Hosted by Rebecca Ickes Carra · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 190 episodes
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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.
Rebecca Ickes Carra hosts The Maker's Playbook, a arts show with 190 episodes published.
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 star
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 el
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 yo
Send 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 possibly can. And for fifteen years, I wasn't
Send 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 question isn't how big can this get, but what
Send 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. Rebecca digs into why making confident bus
Send 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 before you've had time to figure out the busi
Send 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 what if that pressure to monetize everything
Send 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 if having options is actually the most st
Send 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 should be. What happens when you realize th
Send 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 nothing fundamentally new about running a su
Send 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 pieces—feel impossibly rare or reserved for those
Send us Fan Mail Building a team is one thing—but how do you actually run a production ceramics studio day-to-day without losing the handmade quality that makes your work special? In this second part of my conversation w
Send us Fan Mail What if you could grow your business and build a team without becoming a factory—creating a business that values craft, flexibility, and the humans behind the work? In this conversation, Sarah Wolf of Wo
Send us Fan Mail Right now, for potters and artists around the world the holiday season is crazy busy - markets, commissions, shop updates, custom orders all piling up at once. But are you choosing what's right for you,
Send us Fan Mail Working as a librarian by day and making pottery in her garage studio by night, Becky wrestles with a challenge many makers face: how do you develop a distinctive artistic voice when you're working in is
Send us Fan Mail Many makers struggle with the tension between creating work we love vs making work that we think will sell, especially when traditional academic instruction is often focused on concepts and what I call “
Send us Fan Mail As makers, we often feel pressure to create what we think will sell rather than what genuinely excites us, but what if following your authentic creative vision is actually the fastest path to finding you
Send us Fan Mail Most makers think YouTube means teaching their craft or competing with influencers for millions of views—but what if the real power lies in creating educated, confident buyers who value your work before
Send us Fan Mail What if the pressure to grow your follower count and perfect your online presence is actually distracting you from the real relationship-building that sustains creative businesses over time? Because it’s
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