Episode 20: Meet Jen Lesaigle, whose love of animals and wanderlust led her toward creating a pet travel concierge business
Welcome to Episode #20 of Profiles in Franceformation. I'm your host, Allison Grant Lounes. In this episode, I speak to Jen Lesaigle, who has lived all over the world and settled in France with her French husband, many years after they originally met and lost touch....
Episode 19: my conversation with Zachary Miller, a bilingual film director, producer, and writer living in Paris
Welcome to Episode #19 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host, Allison Grant Lounes. In this episode, I spoke with Zachary Miller, who moved to France with his French wife for a year in 1990 to write the Great American Novel - and never left. When they...
Bonus Episode: Interview with Allison Grant Lounes, Creator of Your Franceformation
In this special bonus episode of Profiles in Franceformation, our online business manager Chelley Wild interviews Your Franceformation’s creator, Allison Grant Lounes, to talk about how she first moved to France, the challenges she faced when she first arrived, and what inspired her to start helping others make the move.
Episode 18: Bringing Hard Seltzer to France: a conversation with Ricky Glass, co-founder of Colorado Craft Beverage
Welcome to Episode #18 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host Allison Grant Lounes. In today’s episode, I speak with Ricky Glass, co-founder of Colorado Craft Beverage based out of Paris. Their craft hard seltzer, Snowmelt, was the first to launch in France in...
Episode 17: Listen to Nicola Rose, an actor, film producer and director, “One of the things about France and Paris in particular is that there are all these hidden corners. And each of them has something that’s kind of hidden in a fold.”
Welcome to Episode #17 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host, Allison Grant Lounes, and today my guest is Nicola Rose, an actor, film producer and director whose films include Creative Block; Gabrielle; and Goodbye; Petrushka. While currently living in...
Episode 16: listen to my conversation with Summer Jauneaud, “It makes me happy to have visitors come here and fall in love with the place… I really want people to love it [France] as much as I do.”
Welcome to Episode #16 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host Allison Grant Lounes and today we’ll be speaking to Summer Jauneaud, an American expat from Los Angeles living in the town of Amboise, located in the Loire Valley of France. Summer is the Loire...
Episode 15: a conversation with Shannon Pratuch, an American expat in France who runs the successful Instagram and blog, This French Life
Welcome to Episode #15 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host Allison Grant Lounes and today we are talking to Shannon Pratuch, an American expat in France who splits her time between Paris and Brittany. Shannon runs the successful instagram account and blog,...
Episode 14: Listen to David Sargent’s experience moving to France over 15 years ago and learning the differences between the American vs French way of doing things. “It’s not about language, it’s about culture.”
Welcome to Episode #14 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host Allison Grant Lounes and today my guest is David Sargent. If that last name sounds familiar, it's because David is married to Annie, the last guest I interviewed on our show. Today, David is going to...
Episode 13: our conversation with Annie Sargent, host of the podcast, “Join Us In France”, continues: “That’s the flag I claim, is the French person who can speak English and wants to talk about France the way French people see France.”
Welcome to Episode #13 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host Allison Grant Lounes and today my guest is Annie Sargent. Annie is the creator and host of the podcast, Join Us in France. Our conversation with Annie is actually broken into two episodes, so be sure...
Episode 12: Learn how French native, Annie Sargent, host of the podcast, “Join Us In France” reintegrated back into French life and culture after living in the US for 16 years. “I could understand all of the words, but none of the concepts.”
Welcome to Episode #12 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host Allison Grant Lounes and today my guest is Annie Sargent. Annie is the creator and host of the podcast, Join Us in France. Each week, she takes her listeners on a tour of various cities and towns in...