This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for Potters Everywhere.

It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Hello and welcome to episode number 899 of the Potter's cast. So stoked we're hanging out together today.

Today we've got a very cool conversation going on. We've got Maximilian Gouriev coming on the

show. And he's a Russian that in 2022, he left Russia, basically to be able to set up

shop in Georgia and be able to keep selling his ceramics because where he was, it was quite

difficult for him to be able to, you know, sell ceramics

because of the situation with Russia, invading Ukraine and that whole gig.

And so we don't talk politics in this, one, because it could be dangerous for Maximilian

to talk about those things and be able to share his opinions or thoughts on it.

So we end up not going that route.

But what we did do was we talked about what it was like for him to have to flee his country

or leave his country and move to a new country where he could continue living in freedom

and also in running a business that wouldn't be hampered by

local politics or problems that were going on in Russia. So very interesting conversation.

So he's a Moscow artist now living in Georgia and he's he's killing it. So let's jump into this conversation

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