Ep 335: Live at NCECA - The Business of Clay with The Potter's Cast

<p>LIVE from NCECA! Our recording of the joint (but mostly Paul interviewing <em>me</em>) episode with the Potter’s Cast is here! We touched the surface on a <em>lot</em> of business topics in this one hour. Anything from the importance of finding your own work <em>before</em> market research, how business is mostly just the scientific process on repeat, and a lot lot more, including direct questions from the <em>live audience</em> that was sitting in front of us the whole time. The room was absolutely packed and frankly, I was a bit stunned. Any one of the questions Paul asked me could be their entire own episode by themselves, so if there is a subject you were wishing we had time to dive deeper on, send me and email and let me know! I’m working on trying to compile more of my post-NCECA thoughts for future episodes and I’d love to know what you are most interested in. Send over your ideas to: <a href='mailto:podcast@makers-playbook.com'>podcast@makers-playbook.com</a> </p><p>If all the NCECA talk the last few months has you feeling all the FOMO (fear of missing out), please know that I am <em>here for you</em>. FOMO sucks, and it’s not a feeling I want to encourage in this world. In fact, my own history with FOMO is a huge reason I wanted to build The Community. I’ve realized that one of the massive benefits of a digital space is the way we can show up for each other on a regular basis. Rather than having 4 intense days of hyper-energetic interaction, only to drop back down to zero, like a little kid after a sugar high (aka what NCECA can feel like)… Online, we can embrace a consistency within our usual daily or weekly routines. We can be more present to each other than I was ever able to be with <em>anyone</em> at NCECA. Long story short, if watching what seemed like every maker you follow online show up to NCECA caused you to feel a great deal of FOMO. Or if you attended NCECA and felt that massive shock of returning back to everyday life, where there wasn’t a group of ready and willing makers to nerd out wit