Aja Raden

Aja Raden Aja Raden

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If your organization is exploring the future of value, authenticity, or brand storytelling — I’d love to talk.

I’m now booking corporate keynotes, private events, and institutional lectures for 2026, with custom programs available for luxury, marketing, financial, and creative industries.

Current talks include:
💠 Diamonds Aren’t Really Real
💠Belief Beats Truth: Why Your Brain Buys the Story, Not the Object
💠Carbon Wars: Mined vs. Manufactured
💠The Future of Forever: What happens when two billion-dollar industries sell the same object set apart only by belief?

As a jewelry historian, author, and cultural critic, my work explores how value, desire, and belief shape the world we live in — from the myths behind famous diamonds to the modern “post-factual” economy where meaning matters more than matter.

Aja Raden Aja Raden

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve officially joined Chartwell Speakers as a featured speaker.
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I’m back!

The American Revolution - Ken Burns The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It i...

The American Revolution, a six-part, twelve-hours series was supposed to air on PBS in November. Truly hope it makes it to streaming on some platform. Ken Burns can tell historical stories like no other. #HistoryMatters

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It’s fascinating!! Also Aja’s book Stoned

Thanks!

I made a new one coming out later this year with Spiegel TV in Germany. You would not believe the organized crime bs The Syndicate put us through. They actually threatened the director in person that she would be blacklisted as a journalist if she was working with me.

Agreed.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

If you haven’t seen it yet, the New York Times really thinks you should watch my documentary about synthetic diamonds.
Check it out.
Nothing Lasts Forever.

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The man literally rented Venice for his wedding. I don’t mean to be a bitch, but I think it’s time to get the guillotine’s out.

If anyone’s interested, she said hepatitisA is also gonna spread like wildfire with no food Inspection over the next 6 to 12 months, and she thinks there will be endemic polio in many places by next winter (2026).

My doctor told me probably by the end of the year theyll be difficult to find, exceptionally expensive & not covered by insurance. Within another year or two you won’t be able to get most in the US.
She said by summer measles would be everywhere. She’s been right abt everything so far.

Everybody loves to shoot off at the mouth about what heroic shit they would’ve done in Nazi Germany.
Well, mein leiblings, whatever you’re doing right now, whatever position you’re taking, that’s exactly who you would’ve been in Nazi Germany.

Please make this happen.

Oh you’re too kind!
But I’d be happy to talk with @briantylercohen.bsky.social anytime.

“The president makes perfect assessments.” She seriously said that.

No. Shes a grifter.
She’s only been a registered Dem for about a year. She just moved to Chicago a 6 months ago to run against an 80-year-old. She’s from Texas & was a Rep until she could get more attention and make more more money being a Progressive.
She’s also a Hamas apologist & vile antisemite.

Yeah, but the best part of a Salon is drinking absinth and doing tasteful bumps of cocaine in the 19th century.
I don’t know how we accomplish that on social media… But I’m open to suggestions.

It’s exactly what they do. I only know that because I worked in the industry. But I guess I just sort of assumed it was slightly more common knowledge. And it’s not just clothes and shoes and handbags.

Wow. Apparently, China is just gonna burn it all down.
I think it was the use of the word peasants. They’ve snapped.
If nothing else, this will be interesting.

Maybe this was always just a well guarded secret within the luxury industry… 🤔

But seriously, I’ve known this since I was in my 20s.
Anybody wanna see my gigantic carry-on suitcase sized Hermés Birkin bag?

Wait, did anyone really not know that Chinese manufacturers actually make most of our super high-end luxury clothes and accessories?
You can get a really nice Chanel bag for $500 instead of $15,000 if you buy it directly from a Chinese supplier.

Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined national security Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook employee who alleged misconduct and sexual harassment at the company in a memoir , will testify before Congress Wednesday.

OK. But Congress doesn’t care; because Congress is also undermining national security.

So like, if there was ever any doubt about whether Comrade Krasnov literally worked for the Kremlin… I guess the representatives from “let’s not be ridiculous” can just shut the fuck up now.