1 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. 2 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 2: I cannot wait for you to hear the full episode 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: of Climbing in Heels with Briany Raymond, the Queen of 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 2: Luxury Jewelry. You cannot imagine how many a list celebrities 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: she has landed on. Just do a little digging, you 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 2: will lose your mind. I asked my followers to submit 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: their jewelry questions and Brian and I are going to 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: answer them for you now, so don't miss the full 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: interview out this Friday. Sometimes we do like a rapid 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 2: fire thing. But in your case, I actually surveyed my 11 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 2: listeners and followers with jewelry questions that I want to 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 2: throw out at you. Okay, okay, Roddy, what's your favorite 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: way to style a broach? 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 3: Oh? 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 4: I love a brooch in the hair. That's probably number one. 16 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 4: I wore my hair this year to the Emmys thing. 17 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 4: I also love a broach on a hip like. 18 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 3: I love it too. 19 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: I used to do that a lot of my styling life. 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: I would sometimes cinch like I would just kind of 21 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 2: rush a little hip like a little drape. 22 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: And then put that birch rate in there. I love that. 23 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: Okay, great, we continue to be jewelry cull mates. Okay, 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: so one, this one is going to be hard for 25 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: you to answer, I think because I get asked it 26 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: in styling life. 27 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: But it's hard. 28 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: What's the one piece of jewelry you cannot live without? 29 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 4: The one piece of jewelry I cannot live without genre 30 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 4: or a specific. 31 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 2: Piece, anything like one specific piece like it could be. Yeah, 32 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: I want to know one specific piece. 33 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 3: I had it. 34 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 4: I could not live without my vintage bank leaf Anddarpel's 35 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 4: engagement ring. 36 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, ding ding ding ding ding. That's 37 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: the right answer. Okay, is it the one I tried 38 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: on the other day? 39 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: Now you haven't seen it. It's because it's too small 40 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 3: and I can't size it again. 41 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 4: Vancreas is like, literally, I was like I was a 42 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 4: size too when I got married. 43 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 3: I am not even close anymore. 44 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: And it doesn't pinky. 45 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 4: I could make it a figuring yeah, And Luke's always like, 46 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 4: why don't you wear that? Very nice worked so hard 47 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 4: to give you. I'm like, dude, I need to Yeah, 48 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 4: I need to go back to my free baby stop. 49 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 2: Okay, pearls seem to be trending again. What's a good 50 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: pearl piece to invest in? 51 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,119 Speaker 3: Ooh, I am a pearl girl through and through always. 52 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: You really are, you really are everything about you says pearls. 53 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: I truly love them. 54 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 4: And I always laugh too when people are like, oh, well, 55 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 4: pearls are having a moment, and I'll. 56 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: Be like, I'm like, they never didn't have a moment. 57 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 3: I'm like, am I so uncool that? To me? I'm like, 58 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: pearls weren't having a moment. I was still worrying. 59 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 4: A great piece to invest in, I would say, a 60 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 4: really amazing pair of pearl earrings that you could dress 61 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 4: up or down. So we actually make I mean not 62 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 4: to do like a br plug, but we make a 63 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 4: pair that's on a gold wire and I always love 64 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 4: it's like a chunky, pretty, sousy pearl, but it kind 65 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 4: of goes. You can make it dressier or less dressy. 66 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 4: So great pair of pearl earrings that aren't too fussy. 67 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: Because it's great with a par of jeans and a 68 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: T shirt exactly you. 69 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 4: Can and if you wanted to make them dressy, then 70 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 4: you like throw a bunch of necklaces in puffs. 71 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: Okay, this is a good question. 72 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: Actually, how can you make an emerald cut diamond that 73 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 2: you took from a ring into a cool necklace. 74 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 4: Easy, throw a big, chunky, heavy gold bezel on it 75 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 4: and put it on a chunky gold curb blank chain. 76 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 3: And I actually have done this, you have. 77 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: I've seen it. Someone was wearing our dinner this summer 78 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: and I. 79 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 3: Was sast exactly. 