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

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk with Constance Polamalu, C.O.O. at Zachary's Jewelers,

and owner and founder of Bloomstone Jewelers and Birthright Foundry.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry District. This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of

J-C-K and J-C-K Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with

Rob Bates, news director of J-CK and J-CK Online.com, calling in from New York City. Hello. Hello. How's it

going? That's okay. It's cooled down a little bit here, so that's good. And the weather's pleasant.

Yeah. You know, it's funny. We spent a lot of time talking about the weather when we start off, and I know that's kind of a human thing. But it does feel like during the summer especially, such a rue line, you know, just like the heat. We were in Montana last week with the family.

The first time I'd never been to Montana, and it was like 97 degrees in Montana.

At Glacier National Park, it was like, I don't know if you've ever heard of Glacier National

Park.

It's really, really spectacular, but they have a road that we took through the park.

It's called Going to the Sun Road. And I thought, oh, that's kind of a funny name or, you know, really evocative. I wonder why they called it that. And then we're driving

down this, you know, along this beautiful lake. And suddenly there's like a granite mountain in front

of us and we see these little ants sort of crawling along the top. And Jim points out that those

are cars and we'll be there shortly. So it really is going to the

Sun Road. But even at the top of that extreme, it was like 6,000 feet. It was still like in the

90s. So on that note, if anybody can hear a little bit of a background noise, we've got our

wonderful guest today who is literally sitting in the middle of the retail store that she manages.

She's chief operating officer at Zachary's Jewelers.

People may know of her.

She's very active in the industry.

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