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
- 560
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 39: New York Times best selling author Craig Carlson chats about how creativity goes into restaurant design and his best selling books
New York Times bestselling author Craig Carlson first came to France as an exchange student in 1985 and instantly fell in love with the country. He never could have imagined that some t…
Ep 38: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Catherine de’ Medicis)
Catherine de’ Medicis was the other Florentine queen that would also leave her mark on France. Catherine and Marie de’ Medicis are often mixed up and we hope we can help you tell the tw…
Ep 37: Lindsey Tramuta talks about her creative process in writing Parisian themed books
Lindsey Tramuta, an American who has lived in Paris for a decade, writes the award-winning blog Lost in Cheeseland, and contributes to the New York Times, Afar Magazine, Condé Nast Trav…
EP 36: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Berthe Morisot)
Berthe Morisot, one of the few women of the Impressionist Movement, with her dark locks and stunning gaze, was the perfect model for Édouard Manet. However, she would become an artist …
EP 35: Sharon Santoni Shares her French Country Life Creative Adventures
Sharon Santoni has gained millions of readers through her blog where she shares with people what it means to live a French country life. Her blog has grown into tours, a podcast, books,…
EP 34: Paris History avec a Hemingway (Marie de Médicis)
Once upon a time there were two Florentine queens that left their mark on Paris. In the newest La Vie Creative - Paris History Avec A Hemingway episode we talk all about one of them, Ma…
Ep 33: Professional violinist in Paris: Camilla Radford-Furman
Suzuki Violin with Camilla started playing the violin at age three with Elizabeth Mills, one of the very first Suzuki teachers in the United States, and was chosen to help demonstrate t…
EP 32: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Zelda Fitzgerald)
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the woman that is known by only her first name and her reputation as the life of the party. Like many of the ladies we talk about each week on La Vie Creative -…
EP 31: Champagne Expert, Cynthia Coutu, chats about creativity in wine making and her specialty in educating women on wine
Cynthia is the owner of the company Delectabulles, which specializes in supporting women in the male-dominated wine industry by:
- only using champagnes made by women
- telling the stories a…
EP 30: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Julia Child)
Julia McWIlliams Child, the woman who brought French cooking to America, fell in love with France as generations have fallen in love with her. Born on August 15, 1912 in Pasadena into a…
EP 29: French inspired Illustrator Elaine Biss, chats about how creating has always been healing and inspiring
Elaine Biss is a professional fashion event illustrator. She specializes in live fashion illustrations, sketching for the fashion, beauty and accessories industry in the New York, Washi…
EP 28: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Colette)
New podcast out today! French author Colette has been a household name in France for more than a hundred years. Her father's old friend Henri Gauther-Villars “Willy” would stop by thei…
EP 27: Painting in Paris with Dreama Tolle Perry
Dreama is a self-taught artist and writer who started an online art business (a little to her own surprise!) a decade ago. With a collective following of over 60,000 painters, thousands…
EP 26: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Hadley Hemingway)
Long before she was a Hemingway, Hadley Richardson was a smart, quiet and talented young lady. The youngest of five children, her mother had been a singer and musician and would pass th…
EP 25: "Paris Letters" New York Times Best Selling Author Janice MacLeod talks writing and painting
Janice MacLeod is best known as a Paris artist and writer. She is the artist behind the Paris Letters subscription service and author of a memoir, also called Paris Letters. Before her …
EP 24: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Rose Valland)
If there is one woman that deserves a monument, parade and her face on a euro it is Rose Valland. She isn’t a name that is widely known and if I can do just one little thing in this lif…
EP 23: Inside the creative life of the Director of the American Library in Paris, Audrey Chapuis.
Audrey Chapuis is a Harvard graduate and has worked in libraries for close to twenty years. As a Texas native she had an obsession with books and all things French from a very early age…
EP 22: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Coco Chanel)
Her love life after Boy was one horrible decision after another. In 1922 she met the Duke of Westminster Hugh Richard Grosenor or Bender. He was a huge anti-semite that gave her jewels …
EP 21: A traumatic life experience pushed this French sculptor to discover her creative gifts (VeroDalla)
Sculptor and painter Véronique Anne Chabrolle, a.k.a VeroDalla, was born in Burgundy, France. Her life centered around success in the world of gastronomy until an encounter with a poppy…
EP 20: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Victorine Meurent)
Out today, another story of one of the amazing women in French history. Victorine Meurent was born in Paris on February 18. 1844 and from an early age she was drawn to art. In 1862 Edou…