs, winemakers, and artisans we meet on our tour.
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Stop breaking promises to yourself… let’s make this YOUR time!
→ Maybe the kids are gone, your life feels like a scene from Groundhog Day, and you’re going through as many changes as a teenager in puberty.
→ You can’t turn back time, you’re craving a life that looks and feels different.
→ You tell yourself year after year that THIS will be when you finally get healthy or take that trip you’ve been dreaming of.
→ But the midlife blahs seem to have taken over that wild, fun-loving spirit that’s deep inside.
→ You’ve spent years taking care of everyone else but now you’re left feeling tired and unsure how to take care of YOU!
Hear me loud and clear…
it’s time you said yes to you!
Your best years aren't behind you my friend...
Your best years are NOW!
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Surround yourself with positive, like-minded women on an Immersive Foodie Trip to Tuscany. Chef-led, authentic, intentional, and everything your fun-loving spirit craves!
Here’s what fun-loving women just like you have said
"I'm finally taking care of my health - the group was there to cheer me on and Julie is both your coach and your supportive friend at the same time"
Susan
Learning from Julie is life changing! To be honest, I’m so tired of trying to come up with ideas for healthy meals. I also don’t love to cook which makes it even more difficult! So Julie's class is perfect, I know what I need to purchase and all of the recipes sound easy but fantastic!
Paula
"Julie is inspirational! She really understands the many emotional and normal situations that cause us not to be true to ourselves. Julie helps us recognize how we can be better physically and emotionally. The result is our being happier. Thank you Julie."
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Hey cutie! I’m Julie!
I help fun-loving women (like you!) lead their happiest, healthiest lives through midlife and beyond.
As a 53-year-old, empty-nester who lives life to the fullest; I’ve decided to shake up the status quo, shatter those outdated cliches about 40+ women, and help you live your best life too.
I’m an Engineer turned Chef, Women’s Travel Leader and Healthy Cooking Expert who’s dedicated to helping make these your best years yet!
After career-changing to find more joy, traveling around the world, creating 1000’s of healthy recipes, coaching women nationwide, and using mindfulness to unlock my own health, I’m here to share the love with you. Learn more.
Join me and my community of women living our best lives at all ages and stages and in all shapes and sizes. Your time is now!
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Grab my FREE mini cookbook with 10 fun meals for one that you can make in *drumroll please*… Less than 20 minutes!
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Girlfriend! You deserve a POSH, PAMPERING, FUN-FILLED trip to look forward to! ❤️ ✈️ Swipe for peeks at what you could be doing this June…
Join me for a once-in-a-lifetime, small group, Chef Julie led Women’s Tour through beautiful Florence & the Tuscan countryside! 🇮🇹❤️
You’ll enjoy authentic, insider-only experiences like:
🍷 exclusive winery visits & tastings w women winemakers including a celebratory bubbly sabering
😍 fun foodie tastings like pasta making classes, street food tours, Michelin starred dining, farm to table picnics in the countryside, olive oil tastings & fresh cheese making
🥰 pampering 4⭐️hotels, spas, massages, yoga, visits to thermal baths, sunset floats down the Arno, time to unwind by the posh pool
🤩 soak in the MAGIC & BEAUTY of this romantic region of Italy including sunsets overlooking the Duomo, up close peeks at infamous frescoes, women’s artisan visits, strolls through charming medieval hill towns & time in the countryside
👯♀️ epic leather, jewelry & clothes shopping, laughter & lots of girlfriends time!
Come solo or grab a friend (or your mom, sister or daughter!) to join a safe, supportive, fun loving group of women for the trip of a lifetime. ✈️
EVERYTHING is done for you! Just show up & ENJOY 🥳
Don’t wait! My last 2 groups filled up quickly - just DM me for details or go to JulieHartigan.com/travel
#womenstravel #tuscanytrip #italyvacations #italyvacation #florenceitaly #italy_vacations #italytrip #italygram #italyfoodporn #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #florenceitaly🇮🇹 ...
Join my Women’s Tour to TUSCANY or SICILY 🇮🇹 so you’ll have a dreamy, smile-making trip to look forward to too ❤️
NEW GROUPS FOR JUNE 2024 NOW OPEN! 🥳
DM me or comment YES & I’ll send you the info or go to JulieHartigan.com/travel ✈️
These pampering, chef-Julie-led, food & wine focused, women-supporting-women, small group trips are perfect for solo women travelers to have a fun group to see the world with, mother daughter duos, & girlfriends reunions! Everything is done for you - just show up & ENJOY! ❤️ Julie
#womensupportingwomen #womenstravel #italytravel #italytour #sicily #tuscany #italyvacations #solotravel #sicilytravel #sicilyitaly #sicilypictures #florenceitaly #italytour #womenstour #cheflife #lesdamesdescoffier ...
