“Leave all your expectations at the door:” How Expat Coach Mundey Young Keeps Creating Herself & Her Life Vision in Marseille
Welcome to Episode 10 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host, Allison Grant Lounes, and today, my guest is Mundey Young, founder of Mundey Young Coaching. She is a US Air Force veteran, mother, wife and entrepreneur who has been coaching people from around the...
The 7-Year Crisis Point: How Sandy Anderson decided to spend the rest of her life in France, without becoming French
In Episode 8 of Profiles in Franceformation, I interviewed Sandy Anderson, a retired English teacher who is a fellow graduate of the Middlebury College French School, which I also attended. Sandy, an American, was born in Ontario, Canada, went to school in Jamaica,...
“France Will Take Care of You:” The Cancer Disaster that brought Suzanne White Home to France
Welcome to Episode 7 of Profiles in Franceformation! I’m your host, Allison Grant Lounes. In this episode, I interview Suzanne White, an American woman who came to Paris from Buffalo, New York, at age 22, in 1961. Suzanne is the author of a book called The New Chinese...
Moving to France During Lockdown with Brian Jones
Welcome to Episode 6 of Profiles in Franceformation. I’m your host, Allison Grant Lounes, and this week, my guest is Brian Jones. Brian is originally from Michigan and moved to a village near Rennes in Brittany, France, in 2019 with his French wife. Initially, he...
Stumbling Into the Study Abroad Office Led to Almenia’s Move to France
This week's episode is with guest Almenia Garvey, an American woman from North Carolina and Chicago, who asked her job to transfer her and moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France with her husband and two children in 2017. The best part of her story is that at all...
Living a French Life in Cahors, France, with Hawaiian-born Entrepreneur Karen Kriebl
Today I'm here with Karen Kriebl, an American entrepreneur from Hawaii who moved to France in 2017. Her business living a French life as an e commerce site selling vintage French treasures. And her mission is to share the beauty of France through her online shop of...
Bonus Episode: Foolproof French Visas: Getting the Right Visa for your Dream Life in France
5 years in the future, you’re in France, living your dream life. What are 3 things that you’re doing in your life and career? Now, the reality is that creating these dreams IS possible, and it’s possible in France. And if you haven’t figured out how, yet, it’s not...
Moving a Family to France After Newtown, with INSEAD Researcher Michael Olenick
Michael Olenick is an attorney and financial researcher who was living near Parkland, Florida, with his wife and 6-year-old daughter when the mass shooting in Newtown, CT claimed the lives of 20 first grade children and 6 adults. He and his wife decided shortly after...
Bonus Episode 2,5: Student Visas, Vie Privée, and Teaching English with Tapif
In Episode 2 of Profiles in Franceformation with Morgan Walesh, we talked about how she came to France initially as a student to study French, and then, after the birth of her daughter, switched her visa status. She now works as a "local recruit" English teacher with...
Discovering Paris, the History of Our Streets, with Morgan Walesh
In the second episode of Profiles in Franceformation, I interview Morgan Walesh, an American who came to France from Wisconsin and has been living in the 5th arrondissement of Paris for 7 years. Originally a nursing graduate, she came to teach English with TAPIF (the...