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 103: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Heloise)
Heloise, the name that may ring more of a bell as Heloise and Abelard. A couple is known as the French Romeo & Juliette long before Shakespeare would write the story.
Heloise was born a…
EP 102: Camille Roux dit Buisson shares her families passion for preserving the legacy of French Painter Jacqueline Marval
My name is Camille Roux dit Buisson, I was born and I live in Paris. I grew up surrounded by art, with my parents who were passionate, and especially because my father is an art dealer …
EP 101: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Natalie Barney)
Last week we shared the story of Djuna Barnes and you can’t have Djuna without the story of Natalie Barney, Natalie was born in October 1876 in Dayton Ohio to a very wealthy family. Ra…
Ep 100: Franco-American artist Kali Vermès chats about her curated landscape creations located all over Paris' rooftops!
Franco-American artist and photographer Kali Vermès started making terrariums to satisfy both her green thumb and creative impulses with one activity. The microcosms she creates, under …
EP 99: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Djuana Barnes)
Djuna Barnes, the woman who mingled with the Lost Generation was born in 1892 in New York and would leave her mark in Paris.
Born into a rather different family, her father had two wive…
EP 98: International award-winning Artist Stephanie MacKenzie
BIOGRAPHY
International award-winning Artist Stephanie MacKenzie is a vibrant talent. Multiple layers, brilliant colors, and intricate designs unite through storytelling and blended arc…
EP 96: Florist and Paris Garden Expert, Amy Kupec-Larue
Amy Kupec Larue has been living, working and traveling in Europe for 30 years. Her passion for flowers, plants and the French Art de Vivre led her to a career that beautifully combines …
EP 95: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Berthe Weill)
Berthe Weill was a French art dealer who played a vital role in the creation of the market for twentieth-century art with the manifestation of the Parisian Avant-Garde.
EP 94: Sonja Bajic, Parisian Author, Illustrator, and Map Maker!
Sonja Bajic is an illustrator and artist well known for her geographical maps, visual identity, and the search for the best in every day and every process. And illustrating that. Living…
EP 93: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Madame du Barry)
The list of mistresses of the kings of France is long. For Louis XV, sandwiched between two of the most famous kings might be best known for his many lovers than for the man himself.
Af…
EP 92: Beowulf Sheehan chats about what it's like to photograph celebrities
Beowulf Sheehan is a New-York based photographer of figures in the arts and humanities. AUTHOR: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, a collection of portraits of 200 writers from 35 countr…
EP 91: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Rosa Bonheur)
Born on March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux into a large family of artists.Her mother Sophie Marquis married Raymond Bonheur who was also her drawing teacher. Raymond painted landscapes of Borde…
EP 90: Founder of Girls Guide to Paris, Doni Belau
Who is Doni Belau? Who is Doni Belau? An inveterate traveler, I’ve been to nearly 70 countries (and counting). I come alive when I travel, when I’m exploring, and when I’m seeing, tasti…
EP 89: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Eva Gonzalez)
Artist Eva Gonzalez may not be as well known as her fellow female impressionist artists but she should be.
Born on April 19, 1849, in Paris, her father Emmanuell Gonzalez was a Spanish …
EP 88: Marina Khorosh shares how Paris inspired her to write for Vogue and release her new book "Love in Translation"
Marina Khorosh is a writer and copywriter living in New York City. Originally from Russia, she spent her twenties living in New York, after which she moved to Paris to study at Institut…
EP 87: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Madame de Pompadour)
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was destined to be the mistress of the king. As a child, her mother took her to a fortune-teller who told the young girl that she would one day hold the heart …
EP 86: Parisian Interior Decorator Sumner Hargrove
As a fifth-generation Texan, Sumner Hargrove began riding horses bareback at her family’s
ranch at the age of three! She went on to do her undergraduate degree magna cum laude at
Mary Bal…
EP 85: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Martha Gelhorn)
Martha Gelhorn, born in St Louis in 1908 to two parents that wanted much more for their daughter than the role women were to play at the time. Her father George was a doctor and her mot…
EP 84: Janet Skeslien Charles takes us inside her new book "The Paris Library"
Janet Skeslien Charles grew up on the plains of Montana. She spent two years in Odessa, Ukraine, as a Soros Teaching Fellow. She has taught English, French, and Creative writing in Ukra…