La Vie Creative

Melinda has been a performer since elementary school, when she played Nancy in Oliver Twist and all the parents in the audience laughed during her tragic death scene. Since that time, her credits have expanded to include Libby Tucker, the leading role in Neil Simon’s I Ought to Be in Pictures (The Studio Players, Calgary); Connie Dayton in Come Blow Your Horn (Metro Theatre, Vancouver); and both t...

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The Rev. Michelle Wahila was born and raised in Endicott, NY. She graduated with honors from Grove City College and received her Master's of Divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in May 2005, and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament at her home church, Union Presbyterian Church in Endicott, NY. Since then, she's pursued her calling working in the US and France.  Miche...

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Jill Dowell is an international artist living and working in Paris, France. Working primarily with abstraction, her career has been heavily influenced by her involvement in and interest in music. This bridging of fine art modalities serves to help her create inspiring and uplifting artwork, deeply saturated with color, expression, and meaning.  website:  www.jilldowellart.com Instagram:  @ jilldow...

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Veronica Charnley is the Canadian singer/songwriter for Plumes, an avant pop project that blends classical and pop music styles, with instrumentation ranging from electric guitar and drums to full orchestra. Originally from Ottawa, she studied music and creative writing in Montreal and has been based in Paris since 2014. A new album in collaboration with Toronto rapper/producer More or Les is set...

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'I'm number 12 of 13 siblings in my family, and yes I know all their names.  I grew up on a small farm in Farmersville, Ohio....yes that is the real name of the town.  Food has been a focus in my life since I was very young, and I mean good, fresh homegrown and homemade food.  I loved helping my mom in the garden, making jams and jellies, canning tomatoes from the garden and baking bread...

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Sarala Terpstra is an American plant-based cookbook author, blogger, and avid Francophile. She dreamed of moving to France for over a decade before she finally made it happen in the fall of 2021. Sarala is consciously creating her dream life in France- one of the slow happy days, eating seasonally, and in classic style.  Sarala first fell in love with France on a summer trip to Europe, after gradu...

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BONNIE BROWN is a Franco-Australian concert pianist. As a soloist and collaborative musician she has performed across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, in prominent music festivals and performance venues, including Wigmore Hall, London, the Sydney Opera House, Australia, on Broadway, New York, across France, as well as with Australia's leading orchestras and on the radio internationa...

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Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, rapper, composer, curator, editor & professor involved in over 60 albums, several GlitchArt films, anthologies & 7 books of Poetry.  Originally from Oakland, Ca. Malik moved to Paris in 2016 after 12 years in NYC co-founding & editing online journals (Madmenscalling, Those That This & Visceral Brooklyn) then gaining an MFA in Creative Writing from L....

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I’m an actress and writer originally from Sardinia, Italy, who has lived in different countries before moving to France to attend drama school, and my instagram is https://www.instagram.com/misschiaramaxia/ Support the show This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit laviecreativepodcast.substack.com

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Amanda Bestor-Siegal is the author of The Caretakers (William Morrow / Harper Collins & Little Brown UK). She received her MFA in fiction and screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Amanda lived in France for four years before relocating to Austin. "How rare this is, a book—a first book—that has it all. The Caretakers is thrilling and deeply moving,...

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Augusta Sagnelli is an American photographer living in France. She shot her first roll of film when she was hardly thirteen years old on her dad’s Nikon F2a, and knew from then she wanted to be a photographer. Augusta studied at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara California. Augusta’s professional photography career developed during her years living in New Orleans shooting for brands...

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Artist and Author Jamika  Ajalon is a self discribed INTERZONAL artist.  She has been published in many anthologies and journals including Speculative City and Lit Hub . Her novel Skye Papers came out in the summer of 2021,  to good review (including New York Times and Kirkus Review)  Her poetry and lyrics have manifested in more than a dozen albums, including the newly released , REBOOTED (jamika...

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​Matt Jones has penned poems and prose in Afghanistan, China, Nicaragua, France, Canada and on a warship. He was the winner of Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year Reader’s Choice Award for his poem, “Wounded Village.” His story, “Drone,” was recently published in F(r)iction magazine. Today, Matt is writing books and enjoying the Parisian Bohemia. Once I drove warships through fields of icebergs...