What happens when a jewelry industry professional sees a problem and decides to build an entirely new solution? In this episode of the Pearls of Wisdom Jewelry Podcast, Guy Pineda and Elesa Dillon sit down with Marisanne Cofer, founder of Borrow Luxury, to explore her winding journey through the jewelry industry and the bold vision behind her growing jewelry rental platform.
Marisanne shares how her career began with Signet, continued through an independent family-owned jewelry store, and eventually led her to help build a brick-and-mortar jewelry store from the ground up in Chattanooga. She opens up about the challenges of launching a store, including staffing, delayed deliveries, construction issues, and managing inventory. She also explains how more than 50% of the store’s inventory eventually consisted of jewelry she designed herself.
The conversation then turns to Borrow Luxury, a jewelry rental platform designed to help retailers generate cash flow from overstock and aged inventory. Marisanne explains how the platform connects retailers with consumers looking for jewelry for weddings, pageants, charity events, and other special occasions. The business has already helped partner stores generate more than $40,000 from stagnant inventory, while brides have produced an impressive 32% rental-to-purchase conversion rate.
Marisanne also discusses Borrow Luxury’s future plans, including fundraising, expanding into other luxury categories, and launching a jewelry rental subscription box for younger consumers. She shares valuable lessons about building systems, embracing mistakes, seeking mentorship, and overcoming imposter syndrome. Her philosophy is simple but powerful: keep moving, stay accountable, and never give up.
From industry challenges to entrepreneurial courage, this episode is packed with practical insights and inspiration. Tune in, get energized by Marisanne’s fearless journey, and discover why sometimes the biggest opportunities come from solving the problems others overlook. Don’t miss this inspiring conversation, subscribe, listen, and keep moving forward!
Podcast Transcript
Introduction:
Hello everyone, this is Guy with Southern Jewelry News and this is another episode of the Pearls of Wisdom Jewelry Podcast. Enjoy the episode.
Guy:
Hello everyone, this is Guy with Southern Jewelry News and we are here with another amazing episode and I have Elesa Dillon, associate publisher of Southern Jewelry News and my partner in crime out in Vegas. We had a great time. And my co-host here at the Pearls of Wisdom podcast. Always happy to have her with me, near me, speaking to me. It’s always a good thing.
Elesa:
It’s so great to be here. Thank you for that wonderful introduction.
Guy:
Elesa doesn’t need an introduction. Everybody knows her.
Marisanne:
That’s always really nice to have.
Guy:
That is really nice to have. Pretty good. You know, it’s good for me when I walk in through and I say, hey, and I think they’re talking to me, but they’re saying hi to you. Anyway, but today our special guest is Marisanne Cofer from Borrow Luxury. Welcome. Thank you for joining us.
Marisanne:
Yeah, thank you for having me. This is awesome.
Guy:
Yeah, absolutely. So Borrow Luxury sounds interesting and we’re going to get into that. So, but why don’t you talk about yourself and your journey through the jewelry industry?
Marisanne:
Yeah, it’s actually kind of a long winding road is what I like to say. So I started working in jewelry. I used to work for Signet where I started. They were the only ones hiring full time and I was putting myself through college. So I worked for Signet for about three years.
And then I moved into the independent side of the industry and worked for a family owned store for five and a half, almost six years as a sales lead. And then, you know, 2020, everyone kind of got wonky. And so in 2021, yeah, 2020, I mean, like, let’s just cancel the entire year to start over.
Elesa:
It was not a good one. I would not recommend.
Marisanne:
No, I do not recommend. So 2021, I opened up a store. I got contracted to open up a store in Chattanooga and was with that store until the beginning of 2024.
And I had already been working on this idea of Borrow Luxury. I got married New Year’s Eve of 2023. So my husband and I talked about it like two weeks after we got married. I was like, listen, this is what I really want to do. And this is like my vision. This is my dream. I don’t want to always be in like one place all the time.
And he said, sure, why not? Let’s do it. And I said, let’s, you mean I’ll do it. And he was like, yeah, I know.
