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The Jewelry District

Episode 168: Guest Rebecca Foerster

The Jewelry District

JCK

Business News, Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts, News

4.950 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Appearing in a new video format, JCK’s Victoria Gomelsky and Rob Bates interview Rebecca Foerster, the CEO and president of Hearts on Fire North America. Rebecca, who recently won JVC’s Stanley Schecter Award, shares how her experiences growing up in New York City, working in cosmetics and fragrances, and her introduction to the manufacturing side of the jewelry industry shaped her view of and affection for the business. She also lends her perspective on what successful retailers are doing right, as well as the place in the market for lab-grown and natural diamonds. Title sponsor: De Beers (adiamondisforever.com) Watch here: https://youtu.be/8okt8FjLmwc

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by DeBiers. Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talked to Rebecca Forster, President and CEO North America of Hearts on Fire.

0:30.6

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry District. I'm Victoria Gimelsky, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCP online.com, calling in from my garage in Los Angeles, as you can see where the magic happens.

0:45.7

I'm with Rob Bates, a contributor now to JCPK, JCP Online, calling in from, I'm currently actually at the JCP World Headquarters in New York City.

0:58.6

I have to say, I think Vic, you have this awesome background.

1:04.1

It's like a real like writers MSNBC kind of like, you know, background with books.

1:11.1

I'm going to have to buy some books to put him back.

1:15.5

I don't know how can customize that.

1:17.0

What are some of the books?

1:18.4

Can you take it through some of the books back there or no?

1:21.7

You're asking.

1:22.4

I collected these books and schlep them from home to home over the years.

1:25.5

There's a lot of watch books back there.

1:27.1

There's a lot of fiction books. There's sections. And you're not seeing the books on this shelf or on that shelf, but there's lots of books here. But a lot of watchbooks. You can see there's a huge Patac-Philippe section alone. I'm going to try to be one of those dudes who has their own book like over their

1:44.9

shoulder. Well, I was going to say, Rob, you have, you have your own books. You could just do multiple

1:49.1

copies of all three of them. All four, all four of them. Oh, four. Sorry, yes, the newest one. Sorry,

1:55.4

sorry. I haven't read that one yet. There's a whole section. So trust me, they're down near the other jewelry fiction treatments.

2:05.0

And your garage is like your office, right? Correct. I'm in my detached office in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

2:12.2

All right. Well, I'm going to be moving around, but we'll see how it goes. Well, we've failed to introduce our very first video guest, and we all just saw each other

2:22.4

last week, so this feels like a wonderful little virtual reunion just from like five days ago.

2:27.7

Of course, you see her name there on the screen.

2:29.9

Rebecca Forster, President North America, Hearts on Fire, an industry veteran. We've known each other.

2:35.4

I was trying to remember when I met you, and it might have been in your Rio Tinto days.

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