Tranquility du Jour #351: At Home with Madame Chic
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
At Home with Madame Chic with Jennifer Scott. Learn her secrets to a fulfilling life at home, why details matter, and what it truly means to be chic.

Featured Guest: Jennifer Scott
Jennifer L. Scott is the New York Times bestselling author of Lessons from Madame Chic, At Home with Madame Chic and Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic (Simon & Schuster) and creator of the blog The Daily Connoisseur. She is a contributing writer for Huffington Post Style and has been featured on CNN, BBC, and CBS News, and in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Daily Mail. She lives with her family in Los Angeles, California.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, October 26, 2015. |
| 0:09.3 | Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 351st edition of Tranquility |
| 0:17.6 | DeJure. |
| 0:18.7 | Today's podcast features a lovely returning guest, Jennifer Scott, who actually happens to have |
| 0:24.6 | a new book coming out this week. |
| 0:27.2 | But we're talking about her latest book before the one releasing this week, which is |
| 0:31.8 | at home with Madame Sheik. |
| 0:34.2 | Learn her secrets to a fulfilling life at home, why those little details matter, and what it |
| 0:40.7 | truly means to be chic. Jennifer Scott is the New York Times best-selling author of lessons |
| 0:47.6 | from Madam Sheik, at home with Madame Sheik, and polish your poise with Madam Sheik. |
| 0:57.5 | And she's also the creator of the blog, The Daily Connoisseur. |
| 1:15.2 | She's a contributing writer for Huffington Post Style and has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS News, and in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Newsweek, and the Daily Mail. She lives with her family in Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:32.8 | Welcome, Jennifer. Thank you so much, Kimberly. So I'm excited to chat about the latest book and the lovely now going to be a trilogy of At Home with Madame Sheik, becoming a connoisseur of daily life. |
| 1:40.7 | And, you know, I just love this idea, right, of like having a beautiful life at home versus the |
| 1:46.5 | chaos in which some of us can live by and end, you know, surrounded by clutter, you know, |
| 1:54.0 | never enough time and space between appointments or, you know, trying to get kids out the door, |
| 1:59.7 | pets out the door, etc. |
| 2:08.5 | And so I'm curious, like, what was your overall impression arriving in Paris at her lovely home with the shift and the kind of the difference between how you had lived in California? |
| 2:15.9 | Great question. |
| 2:16.8 | Well, you know, some people are not aware, but basically, you know, I live in California, |
| 2:22.4 | grew up in California, and I went to study abroad in Paris as a foreign exchange student |
| 2:27.0 | or study abroad student, really, with a family that I call me Sheik. |
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