I married a farmer. We have, we do beef cattle. So like very opposite ends of the spectrum for sure. And yeah, so February of 2024, I dove into Borrow Luxury head deep. And I launched the website at the end of 2024. And we’ve just been building from there.
So yeah, it’s kind of a brief overview of everything of a long winding road.
Guy:
Yeah, long winding road. Yeah. No, you know, I’ve worked in the wholesale side off and on. I’ve designed collections for wholesalers. Now I design collections for stores when they need it. So I kind of have my toes in all aspects of the industry.
You did open up your own brick and mortar jewelry store. Is that correct?
Marisanne:
It wasn’t my store, but I was contracted to help open it from the ground up. So like we’ve selected the location together, we did the layout of the cases, like from construction on.
Guy:
Yeah, right. Wow. That’s an interesting process.
Marisanne:
So if you don’t know anything about construction, you should read about it before you open.
Elesa:
If you can build a house before you get married and survive that, then you might survive a marriage.
Marisanne:
I agree. My husband and I built our house as we could afford to because we didn’t want to go into a whole bunch of debt. And we’re done now. But, yeah, we almost weren’t for a while.
Guy:
So when it wasn’t your store, but you were part of the ground-up build and opening of this jewelry store, aside from building it, which is always challenging, and once you had it open, what were the challenges as a new jewelry store?
Marisanne:
We had so many challenges. I mean, from staffing to, you know, things were showing up late. We actually had to move our grand opening one time. That was really hard because we had things—
Oh yeah, I mean, any kind of roadblock you can think of, that’s what we ran into.
And so from there, I think the biggest challenge that we ran into was we had a lot of vendors who were willing to give us like a memo. But I’m a big believer in you should be selling things that like you’ve made. It doesn’t matter where you make them from.
And so within two years, over 50% of our inventory was stuff that I had designed. And that was what was sold. That’s what’s always sold really well.
Now I’m not talking solitary earrings like tennis. I’m talking about anything else outside of your staples or classics.
And, you know, we ran into, I think the biggest challenge we ran into was flooring. We picked out a flooring and they’re like, yeah, we don’t have enough tiles. Like you’ve already taken our money. How do you not have enough tile? You knew what we needed.
So, you know, it was a very interesting process. I don’t think I’ll ever do it again. I’ll go into a store and help like revamp and redo things. But construction’s not my forte.
I got very fortunate. My father-in-law has built several jewelry stores in the Carolinas. So I actually had someone to turn to and be like, so I am so far ahead over my head. I need help. And he was able to do that. So it was good.
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Elesa:
That’s awesome. I’m from North Carolina. That’s where you’re talking to me. Here today in North Carolina. So great. I love that. Do you know what stores he did, by chance?
Marisanne:
Yeah, he did the Reed’s Jewelry stores.
Elesa:
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That’s great. They have beautiful stores, too.
Marisanne:
They do. They do. It’s a great chain. It’s a great company.
Elesa:
You know, the biggest in North Carolina as far as chains go.
Marisanne:
Yeah, they’re great. I love that. Yeah.
Guy:
Fantastic. Yeah, so that was challenging to say the least. And is the store still open now?
Marisanne:
It is not. It is not. The owner ended up closing the store. She had other ventures she wanted to take, so she closed the store down.
Guy:
It was too challenging, not enough return, and, but you learned.
Marisanne:
I learned a lot. And, you know, the long and the short of the story is I wanted to purchase a store. She didn’t accept my offer. I wasn’t going to continue to build someone else’s business because I’ve already done that twice at this point.
And so, you know, we parted ways and it was fine. And she was like, you know, I just don’t want to do this anymore and I don’t have to. So she closed the store. Now I’m pretty sure she’s in Florida now.
Guy:
Okay, okay. So at that point, I guess you had a decision in your mind what to do. When you guys parted ways, did you know what you were going to do next?
Marisanne:
Yeah, I knew what I was going to do next.
Guy:
You already formulated in your mind.
Marisanne:
Yep, already formulated in my mind. Well, I had been working on the concept of Borrow Luxury for probably six or seven months, just like talking through it with my financial advisor and my business coach.
And like, here’s the roadblocks we’re going to hit. Like, how are we going to even get over these? Like insurance was the biggest one.
