Heidi Caillier: Interior Designer and Author

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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

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Though Heidi is a highly sought-after interior designer now, she didn’t predict she’d end up in the design world. After graduating with a masters in international public health, she spent her early career working at a medical clinic in the Gambia. But when she returned to the U.S. to continue working, she was disappointed by how administrative many of the stateside roles were and began a quest to find a new career. She tried a variety of career paths including bartending, acupuncture school, and teaching scuba, but she still couldn't find anything that felt right to her. That is, until she began blogging about design. Through her blog, Heidi landed her first job at a design firm, and eventually, she set out to create a firm of her own. Today, her firm works on projects across the country, and just this September, Heidi debuted a book called Memories of Home, which details 12 of her incredible projects.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Hillary Kerr the co-founder and chief content officer of
0:10.0	who what wear and this is Second Life a podcast spotlighting women who have truly
0:16.0	inspiring careers we're talking about their work journeys what they've learned from
0:20.4	the process of setting aside their doubts or fears and what happens
0:25.4	when they embark on their second life.
0:27.8	Today I'm speaking with Interior Designer and author Heidi Callier.
0:33.6	Though Heidi is a highly sought after interior designer now,
0:37.6	she didn't always know she wanted to be in the design world.
0:40.5	In fact, after graduating with a master's in International Public Health, she spent her early career
0:46.6	working at a medical clinic in West Africa.
0:49.8	But when she returned to the U.S. to continue public health work, she was disappointed by how administrative
0:55.4	many of the state-side roles were, and she began a quest to find a new career.
1:00.3	She attended school for acupuncture, nursing and accounting.
1:03.5	She taught scuba, studied yoga, and tried bartending, and the list goes on.
1:08.1	But she still couldn't find anything that felt right to her.
1:11.8	That is, until she began blogging about design.
1:16.3	Through her blog, Heidi landed her first job in the design world at a firm and then went on to
1:22.0	work in a showroom in the San Francisco Design Center.
1:25.0	Fast forward to 2014, Heidi set out to create a firm of her own and today her
1:31.0	eponymous company has six full-time employees, works on projects across the country,
1:36.5	and her first celebrity homes are set to be completed next year. And if all of that is an exciting enough, in September, she debuted a book called Memories
1:46.2	of Home, which details 12 of her incredible projects.
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