About Je Suis Un Croissant: An American Family's Move to France
Je Suis un Croissant follows one very average American family — two parents, a tween daughter, and two very good dogs — as they walk away from the hamster wheel of suburban American life and rebuild it 5,000 miles away in France. Each week, Tara pulls back the curtain on the real decision-making behind the move: the countries they ruled out (sorry, Australia), the secret they kept for months, and the logistics nobody warns you about, from French tax residency to learning a new language on Duolingo
Send us Fan Mail The season one finale of Je Suis un Croissant picks up where Episode 7 left off. Tara is back in France, in a house she'd seen exactly once, and two days later the good girls arrive, delivered straight to the front door. For the first time since August, everyone is under one roof. Then comes the waiting. Tara takes listeners through living on rented furniture, a first round of holidays without their own things, and the household shipment that took almost four months to arrive...
9 Oct 2026
Going Back Alone
Send us Fan Mail Episode 6 ended with Tara on a plane, alone, leaving her husband and daughter in a hotel room in a town they’d known for two weeks. Episode 7 is what was waiting on the other side: the house they’d lived in for fourteen years, the only home Miss Tween had ever known, and two weeks to empty it. Tara walks back into a house that looks almost normal, except the dining table is gone and the fridge is empty. Then comes the list: a dumpster, a storage shed she had completely forgot...
2 Oct 2026
Two Weeks to Find a Life
Send us Fan Mail Episode 5 ended with Miss Tween walking back into the hotel after her first day of school. Episode 6 covers the thirteen days that followed, before Tara had to fly back to the US alone and leave her husband and daughter in a hotel in a town they’d known for less than a week. The family lived in a hotel room with a kitchenette that couldn’t really cook anything, and they hauled their laundry down the street to a laundromat. With help from a relocation specialist provided by he...
25 Sept 2026
A Place Where Horses Have the Right of Way
Send us Fan Mail Four episodes ago, Tara promised to explain how the family ended up somewhere "horses have the right of way," and then didn't mention it again. Episode 5 opens by explaining it: the rule is real, it's narrower than you'd guess, and it comes with its own speed limit for the horses. Then the family gets on the plane: fourteen bags, the best friend who was there at every stage of the move, in-flight movies, tears (happy and scared), and a flight attendant who teaches Miss Tween ...
18 Sept 2026
Cutting It Close
Send us Fan Mail "Cutting It Close" picks up the thread Tara left dangling three episodes ago: what does the visa process actually look like once the job offer is real? The short answer is that it works. The longer answer is a month of Tara’s life she’d like back. Her husband's Talent Passport application covers the whole family, which sounds simple until you try to book three people through a third-party scheduling contractor that only shows availability one person at a time. After three fai...
11 Sept 2026
The Summer We Told Everyone
Send us Fan Mail Last episode ended with the email. This one is what happens in the eleven weeks after it, when a research project turns into a ticking-clock logistics operation. I start by answering the question I asked out loud in Episode 2 and then immediately dodged: what do you do when the French school year is closing and you still do not have an offer in hand? We applied anyway. To schools, in a country we did not live in, for a life we were not sure we would be living. From there it i...
4 Sept 2026
Tax Treaties, Duolingo, and the Secret We Couldn't Tell Anyone
Send us Fan Mail The interviews were happening. France was starting to look less like a pipe dream and more like an actual plan. And that's when the genuinely terrifying grown-up questions started. In this episode I get into the strange psychological split of that stretch — carrying on with completely normal daily life while quietly obsessing over one enormous question mark. We were meeting with immigration lawyers, tax consultants and financial advisors, trying to work out what happens to an...
28 Aug 2026
Bonjour. Je suis un croissant.
Send us Fan Mail Bonjour! I'm Tara, and this is the very first episode of Je Suis un Croissant — the real, unfiltered story of my family's decision to move 5,000 miles away from the only life we'd ever known, published on the one year anniversary of our arrival in our new "home". Before you hear where we ended up, you need to hear how we got here: a husband with a decades-old dream of living abroad, a family exhausted by the American hamster wheel, and a whole lot of very serious concerns abo...
23 Aug 2026
Je Suis Un Croissant - Trailer
Send us Fan Mail Je Suis un Croissant follows one very average American family — two parents, a tween daughter, and two very good dogs — as they walk away from the hamster wheel of suburban American life and rebuild it 5,000 miles away in France. Each week, Tara pulls back the curtain on the real decision-making behind the move: the countries they ruled out (sorry, Australia), the secret they kept for months, and the logistics nobody warns you about, from French tax residency to learning a ne...
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