And so when that decision, when I ran into that decision where it’s like left or right, I already knew what I wanted to do. And so when she didn’t accept the offer, I just moved into what I wanted. It was easier. Yeah, it was an easy decision for me.
Guy:
Fantastic. So tell us about Borrow Luxury.
Marisanne:
Yeah, yes. Oh gosh. So I’ll boil it all down.
So Borrow Luxury is a jewelry rental platform. And what we’re doing and the gap that we’re filling in the industry is we are actually partnering with struggling retailers who have overstock and aged inventory.
So if you have stuff that’s literally been in your safe for three years, I’m going to help you make money on that. And so by allowing the end consumer to rent and or purchase that piece.
So we have four stores on board with us. And so I think like over 80% of our inventory on the site is from those stores. We do own some inventory, but not a ton.
And we’re able to help them generate cashflow on the stuff that otherwise they would just be sitting there. You know, especially with, I mean, we all know how fast trends go in and out.
And, you know, you buy 50 pieces of a style and then all of a sudden it just sits for three years and now you’re losing money.
And so one of the biggest things I tell stores when I’m talking to them, especially like smaller stores, if your goal is to be a million dollar store and you have a hundred feet of showcase space, one foot of showcase space typically you put five, six, seven items depending on like how jam-packed you enter cases.
Well, one piece of jewelry in that one foot is costing you two thousand to three thousand dollars a month. If that piece isn’t making you money, you’re actually losing money.
Guy:
Yeah.
Marisanne:
So and that’s it. It’s the reality of it. I have a store here in Chattanooga that’s partnered with us just recently. And we were talking through a lot of things. And when she opened four years ago, she bought a ton of inventory and she’s sitting on it.
She’s only selling what she has on memo because that’s what’s trendy. Sure. So, yeah.
And so on the consumer side of Borrow Luxury, you know, we’re targeting brides, pageant contestants and charity events. Those have been our hot tickets.
We’ve seen a lot of brides who have signed up with us to and they’re renting five or six days and they look perfect in their pictures because they’re able to get the jewelry they want without having to commit to it.
And what’s really cool is one of the biggest statistics we have is we have a 32% rental to conversion ratio with brides.
So 32% of the time when they’re renting an item, they end up purchasing one.
Guy:
Oh, wow.
Marisanne:
It’s an emotional purchase. So it’s a win-win, right? Like we’re making money on the rental, the store’s making money on the sale and everyone’s getting paid.
Guy:
That’s what I like to say. Everyone’s getting paid. I like that formula. That works.
Elesa:
Pretty good, that 32% is good. It makes so much sense. Yeah, that’s great. I love that.
Marisanne:
You know, it was really surprising to like seeing like brides turn around and be like, actually, can I keep it?
We, you know, ran into its own set of roadblocks, but, you know, figured out a way around them. And we were just, we’re just moving forward.
There are days I look in the mirror and I’m just like, what have I done? I did the whole thing and I have no idea what I was doing at first. And here we are.
But yeah, that’s kind of the big overview picture of like what Borrow Luxury is and what we’re doing.
Elesa:
How long is that? Now, when did you start that?
Marisanne:
We launched the website like December 1st of 2024. So I like to say like it’s just been over a year now.
Elesa:
Oh, wow. Wow. Sounds. Yeah. It’s already taken off. It sounds like.
Marisanne:
Yeah, we’ve done a really good job. I mean, we’ve helped stores make over $40,000 on their stagnant inventory, whether that’s through cash flowing it for the items or selling the items.
And so that’s, I mean, that’s a big number when I’ve only got four stores. And well, really three. And then now we have a fourth coming on board with us. So it’s a good number.
Guy:
It’s a great number. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. So this is the platform set up to complete the sale or if they want to keep it so the platform will charge them and take their money?
Marisanne:
Yeah. So the way it works for the consumers is I always say if it’s not like Amazon, people aren’t going to use it. So the customer, it’s just the truth.
If the customer goes on, they can select their rental days. We do have a three-day minimum. So you can’t just rent it for a Friday night. You have to rent it through the weekend.