80 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: Okay, that's great advice. What classic pieces do you recommend 81 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: starting your jewelry collection with. 82 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say. 83 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 4: I have a few different answers to that, so I'll 84 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 4: try to keep a sus saying. 85 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 2: For someone who for someone who doesn't love like massive 86 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 2: things like keeping it simple. 87 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 4: I would say, I mean, obviously price point dependent, but 88 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 4: I think a great pair of studs, or you're at 89 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 4: a different budget gold hoops highly you know, pretty substantial 90 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 4: gold hug hoop or a stud I love. 91 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 3: I love a chunky gold chain. 92 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 4: Does a have to be you know, any particular brand 93 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 4: or anything doesn't have to have diamonds. I think a 94 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 4: great gold chain can do wonders. And I love like 95 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 4: a classic stainless watch like an old Rolex roll like 96 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 4: I love like. 97 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: A or even a pretend. 98 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 3: Like watch for Alexa jacent like. 99 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: Prolexa jacent watch. 100 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 3: Like a chunky cool watch gold chain. 101 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 2: Okay, best neckline for a choker as you as I'm 102 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: looking at yours right now, it's. 103 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 4: Very I actually think chokers can look quite cool worn 104 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 4: as a caller. 105 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: So sometimes I put a choker on a high necktop. 106 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: I find that very sheep. 107 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 4: Or against or something that's completely far apart from it. 108 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 4: I'd never want the choker to feel like it's choking. 109 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 4: I mean in general, yeah, I too. I always say 110 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 4: I want things to feel intentional. So, for instance, emerald 111 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 4: cut necklace, we were saying, I don't want something to 112 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 4: look like it used to be something else, right, kind 113 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 4: of you horned it into being something it wasn't meant 114 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 4: likes the same, either have it on top of the 115 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 4: cloth or have a lot of of the skin. 116 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: Agreed, like with a plunging neckline's super sexy. Okay, great, 117 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, I love this question. Is Rose 118 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: Gold out? It's taking a pause? 119 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 4: I mean, I, well, this is me obviously. I never 120 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 4: always like turn everything into a positive and like never 121 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 4: see anything I get it. 122 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 3: I don't super love rose Gold in general. 123 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: Me neither, I like never have me neither. 124 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 3: Being said, I'm also very very clear when I talk 125 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 3: to my clients about what I love and what I 126 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 3: want isn't necessarily what they should do. So if somebody 127 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 3: wants to. 128 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 4: Rose gold, I will make the most beautiful rose goold 129 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 4: old iteration. 130 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 3: Or whatever it is. 131 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,799 Speaker 1: But it's not your personal preference, my personal style. 132 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 3: I'm a yellow gold girl through. 133 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: And through, same, same, same, same. Okay, this is interesting. 134 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,679 Speaker 2: Two more, what is the most popular diamond shape right 135 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 2: now for engagement ranks? Because I feel like there's a 136 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 2: new trend happening, not new trend, it's old, but it's back. 137 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead. 138 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 4: So we I mean I always try to speak to 139 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 4: the lens of like what we're doing, not necessarily of. 140 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: Course, what are you getting asked for the most man? 141 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 3: Right? Don't time? I'm always like so focused, don't we're doing? 142 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 4: We get asked for a lot of antique stones, So 143 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 4: it's something that I work with a lot antique old Euros, 144 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 4: which I love. 145 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 3: An anti goold duro just for. 146 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: Those going to say, please define me to the speakers. 147 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 4: An antiquolduro typically is quantified as a stone that is 148 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 4: antique so cut eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds that has 149 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 4: fewer facets, which means it has a large sort of 150 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 4: glassy faceting pattern and it reflects light differently as opposed 151 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 4: to a modern or brilliant cut, which has more facets 152 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 4: more like twinkly crushed ask. The old stones have the bigger, 153 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 4: wider glassy facets. So anti cushions, anti boldiuros, we do 154 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 4: a lot of that sort of asher. Asher is tough 155 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 4: because it presents typically much smaller than it is. Yes, 156 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 4: a bottom heavy asher can look a lot smaller than 157 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 4: it is, so I don't Yes, of course