The Maker's Playbook

Rebecca Ickes Carra
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The Maker's Playbook

A podcast where we talk all about what it's really like to make a living from the things you make. Featuring candid interviews with other ceramicists and makers, as well as helpful business tips to make your side-hustle into a life-giving, viable business.

  1. 2 GG FA

    Ep 608: The $20 Mug with Isaac Shue

    Send us a textThe ways in which our decisions in life are so interconnected it feels endless. The same is equally true in business, especially a ceramics business. And there's no way you stay in business, as a fully self-employed household with kiddos, while offering a $20 mug without thinking through all of that interconnectedness. My chat with Isaac Shue on this week's episode perfectly highlights how every step of our making process can also inform the endless steps of our small business (...

    1 h 19 min

  2. 10 GEN

    EP 607: Financial Systems with Seanin Rosario

    Send us a textWhen it comes to the topic of money, for many of us, it stirs up less than happy feelings. But in many ways, money is just data. Yes, it has an outsized effect on our lives and the decisions we do (or can) make, and that’s annoying as stepping on Legos. But, as much as we can feel a variety of emotions around money, finances are actually just neutral data points for us to track, recognize, and use to make decisions. In this conversation with part-time potter and full-time financ...

    1 h 28 min

  3. 3 GEN

    Ep 606: Not your usual year end recap {The Launch}

    Send us a textI had thought this solo episode would be some nice big grandiose end of year recap for you. I also, had intended it to actually air in 2024, but alas… here we are, kicking off 2025 with it. The plan was lists of what worked and what didn’t in our ceramics business this year and a nice, reflected wrap-it-all-up and make-it-make-sense so you can apply the lessons we learned to your own life in whatever way works for you. The kind of thing you perhaps have come to expect from these...

    23 min

  4. 20/12/2024

    Ep 605: Finding Your Niche with Sue McLeod

    Send us a textA self-described “failed production potter” Sue McLeod still very much makes her living from ceramics. Yet, she doesn’t make her living from actually making pots… As is true with any industry, we often forget just how many different supporting and tangentially related sub-topics and professions there are available to us. And, at least for me, when we start to see those, a whole myriad of options opens up to how we just might make this crazy dream - of making a living from the th...

    1 h 15 min

  5. 06/12/2024

    Ep 604: Working with Intention with Bill Schwenzer of Aliveguy Pottery

    Send us a textDescribed as the most supportive guy on the internet by numerous people, today’s interview with Bill Schwenzer feels long overdue. Better known as Aliveguy Pottery, we talk about his career transition from corporate quality control to clay, his commitment to thoughtful encouragement online and his unique approach to delayed gratification all while continuing to push himself outside of his comfort zone and not get too bogged down in analyzing. Resources in this Episode:Bill'...

    1 h 35 min

  6. 15/11/2024

    Ep 603: Receiving Delayed Attention with Stanley Tong

    Send us a textI reached out to chat with Stanley after seeing his “Thoughts and Prayers” series - a powerful body of work creating strong visuals on the actual effects of a bullet striking a form. A series, he actually made more than a year ago. And yet, only recently and quite suddenly, has gotten quite a lot of recognition. We talk about how the series came about and what’s happened in the year since, as well as the time he’s taking to figure out the next steps, instead of letting the inter...

    1 h 10 min

  7. 08/11/2024

    Ep 602: The Catharsis of Supporting Others with Tim Clark

    Send us a textIf you weren’t learning how to carve intricate designs in sourdough bread in 2020, odds are, you might have been learning how to make pottery. And while this is true for today’s guest, Tim Clark, that wasn’t all. Tim also was learning how to make pottery and navigate the rest of life after a spontaneous tear of the retina left him half blind. There seems to be quite the thru line for many of us finding pottery as a therapeutic thing, but Tim has taken this one step farther, in s...

    1 h 25 min

  8. 01/11/2024

    Ep 601: Staying Okay (even when your business isn’t) with Clare Barboza of Poppy Bee Surfaces

    Send us a textHow do you stay okay even when it doesn't feel like your business isn't going well? Because while we might feel pulled to log the long hours and push ourselves to "work harder" to "grind it out," in reality, we can't really come up with new, interesting, creative solutions when we're exhausted or stressed or frankly, freaking out. As foolish as it might feel to get up and go for a walk instead of "being productive" it might also be exactly that walk that brings you a clever idea...

    1 h 17 min
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Descrizione

A podcast where we talk all about what it's really like to make a living from the things you make. Featuring candid interviews with other ceramicists and makers, as well as helpful business tips to make your side-hustle into a life-giving, viable business.

Informazioni

  • Creatore
    Rebecca Ickes Carra
  • Anni di attività
    2020 - 2025
  • Puntate
    152
  • Classificazione
    Contenuti adatti a tutti
  • Copyright
    © 2025 The Maker's Playbook
  • Sito web del podcast
    The Maker's Playbook

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