This Is Fine!

Mood: perfume, educational, fun, deep dive

Perfume on a podcast!

Ready to find your signature scent, make your perfume last longer, and discover what notes you really love? James Elliott, nose and founder of American perfume house Filigree & Shadow, joins us today from Seattle to give us a perfume 101 — we’re talking all things personal fragrance!

From the science to the everyday wear, and how James manages to tell a story with a symphony of olfactive notes, this XL episode covers a LOT, and James breaks it down so anyone can understand.

You can also hear James interview Dominique on HIS podcast, OMG We Should Totally Do a Podcast, here. We talk fragrance, astrology, Paris life, identity, and a whole bunch of other things. Enjoy!

Discover James’s collection of beautiful fragrances at filigreeandshadow.co, and follow him on TikTok and Instagram.

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Mood: informational, Paris, practical how-to, inspiring

Lifelong dream of moving to France?

Wanderlust turning into wanderlove… wandercommittment perhaps?

If you’ve been jonesing to make the jump and immigrate to the EU, specifically France, we’ve got Paris’s top immigration attorney for Americans on the show today: Daniel Tostado, Avocat à la Cour. 

Daniel himself is a fellow American, now French citizen, who followed his dream to move to France years ago — and is helping so many others make their immigration dream a reality, too.

We go over the best and “easiest” visa options, explore ways to start establishing your life in France, and answer your questions from Instagram. We also get into what makes living in France just so damn special. Get your notebook ready, your immigration attorney meeting starts now!

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Mood: personal, deep, validating

Let's catch up on life in Paris, trends in perfume and street style and have a little "fireside chat" FDR style (lol, imagine) with Dominique on some career ennui.

Table of Contents:

2:02 Summer Wrapped (Dominique's debrief)

5:37 "What if you don't give a sh*t about your career" deep dive (Validate Me Harder Daddy)

17:22 Dominique's Picks, September 2024

21:20 AMA from Instagram — Ask Dominique Anything

Links you might want:

Dominique en Rose Substack

The perfumes:

Music: Sicily Roadtrip playlist

Jeans: Massimo Dutti, Zara

Color: Chanel purple eyeshadow

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Mood: expat POV, silly goofy, Americans in Paris

Welcome back to our expat/immigrant series, with another visit from @bisousmorgan — Morgan Hizar — our favorite Ohioan in Paris. Morgan shares her journey through a quarter life crisis that brought her to Paris, speaking zero French, going through five different visas, getting a masters, and deciding to build a life abroad. 

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What do you want to hear next? How did you like today’s episode? Send us a note at [email protected]. You can hear more from Dominique on Instagram and TikTok at @dommymichelle.

Get Dominique’s new newsletter, Dominique En Rose, with Paris updates and cosmic coaching on Substack now: https://dominiquemichelle.substack.com/ 🌹🦋

Book a mini astrology reading / cosmic coaching session at dominique-media.com/astrology 🪐✨
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Mood: quick and light, encouraging, self development, interactive

Who are you? 

Don’t answer with your job title or what you do. You can’t say where you work. Who you’re related to. Where you went to school. What clubs you’re in. 

So again… who are you? 

This seems obvious, but often, we don’t really know. Join Dominique for a handful of minutes (the duration of a commercial break if you listen on 2x!) and get a little mini coaching session on figuring out who you are, becoming more secure, and having a rock solid sense of self. 

In true Dominique fashion, she figured this out by making a PowerPoint presentation (for herself), so she has some tips on that as well. 

Get Dominique’s new newsletter, Dominique En Rose, with Paris updates and cosmic coaching on Substack now: https://dominiquemichelle.substack.com/ 🌹🦋

Book a mini astrology reading / cosmic coaching session at dominique-media.com/astrology 🪐✨

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Mood: cosmic, magical, self dev, educational

HAPPY ASTROLOGICAL NEW YEAR Y’ALL!

Preparing for the first day of Aries season — aka the first day of the 2024-2025 astrological new year — we’ve got a look at the year(s) ahead and some major planetary shifts with Shannon Aganza, master oracular astrologer (and Dominique’s teacher and mentor). 

