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 181: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Olympe de Gouges)
There are always a few women in history that are remembered for shaking things up a bit. Olympe de Gouges is definitely one of them and she did it back in the 18th century.
Born May 7, …
EP 180: Inspirelle an international community of women who live in France or share a love for all things French
Grace is the co-founder of INSPIRELLE, a website, and association that inspires, connects, and empowers an international community of women who live in France or share a love for all th…
EP 179: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Sainte Geneviève Part 2)
In the second episode on the life of Sainte Genevieve we look at how she is remembered. When you visit the many churches of France you will find small marble plaques in many of the chap…
EP 178: Maureen O'Donoghue Franco-Irish singer and musician shares her Paris Story
Maureen O'Donoghue is a 24-year-old Franco-Irish singer and musician. Born in Paris in a musical family to an Irish father and French mother, she has been involved in various artistic p…
EP 177: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Sainte Genevieve Part 1)
Today, January 3 on the 1,510th anniversary of the death of Sainte Genevieve we begin a special two part episode of the life of the Patron Saint of Paris.
She stands on the banks of the…
EP 176: Nancy Conway Gourmet French Food Expert
I came to France years ago after completing a B.A. in French to study at a 200-year-old French business school. My business career centered around corporate and private banking in Paris…
EP 175: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (The Great Masters inside French Churches)
Paris itself is a living museum. Filled with over 150 museums and the streets that ooze with history and architecture spanning centuries. Before we had my beloved Musée du Louvre we had…
EP 174: French Vegan Chef Sarala Terpstra
I’ve been cooking since I was a little girl, influenced by my Indian mother who was pretty much always in the kitchen. I was raised on a predominantly vegetarian diet which is normal in…
EP 173: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Hemingway, the Early Years)
One hundred years ago today, on 20 December 1921, the newlywed Hemingway’s arrived in Paris. After almost two weeks on the S.S. Leopoldina that left New York on December 8th the two fi…
EP 172: DEVYANI AGGARWAL, the creator of Art & Style
I graduated from Yale University in 2018 as a double major in History and French and will soon be attending law school in the US. I have a deep personal connection to France and have sp…
EP 171: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Sonia Delaunay)
Many of the female artists we have shared on Paris History Avec a Hemingway on La Vie Creative Podcast have been hidden behind their male contemporaries. Sonia Delaunay is just as well …
EP 170: Bestselling Author and American rapper Rhonda Findling
Rhonda Findling is the author of the bestselling and internationally acclaimed "Don’t Call That Man! A Survival Guide To Letting Go" which has been translated into eight languages.
She …
EP 169: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Musée d'Orsay)
35 years ago this week the Musée d’Orsay opened to the impressionist, loving public for the first time. It’s hard to image a time when the museum wasn’t part of the landscape of central…
EP 167: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Laurencin)
Marie Laurencin is known for her lovely pastel dreamy paintings but she was also able to do something few female artists were able to do. Marie was accepted into the folds of the bigges…
EP 168: Taylor Scott talks about a Parisian Shakespeare Theatre Group called Cygnet Theatre
Cygnet Theatre was founded in Paris by an international group of theatre artists looking to create, develop, and perform plays in the classical repertoire. The company is run by a board…
Ep 166: Founder of American Concierge Travel, Sharon Carr
Sharon decided to celebrate her 60th birthday with a six-month hiatus from her life in NYC. She stayed in an apartment in Paris for two of those months, exploring the city on foot, via …
EP 165: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Rodin Museum)
Paris is filled with museums and a few stand out over the rest. Of course, there is my love, the Musée du Louvre, and the Orsay and smaller ones like the Picasso and the Delacroix. Howe…
Ep 164: Sarah Donnelly, an American stand-up comedian, writer and actress who performs in English and in French.
Sarah Donnelly is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actress who performs in English and in French.
Sarah is the co-creator and writer of the Audible Original series God Save My E…