They go to checkout. They have to upload a copy of their driver’s license and or passport. And that runs through a security verification and does a light credit check.
So if things like bankruptcy, because that’s all public record, pops up, then I have the choice if I want to deny or accept the rental.
We’ve denied several. Either they didn’t upload a matching payment information to ID, or something came up on their credit, and I was just like, yeah, $10,000 earrings aren’t worth it.
But we’ve only had a few that we’ve had to cancel and we’ve had no issues. We’ve had nothing come back damaged. We’ve had like no losses.
We’re very selective with who we’ve been allowing to rent because we have a very strict policy on that.
And so this past year, 2025 year, we’ve been doing a lot of grassroots marketing. So we’re not doing a ton of advertising. We’re not doing a ton of like ads and meta ads. That’s my marketing director’s job.
And really feeling out like how comfortable are people going to be with renting jewelry? Like how long are they actually going to be renting it for?
And so we figured out all these numbers in 2025. So now we’re taking this year and kind of pushing ourselves along.
Elesa:
Wow. Yeah. Now you founded it. Are you saying we, you’re the founder. How many employees do you have?
Marisanne:
So I have myself, I have a co-founder. She’s really just the right side of my brain. And when I have a delusional idea, I go, how delusional am I being? And she goes, ah, you’re bleep, let’s be fine.
Her name is Dara Cunningham. She’s my cousin as well. So she lives in Houston, Texas. Her and I meet twice a week. We get together, we talk about things we’re running into or hiring decisions or whatever we need to talk about and work through it.
And then I have a part-time marketing director. Her name’s Amber. She comes from the luxury resort part of the industry. So she’s had a lot of knowledge on the digital marketing side.
And we’re currently interviewing for three more roles. So we’re growing.
Elesa:
Didn’t you—you think of an idea and then you get to this point, you’re like, oh, I’m hiring real employees. This is new for me.
Marisanne:
That sounds great.
Elesa:
Sounds wonderful. Yeah, you’ve got a really super strong staff and it sounds like you guys are right on track for a successful future.
Marisanne:
Yeah. Yeah. So now that it’s you’re growing, you’re expanding.
Guy:
You got some history behind your under your belt and taking on new stores to, you know, rent out their jewelry and even, you know, help them grow their business. So what’s the new challenges now that you have?
Marisanne:
So a lot of stores probably don’t do this, but I’m actually fundraising for the company. So we’re taking on investors.
That is an interesting process because I’ve never done anything like that. And you’re basically pitching your dream, you know, because most investors go, yeah, you’ve done some good revenue. And yeah, this is a really cool idea. How am I going to make my money back? That’s what they want to know.
So it’s been an interesting process because we have a really big plan for the future. Like our 10-year goal is to be Rent the Runway’s competitor in every category.
So not just jewelry, but we’ll go into accessories and handbags, semi-formal shoes. Anything that’s considered luxury will be under Borrow Luxury. That’s a 10-year plan.
And so I’m a big picture thinker. And my co-founder brings me back down to reality is what I like to say.
But one of the things that we’re going to be launching probably in the next year is we’re going to be doing a jewelry rental subscription box.
So and this is for your 18 to 25 going into college, entering the workforce. We’re going to be partnering with small jewelry brands and helping them push their name out there as well.
And that’s an interesting process just because I’ve never done something like that. I’m doing a lot of things I’ve never done before and I’m just kind of winging it and it’s going really well. It’s what I like to tell people.
Elesa:
I love it. I think that’s a—what tip or pearls of wisdom would you give to someone out there that wants to, you know, start their own business, whether it’s a jewelry store or whatever?
Marisanne:
I would say, and this is something that I do for stores, for like store owners that I know very well, as I go in and help with their systems and sales training process. And this is a good across any industry.
You can’t have a successful business without the right systems in place.
If you don’t have a way for your sales associates to order memo or do special orders to where it’s quite literally like Amazon, click, click, click, and then you as the manager or store owner can go into one place and view everything, you’re not going to have a successful business.
You could start a business and yeah, you could probably do a million dollars a year, but you’re never going to scale past that because you’re always going to have to do everything.
But the right systems allow you to have more of your time to you to be able to do the things you need to do in your business.
