Françoise Bor de Ley
Françoise Bor de Ley was born in Strasbourg, the “capital of Europe” and raised in a Franco-German culture and speaks several languages. Though Françoise holds degrees in Languages and Real Estate Law, she has returned to her first passion : Art. She found her calling in Interior Design and graduated from the “Interior Deco ” School in Paris. Françoise founded the ” DeMontigny Group ” which she launched in January 2014, offering services in: Interior and Landscape design , Works of Art , Furniture, and Photography. Readers receive a 10% discount on DeMontigny Group services.
Website: www.de-montigny-group.com
Dawn Z Bournand
Creator of the My Paris Story concept and book project, Dawn Z Bournand is a business and life coach working with clients around the world to help them create a business and lifestyle that supports their unique definition of Fabulously Successful. An American living in Paris, an international entrepreneur and a highly fulfilled mother to her three sons, Dawn is living her dream and wants to inspire you to do the same. She believes that if you are not living a life you love, perhaps it is time to make a change. To learn more about Dawn, Fabulously Successful and how you too can share your message with the world you are invited to go to her website.
Website: www.fabulouslysuccessful.com
Alecia Caine
Alecia Caine is the founder of Find Yourself In France, a boutique tour designer for women celebrating their success. As a former CPA, she has inspired hundreds of women to follow their dreams and create lasting success. After her children grew up, she reconnected with her passion for France. Having studied the language since she was 12, Alecia has also lived in Paris, and traveled extensively throughout France, while immersing herself in fashion, perfume, food and wine. She shares her passions with you …in Paris on a fashion and beauty tour or in the French countryside tasting cheese right on a farm or having lunch on a vineyard.
Website: www.FindYourselfInFrance.com
Olena Yashchuk Codet
Olena Yashchuk Codet is a French-Ukrainian artist and journalist, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1976. In 1999 she moved to France. She speaks and write in 4 languages (Ukrainian, Russian, French and English). Olena has taken part in exhibitions and art fairs in both Paris and London and her drawings and paintings are in private collections in the UK, the US, France and Ukraine. Her major influences as an artist are various: Ukrainian folk art, Japanese ‘estampes’ Art Nouveau, photography and nature… Her favourite medium: felt-pen on paper, acrylic painting. Olena’s mission is to make your life brighter!
Facebook: www.facebook.com/KatouMatou
ETSY: Joie de Vivre Paintings
Céline Douay
Multiculturally influenced, CélineDouay is a mentor, personal life and business coach. Born in 1981 in Versailles, Céline’s open minded soul encouraged her to travel around the world and speak different languages. (French, English, German, Arabic). After working 7 years in online marketing management on a European level, she decided to launch her own business helping individuals and entrepreneurs to achieve their goals and live in their true nature by using creative tools based on her extra-sensorial perceptions and analyzing capabilities. Certified from The Coaching Academy in London, she is accredited for many psycho metrics tools such as DISC and NLP.
Website: www.goforcoaching.com
Rebecca Earley
Rebecca Earley was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1986, but she likes to call North Carolina, where she spent the majority of her childhood, her home. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008, with a double major in French and in Spanish. Following graduation she spent four years in New York City, working in advertising and living in Brooklyn. She now lives in Paris working for the global advertising firm, Ogilvy, where she is finally living her dream.
Sonia Hadjadj Sonia Hadjadj is a French bilingual business lawyer who works with entrepreneurs and business owners helping them create or grow their companies. Whether you want to launch a tour guide business in Paris, a technology start-up or expand your existing business to France and Europe, Sonia is here to assist through all the steps and make sure your business stays protected. When not helping entrepreneurs bring their vision to life, Sonia loves watching sci-fi movies and series, practicing her yoga or planning her next travel trip. Website: www.yourfrenchbizlawyer.com
Twitter: @sonia_hdj
Addis Kassegn
Addis Kassegn currently lives in Paris and works with business owners in Europe and the US to help them develop their business strategy and market their products and services. Addis has lived in Paris, Spain, the USA, Egypt and Turkey. She is fluent in English, French, Arabic and Spanish. Addis has a bachelor’s degree in international business and an MBA in marketing. With 16 years of experience in business development and marketing, Addis helps most of her clients by analyzing their business and applying the appropriate marketing initiatives.
Yulin Lee
With a Computer Science degree and a MBA, for 12 years, Yulin worked for companies like Microsoft and Adobe, as a Marketing Manager. Her real passion, however, is helping people in RE investments and financial management, which she had done for 10 years before moving to Paris. She has now started her private practice as a Financial Coach.
Website: www.yulinlee.com
Sabrina Makar
Sabrina Makar is a fashion designer and entrepreneur based in Paris. Always working on multiple projects, she is the founder and owner of the label SABRINA MAKAR and of Squares & Circles, a multi-brand e-shop that gathers designers from all over the world.
