Emerald

Oh?

You ever hear of the Ivy Emerald?

Nope.

Well, you should have.

The folding kind.

That's right.

Now, tell me, what's happened to this Ivy Emerald?

What's your guess? And listen, Johnny.

Yeah.

Hello, my name is Emerald.

Yes, as in the precious stone, or the isle, or the Pokemon game.

My parents wanted to give me a name that was a little bit unusual, and because my mum is Chinese-Malaysian, they wanted to be able to translate my name into Mandarin.

So they chose the name Emerald, and my middle name is the Mandarin translation of Green Precious Stone.

Apart from the occasional person asking if my parents are hippies or telling me that I have a stripper name, the only truly annoying reaction to my name was when I tried to get in touch with a grumpy professor for work.

I was emailing him and I wasn't getting a reply and eventually he responded saying that my email had gone to his junk folder.

And then he said something like, as you can imagine, I get a lot of spam mail from women with exotic names like Emerald trying to Skype me.

So I, then it took me, I ended up actually at Crystalarium, which is a beautiful crystal store in West Hollywood.

And I wanted to get like a raw Emerald crystal.

Cause my mom was into crystals a little bit.

And like, I was like, I liked them, you know, But I ultimately ended up in downtown LA, um, looking, um, for just an Emerald.

And I found this little oval Emerald and I had somebody set it.

I found like a guy who like had a booth and he set it for me.

And, um, It was what now is known, which I'm wearing right now, is my Divinity Emerald, which Elizabeth also wears every day.

Elizabeth

But I think that's a really good segue because I have chosen what is probably my favorite of all greenstones, one of my favorite of all stones, one of my personal master teachers, a rock that I've written about a whole lot and probably still have more to say.

And by now, I think we all know that I'm talking about Emerald.

We couldn't put together a magically minded collection like a coven without for me talking about the pinnacle of all crystal magic, which is emerald.

Emerald is so many things, and because I have waxed quite poetic about it more than once on the confab, I want to kind of bring it into this, we'll say, coven kind of light.

Emerald is, of course, a stone that we associate with the heart, with love, with Venus.

It is also sometimes associated with Mercury and sometimes with Saturn, depending on the system of planetary gemology that we're using.

And all three of these planets have very magical kind of, we'll say, natures.

She is so much more than just a pretty little blonde thing who looks in a mirror.

Corundum, crystal structure.

Emerald, structure.

Opal, there's no crystal structure.

Opal, no.

Amethysts lean toward mediation and secluded depths, crystals toward sociability and cold heights.

Emeralds combine historical curiosity with guarded suspicion.

Sapphires care for strategy and defended underground territory.

Topazes favor coastal solitude and can be difficult company.

Demand gives things tremendous value.

And so if Emeralds or any gem are not in demand and they aren't more scarce, then what value are they seen as actually having? So the leadership concept here is As a leader, whether anybody recognizes you or praises you or shows up and says, hey, you're amazing, you still have to do your job and you have to do it well.

It is a matter of personal integrity and it's going to make a difference for your team, for your customers, for the people with whom you interact every single day.

How you show up is who you are.

That's it, trinkets.

Emerald trinkets?

Emerald would be lovely.

I must find my compartment, Mr. Harriman.

Maybe I'll see you again later?

Rafferty, you're

crazy.

No. Magnum cabled him to follow you and Mrs. Bankner to make sure the Emerald got back safely.

[laughs]

Of course, why not?

Of course, yeah.