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If your organization is exploring the future of value, authenticity, or brand storytelling — I’d love to talk.

I’m now booking corporate keynotes, private events, and institutional lectures for 2026, with custom programs available for luxury, marketing, financial, and creative industries.

Current talks include:
💠 Diamonds Aren’t Really Real
💠Belief Beats Truth: Why Your Brain Buys the Story, Not the Object
💠Carbon Wars: Mined vs. Manufactured
💠The Future of Forever: What happens when two billion-dollar industries sell the same object set apart only by belief?

As a jewelry historian, author, and cultural critic, my work explores how value, desire, and belief shape the world we live in — from the myths behind famous diamonds to the modern “post-factual” economy where meaning matters more than matter.

It’s fascinating!! Also Aja’s book Stoned

Thanks!

I made a new one coming out later this year with Spiegel TV in Germany. You would not believe the organized crime bs The Syndicate put us through. They actually threatened the director in person that she would be blacklisted as a journalist if she was working with me.

If anyone’s interested, she said hepatitisA is also gonna spread like wildfire with no food Inspection over the next 6 to 12 months, and she thinks there will be endemic polio in many places by next winter (2026).

My doctor told me probably by the end of the year theyll be difficult to find, exceptionally expensive & not covered by insurance. Within another year or two you won’t be able to get most in the US.
She said by summer measles would be everywhere. She’s been right abt everything so far.

Oh you’re too kind!
But I’d be happy to talk with @briantylercohen.bsky.social anytime.

“The president makes perfect assessments.” She seriously said that.

Yeah, but the best part of a Salon is drinking absinth and doing tasteful bumps of cocaine in the 19th century.
I don’t know how we accomplish that on social media… But I’m open to suggestions.

It’s exactly what they do. I only know that because I worked in the industry. But I guess I just sort of assumed it was slightly more common knowledge. And it’s not just clothes and shoes and handbags.