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
EP 19: Living the French Dream with Author Janine Marsh
Formally living in London, Janine Marsh decided to take a weekend trip to France to buy some wine, which turned into her buying a farm instead. She started a website to share her advent…
EP 18: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Dalida)
Welcome back to this week's episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway. I chat once more with Claudine Hemingway about a Female French Creative from history. Today we learn all about Dal…
EP 17: Author and Chef David Lebovitz speaks on why so many creatives are attracted to France
Today I spoke with famed professional cook and author David Lebovitz on how he uses creativity in his cooking and writing. He has written 9 books to date and most recently he has been g…
EP 16: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Antoinette Part 4)
In episode four in our series of Marie Antoinette we are in the final moments of her life. Convicted and sentenced to death they didn’t give her much time. In the early hours of the mor…
EP 15: Ajiri Aki, Founder of "Madame de la Maison" which is a Paris based company specializing in bringing people together around the table in France and abroad
Born in Nigeria and raised in Texas, Ajiri, spent 10 years working in New York City in the fashion industry for companies including W Magazine.
In 2015 she became a New York Times Bests…
EP 14: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Antoinette Part 3)
On June 4th upon the death of their son, they were not able to be with him when he died or attend his funeral at the Basilique Saint Denis due to the optics of spending more of the stat…
EP13: A near death experience pushes Laura Bradbury to finally pursue her creative dreams
In 2012 Laura Bradbury was diagnosed with a rare disease that almost took her life. Feeling that she had little time left on the planet to get her words out she sprung into action and f…
EP 12: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Antoinette Part 2)
The marriage bed to a necklace that brought down a queen When we left off in last week's podcast episode, part une of Marie Antoinette she had just married Louis XVI and became the Dau…
EP 11: Tips from Parisian Makeup Artist Joleen Emory
Joleen Emory is a Franco-American make-up artist who splits her time between Paris and LA. Certified through L’Institut Technique du Maquillage (or ITM) in Paris and having worked in te…
EP 10: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Antoinette Part 1)
New Podcast Episode Out Today! It’s hard to put Marie Antoinette into just one episode, for the 1st episode of @Laviecreative Paris History Avec A Hemingway, we focus on her life from A…
EP 09: Instagram Star Emily Jackson's inspiring photography
EP 08: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Suzanne Valadon)
Suzanne Valadon at a very young age would work as a model for some of the biggest French painters of the 19th C. Meeting them on the streets of Montmartre she would sit for Henner, Stei…
EP 07: How the former daughter in law of Johnny Cash became a full time painter and creator
From an early age, Mary Joska started using art as a form of therapy and soon found painting to be her true medium. Go inside her world as she takes us inside her creative journey inclu…
EP 06: Inside the world of a professional dancer in Paris
Swiss-born Nicolas Vaucher, moved to Paris at the age of 19 where his dancing career soon took off, even making it all the way to the famed stage of the Paris Opera. Go inside the life …
EP 05: Award winning florist and event planner Debi Lilly
Voted one of America’s top wedding planners by Martha Stewart weddings, her client list includes Oprah, Bentley, and Cartier! Debi Lilly chats with me about how France inspires her famo…
EP 04: World famous travel photographer Mary Quincy
Travel photographer and Instagram star, Mary Quincy, chats with me about what it's like to be paid to travel the world and take photos for big corporations like Conde Nast Traveling, Ma…
EP03: Learn what it's like to to be a jazz singer in Paris
From costume designer in Dublin to jazz singer in Paris - meet singer-songwriter Liv Monaghan on my podcast. She speaks to me about her journey as a jazz singer in Paris and how she com…
EP02: Interview with a real life Hemingway, inspired by her creative family
Hemingway descendent, writer, tour guide, Francophile, and self-proclaimed bleu blonde and rouge. Claudine takes us inside her writing process which is greatly inspired by her family hi…
EP01: Interview with Part-Time Parisian and Full-Time Author and Coach Lisa Anselmo
Lisa Anselmo, author, coach, and branding guru spent most of her professional career in magazine publishing, working on such iconic brands as Allure, InStyle, and People. She’s been eve…
EP 0: Intro to La Vie Creative
Born out of the Corona Virus, this podcast consists of interviews with artists in Paris, France. This podcast was built to help and bring attention to all the wonderful artists in Paris…