So systems before sales is what I like to say.
Guy:
That’s a good one. Yeah, very good. That’s very good. That’s awesome. I mean, how did—where did—how did you become so savvy? How did you become—
Marisanne:
I am self-taught. I didn’t go to business school. So I have a master’s in audio engineering, so I don’t even come from any kind of business background, right?
I learned a lot of these problems the hard way is what I like to say. And there are people who have worked with me in the past that will probably watch this and be like, you should have seen her six years ago. She was a hot mess.
And it’s just the truth. I’ve learned a lot of these problems that I’m helping people fix. I’ve already learned the hard way and I already know, okay, I’ve made the mistake. You don’t want to do that. Here’s a good way out of that.
And I have a couple of stores that I say probably in contact with two or three times a week. And they’re like, hey, I’ve got—I need this product or I need this issue solved. Like, how can I do that? Because I’ve already done it. I’ve already made the mistake.
And I always say we’ve been interviewing a girl. She’s not a girl. She’s a grown woman. And she’s like, I’m really nervous about potentially taking the position because she knows nothing about the industry.
And I said, make all the mistakes you can make. As long as you are accountable for your mistakes, you will move forward. Just be accountable.
And so that’s what I’ve done. I take accountability with my own team because there’s a lot of things that we are building that I am like, I’m kind of a little out of my depth, but I’m getting the knowledge I need to get.
And like the second caveat of that is don’t be afraid to be told no.
I ask people who are way wiser than I am, who have way more experience, like send a cold email. Hey, this is what I’m building. This is a problem I’m running into. You know, I see that you’ve been very successful. Would you be willing to give me 15 minutes of your time?
I take a lot of people to coffee. I take a lot of people to dinner and I learn.
And that’s how I have gotten this savvy is by being willing. Being willing to learn, but also being accountable to my mistakes.
Guy:
Wow. Were you always this fearless? Or had this much confidence in doing that?
Marisanne:
No, I wasn’t.
So fun story. I’m just kidding. So no, I wasn’t. So when I worked for the store up in Cleveland, Tennessee, I was a salesperson. I was very good at my job. I was very—an extroverted introvert.
So like on the sales floor, I was in tip-top shape, ready to rock and roll. And then I would leave and I was very introverted.
And I’ve went through a lot of things in a very short amount of time where you realize like how short your life truly is and how valuable your time is. And you don’t give it to the people who don’t respect it.
And, you know, that’s something that my husband taught me. We met at the beginning of 2022 when I had just opened the store.
And one of the things he told me, he’s like, I’m not going to enter a room with people I already know don’t respect me.
And so, you know, I’m 31 now. I enter into a lot of rooms where I’m probably not respected for a number of reasons, but I just don’t care.
I stopped caring what people think about me and decided, you know, I have a vision. I know what I want. I know what I want my life to look like. And I know what I want my family’s life to look like.
And this is what I’m going to build come hell or high water. And that’s because like, what do I have to lose?
What do you have to lose? And everyone’s like such a cliche. But truly, what do I have to lose?
If Borrow Luxury ends up not working, what do I have to lose? I’ve helped people. I’ve made good connections. I’ve learned an immense amount of knowledge.
So what do I have to truly lose? My investors would not agree with that statement, of course.
Elesa:
That’s pretty amazing. The old adage, as they say, you know, what other people think about you is none of your business.
And that always kind of stuck with me because, you know, people are worried all the time. And then when someone told me that, it’s like, that’s none of your business, Elesa, what they think about you. You just do you.
I’m like, wow, that was—it was very powerful for me to realize that. So that sounds exactly like what you’ve done.
Marisanne:
Yeah. And realizing it is the key, right? You can say that out loud, but you—and everyone gets to that point where they truly just go, you know what? I just don’t care.
Yeah. You know, if you don’t like who I am, if you don’t like what I’m saying, if you don’t like my opinion, I mean, I get paid for my opinion at this point. So like, if you don’t like it, it’s what you’ve paid for.
So it, you know, you just—it’s a weight that comes off of you when you finally get to that point in life. And I think that’s why I’ve been able to be so fearless is because I don’t feel the weight of fear.
