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Welcome to “She Pivots,” the podcast in partnership with Marie Claire about women, their stories, and how their pivot became their success. 

Joan Boyce is larger than life.

She sports huge glasses with tinted lenses, so you never quite see her stunning blue eyes. Although her vibrant personality and love for all things opulent have been a part of her identity for decades, she was not always the famous jewelry designer she is today.

Once a teacher in New York City, she has grown her business from a small counter in Westhampton Beach in the 1960s, to a multi-million dollar luxury and costume jewelry business.

Her jewelry has been sported by the most famous of celebrities, and she even calls Mariah Carey her “adopted daughter.”

“There is absolutely nothing subtle about me.

I can tell you that right from the start,” Boyce says.

But her success did not come overnight and is rooted in a place of humility. She wa