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.

Well, okay, my dear, dear friends, we are now in episode number 6002 of the Potters' cast.

Welcome to the show, and we've got a cool person coming on the show sarah ballick and i love how there was one line that just kind of captured this

conversation or at least the way i felt about this conversation, she said, I saw a future in clay,

and I thought that was phenomenal. This is a person who kind of could see into the future.

And we're going to talk a lot about getting past self-imposed roadblocks, which is also a very

big deal that I think a lot of people deal with.

I would say myself included because I can put those roadblocks up right in front of myself

and give myself lots of reasons not to move ahead.

Anyhow, we're talking about how to get past them. So that's what Sarah

Ballack and I talked about. And so I want you to hear that conversation. So let's jump into this

conversation I had with Sarah Ballack right after this word from our sponsor.

So as GR pottery forums turn to sponsor the show this week,

and I wanted to tell you that they not only make great wooden forms

to be able to make different platters, dishes, bowls, things like that,

but they also make other tools, such as the notched rib,

which is a great tool that helps to clean up and burnish the edges of your pottery.

So if you want to get that extra special thing for cleaning up your edges,

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