Hello and welcome to the French Kiss Life podcast, all about living with more elegance, style,

and joie de vivre in your everyday life. I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess. Let's get started. Hello, my friends. How are you? I hope you are having a fabulous day.

Guess what? I'm getting ready to go to Paris. And you all probably know it's one of my favorite

places on the planet. It is the place that I discovered French Kiss Life. And in case you don't

know what that means, head over to Tanya Lee.com and learn all about what it means to French kiss life. But it was in the Luxembourg

gardens when I was walking through on my very last day of my very first trip to Paris that

I realized that I wanted to live my life differently. I wanted to live with more elegance and

joie de vivre. I wanted to learn how to savor the moment,

because I think we can all agree. Most of us live in cultures that teach us to go harder and

faster and grind our way to success and hustle. And it's exhausting, right? And so I'm getting ready to do my annual, I call it my annual

pilgrimage to Paris. I take a group of ladies there every year. And it's an experience that's

really hard to put into words because I find that the best experiences you simply can't.

It's something that you feel.

It's not something that you are able to articulate so well.

But out of all of the emails I get, one of the ones that I receive most frequently is

how do you do Paris, especially for people that have never been before, because Paris is full of all of these

incredible sites, all of these incredible landmarks, and people are always overwhelmed. So, today's

podcast is all about 10 ways to experience Paris like a local. There's a really fun book out there called

I'll never be French no matter how hard I try and that is definitely me. I am very

much the American in Paris. However I have to say I am not your typical tourist in Paris. Sure, I've

visited the Louvre, the Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, but I've never been to the Moulon Rouge,

believe it or not, and I have absolutely no desire to go. I don't often frequent L'Ur-om or the galleries La Fiette. I prefer small boutiques

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