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Podcast Highlight: Jenny O. Calleri On Life Growing Up on the Las Vegas Strip

She felt that all of her friends had cooler jobs than she did.

Published

4 years ago

November 13, 2019

INSTORE Staff

JENNY O. CALLERI talks about the very start of her long career in the jewelry business in the latest episode of The Barb Wire.

The Las Vegas native tells host Barbara Palumbo that growing up in the city can be difficult — especially when she saw her friends getting jobs she felt were cooler than hers. (Her examples of cool jobs for a young adult at the time were “maitre ‘d at Spago, bellman at MGM, valet at the Mirage …”)

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Tired of feeling her job was so much duller than those of her friends, Jenny O., with the assistance of a close friend, got a job at a very well-known jewelry store at the Fashion Show Mall.

In this short podcast excerpt above, you’ll learn which jewelry store it was, and find out how this modest first step led to a long industry career that saw Jenny O. eventually purchase Huntington Jewelers, a 70-year-old Las Vegas jewelry store.

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