Girlfriend! ❤️ Have you always dreamed of a POSH sun & fun filled trip to BEAUTIFUL SICILY? 😎
Join me & fellow fun-loving ladies for a small-group, chef Julie led tour in June 2024! ✈️
Just a few of the magical moments you’ll enjoy:
🌊 visit 7 coastal & countryside towns + Mt Etna
🍷 tour & taste at incredible women led wineries @giuliamonteleone___ @ariannaocchipinti
😍 stay at pampering 4 ⭐️hotels w panoramic pools & views of the sea from all rooms, posh garden filled, women led resorts, & historic mansions
🪴do farm to table cooking classes
🤩 explore incredible baroque towns
🚤 a private boat tour of the Bay of Isola Bella, grottos & coral caves w a sunset dinner just for us
🐮visit a farm to make fresh bufala mozzarella
🥳 Siracusa street food tours & market visits
🍫chocolate & cannoli making including a visit w the oldest chocolatier in Sicily
🥰 massages, women artisans, shopping & sooo much more
Come solo or grab a girlfriend or loved one!
Either way you’ll be part of a safe supportive FUN LOVING group of women for the done-for-you SICILY TRIP of a lifetime!
DM or link in bio for details ✈️ or go to JulieHartigan.com/Travel
A few of the amazing places you’ll stay at & visit! @baglio_occhipinti @hotelpanoramictaormina @itriapalacehotel_ibla @algilaortigiacharmehotel
#sicily #womenstravel #italy🇮🇹 #italy_vacations #sicilyitaly #sicilytravel #solowomentravel #womensupportingwomen #italytravel #cheflife #taormina #farmtofork #womenempowerment #womenwinemakers #womeninwine #emptynesters #midlifewomen #emptynestmoms ...
GIRLFRIEND! You deserve a DREAMY trip to look forward to! ❤️ @juliehartigan #italyvacation #womenstravel #sicily🇮🇹 #tuscany #italytrip #italytravel #italy_vacations #sicily #sicilyfood #florenceitaly #sicilytravel ...
Love 🍕& trying new things? Put @cutsandslicesnyc on your list! 🔥#cheflife🔪 #pizzalover #brooklyn #nytimesfood ...
🌴 BAKED BRIE w SPICY MANGO HONEY-RUM TOPPING 🌴is a no-fuss, tropical inspired sweet-spicy app or dessert everyone will ❤️ NEW recipe for my friends @iloveimportedcheese #cheeselovers #importedcheese #bakedbrie #brie #rum ...
🥳 Drop a YES if Italy 🇮🇹 is on your travel list! Join me in SICILY or TUSCANY June 2024 ✈️ Spots opening soon! ❤️ Julie #womenstravel #italytravel #pastalover ...
@juliehartigan Still 2 weekends left this summer! 🍹set up a SPRITZ BAR for easy-fun hosting 🥳 learn how-to in my free mini book “La Dolce Vita at Home” at the link in my bio or comment YES & I’ll send it to you - cheers! ❤️ Julie - so much fun hosting a Summer Spritz event w my friends @hobokencheesewine this summer too! #aperolspritz #spritztime #spritz #labordayweekend #laborday #ldw #njshore #njshorelife #jerseyshore ...
Top Travel Planning Tips! 🔥 What authentic Italian dish would you ❤️ to learn to make? 🇮🇹 Thank you @scuoladicucina_siena & Lella for a wonderful time! #italytravel #womenstravel #freshpasta #cookingclasses ...
@juliehartigan Time flies…make the most of it girlfriend! 😎 Need a dreamy trip to look forward to? Get on the list for one of my upcoming Women’s Food & Wine Tours! DM or comment YES & I’ll send you info ❤️ xo Julie
#womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #emptynest #midlifewomen #womenstravel #solowomentravel #italytravel #womentravel #emptynesters #emptynester #emptynesterlife ...
The video shoot 🎥 that made me weepy! 🥲 @juliehartigan
So thankful to get to share my late Grandma’s Pasta Fagioli 🇮🇹 recipe in the upcoming @lesdamesny cookbook! ❤️
Honoring her & having her iconic comfort food recipe published & on video means so much! 🥰 And she’d be so excited to know I’m now a chef hosting Women’s Tours to Italy too! ✈️
As a proud member of the Women Supporting Women international food-beverage-hospitality organization “Les Dames D’Escoffier” I’m sure Grandma feels proud too. @lesdamesintl @lesda_mesdescoffiertuscany
#cheflife #italiangirl🇮🇹 #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #pastarecipe #pastafagioli #tuscanylovers #italytravel #womenstravel #lesdamesdescoffier #jceats #jerseygirl #hoboken #jerseycity ...
Join us Thurs 7/27 at 7pm! 🥳 @juliehartigan @localbarre @hobokencheesewine ❤️ @thehobokengirl #hobokennj #hobokeneats #hobokenlife #hobokengirl ...
