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Amy in Laguna Niguel showroom opening day, March 2024. “I’ll take care of it.” That’s what I heard. Soft, steady, right behind me in the...

Amy in an orphanage in Iran. I was in the PICU elevator, going down, when a memory from many years ago came rushing back. “How is she? I...

Baby Amy with her late father. I was a daddy’s girl. He loved me so much, and I was his everything. But the story didn’t begin that way....

A young Amy Astaraee, in the early days of Brax, examining a diamond ring. Recently, I was reading The Art of Living by Thích Nhất Hạnh ,...

How I accidentally started a business, chose a name on the freeway, and got married all in one weekend. It was a Friday around noon in...

My first buying trip in downtown L.A., and how the road appeared when I started walking it. I was driving… and driving… and driving,...

How one woman’s trust gave me the courage to keep going , and how her daughter brought the story full circle 20 years later. “I’m looking...

From College Crush to Coastal Forever Lydea and Roberto’s love story began in 2017, during a college internship in San Francisco. What...

I opened Brax Jewelers in 2005, inside a small jewelry mart. My rent was $1,000. My startup capital? A $30,000 loan from my mom. That’s...