The Jeweler's View

Send us Fan Mail Go Slow With Intentionality: Bella Grass on Becoming a Jeweler, Building Confidence, and Finding Your Niche Host Courtney Gray shares a conversation with Transform student Bella Grass about her path into jewelry after college, starting with a Boulder Metalsmithing Studio class, learning through an entry-level casting job, attending New Approach’s three-month program, and working as a repair jeweler and setter. Bella discusses what surprised her most, how hard and gratifying ...

Send us Fan Mail Stop Adding More Tasks: Find Direction with Two Words Courtney Gray welcomes listeners to The Jeweler’s View and explores what to do when you know you want something different but can’t define what it is yet. She describes how makers often react by piling on new classes, tools, techniques, and goals, mistaking activity for direction. Drawing from a coaching call with an accomplished jeweler and her own experience selling Creative Side without a mapped-out next step, sh...

Send us Fan Mail When Your Jewelry Business Doesn’t Fit Anymore: Recognizing Evolution Without a Perfect Plan Courtney Gray introduces The Jeweler’s View and reflects on the Evolving Creatively event with Holly Gage, Francesca Watson, and Teresa Kiplinger, highlighting how creative and business evolution often happens without a full map. She emphasizes that recognizing something “doesn’t fit anymore” is valuable information and doesn’t mean failure, and that makers can experiment in business...

Send us Fan Mail Discernment for Creatives: Good Idea vs. Good Idea for Right Now Courtney Gray explains that most creatives don’t have an idea problem but a deciding and discernment problem. Ahead of the Evolving Creatively gathering with Holly Gage, Francesca Watson, and Teresa Kiplinger, she shares how to evaluate ideas before they become obligations: whether an idea fits the current season of life and business, what work and responsibilities are attached to saying yes, and what wil...

Send us Fan Mail Pay Attention to Your Attention: What Are You Feeding? Courtney Gray introduces The Jeweler’s View and announces a free online event, Evolving Creatively, featuring Holly Gage (working with burn survivors; “Vulnerability Out Loud”), Francesca Watson (rebuilding after her studio burned; “Resilience in Motion”), and Teresa Kiplinger (creativity as an anchor and “radical acceptance”), noting the timing near the anniversary of Gray’s own house fire. She then explores the questio...