Krystal Kenney

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 laviecreativepodcast.substack.com

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Krystal Kenney

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Education

Latest episode

Oct 26, 2025

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Episodes

EP 226: Tanya Heath (Inventor of the convertible shoe) 22.06.2022

Nothing pre-destined Tanya to become a fashion disrupter.   For 15 years she had a classic career in management consulting, technology start-ups, and private equity, while teaching innovation at one of France’s leading engineering schools, and raising her 3 kids. Yet, even as a child growing up in Canada, she was mesmerized by the art and artifacts that her parents would bring home after a vacatio...

EP 225: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Place des Vosges) 20.06.2022

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EP 224: Musician Julie Scolnik 15.06.2022

JULIE SCOLNIK is a concert flutist and the founding artistic director of Mistral Music, a chamber music series which since 1997 has been known for its virtuosic artists, imaginative programming, and the personal rapport she establishes with her audiences. Since her treatment and recovery from breast cancer in 2005, Scolnik has found ways to play and organize benefit concerts which raise funds for...

EP 223: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Île de la Cité) 13.06.2022

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EP 222: International Life Coach Mundey Young 08.06.2022

My name is Mundey Young and I’m the proud owner of Mundey Young Coaching . As a life coach, I’ve spent years working with clients to ensure that they have the necessary skills, support, and compassion that they need to achieve their goals, become one with themselves, and live the life that they’ve always envisioned. My Story My professional story began at the age of 18 when I left my California ho...

EP 221: Paris History Avec a Hemingway ( Ile Saint Louis South) 06.06.2022

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EP 220: Parisian Abstract Painter Chen Sands 01.06.2022

www.chensands.com Website bio; "Photographer and artist, Chen was born in Manila, educated in the UK and is currently based in Paris. Her love of travel and people greatly influences her work and she can be found working on portrait shoots, photographic editorials and art projects throughout Europe and Asia .  " Most recent project - aatei art brand https://www.chensands.com/about-aatei...

EP 218: Sharri Harmel, Editor & Chief Creative of Extraordinary Women Magazine & Podcast 25.05.2022

Sharri Harmel has been in the business and coaching world for over 25 years.  Her love of design, writing, travel, cooking and creative ideas coupled with her passionate belief that we should always, always have a dream, has led her to share stories of women who are not celebrities, but real women who have chosen to create and live lives of true authenticity and passion with a focus on doing, maki...

EP 117: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Île Saint-Louis) 23.05.2022

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EP 216: Antique specialist, house flipper, Sculptor Porter Scott shares his life in France 18.05.2022

My initial concept was to create a totem pole configuration with a vertical buildup of elements (all of which symbolize the town or the region). Then I got the creative inspiration to make some of the elements movable like a wind vane.; thus the 'Totem Girouette' came about. We've named it 'Autant en Emporte le Chanvre' in nostalgic reminiscence of the hemp industry, which...

EP 215: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Le Marais) 16.05.2022

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EP 214: The Once Blind Painter, Joe Langley shares his Paris Story 11.05.2022

Joe Langley's story is the most remarkable of all the expatriates that I know - AfricanAmerican or otherwise! His love affair with the French language began when he found his brother's copy of Saint Exupéry's Le Petit Prince at home. He liked the "look" of the French words and loved the illustrations. These inspired him to pursue art and the French language as life-long pa...

EP 213: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Haut Marais) 09.05.2022

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EP 212: Renaissance Woman and local Parisian Artist Kate French 04.05.2022

I’m a Multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Paris, exploring femininity through the study of historical psychology and mythology. Social Media: @ kgs.french.works 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

EP 212: Michael Pereira: Parisian Performer, Singer, and Teacher 04.05.2022

After spending 22 years as a working and teaching professional in New York City, Michael decided to follow his instincts and try living and working in Paris.  Michael is currently teaching several different disciplines in Europe.             Broadway Jazz             Ballet             Vocal Technique             Musical Theatre Techniques With the help of his collaborator Marion Martelin and guid...

EP 211: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Montparnasse) 02.05.2022

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EP 210: Artist and Jewlery Maker MARI HA 27.04.2022

About My art goes beyond technique or material, it is the way of transmitting my stories through my hands. It is a way of aesthetically materializing what I feel so that someone else can identify with it. CONSTANT ROAD more than objects We realized that not only I (María) only made jewelry, there are also many collaborators around our stories and within each narrative there is a universe that want...

EP 209: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (The Best of Paris Museums this Month) 25.04.2022

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EP 208: Laura Morelli Art Historian and Historical Novelist 20.04.2022

LAURA MORELLI holds a Ph. D. in art history from Yale University and is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling historical novelist. Laura has taught college students in the U.S. and in Italy. She has covered art and authentic travel for TED-Ed, National Geographic Traveler, Italy Magazine, CNN Radio, and other media. Laura is the author of the popular Authentic Arts guidebook series that includes...

EP 207: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Rachel Felix) 19.04.2022

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EP 206: Author and Researcher Brad Snyder 13.04.2022

Brad explains children to adults and to clients ranging from the U.S. Justice Department to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Experts have described Brad’s parenting book, The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids , as an “urgent ‘must-read.’” Rebecca Sugar, creator of Cartoon Network’s Stephen Universe, said about Brad, “I learned a lot from him that informed the rest of the show.” Titles from his W...

EP 205: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (100th Episode Celebration!) 11.04.2022

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EP 204: Liz Adams, an American figurative painter based in Paris 06.04.2022

Liz Adams  www.lizadamsart.com   Liz is an American figurative painter based in Paris, France. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and the National Academy School of Fine Arts, focusing on classical life drawing and painting. A winner of the Newington Cropsey Foundation for th...

EP 203: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Musée Charles X ) 04.04.2022

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EP 202: Parisian Actress and Performer Mia Leahy 30.03.2022

Mia Leahy hails from Ireland where she was passionate from an early age about dance; ballet, Irish dancing and American tap, singing, and music, reciting poetry, and making up plays. This led to an exodus to London after a year at Cork University studying the Greeks and dancing a lot.  Formed a highly unsuccessful punk band called the Nude Usherettes and thought the better of it and applied to dra...

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