Yeah. You know, I’m just moving forward. Like, yeah, I get anxious. I get nervous. Like I’ve had a lot of really big obstacles to get over and was like, oh, this might—this might be the one. And, you know, I’ve always figured out a way through.
Elesa:
Right, right. Just keep going.
Elesa:
So cool. Yeah. I think everybody could really take a lot from this. Don’t you think?
Guy:
Yeah, I mean absolutely. You know, again, fearless and, you know, just persistent. I mean, there’s a million things to describe it and that’s what you need to be successful, you know, and that’s personally maybe and as well professionally. And I think you’ve covered both of those really well.
Marisanne:
Right, right. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Guy:
Well, I’m curious. You’re very confident and polished and sound very fearless right now. Do you still get the imposter syndrome or, you know, boy, what am I, what the heck am I doing right now?
Marisanne:
Every day, every day, every day.
We’ve, you know, we’ve been having big conversations with these like Demi Fine Jewelry brands about like, this is what our partnership looks like. And they’re like, well, this has never been done before.
And like, normally, like, I don’t just give inventory and, you know, you have to really, you have to sell not just the idea, but like the belief.
I get that imposter syndrome every day. I mean, I wake up and have to deal with investors.
You know, I get a call on a Monday morning at 7:30. Hey, can you be in Knoxville by noon? And you’re just like, you’re not mentally there. So by the time you get there, I’m just like, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore.
I turn to my husband most nights and he’s just like, are you okay? And I’m like, I just don’t even know. I don’t know what I’ve done at this point.
But, you know, imposter syndrome is good.
I have another founder that I work at out of a clubhouse here in Tennessee. And she’s in the chocolate industry. And she has been like my inspiration, not just as like a woman business owner, but a woman who is like truly fearless.
And her and I talk almost every day. And one of the biggest things she said to me was, you just have to keep moving no matter how hard it gets, because at some point it will get easier.
And she said that to me about a year ago. And I was like, you are so right. You just have to keep moving. You can’t just stop.
I think one of the biggest things I see with store owners when I’m going in to try to like kind of just like see where I can help and like consulting, I can see the store managers and the owners kind of get nervous about taking a leap into something.
And it’s like, you know, you’re a $10 million store. What do you have to lose? You know, like what are you doing?
And you say that to them and it’s like a light bulb goes off because you actually have to hear it from someone else.
And then I do the same thing with stories that have done less than half a million. It’s like, what do you have to lose? What do you have to lose? If you do things this way, what do you have to lose? Because you should only be gaining.
Guy:
Right. Absolutely. And the moment you stop, you say, I’m done. Then you failed. But if you keep going, you keep pressing and life keeps pushing you down and you keep getting lots of challenges in your way and you get frustrated and you don’t want to do it anymore, but you’d still do it the next day, you have not failed. You just are still overcoming challenges.
But the moment you stop and say, okay, let me just go get a job or let me just do this other thing or whatever, working with my sister, then you failed.
Marisanne:
Yeah, it’s kind of like if you’re in a pool and you stop swimming, you’re going to drown. You’re going to drown. You can’t stop swimming. Just like Nemo, just keep swimming. Sorry. It’s my ADHD.
Elesa:
Yeah, I got you. Yeah, I was thinking Nemo, too, or Dory, whatever.
It also reminds me of someone who I’ve looked up to and I do respect and I’ve raised a lot of money for his foundation is Genevieve of North Carolina State University who started the V Foundation and his famous ESPN acceptance speech of “don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”
And that has been my family, who we’ve raised a lot of money for the foundation over the years in cancer and as a cancer survivor. People do this for your business.
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. And that’s personally and in business.
Guy:
You know, sometimes like if you’re at a road of decisions and you know that the hardest decision is the right decision, just do the right decision.
Don’t take the easy way out because when you take the easy way, you have to get back to your original plan. You’re going to have to do other things to like, whether you’re compromising anything in your life, you’re going to have to keep compromising to get back.
So just take the straight road through, even though it’s really hard. And I’ve done that. You have to, you have to.
Guy:
Nothing great is easy. Nothing great is easy.
