{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Eat My Words","title":"Welcome to the Table: Designing the Life You Want","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4322,"description":"Natalie Marie Gehrels is a strategist, artist-designer, and cultural purveyor whose work reimagines how retail, agriculture, and the ritual of shared experience at the table shape the spaces where people gather. She is the Co-Founder of Folkways, a design-forward wine and objects concept with locations in New York and Connecticut, and a nationwide e-commerce platform that reframes the wine store as a place to celebrate farming, craft, and community. For nearly two decades, Natalie has operated at the intersection of creative direction, design, and brand strategy. As Founder and Creative Director of OURUSE, she has led projects for global brands including Nike, Calvin Klein, Rémy Martin, Tory Burch, and Swarovski, and currently collaborates with food, art, and cultural clients such as Hiyu Wine Farm. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the North Salem Farmers Market and Field Future Foundation, initiatives exploring how foodways and gathering shape everyday life. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, ELLE Decor, Surface Magazine, Milk Magazine, Dossier, Departures, NBC New York, and VinePair.In this episode, we talk about the impact of her early career as a child model and how it informed how she lives her life today. She also talks about how being a single mother fundamentally changed her and gave her life focus. We talk about great design, beautiful food and wine and actively building the life you want to have in 10 years. And she shares the most romantic meet-cute with the man who would become her husband. We barely even scratched the surface of all of the incredible work she is doing, so we might need to have her back on soon! I hope you enjoy this one!xx,JoFind Natalie on Instagram at:https://www.instagram.com/folkways.wines/and on her website:https://folkwayswines.comFind Eat My Words at:Eat My Words Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatmywordsthepodcast/Eat My Words TikTok:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZk1MkDoyVKbVcwsXWtMiXSlOhG_71eqruNMo6H21aQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYTgx/OGU4NmMxMTBkMzkx/MGU3YjMyZmUzYWRj/MmY5Zi5KUEc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}