The Maker's Playbook

Rebecca Ickes Carra

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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The Maker's Playbook

Episodes (194)

Jul 26th Ep 722: Bursts, Not Balance (Finding Your Own Creative Rhythm) with Shalya Marsh
Jul 12th Ep 721: The Art of Being Recognizable with Jessie of Inkpot Creative
Jun 30th Ep 720: Starting a Pottery Business Backwards (And Why It Worked) with Robin Corradino

The Maker's Playbook

Jul 26, 2026
1 hour
58 MB

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) business owner with an assistant. Her conversation digs into whether "balance" is really the wrong word for what most working makers experience, and whether cyclical bursts of energy — not steady daily habits — might be the more honest model for a sustainable creative practice. Shalya shares how she draws a personal bounda...

The Maker's Playbook

Ep 722: Bursts, Not Balance (Finding Your Own Creative Rhythm) with Shalya Marsh

Rebecca Ickes Carra

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