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Frenchie Friday: I’ve Discovered the Secret to Everything
“Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up.” ― Isa Zapata This morning, while watering my little garden, I realized how completely unnecessary it...
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Frenchie Friday: The Art of Savoring Life (aka the Slow Life Movement)
“The journey is the reward.” ~Chinese Proverb I sat at a table filled with my entrepreneurial friends, and the flavor of conversation was all about getting ahead. Now, don’t get me wrong: I love...
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Frenchie Friday: 50 Ways to Be Elegant
Eleganceis not a word we often hear. Worse yet, it’s not one we often aspire to embody. We’re just trying to get the kids to school, run businesses, get to the office on time, clean the house, pay the...
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Frenchie Friday: Do You Have a Red Velvet Rope Policy?
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ― Anaïs Nin Love it or hate it, the French are very...
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Frenchie Friday: How to Live in Luxury
“Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.” ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth My business manager informed me a...
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Frenchie Friday: Master the Art of Seduction
“ I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. ” –...
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Frenchie Friday: Move Like a French Woman
“Walk like you have three men walking behind you.” - Oscar de la Renta Without fail, every time I go to France, I lose weight . . . all while sipping wine and eating decadent food. What’s the magic?...
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Frenchie Friday: Dress for Romance
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” ― Gore Vidal Since injuring my back a few weeks ago during my epic wake boarding attempt, I found myself living in yoga...
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Frenchie Friday: Wine + Weight Loss
“A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way.” – Frances Tabeek, Wine Enthusiast I’ll admit that I use to be that girl...
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12 Ways To Have Je Ne Sais Quoi
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess Je ne sais quoi. Most likely, you have heard the phrase...
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Frenchie Friday: The (Not So) Hopeless Romantic
“Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are all noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.” John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society I...
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Frenchie Friday: How I Lost Weight and Finally Made Peace with My Body
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together. -...
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Frenchie Friday: Even Elegant Women Get Pissed Off (A Rant about Self-Help)
*Prefer to listen? An audio recording is waiting for you at the end. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new...
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Frenchie Friday: Living the French Kiss Life-style in the Middle of Nowhere
Before you dive into today’s Frenchie Friday, I want to invite you to join me for a community-wide Soirée I’m hosting next week. This will be a gathering of women from around the globe who are...
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The Missing Ingredient to a Well-Lived Life (and a Vivacious Body)
I wasted many years of my life binging on the wrong things — things that didn’t bring me more life. I indulged in worry, sadness and anxiety. And, my biggest binge of all? Dieting! I spent a decade...
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Instead of trying so hard to pursue happiness, do this
The French Phrase Joie de vivre literally translates to “the joy of living.” I must confess: I used to believe that this meant being happy 24-7. So in my mind, this meant that to feel a negative...
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Let’s Shake It Up (…moving to a foreign country or leaving your husband not...
Do the same things day in and day out. Follow the same schedule and routine. Cross all your t’s. Dot all your i’s. I know it’s what a good girl “should” do. But do this for long enough, I have found...
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The Worst Kinds of Questions
These were the kinds of questions that consumed my mind for years: How do I lose weight? What foods should I avoid? How do I make more money? How do I find a man? How do I grow my income? How do I...
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The 3 French Fry Method
Sitting at a quintessential Parisian cafe, my girlfriends and I ordered a typical French meal: steak and frites with a glass of Bordeaux. I couldn’t help but notice the most elegant French woman,...
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How I Put the Joie back into my Vivre (after struggling for way too long)
I was a happy kid, but I lost that spark around age nine. Perhaps it was the loss of my first boyfriend to Jennifer, the mean girls in school or hormones. But overnight, I went from being a jolly girl...
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