Welcome to the Love and Light Live podcast, empowering crystal lovers to learn and experience the art of crystal healing.

Get ready to listen in and follow your soul calling with crystals.

Hello, and thank you so much for joining me for the Love and Light Live podcast, brought to you by

Love and Light School.com. I'm your host, Ashley Levy, and this podcast is the number one place

for all things crystals. In today's show, I'm sharing some of my very best tips for shopping the Tucson Gem and Mineral

show. But you can apply these tips to any gem show you visit or even to your local crystal shop.

And I'll be sharing a little bit about how to spot crystal fakes, which is a huge problem in the mineral market today.

Before we dive into this talk, though, I want to invite you to follow me over on Instagram

at Love and Light School, where I'll be sharing a behind-the-scenes look at my time at the

Tucson Jum show. I'll be focusing on sharing

lots of crystal fakes that I find to my Instagram stories, which will be saved to a highlight

on my account page so you can check those out, see what I found at the show this year that's

fake as well as how to spot those fakes what to look for.

And I'll also be sharing some new finds and trends from the show.

Now, today's show is going to be a little bit different because I'm recording this a few

days before you'll get it and I am busily packing and getting ready to leave.

I actually jumped on Facebook to do a live

video earlier today where I gave a little talk about the show, things to think about and pack

before you go, what to do once you get there, how to handle some bigger shopping things that you

might overlook, especially if it's one of your first times

going, and how to handle getting all of your treasures back home. Plus, again, I'll also share a bit

about how to look out for those crystal fakes. Because this is a little bit longer discussion,

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