We’re talking about all three Mercury retrogrades this year, eclipses, and the shifts of Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

0:02:45 — the 2024 vibe shift

0:07:00 — demystifying Mercury retrograde (a preview)

0:08:35 — more themes for 2024

0:12:40 — Uranus in Gemini forecast (“the new age”)

0:16:09 — Saturn in Pisces vibes

0:21:21 — Neptune in Pisces → Aries

0:27:17 — Jupiter x Uranus in Taurus (biggest transit of the year!!!)

0:31:08 — April 8 Solar Eclipse

0:32:22 — Self Exploration Theme!

0:35:05 — Jupiter in Gemini, May 25

0:40:29 — Locate Gemini in your chart!

0:49:32 — More on Neptune in Aries

0:56:06 — Uranus changing signs / big disruptions

1:00:43 — Preparing for the vibe shift, editing people out of your life

1:25:37 — Venus x Uranus conjunction 

1:27:06 — Neptune retrograde PIsces 

Mercury Retrogrades 2024

1:13:52 — demystifying mercury retrograde

1:19:22 — April 1, Mercury retrograde in Aries

1:28:09 — August 4, Mercury retrograde in Virgo/Leo

1:31:12 — November 25, Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius

Want to learn more about astrology with Shannon? Visit her site: MoonGathering.com to discover courses, book a reading, and more.

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Sign up for the Dominique en Rose newsletter on Substack, here. Learn more about astrology with Dominique at dominique-media.com/astrology.

Mood: wellnessy, light, chatting with the girls

This Is Fine! welcomes Kiana Tiese, founder of KT Wellness Concierge in Paris, to talk all things wellness — including her new business. Kiana shares her experience in the wellness communities in New York versus Paris, how she started her business in Paris, and what she hopes to bring to this market abroad. 

Named “The Real Emily in Paris” by Elle New Zealand (flex!), Kiana has begun hosting wellness events across Paris, combining things like skincare and pilates, healthy brunches, and now — wait for it — astrology! Dominique will be the guest astrologer at Kiana’s next event, Astrology Brunch, on March 16. Get your tickets here. 

Follow Kiana on TikTok and Instagram.

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Mood: silly goofy, americans in paris, life advice, chill

Welcome to our second episode with @americanfille, Amanda Rollins, THE American in Paris, who just hit 1M on TikTok! *cue air horn sounds*

She's the Greenfield High School French Club President, number one Niska fangirl, Paris Big Sister, and Chief of Pickpocket Police in Paris: Amanda has been inspiring and entertaining her community for years, and has graced our podcast with her voice for a second time! We are #blessed.

Amanda (and Morgan!) convinced Dominique to move to Paris after recording episode 31, and today she is sharing her own journey to Paris, as well as her journey to being a full time content creator and making a living being herself. 

Celebrate 1M with Amanda on March 16 at Quai de la Photo in Paris: party tickets are available here.

Follow Amanda on TikTok and Instagram at @americanfille.

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Mood: career vibes, confidence boost, coaching

Ready for a free career coaching session with a badass expert? Trish Seidel, Head of Content at DJUST (a B2B tech company in Paris), Founder of Marketing Big Sister, and high key LinkedIn influencer joins us to teach you how to create your own personal brand in your professional life. Trish guides you through how to navigate being a woman in the workplace, advocate for yourself, manage conflict successfully, negotiate better, and land more leadership roles and promotion opportunities. 

With her MBA specialized in business communication and brand strategy and a decade in the French tech industry, Trish has so many career hacks and is ready to be YOUR marketing big sister. 

Find more from Trish on her LinkedIn, HERE!

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Mood: romantic, dating advice, self development

Happy Valentine’s Day, and welcome to our first dating coaching episode, Dating With Dani! We’ve brought in coach and branding expert Dani Mejias Malick (@daniemme) to chat about some male-female dynamics, observations, and suggestions for single girlies looking for a boyfriend, husband, or general romantic partner. Dani’s come to us with a hypothesis (we LOVE a woman in STEM!) called “Leading With Sweetness.” 

The tension in the straight dating world is thick, and not in the fun spicy way… Dani has been investigating how to ease tension, imbue sweetness, and in her words, “get to the truth as quickly as possible.” 

Ready for some romance? We love love. Let’s get into it. 

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