086: The Lost Art of The Dinner Party
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In a world that is going harder and faster, a proper dinner party seems to have become a thing of the past. In this podcast, Tonya shares the stories of inspiring dinner parties in Paris and South of France that left a huge impression on her and why she's made a commitment to bring back dinner parties to her modern life. She debunks many of the excuses that people have as to why they don't make time to host and entertain and why you may want to reconsider not making room for such a fun and elegant, yet non-essential affair.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the French Kiss Life podcast, all about living with more elegance, style, and |
| 0:05.8 | Joa de Viv in your everyday life. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess, and thanks so much for tuning in. |
| 0:11.8 | Let's get started. Hello my sweet friends how are you I am doing. I woke up early this morning, like right at sunrise to take my |
| 0:36.7 | dog for a walk, Mr. Winston, and he proceeded to go and get so muddy. |
| 0:43.9 | So I had to come home and shower him. |
| 0:45.6 | And then I've had a full day of coaching private clients |
| 0:49.8 | and I'm just so blown away. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm so blown away by what can happen when a woman is |
| 0:56.1 | really ready to open up to what's possible for her. And speaking of |
| 1:00.9 | possibility I want to talk about dinner parties. |
| 1:04.0 | I know, don't you love the segue? But truly, I find that so many people don't have real legitimate dinner parties anymore. |
| 1:14.0 | It's become a lost art. |
| 1:15.8 | So I want to talk about the lost art of the dinner party |
| 1:18.8 | and why we should bring it back. |
| 1:20.9 | My friend, Jim Haynes, has been hosting a weekly dinner party in his home in Paris for the past 30 years. |
| 1:29.0 | Every Sunday, at least 50 guests from around the world gather to feast on good food and provocative conversation. |
| 1:36.9 | And what's interesting is that the demographic varies from a truck driver in Arizona to a Dutch political cartoonist. |
| 1:45.0 | What do they all have in common? |
| 1:47.0 | A deep desire to connect and celebrate life. |
| 1:51.0 | I went to one of Jim's dinners years ago, and I walked in and being the true bon Vivant that he is, |
| 1:58.8 | he reached out his arms for a big bear hug, and he said, you must must be Tanya as if we had been lifelong friends |
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