{"podcast":{"title":"Junk to Jewels Podcast with Georgette Beck","slug":"junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500","podcast_index_feed_id":6740500,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/dreamtoachieve/feed.xml","website_url":"https://dreamtoachieve.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17588509/0_-_26-7-30_resize_Junk_to_Jewels_Podcast_Cover_Soloawb5d.png","author":"dreamtoachieve","episode_count":74,"summary":"Have you ever felt like your life's broken pieces couldn't possibly become something beautiful? This show was made for you. Junk to Jewels Podcast with Georgette Beck is a podcast about turning life's hardest moments into purpose, healing, and hope. Georgette is an author, speaker, and founder of the Bella Healing Hearts Foundation. With a Master of Arts in Human Services - Marriage & Family Counseling, she brings both professional insight and personal experience to every conversation — because heart matters truly matter. Each week, Georgette and her guests explore the real, raw topics that shape our lives: healing from divorce, loss, abandonment, rejection, and grief; navigating blended families, stepparenting, and remarriage; wrestling with faith, depression, self-worth, and life purpose — and finding beauty on the other side of all of it. Episodes feature stories from Georgette's own journey, affirmations, scripture, wisdom from books she loves, and guest speakers who share their own Junk to Jewels transformations. This podcast was inspired by Georgette's book, Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness and Despair to Beauty and Delight, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.c…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:23.649116+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500"},"episode":{"title":"Vicky Tiel: From Paris Couture to Farm Life — Elizabeth Taylor, Coco Chanel & Choosing Happiness","slug":"vicky-tiel-from-paris-couture-to-farm-life-elizabeth-taylor-coco-chanel-choosing-happiness","published_at":"2026-07-31T19:05:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500/vicky-tiel-from-paris-couture-to-farm-life-elizabeth-taylor-coco-chanel-choosing-happiness","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500","url":"https://dreamtoachieve.podbean.com/e/vicky-tiel-from-paris-couture-to-farm-life-%e2%80%94-elizabeth-taylor-coco-chanel-choosing-happiness/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5c9f3czbfegtrm9q/J2J-VickyTiel-AudioOnly.mp3","summary":"Georgette Beck welcomes legendary Paris couturier Vicky Tiel to the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast for a conversation that moves from a Parsons School rejection to a couture empire built at the heart of Hollywood glamour. Vicky shares how she arrived in Paris at twenty with a dream, a best friend, and a lace mini dress — and how that dress caught Elizabeth Taylor's eye and launched a twenty-five-year friendship. The two swap stories of a legendary dinner with Coco Chanel, who made both women promise to create a perfume — a promise that led to Elizabeth Taylor's bestselling fragrance and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, and to Vicky's own perfume, complete with a bottle she hand-sculpted herself. Vicky opens up about decades of jet-set living, celebrity and royal clients, a difficult divorce, and the transformation that followed when she married a Key West fisherman, moved to a quiet farm, and gave up drinking and smoking for good, thirty years and counting. Throughout the episode, Vicky returns again and again to one message: happiness is a daily choice. From dressing-room confessions to lessons Elizabeth Taylor taught her about kindness and generosity, from faith to the healing power of nature, Vicky's story is a masterclass in turning what felt broken into something beautiful — proof that it's never too late to choose joy. 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