ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
61 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
198 episodes
since Dec. 17, 2020
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~83.96% of listeners are from United States.
🇺🇸
US
83.96%
🇷🇴
RO
5.34%
🇨🇦
CA
1.52%
🇧🇬
BG
1.52%
🇨🇿
CZ
1.52%
🇸🇪
SE
1.14%
🇸🇮
SI
1.14%
🇮🇳
IN
0.76%
🇬🇧
GB
0.76%
🇩🇪
DE
0.38%
🇮🇹
IT
0.38%
🇮🇩
ID
0.38%
🇵🇭
PH
0.38%
🇳🇱
NL
0.38%
🇿🇲
ZM
0.38%
Others
0.06%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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 depend on, while the people around us either miss it entirely or chalk it up to us being “cranky.” What if this season i…
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of The Maker's Playbook.
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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 potters in perimenopause, that tug-of-war gets louder: bigger feelings, words that won't come, and fewer spoons to s…
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 of your day, and now barely manage 10 things in 3 days? What if the real conversation us small, handmade artisan business…
Send 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 meaning of handmade work when AI creeps into how we market it, photograph it, or talk about it online? We’re n…
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 career on making, unmaking, and remaking herself: sculptor to potter, employee to entrepreneur, solo maker to (almost) b…
Send 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 artists have always had. So why does the word "branding" make so many of us tune out? Jessie, one half of the du…
Send 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 already begun? Robin Corradino of Rob Ceramics joins to unpack how she built a thriving wholesale and consignment…
Send 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 what happens when the lane you've built starts to feel more like a cage, and the work that once lit you up becomes jus…
Send 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 us the same way they apply to everyone else. What if deliberately not scaling up isn't leaving opportunity on …
Send 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 might look completely different from what you think it should. Over the last 5 years, since we first interviewed …
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rebecca Ickes Carra, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,822,285 podcasts and 195,515,379 episodes by people, places, or topics.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious, and
I listen to podcasts.
‐ Albert "Llamacorn" Einstein
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of The Maker's Playbook.
PODCAST IS CLAIMED
This podcast page is claimed and managed by
@themakersplaybook
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
