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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #347: Secrets of Paris

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Bonjour. Welcome to the 347th edition of Tranquility du Jour: Secrets of Paris with Heather Stimmler-Hall. Hear stories from her journey to French citizenship, travel writing, and creation of Naughty Guides .

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Featured Guest: Heather Stimmler-Hall

Heather-SHBorn just outside Philadelphia, Heather grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona where she was Teen Correspondent at the Phoenix Gazette (1992-1993). She studied journalism, political science and environmental policy at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota (1993-1997) and the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas in Paris (1995-1996), where she moved permanently after graduating in 1997.

Travel Writing
After working as the editorial assistant at the Carleton News Bureau (1993-1997), her first professional position in Paris was as Travel Editor for the website of ELLE Magazine (1999). Freelance since 2001, she has written for many international publications and websites including Fodor’s Guides, Michelin Guides, Robb Report, Expedia.com, easyJet inflight magazine, Time Out Guides, United Airways inflight magazine, The Guardian (UK), France Magazine, Rick Steves, Hotelier International, ELLE, L’Officiel and Avalon’s Moon Metro Guides, in addition to her own website and newsletter, Secrets of Paris, which has over 16k subscribers. See a selection of writing clips here.

Tour Guide
In 2004 Heather became a tour guide, working for EF Tours, Backroads, and Context Travel, before starting her own Secrets of Paris Tours in 2006 to focus on private, custom tours of Paris for individuals and small groups.

Indie Publisher
In 2007 Secrets of Paris created its own independent publishing house, Fleur de Lire Press, which has published the award-winning travel book “Naughty Paris: A Lady’s Guide to the Sexy City”, the iPhone app and eBook “Paris Pastry” with cookbook author David Lebovitz, and the eBook “Secrets of Versailles: A Visitor’s Survival Guide”.

naughty_paris_1Photo Credit: Hana www.journeyintolavillelumiere.com

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0:00.0

Tranquility D'Jure, August 31st, 2015.

0:09.4

Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and I am out at the cabin in lovely West Virginia

0:15.8

after a weekend of glamping.

0:18.4

We got Miss Lily, our vintage camper, out again for the first time

0:22.6

and over a year, and it was Mookiee's first camping experience. So it was quite the journey.

0:28.6

And I'll be sure to post photos, so you'll find those on my blog later this week. And I want to

0:34.0

welcome you to the 347th edition of Tranquility D'Jour, Secrets of Paris, with Heather Stimler Hall.

0:43.5

Here's stories from her journey to French citizenship, her travel writing, and creation of naughty guides.

0:50.3

And we got to meet Heather during Penning in Paris in June, and we sat in this beautiful park

0:56.3

right next to Shakespeare and Company before we went to this poetry reading.

1:00.7

And we got to hear all about her journey from Minnesota, where she was in school and college to Paris,

1:07.3

which very different styles there, and all about her travel writing journey, which

1:12.8

was quite intense and quite lovely.

1:15.0

So I know you're going to enjoy this podcast also.

1:19.0

And I just want to mention this is our last of our weekly ones.

1:22.3

We're going to go back to bi-weekly.

1:24.2

So I did weekly in August because, A, we had so many wonderful interviews to share,

1:29.4

and B, I knew many people would be on the road in August. So I thought it would be nice to have a

1:33.6

weekly dose of tranquility and inspiration kind of coming your way if you were dealing with car loads

1:41.1

of kids and traffic and whatnot as you headed to the beach or

1:45.1

wherever you went and jaunted over this beautiful month. So finale to August, I can't believe,

1:52.9

and now we have the brand new month of September right around the corner and my favorite

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