This Charm Rides Hard for LA
I wear it daily, and the compliments follow.
Olivia and I met over 15 years ago while working in Haiti. Not at a dinner, not through friends (as you might expect)—on the ground, in a place that rearranges your sense of what matters. That experience became the foundation of our friendship and, eventually, what we came to call Conscious Commerce.
The idea was straightforward then and still is now: build giving into the act of buying itself. Meet people where they already are. Make generosity part of the transaction—not a separate performance. We’ve returned to this model again and again across dozens of collaborations because it works.
A few years ago, we partnered with Starling Jewelry on our first charm, the Sundial, to support Dr. Rick Frechette and the St. Luke Foundation in Haiti—a place that shaped us and, heartbreakingly, continues to need sustained support. That charm still exists in the world, doing exactly what it was designed to do.
This year, the focus is closer to home. Los Angeles is the place we’ve both lived longer than anywhere else. Watching fire tear through entire neighborhoods, displacing tens of thousands of people, and somehow the world kept asking for business as usual? like it’s normal?
So we did what we know how to do. With the one-year anniversary of the fires coming up, we partnered with Starling to create a second charm—this one for LA. Proceeds support Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, providing crisis care and long-term mental health support for fire survivors and first responders, and the Dena Care Collective, delivering direct relief and rebuilding stability for communities hit hardest.
Both organizations were doing the work before anyone was watching—and they stayed when the headlines faded.
Starling’s commitment to sustainability mirrors our own: every piece is made with 100% post-consumer recycled metals. If we’re putting something new into the world, it should carry responsibility in both purpose and materials.
We keep returning to Conscious Commerce. Not because it’s trendy. Because it’s functional. Because it allows beautiful objects to carry real weight. And because sometimes the most effective way to help is to build it directly into what people already choose to wear.
You can get the charm in silver or gold here.
Thank you so much for the support.