Growing up in New Delhi, India, fashion designer Bhavyaa Prasad had her own set of challenges. Bhavyaa turned some of her painful experiences into purpose in bringing her precious creations to New York City. Tune in to our chat between two designers who met in New York City via New York Fashion Week, and realize we share similar missions in our creations: to protect our precious cargo, and to create it to last.

Whether you're stepping off the runway, strutting into a Whitesnake concert, passing along a cherished family heirloom, or getting buttoned up for tea with Queen Elizabeth...all personas share a commonality: my jewelry has its own unique style, and a secret as to why it outlasts others.  On this show, two women Heather Leigh of The ManFixer and Christina Forward of Podpopuli with completely different styles both share their experiences with my jewelry. I admit the favorite piece of mine, the Low Rider Body Chain, which was also worn by Hailey Baldwin Bieber on the red carpet and featured in People Style magazine. I get real technical and scientific in translating the differences between gold plated, gold filled, and solid gold, along with the gold weight standardizations that I love--thank you Federal Trade Commision...and do my best to educate you on this incredible hybrid medium of gold I discovered. I'll admit it on Admittedly Ashley: my solution is my process. 

I invite you to listen to me giggle and listen with me about what Thor has to say about the origination of “Thor”, his perception on whether or not you can “have it all,” relationships, balancing your business with your personal life, why 7-figure-or-so earners might feel as though something is missing in their lives and Thor’s proposed solution. Hope you’re thirsty for some Thors-day. 

I sit down with Elizabeth Solomeina, Forbes Business Council member, jewelry designer, and the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the largest platform of independent designers in the United States, Flying Solo. We take a walk down memory lane on our time in NYC to our collaborative shows in New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week, while we chat about the trajectory for independent fashion designers and the emerging paradigm shift in commerce.  We remind ourselves that we entered fashion design solely for the love of our craft, and the challenges and barriers we face in our pursuit. The reality of the barriers to entry in fashion commerce for independent designers leaves us with an answer to keep our creations alive, shift the paradigm and eliminate that barrier to mass market shelf placement: to fly solo together.