NANCY HESLIN is an esteemed Monaco media personality who swapped the chilly temps of Canada for year-round sunshine on the Côte d’Azur back in 2001.

She is an accomplished journalistpodcaster and cofounder of Monaco’s English-language book publishing house, Carob Tree Publishing.

Launched in March 2024, Carob Tree Publishing is the first 100% women owned and operated maison d’édition in Monaco. Cofounded with film producer Lacey Da Costa, the company is a Monaco-registered SARL that champions women authors and women-focused projects and is committed to printing and promoting services in Monaco.

Carob Tree’s first release, 100 Years of Women: Motorsport in Monaco, came out on January 24, 2025. The “groundbreaking book” is not-for-profit and the book launch was attended by Prince Albert and hailed as “an influential event” by FIA.

The media personality hosts the new Monaco Info podcast in English series, with guests such as creator of Paw Patrol and Bob the Builder Keith Chapman, Olympian Paula Radcliffe, easyJet founder Sir Stelios and model Victoria Silvstedt.

The podcaster is the cohost of Nancy & PJ Finally Get Together, a popular podcast launched on January 23, 2023, with listeners in 139 countries, total downloads have reached 120,000 to date (source: Buzzsprout). The podcast is a spinoff of her 75,000-word lived experience non-fiction manuscript.

While Nancy started her not-for-profit project Good News, Monaco in November 2020 to share positive human interest stories that support the community and local businesses in a time of Covid, her mission to deliver good news continues today.

Nancy is the Editor in Chief of The Monegasque, the English-language arts and culture magazine launched in December 2023. Prior to this she was Editor in Chiefof the bimonthly Forbes Monaco, from its launch in November 2018 until January 2023, when it ceased publishing due to licensing terms.

Nancy hosts the Savills Monaco sponsored What’s New in Monaco for Riviera Radio, the English-language FM radio station in Monaco that broadcasts across the South of France.

Additionally she is a pitch coach at Monaco Tech and a gifted moderator working with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (Ocean Week, Blue Economy Index, Re. Ocean Fund, Re.Generation Leadership Program, including names like Paul Polman, Alejandro Agag and Alain Ducasse) and various banks (UBS, BNP, Barclays Monaco). She also led the 1st Forbes Monaco Power Women’s Summit with Cherie Blair, Shevon Harris-Holyfield and Chinwe Esimai. And moderated Formula E’s Accelerated. Change. Live event in Monaco.

Her reputation in Monaco and the South of France has had an international dimension for many years. She was interviewed by ARTE and Channel 5 for documentaries on the Principality. During the aftermath of the Nice Bastille Day attack on July 14, 2016, she appeared on international media: BBC World Service (UK), BBC Northern IrelandCBC (Canada), CTV News (Canada), Global News (Canada), Morning Report (New Zealand).

As of Dec 2024, Nancy is the president of the Swimrun MonacoThe swimrunner (follow her on Insta: swimrunnerinmonaco) is the former editor of ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Life.

She began rowing in 2020 at the Société Nautique de Monaco and sat on the Board from 2023-2024. She won for Monaco at the 2022 French Coastal Rowing Championships (Women’s Masters x4 6000m).

Prior to Monaco, for 15 years, Nancy was Editor in Chief of the English-language publication the Riviera Reporter. She has penned for various airline magazines (easyJet Traveller, Norwegian Airlines N Magazine, Iberia Ronda and Wizz) and for 16 years wrote for Fodor’s Travel Guides (France, Provence & The Côte d’Azur and Paris editions). She has contributed to Women’s Running Magazine in the US.

Nancy (Wilson) also reported as a stringer for People Magazine for several years, covering events from the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, while on other occasions she’s taken the TGV with Tom Cruise to Marseille and sipped champagne with Paris Hilton in St Tropez.

From 2013-2016 Nancy taught “Debates and Interviews” in English at the French École du Journalisme in Nice, where she gave a Master’s course on the History of International Media.

Nancy became a naturalised French citizen in 2010 to obtain the right to vote.