Growing an International Bilingual Preschool in Boulder, Colorado with French-Italian Entrepreneur, Marie-Pierre Nicoletti [Episode 10]

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Marie-Pierre Nicoletti grew up in a small town in the French Alps, in a bicultural French and Italian family. After graduating college with a BA in both Applied Foreign Language for International Business in English and Italian, and Italian Language and Civilization, she moved to Paris to attend fashion school. Upon graduating, she worked for the fashion house of Yohji Yamamoto as a trilingual marketing assistant and brand manager. In late 1990, she traveled to the US for a six-month sabbatical in Boulder, Colorado. Eight weeks after arriving, she met her future husband. Ten years later, now a resident of the US and a mother of a young family, she founded the Language of Food, a French culinary, cultural and language program for children and adults. Missing France, she returned to Paris, working in fashion while also researching culinary trends. Several years later, she made a permanent move back to Boulder, rebranding and growing her original program into Blossom Bilingual International Preschool, set to open its doors in May, 2022.