Website: www.sabrinamakar.com
Website: www.squares-circles.com
Jennifer Manson
Jennifer Manson is The Flow Writer, helping clients who have an important message to share to bring that message to the page. Jennifer is the author of six novels and one non-fiction title Easy – Stories from an effortlessly created life about how we can make the practical aspects of life easy, so we can get the important things done.
Website: www.theflowwriter.com
Mady Mendes
Madeleine (Mady) Mendes, is an entrepreneur and founder of Mazinha cosmetics. Her parents immigrated from Guinée Bissau in west Africa to Paris, France where Mady was born and raised. After graduating, she resided for nearly two years in the United kindom where she found her love for makeup and then returned to Paris to begin her cosmetic business. Mady believes her main purpose in life is to be a philanthropist.
Claire Morris
Claire Morris based in Paris, is a British Wedding & Portrait Photographer. With 15 years experience she brings a creative, natural and editorial feel to every wedding she shoots. Her breath-taking photographs, passion and great enthusiasm for her work, have just won her a place as a finalist for the national ‘Wedding Photographer of the Year 2014’’ award.
Website: www.clairemorrisphotography.com
Margot Nightingale
Margot Nightingale is a writer and educator living in Paris. Her day job keeps her entertained and on her toes; she runs her own business helping French professionals practice and perfect their English conversation and business vocabulary. She’s currently re-reading The third man by Graham Greene with one of her executive clients. She lives with her husband, a designer, and 10 year old son, a budding magician specializing in card tricks.
Michelle Pozon
Michelle Pozon spent her formative years throughout South East Asia. Her favorite childhood moments were spent ‘playing’ in her mother’s closet, styling her outfits for Embassy Balls. Believing, however, that her joy was ‘just a hobby’, she never dreamt of a life in fashion. Now though, after 20 years as a fashion designer, and working today as a personal stylist, Michelle is humbled by the joy that her service provides. She helps her clients clear out the superfluous to find their own true grace. “I’m at play and I am of service…seeing my clients smile at their own reflection… that – is pure bliss.”
Contact: closetguruparis@gmail.com
Genevieve Prono
Psychotherapist, coach, holistic healer, speaker, facilitator, trainer, author, Genevieve Prono has been helping women and men for 25 years at key moments of their life and during periods of transition and change like pregnancy, entering parenthood, separations, traumatic experiences or changes of orientation. She also trains and coaches health professionals, social workers and alternative professionals and has been doing that for fifteen years. She started her own company in 2002: Chrysalide France
Website: www.chrysalidefrance.com
Lesley Kirk Renaud
British born Lesley Kirk-Renaud is founder of LKR International Events. Now based in Saint Germain-en-Laye just outside Paris, Lesley took her many years of corporate marketing and event planning experience to create her own high-end events company. LKR International specializes in creating and producing high quality events in France and across Europe from luxury weddings, to special birthdays to a romantic dinner in Paris to a festive baby shower as well as numerous options for organizing outstanding International corporate events.
Website: www.lkr-ie.com
Patricia Rosas
Mexican-American opera singer and blogger Patricia (Tricia) Rosas moved to Paris to pursue her passion for music at the Conservatoire de Paris and a master’s degree at the Sorbonne. The French capital is now home, as well as her personal playground.
Website: www.PatriciaParisienne.com
Karen Reb Rudel
Born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Karen grew up with the aspiration to be a comedian, a musician, or both. She went on to study drama at Temple University in Philadelphia and played in a series of bands. From the age of 30 until she got married, Karen was back and forth between Paris and Philadelphia, working on musical projects and touring. One day her parents came to visit Karen, and while she was showing them around, her mother exclaimed, “Karen, you would make a great tour guide!” That was the light bulb moment, and voila Sight Seeker’s Delight unique walking tours was born.
Website: www.sightseekersdelight.com
Sanda Nina Taranu (married Boucheron)
Born in Timisoara, Nina lived in Chicago most of her adult life before the next big move to Paris. After obtaining a BA in fashion design she set about a great undertaking: more than just fashion, a Fashion Design and Lifestyle boutique with a parallel focus on the ‘other’ children. Dramatic yet simple, timeless and unique, her pieces address that strong and classy “Jacqueline of all trades” who knows life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. And who cares.
Website: www.boucheron52.com
Julia Willard
Self-proclaimed intrepid voyageuse Julia Willard has made a life out of always looking for new places to live, explore, photograph, and write about. Never without a camera in her bag and a notebook at hand, she captures the beauty around her to share in hopes of inspiring others to pursue their respective passions. She also does freelance editing, proofreading, and translation work.
Website: www.fallingoffbicycles.com
Website: www.juliawillard.com
Twitter: @fallingoffbikes
Petronela Zainuddin
Petronela Zainuddin is a creative mind, passionate about leadership and education. She is founder of Good Morning Creativity, an award winning, learning company based in Paris. She works with clients all over Europe to blend business strategy, experiential learning and creativity. She is an international speaker and the author of the 365 Creativity Facilitators visual blog.
Website: www.goodmorningcreativity.com