Question for ya girlfriend! How often do you stop to CELEBRATE YOURSELF? 🎉
Um, heck YES you deserve it! ❤️
Last month 15 lovely women (including 3 sweet Mother-Daughter duos!) joined me in Italy on my Women's Tuscany Tour to do just that! ✈️
👯♀️ We laughed, dined, spa-ed, sipped, bonded, shopped, sabered champagne, partied with badass Italian women chefs/winemakers/& artisans...
& most importantly? Took time to relax, cut loose, celebrate life & ourselves! 💃
💐Listen - we women do SO much for SO many...
...that's why it's such a pure JOY for me to create & host my chef-led, Women Supporting Women - Food & Wine trips.
Can't wait to host my next SOLD OUT group in October & pamper the heck out of them too! 🥰
Want to learn more about upcoming trips? 🙋♀️
⚡️DM me or comment below! ⚡️
🤩 I'll get ya on the VIP waitlist for my next adventures to Tuscany, SICILY, the Loire Valley France, & Ecuador/Galapagos!
😘 Special thanks to @ilfalcionere Michelin Starred @silviabaracchi & the amazing @annamariacoli for making our final celebration dinner SO special!
& to @palazzo_castri1874 for hosting our kickoff dinner in your beautiful garden & making our stay so pampering
& to the incredible Eva @yourdreampict for capturing these moments so beautifully!
More trip moments to come soon!
#womensupportingwomen #womenstravel #solotravel #italyvacation #italyvacations #foodandwine #tuscanytour #sicily🇮🇹 #sicilytourism #florenceitaly #cortona #sicilytravel #italyvacation #italyvacations #cheflife🔪 #foodtravel ...
Question for you girlfriend? ❤️ When…or really WHY did we stop “going out to play”…
Our lives can feel so full of to-do’s & adulting!
You deserve to cut loose, kick back, & feel like a kid again sometimes too 🥳
🌎Explore a new place
💦Jump in a creek
💃🏻Dance to the block party band
🚲Hop on your bike
😆Belly laugh with friends
🍦Have an ice pop on the porch in the summer rain
😎Visit the local sunset spot
While I’m alllll for taking that Big Vacation ✈️ (I mean that’s why I’m creating & hosting superfun Women’s Travel Experiences!)
You don’t need to wait to inject some childlike wonder & fun into your everyday this summer too!
XO Julie
July 4th Weekend Photo Dump! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Join one of my Women’s Italy Trips 🇮🇹 so you can have this much fun too! ❤️ @juliehartigan DM for info ✈️ & share w travel-loving girlfriends
You can come solo or grab a friend - either way you’ll be part of a safe, supportive, fun-loving group of women for the Chef Julie Led trip of a lifetime! ❤️
We had such a blast in Tuscany in May & I can’t wait to host more groups of women to Tuscany, Sicily, & more locations soon! Go to JulieHartigan.com for more info on my Chef Led Women Supporting Women Travel Experiences ❤️
#womenstravel #solowomentravel #italyvacation #italyvacations #womentravel #italytour #italytours #sicilytour #tuscanytour #womenstour ...
LIVE 🇮🇹 from the top of the Duomo in Florence! 😍 follow me @juliehartigan for more insider travel tips & BTS of my chef led tour!
Hosting 15 lovelies on my Women’s Tuscany Tour & taking in the most beautiful views of this magical city! 💫✨💫
#womenstravel #cheflife #florence #italytravel #travel #travelblogger #travelbloggers #italy_vacations #italy #florenceitaly🇮🇹 ...
@juliehartigan ps: Girlfriends! still a few spots to join me in Tuscany in Oct! DM for info ❤️
#womenstravel #italyvacation #summertravel #girlstrip #italy🇮🇹 #hobokengirl #womensupportingwomen ...
🇫🇷🍷Bonjour from Tours! Hot tip 🔥add Loire Valley France to your travel bucket list ✈️
This historic river valley south west of Paris was once a playground for Kings, Queens & Popes so it’s filled w castles, chateaux, vineyards, markets, & adorable medieval towns like Tours. ❤️
I’ll be spending the week here w wine industry friends touring & tasting! Follow along our adventures here on IG @juliehartigan
PS: Ladies! I just *may* be scouting to add this gem as an itinerary for one of my upcoming Women’s Food-Wine-Culture tours! ✈️ more to come!
#womenstravel #francetourisme #foodandwine #loirevalley #girlstrip #travelblogger #traveladdict #francophile #winelover #travelblog ...
DM @juliehartigan or Comment for an invite to the Summer Spritz Party! 🥳🍹😎 Thurs 5/11 at 7:30 @hobokencheesewine
hoboken #hobokennj #hobokeneats #hobokengirl #hobokenlife #hobokenmoms ...
Stop putting off your travel ✈️ dreams & join me in Italy! @juliehartigan - DM - comment - tag a friend!!! ...