Joan Boyce has been an icon in the jewelry business for over 50 years. But before her huge success as a jewelry designer and home network star she was a teacher at schools in Brooklyn and inner-city Manhattan. Then just months after giving birth to her first child, she decided to open a jewelry counter. After facing discrimination finding housing because of her interracial marriage, she keep pushing forward, determined to find success. For over a decade she balanced being a teacher, mother, and business owner until she decided to take the leap. At 68, and after finding success among her high-end jewelry clients, Joan joined the home network TV family converting her iconic jewelry designs into affordable costume jewelry to sell on HSN. Now 80, is continuing to find success in her Pivot, appearing on JTV and continuing to spread her infectious personality at her store in Westhampton New York. Today we learn how her decision to design and sell her own jewelry changed her life and brought her success.
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