Giada de Laurentiis is a cookbook author, television host, restaurateur, and chef. She’s known for her Food Network series, Giada at Home, and her frequent appearances on NBC’s Today and talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The author of nine books (the most recent is Giada’s Italy, out this past March), she has two Las Vegas restaurants, Giada and Pronto, and just opened a third one: GDL Italian by Giada, in Baltimore. Next month, she’ll resume filming Giada’s Holiday Handbook and Giada Entertains. When she’s not working, she spends time with her 10-year-old daughter Jade in her Los Angeles home. Here’s how she gets it done.

On her morning routine: 
I wake up at 5:30 a.m. and check my phone — not email because I feel like there’s just so many that it’s daunting. But I check my texts because I have a 10-year-old daughter and she’s not always with me. Sometimes she’s with her dad. That’s the first thing I care about.