Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by the De Beers Institute of Diamonds.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gimelski talk about the JCPay Show, Diamond Market

Challenges, Light Boxes Foray into the Wedding Sector, and Tracer.

Hey everyone, welcome to the jewelry district.

This is Victoria Gimelsky, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCP online.com, calling in from Los Angeles.

And I'm with...

Rob Bates, news director of JCPay and JCP online.com, calling in from New York City.

We're back home.

Both of us are respective coasts.

It was really nice to see you in Vegas.

Yeah, it was lovely seeing you.

Yeah, I always, you know, enjoy.

It's like we talk so much, but it's always nice to actually see each other's faces since

this platform does not have a video component.

I feel like we have so much to catch up on, even just in the time since we've seen each

other, there has been a lot of industry news.

I myself, and I'll share more about this towards

the end of the podcast, but right after Vegas, I dove straight into a trip to Tokyo and spent

three nights in Tokyo, basically the weekend, which I think a lot of people say is a crazy

thing to do from L.A., but in fact, when you spend three nights in a faraway location, you really don't

adjust. So when you get back to your normal time zone, you really don't have to adjust back.

So I must say I've had a pretty easy time of jet lag this week, but nobody cares about that.

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