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 142: CC Aoustin is the cofounder of PARTOUT - A collective of Anglophone women artists, based in Paris
CC Aoustin is a native New Yorker, growing up in a melting pot of cultures in and out of her home. She has a BA from Queens College, in psychology and Fine Arts. She attended New York U…
EP 141: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Versailles)
The Chateau Versailles, just the name evokes glamour, golden splendor and the regal days of France. We cover it all today on the newest episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway.
Vers…
Ep 140: Joanne Kimes talks about her new book “Finding Paris: A Novel.”
Joanne Kimes was a television writer in Los Angeles when she became pregnant and soon realized the road to procreation was plagued with miserable potholes. So she wrote a book called, “…
EP 139: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Madame Elisabeth)
In our final episode about the ladies of Marie Antoinette there wasn’t anyone closer in those final months than her sister in law Madame Elisabeth.
The youngest child of Louis and Marie…
Ep 138: Angels of Paris with Rosemary Flannery
Rosemary Flannery has lived in France since 1989 and enjoys dual French-American nationality. She graduated with honors from Columbia University in 1985 with a degree in French language…
EP 137: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Madame Campan)
Madame Campan was one of the only women to work for Marie Antoinette, survive the Revolution, work for Napoleon and end with another Bourbon king when most didn’t survive past Marie Ant…
Ep 136: Croatian Musician, Bojan Kupirovic, shares his rock band in Paris!
I'm a musician. Learned to play guitar in high school after I watched the movie The School of Rock with Jack Black which inspired me so much that I became a rocker and wanted to have a …
EP 135: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Gabrielle de Polignac)
In this week's episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway, we continue on with another lady of Marie Antoinette. Gabrielle de Polignac was a constant source of gossip from Versaille to P…
EP 134: Victoria Bourgin creator of her own fashion brand LA JAQUETTE
Victoria Bourgin, born in Ukraine, strongly believes in the power of dreams and in bright colors! After her studies in Sweden, she came to Paris where she worked for 10 years at the mos…
EP 133: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Madame de Lamballe)
One of the most faithful and trusted ladies of Marie Antoinette served by her side until the bitter end. Madame de Lamballe was born in Turin and raised under the iron thumb of her fath…
EP 132: Erin Colston and her Children's Musical Theatre in Paris!
Erin Colston is a Texan who followed her dreams to New York to attend American Musical and Dramatic Academy and pursue a career in theater and singing at the young age of 18.
After 9 ye…
EP 131: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Rose Bertin)
Marie Antoinette is known for her style, love of fashion and jewelry and in the end what led to her demise. One woman is behind her look more than anyone else including those amazing ha…
Ep 130: Sunny Buick chats Paris Tattoos and Female Creative Group Power
Sunny Buick was born in British Columbia, Canada, and grew up all over Northern California, finally ending up in the Bay Area in her teenage years. In 1986 while attending a high school…
EP 129: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Louise Ja Ja)
One of the newest sensations in Paris this summer has been the very long awaited reopening of Samaritaine. It started as a tiny store on the corner of Rue du Pont Neuf by a couple that …
Ep 128: Nicole Smith inspired by her Paris vacation to create Flytographer!
Flytographer connects travelers with local photographers in over 350 cities around the globe for fun, hassle-free photo shoots.
Inspired by a 2011 trip to Paris, from the desire to captu…
EP 127: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Manet's Ladies)
Manet, like most painters, had many models they worked with. Manet found women that not only sat for him but also inspired him. Berthe Morisot was a young art student that had the looks…
Ep 126: Elizabeth Seitz and the creation of French Affaires
When I first set foot in Paris as a teenager, les pyramides in front of the Louvre didn’t exist, the Musée d’Orsay was a defunct train station with broken windows, and the cathedral of …
EP 125: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Dora Maar)
Dora Maar from the end of her life until today is widely labeled the “Muse of Picasso”. As with most women in history they are relegated to being a postscript in a man's story, Dora was…
Ep 124: Karen Reb Rudel shares her Paris story of musician life to tour guide expert
Born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Karen grew up with the aspiration to be a comedian, a musician, or both… She groomed these crafts from a young age by making everyone around …