La Vie Creative
France has been motivating people for decades to create and live a more inspired life. La Vie Creative is a weekly podcast all about creatives in Paris and beyond, hosted by American Expat Krystal Kenney. Designed to help you enrich your inner artist and tap into your innovative gifts.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 564
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
EP 202: Parisian Actress and Performer Mia Leahy
Mia Leahy hails from Ireland where she was passionate from an early age about dance; ballet, Irish dancing and American tap, singing, and music, reciting poetry, and making up plays. Th…
EP 200: Christine Flowers: Paris Singer•Dancer•Burlesque•Cabaret•Drag
Taki Watanga was conceived on the Paris Metro. A simple conversation that rapidly turned into a dare. “Be brave and take hold of your obvious and quite frankly unique talents”.
In 2019 M…
EP 198: Pet Portrait Artist: Julia Bird shares her life in Brittany France
I’m Julia of Bird in France, the little art business I started in 2017 when I first moved to France and realized it would be pretty much impossible to pursue my work with horses here as…
EP 196: Parisian Artist Linda Steele
I am originally from Scotland, I grew up in England, Spent a few years in Dubai and I have now been in France for 5 years where I have put down some roots and started a family. I love…
EP 195: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Comtesse de Ségur )
In France children since the 19th century grew up with the stories of Comtesse de Ségur. The tales of Sophie the impish little girl always getting into trouble and trying to learn from …
EP 194: Parisian Artist Anna Gillis
“Color is the defining element in my work and a common thread throughout my portfolio. I create abstract patterns using line and color, or dramatic portraits with extreme hues. Both dra…
192: Parisian Visual artist Lala Drona shares her Paris work
Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since pu…
190: Former Washington Post Journalist Anne Swardson shares her work in Paris
I’m American, but I’ve lived in Paris for 25 years and the stories I write are far off the tourist track. I tell tales of the invisible people – a one-man band in the Tuileries, a pickp…
EP 189: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Love in the Louvre)
To celebrate this lovely Valentine’s Day we are exploring more of the art of the Musée du Louvre and all the definitions of love that they convey. Last week we shared Psyché and Cupid, …
EP 188: Alison Grace Koehler shares the world of Stained Glass making in Paris!
Alison Grace Koehler is a stained glass poet, originally from Chicago and currently living and working in Paris, France. Her windows and glass installations can be found in private and …
EP 186: Carla Costamagna shares her story of starting the FLIPSIDE Vinyl store in France!
I was born in Peru but grew up in several countries throughout Europe and South America including Italy, Spain, Germany, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, etc.
Throughout my life I had 3 con…
EP 185: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Vivian Maier)
Vivian Maier stacks up next to many of the greatest photographers of our time, but she never planned on being seen. Born February 1, 1926 to a French mother and an Austrian-American fat…