Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by Tracer. Today, Rob Bates and

Victoria Gamowski share their takeaways from the 2024 JCPay Show, and Victoria

talks about her press trip to India with Benbridge.

Welcome to the jewelry district.

This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCPayonline.com, calling in from home in Los Angeles.

And I'm with.

Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-C-K online.com, calling in from my home slash apartment in New York City.

I'm glad to be home.

Amen.

I mean, Vegas was, you know, it's now properly mid-June, but I don't know. in New York City. I'm glad to be home. Amen.

I mean, Vegas was, you know, it's now properly mid-June, but I still feel like I'm half asleep every day, and I blame Vegas.

Yeah, I think you should.

You know, I was way more shattered post-Vegas than I was post-India, which I'll get

to later on in this show, but, you know, I'd come back

from India on May 20th, went to a wedding in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend, and then came home and

two days later flew to Vegas. And Vegas was the thing out of all of that travel that felt like it

really knocked me. I think because you're going, going, going, going during

those five days and there's really no opportunity to really relax. I'm not one to stay in and

order room service. I'm always like, let me maximize my time with the people I love and care about

and also just, you know, connecting with people in the industry. Oftentimes we're

obligated to go to events and those end up being fun and worthwhile, but there's just no

opportunity to relax. And by the time I got home on June 3rd, I was like just unable to keep

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