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  • EP: 520 How to Move to France with Fabien Pelissier of FabExpat

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    Fabien is the founder and managing director of FAB, established in 2015. FAB specializes in insurance and offers a network of relocation experts, administrative support, and specialist partners to help people settle and thrive in France. With extensive experience handling visa applications, Fabien likes to be regarded as an "immigration GP." He also served on the board of URSSAF Aquitaine and CPAM "Pays Basque" for four years, giving him in-depth knowledge of the French system.

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    30 min
  • EP: 518 Crossroads & Currents: Navigating Life’s Shifts with Sonya Allen

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    Professional Biography For over two decades, Sonya Allen has lived, worked, and evolved within the ever-shifting landscapes of Paris. With a background in international small business development, creative strategy, and editorial curation, she has forged a path that merges professional reinvention with the deeply personal experience of relocating, repatriating, and reshaping one’s life abroad. At the heart of her work is a deeper exploration—how movement, whether by choice or necessity, reshapes identity, sharpens resilience, and reveals unexpected opportunities. Sonya helps organizations, professionals, and expatriates recognize the unspoken skills they acquire, navigate uncertainty with clarity, and harness the personal and professional growth that comes with movement. This is not about “reinvention” as an external pursuit, but about understanding how change itself—at this level—becomes a steady foundation. Through speaking engagements, workshops, and advisory sessions, she offers a perspective that is neither prescriptive nor cliché, but deeply human. Sonya explores how to Pivot, Pause, and Segue — with a re-framing approach, not as rigid steps, but as an unfolding process that allows each person to carry forward their own expansion with purpose, approaching change with self-reflection, curiosity, and intention— wherever that may lead. S


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    39 min
  • EP: 516 Crafting Notch: Angela Black's Editorial Artistry

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    Angela Black is a founding editor and Art Director of Notch, a literary and arts magazine based in Paris and New York. She oversees the curation and editing of critical essays and visual arts. Angela, originally from San Francisco, is dedicated to Nietzschean yes-saying and is currently reveling in her first Dickens novel. Paris is her home.

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    33 min
  • EP: 514 Words and Warriors: Matt Jones on Crafting Stories and Strength

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    Matthew James Jones is a poet, storyteller and the author of the best-selling Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures. Today, Matt writes and teaches in Paris: leadership at the École Militaire and creative writing at SciencesPo. His many published works interrogate themes of dehumanization, poetics, monsters, masculinity, cross-cultural exchange, and healing.

    Matt’s book: France

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    Author of "Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures"

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    Editor at The Wrath-Bearing Tree

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    41 min

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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…

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