For the Love of Jewelers: A Jewelry Journey Podcast Presented by Rio Grande

S1-02: Karin Jacobson, Keep Throwing Darts

Courtney Gray / Karin Jacobson Season 1 Episode 2

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Karin Jacobson confesses to screaming when she learned that she’d won a Saul Bell Design Award. She compares entering contests to “throwing darts and hoping one is going to stick,” and believes in embracing and learning from failure.

In this episode Karin shares her competition experiences, ponders hiring an apprentice, and remembers her own teenage jewelry apprenticeship.