Athena Calderone: Entertaining Expert, Best-Selling Author, and Founder of EyeSwoon

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Athena Calderone is a modern multidisciplinary creative—from interior designer and tastemaker to author and lifestyle expert—inspiring people to connect with thoughtfully designed spaces and culinary delights through her website EyeSwoon. She has also written two books, the James Beard Award–winning Cook Beautiful and best-selling Live Beautiful, and hosts the More Than One Thing podcast. But before Calderone was inspiring her community of over 600K to live and cook beautifully, she tried her hand at many other creative pursuits, including dancing, method acting, and modeling. On this episode of Second Life, hear about her circuitous route to uncovering her vocation at the intersection of food and design.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Huwa Ware, and
0:11.8	this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:19.0	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:23.3	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:29.2	Stay on the podcast, I'm speaking with the creative powerhouse Athena called her own.
0:35.6	Deemed the Modern Girls Martha Stewart by The New York Times, Athena's work marries
0:40.6	her love of food and design and has been featured in publications such as Architectural Digest,
0:46.9	Food and Wine, and Vogue.
0:49.4	She has written two books, Cook Beautiful, which won a James Beard Award for Photography,
0:56.0	and Live Beautiful, which remains a number one bestseller on Amazon's Home to Core List.
1:02.4	Both books expand upon the culinary and design content Athena regularly publishes on her
1:07.5	website, I Swoon.
1:10.2	Since 2011, I Swoon has amassed over 200,000 monthly readers and over 600,000 followers
1:17.3	on Instagram who looked to Athena's thoughtfully curated spaces, meals, and swoon worthy
1:23.2	content for inspiration of their own.
1:26.6	This past year, she also began designing products in addition to spaces, spanning categories
1:32.4	like lighting, sculptural objects, and rugs.
1:36.2	As if she wasn't busy enough, Athena also hosts a podcast where she speaks with other
1:41.4	creatives about their own secuitous career paths, aptly named, more than one thing.
1:48.4	As a beloved lifestyle expert, it may come as a surprise that it actually took Athena quite
1:53.4	a bit of time to find her calling in food and design.
1:57.7	In fact, throughout her late teens and 20s, she tried her hand at many creative disciplines,
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