Elesa:
No, it’s not. Absolutely. And there’s so many examples of that.
Guy:
And you are absolutely one of those people, that example of, you know, yeah, going through, going through the challenges, learning what you didn’t know.
You didn’t know what you didn’t know, but you still kept going. Yeah, we did. And you learned.
And at some point, it may have been really hard. And then all of a sudden, you’re like, wow, I actually got through that.
And I don’t know what one point that I did not, you know, think about like, oh, my God, I’m dying. You know, it’s crashing and burning. But at some point, it just became easy.
Marisanne:
You’re three days before Christmas and it’s like, I want this custom engagement ring.
Guy:
I’m sure you do. I’m sure you do. Yeah.
Guy:
Exactly. Wow. Yeah. Amazing. Well, Marisanne Cofer, amazing stuff. You have created Borrow Luxury, a rental platform for jewelry designers. And you are looking for other designers or people that want to—
Marisanne:
Oh, yeah. Yeah, we’re always open to taking inventory partners. It’s really simple.
You can reach out to me on my email address and just say, hey, we’re interested. I’ll send you the packet of information, send you the contract. You can read through everything before even like having that initial conversation.
It’s got the revenue share on there. It’s got everything listed. So that way you’re well informed going into the conversation.
Because what I don’t want to do is waste their time because I know how precious that is. And yeah, it’s a real simple process.
I send you a shipping label that’s fully insured. You send it to me. I do all the photography. We write the description. And then within 30 days, your products are on the site and live and active for rental.
Contracts 12 months. And if something came up and you needed a certain piece back, as long as it’s not scheduled to be rented, you will send it back to you.
Guy:
Well, fantastic. I think everybody listening, anybody listening, is probably ready to climb a mountain like I am because you got us all pumped up with your—right, you’re the same way, right? Energy.
But not only your energy, you could feel the expertise, the experience, the experience of going through the hardships, the challenges, the “I don’t know what the hell I’m doing today.”
But you went through, you’re still going through it. And, but you are. And she’s 31. And she’s 31. Wow.
And, you know, so congratulations on all the success and future success. We all know.
Elesa:
Keep up with her. Everyone better keep up. Checking in with you, yes.
Guy:
And we want part of the IPO. Okay, thank you very much. Oh, my gosh.
Marisanne:
I know, right? While watching all these recent ones, you’re just like, what is going on?
Guy:
Just remember that, you know, the insider. Anyway, you know what we need.
But, yes. Anybody out there, give Borrow love and Marisanne and lots of love on social media. Check out their website and more.
But, wow, congratulations. And thank you so much for joining us and telling us about your, you called it the never-ending journey. The never-ending journey.
Marisanne:
Never stop learning. You never stop learning.
Elesa:
I love that. You’re going to have such a, you’re already successful, but I say 20 years from now, I’m going to predict you’re going to be right up there and putting Rent the Runway down on the list.
Marisanne:
Right. That’s the goal.
Elesa:
I’m rooting for you.
Guy:
Yeah, fantastic.
Elesa:
But we really appreciate it. I’ve enjoyed talking with you so much. I hope everybody who’s watching us or hearing us, please be sure to look her up.
And also, we need you to subscribe. It’s real easy. Just subscribe on YouTube so you can see us talking or wherever you get your podcast.
Guy:
Yes. Fantastic.
Marisanne:
Well, Marisanne, and thank you so much for your time.
Marisanne:
Thank you for having me. This has been great. I love talking through things with people and anytime.
Elesa:
All right. We’ll have you back. That’s a promise.
Guy:
We’ll catch up and find out how you do and all the other success that you’ve achieved.
Marisanne:
Yeah, looking forward to it.
Guy:
Perfect. Thank you, everyone. Thanks for listening, watching, and catch us all on the next episode. Take care.
Outro:
Thank you for watching another episode of the Pearls of Wisdom Jewelry podcast. We’ll catch you on the next one. Take care.



















































































