Ronit’s story

A life between two coasts. A house born from becoming.

Malibu Soul is Ronit Heimanson’s second act: a deeply personal expression of motherhood, rupture, reinvention, and a lifelong search for home beside the sea.

Ronit Heimanson beside the Malibu coast
Ronit Heimanson · Founder & designer

The ocean came first

Before there was jewelry, there was the feeling of home by the water.

Ronit grew up on the beaches of Haifa, Israel—barefoot, salt-kissed, and free. The Mediterranean became her earliest language for beauty and belonging.

As a teenager in California, she found that feeling again at Zuma Tower 7: drives down Kanan Road, long beach days, volleyball, waves, and the conviction that she would one day make Malibu home.

An early circular jewelry form suspended above the coast
Early form · Malibu Soul archive

The first form

The spark arrived before the timing did.

Years before the house fully took shape, a trip to Burning Man gave Ronit the starting point for her first earrings: the event map translated into a raw, circular form. The early hoops held the balance she was searching for—strength and softness, elegance and edge.

Friends asked where she had found them. She had not found them; she had made them. More designs came quickly, but the road from that first spark to Malibu Soul would not be linear.

The years between

An idea that waited until Ronit was ready to return to it.

01

Motherhood, first

Ronit devoted the first volume of her adult life to raising her three children. Through divorce, illness, and the work of rebuilding, the jewelry remained present—but it was not yet the chapter asking to be lived.

02

The return

As her children grew, the need to create stopped being a whisper. Ronit had the time, agency, and clarity to choose the idea again: “Now I want to do this thing.”

03

Malibu, made real

The place she had imagined since her Zuma summers became daily life on Point Dume. Malibu Soul is the expression of that arrival—and of the woman Ronit became on the way there.

01

Intention

Jewelry should enhance who a woman already is—never speak more loudly than she does.

02

Material

Solid 18-karat gold and meaningful stones, held to a standard worthy of a long life.

03

Continuity

Pieces made for the woman who is healing, rebuilding, and coming home to herself.

The Pacific seen from a Malibu bluff
Point Dume · The source

Point Dume, now

Malibu was once the dream. Now it is the source.

Ronit calls Malibu a magical place. Its tension—wild and polished, private and elemental—gives the house its point of view and every collection its sense of light.

The next chapter

Made to reflect the light already inside you.

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