we do 158 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 4: beautiful ashers, but no, I don't see that as having 159 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 4: quite as strong of a moment as an anti. 160 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: I have seen Marquis coming back, have you, Yes, I 161 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: have seen pears and Marquis, and I was like. 162 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 3: What, so a Marquee. We just made the second Sloane ring. 163 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 4: So Sloan's like one of our collections with a like 164 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 4: it's a sort of signature, is a thick gold bezel 165 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 4: like this one. 166 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: I love her. 167 00:07:54,560 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 4: So we just we just made a big Marquis with 168 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 4: that thick old bezil and said it east time and 169 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 4: it looked it really lent itself well to that orientation, 170 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 4: and it was funny because I had a few, you know, 171 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 4: people like my age and you know, people of different 172 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 4: sort of generations who not my sort of more you know, 173 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 4: not my young twenty two year old people. 174 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: More like who want a cushion cup with my. 175 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 3: And then they look at it they went, oh, wait, 176 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: that's Marquis. I thought I hated Marquis saying it's all complexed. 177 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: It's not. It's the way you see. 178 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love a marquee in in a state like 179 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:33,439 Speaker 2: vintage setting. 180 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 3: Is like so beautiful. 181 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 2: Okay, last question, because this is a long debate that 182 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 2: I think will be debated for a long time. Thoughts 183 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 2: are natural versus lab grown diamonds? 184 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 3: So funny. I knew you were going to say that, 185 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 3: and I did, like, obviously I did not have that. 186 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: I have a lot, I have a lot of thoughts, So. 187 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 3: Okay, so I will say this one. 188 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 4: I will lead with I only exclusively, happily, only work 189 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 4: natural lines. 190 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 3: I am a natural diamond girl. 191 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 4: That being said, obviously, everyone should do what feels right 192 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 4: to them. Our specific ethos and our brand sort of 193 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 4: path will always be to exclusively work with natural stones. 194 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 4: I also don't work with synthetic colored stone lab grown 195 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 4: obviously is a separate thing, and I completely understand that. 196 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 4: I will say this, I personally feel when I look 197 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 4: down at something I know, I'm like, oh god, I'm 198 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 4: trying to be so like you know, you're good. 199 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: There's no right or wrong answer, honestly. 200 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 4: Totally, I'll say, for me, when I look down at 201 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 4: my hand and if I am wearing a cubic sirconia 202 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 4: or I imagine a lab or a something that is not 203 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 4: the natural version of what it is, it feels less 204 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 4: precious and I like to feel really special and precious. 205 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 3: In obviously there are many times I do not feel 206 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 3: special and precious. 207 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 4: But when I am thinking about luxury acquisitions and things 208 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 4: that are truly there to provide for me, like joy 209 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 4: and those like delicious, happy, excited feelings, the jewelry and 210 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 4: you know, beautiful clothing and are things that I the 211 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 4: sort of peripheral s. I don't know how we want 212 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 4: to say, but I really want it to be the 213 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 4: real thing, and I want it to have been the 214 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 4: natural version of what it is. And so I feel 215 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:38,839 Speaker 4: really strongly that. 216 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: I don't think that's the wrong answer. 217 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 2: I think that's a really great, honest truthful answer, and 218 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 2: I think you're going to get people coming up in 219 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 2: this world that only want lab that only you know 220 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: and and like you said, personal preference. But I do 221 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 2: really appreciate and respect that you are saying, this is 222 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: your brand ethos, this is your choice, this is where 223 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 2: you will stay, because I think staying in your lane. 224 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: Is actually the key. 225 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: And really knowing that I think and being so clear 226 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 2: on your vision and what you believe in I think 227 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 2: is one of the one of the most important keys 228 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 2: to success. So I think that's great and I and 229 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 2: I don't think it's for anyone to. 230 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: Judge, so 231 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 4: Everyone has to do it makes them feel good and 232 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 4: that literally it obviously translates across any and everything, but 233 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 4: that's just me.