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.

My dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate episode number 690 that we have just entered into welcome to the show. Can you believe

that we are just 10 episodes away from episode 700? Good night. Now, I don't know if that's a big deal to you, but it is a big deal to me. I can't

believe we've done 700 episodes of the Potter's cast, and I can't do, well, if we haven't

done it yet. I mean, we've got that many, you know, nearly recorded and just about, you know,

ready to go, but I am blown away, you know, ready to go.

But I am blown away that we've got it to 690 and we're coming up quickly upon the 700 episode.

And all I can say is wow and thank you.

Okay.

I've got nothing really critical to talk about here, other than that,

that that's coming up. But we're going to do some special episode for episode 700. We will do

something special for that episode, and I will give more details about that in upcoming episodes.

But for today, we've got Anna Valenti coming on this show.

And she is amazing.

And I don't say that lightly.

She makes ran clay furniture. Like, how was that even possible?

I mean, it's pretty stunning. So she's this amazing ceramicist, and we talk about her creative approach to clay. And we, you know, we obviously talk about her journey into clay, but also that creative approach. And I'm always fascinated about

people who do something that ought not to be done. And she did it. So let's jump into this conversation I had with Anna Valenti

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