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I think my quest kind of started with the fact that I came from a home that was warm and creative and very homey to be in a young woman who just starting out to kind of wants the house to feel like a home for the friends and for themselves. For now the fact that I am a young mother and a new wife and a working woman and how do I still achieve all those kind of things. And those challenges that I meet are what a kind of trying to express and celebrate in my work and I hope that somehow the women that I get a privilege of talking to through my books and through my television show. Get not only inspired to make their house a home but also get inspired that they can do anything they want and that anything is possible.
I was an out of work actress and I have to earn leaving and at most actress is doing great on tables I spent most of time in the kitchen with all the chefs and I really love it and I learned a lot from them. And then that kind of evolve into having a lot of dinner parties where I test this different recipes of out of all my friends.
I decided to open a little store as a little café in back and we had sell our home made bubble bath and some little picture frames and big sofas that we get it flea market that we recover. And it got written up vogue and vanity fair and it became this fun place to end up that on the Friday night. And then, life on television was looking for the next Martha Stewart because she was leaving lifetime and moving to CBS, they were doing the nation wide search.
I though, I am never going to get this job but if I could get in the room with them I would stand the better chance. So I lied and said I am going to be in New York next week and I have no money to fly to New York so I have to drive to New York but I walk in to this room at lifetime now. I am above Bohemian storeowner. Who like cooks for a living, right. And there you have this big table all this very fancy women all dress in black mind you with little files in front of them that said Katie Brown and I was like okay I am dead. I am dead, I just want to walk out of here with my dignity. And they going to find me out and so not Martha and they starting shooting questions at me like what a women biggest design mistakes. If what that difference between the east coast style and west coast style.
And then as I was answering them like I am sure many women have felt when their doing what they love or talking about what they love. I realize I could do this and then I could do this job. And I actually got more confident as the interview went on. And so it was that last thing you know I was shooting the pilot from them and then it went from once a week to everyday and now I have done over two hundred episodes to television, I have written five books. I write a column for the New York Times Syndicate and it is kind of I have my first line of products that have come out
And it all evolve from that place and I remember when I got the job I was still terrified, I still thought that is was taken I going to find out that I was home and their were out to dinner. We were all sitting at this table my whole family and we started redoing the restaurant like it is too bad that this tables around they should really be square and those curtains are way too high they should be on.
And I laughed to myself and I realized this is what we do. This is what I did growing up. I come from a really small town in Michigan call the Petoskey and I have 32 first cousin and 14 aunts and uncles. And they all brag about how many people they fed the night before and what tomatoes they did or did not grow and who was better and who made the better caramel ice cream this year. Full our house kind revolved around food and feeding lots of people and it is also revolved around how you decorated your house.
When anyone turned 11 in our house they got to decorate their own room. Lot of families goes sailing together or goes skiing together, play baseball together. We talk about decorating or cook and so really in a strange way I got to where I got through my whole life. It was really what I love, that was my family thought me. I always joke that I really just do what my mom does only I get paid for it. And I get to talk about the good stuff in life that makes life a little bit better.
That is how I got here. Any kind of a series of the universe can inspiring in my favor and just trying to rise to the challenge when you get it. And you know somewhere deep in you got that what you want to do. And I always think if it scares you a little bit that is problem you should better do it.
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