The Maker's Playbook
af Rebecca Ickes Carra
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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.
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- Kiln Me Now: Joy on the Other Side of Peri-Pocalypse with Kelli Nina Perkins of Pottery Apocalypse · 60 min.Send us Fan Mail Somewhere between the hot flashes, the brain fog, and yet another pot collapsing on the wheel, it’s easy to feel like everyone else got a manual for this season…
- Kiln Me Now: Get up and go (away) with Lori Elling · 1 t. 8 min.Send us Fan Mail For so many of us, perimenopause shows up quietly (and often years before we expect it), scrambling the energy, focus, and follow-through our creative businesses…
- Kiln me Now: Peri - normal activity in the studio with Taylor Swilley · 55 min.Send us Fan Mail Some days the clay is calling and you still can't make yourself go down to the studio (and the story you tell yourself about why is rarely a kind one). For…
- Kiln Me Now: A Maker's Playbook Podcast Side-quest · 23 min.Send us Fan Mail Have you been waking up at 3am wondering where the focus and stamina you used to have has disappeared to? Did you use to accomplish 100 things in the first half…
- Ep 723: AI and Your Handmade Art Business · 28 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail There's a strange kind of irony in selling something made entirely by hand using an image that wasn't. This episode sits inside that tension… What happens to the…
- Ep 722: Bursts, Not Balance (Finding Your Own Creative Rhythm) with Shalya Marsh · 1 t. 25 min.Send us Fan Mail Many makers treat consistency as the goal and cyclical creative rhythms as something to fix — but Shalya Marsh, of Shalya Marsh Studios, has built a three-decade…
- Ep 721: The Art of Being Recognizable with Jessie of Inkpot Creative · 1 t. 37 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail You already know what it feels like to open a cupboard, see a mug, and know exactly who made it before you ever check for a signature. That's the instinct…
- Ep 720: Starting a Pottery Business Backwards (And Why It Worked) with Robin Corradino · 1 t. 38 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail As makers, we're told to define our ideal audience and nail our strategy before we ever start — but what if the real strategy reveals itself only after you've…
- Ep 719: Creative Blocks, Career Pivots, and Letting Go with Christina Orthwein · 1 t. 30 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail Most of us have been told (or have told ourselves one way or another) that building a successful creative business means picking a lane and staying in it. But…
- Ep 718: When Demand Meets Boundaries with Debi Stoliar of Curiosibee Ceramics · 1 t. 34 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail Many of us assume that when demand for our work finally arrives, we're supposed to rise to meet all of it — that suddenly the rules of supply and demand apply to…
- Ep 717: "Where are They Now?" with Camille Beckles of Camille at the Wheel · 1 t. 15 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail We spend so much energy measuring success by how visible or "full time" our craft looks from the outside, but the version of making that actually sustains you…
- Ep 716: Taking My Own Advice · 51 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail For fifteen years, the first piece of advice out of my mouth to anyone asking about self-employment has been the same: keep the outside income as long as you…
- Ep 715: Get Specific, Create Demand with Taylor Friese of Maker Bakery · 1 t. 15 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail Most of us have been told — implicitly or explicitly — that success as a maker means growth: more followers, more orders, more revenue. But what if the real…
- Ep 714: How to Make Confident Business Decisions in Your Art Business (or side-hustle) · 26 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail If you've ever Googled "how to price my art" or "how to grow a creative business" hoping someone would just hand you the right answer — this episode is for you…
- Ep 713: “Overnight Success” with Aaron Raymond of Redacted Ceramics · 1 t. 17 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail Most of us assume that building a creative business takes years of groundwork before the work can speak for itself — but what happens when the work takes off…
- Ep 712: Monetizing Our Hobbies with Matt Robinson · 1 t. 36 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail As makers with hobbies turned side-hustles, many of us get wrapped up in the ultimate goal and dream of quitting our day jobs to pursue pottery full time—but…
- Ep 711: Part Two - "Where are they now?" Two Years Later with Hope Limyansky · 52 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail When you see someone juggling multiple jobs in their creative field, it's easy to assume it's because none of them could fully support them on their own—but what…
- Ep 710: "Where are they now?" Two Years Later with Hope Limyansky · 1 t. 11 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail So many of us carry the weight of what we thought our creative careers were supposed to look like—especially when formal education told us exactly what success…
- Ep 709: The Truth About Growing Your Creative Business in 2026 · 48 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail We're bombarded with messages telling us we're missing some secret key to business success—especially at the start of a new year—but here's the truth: There's…
- Ep 708: Craft as Community - 75 years of Haystack · 1 t. 14 min. · Sæson 7Send us Fan Mail For many makers, opportunities to focus solely on creative exploration—without the pressure to produce work for sale or prove our worth through finished…
