How to Know When to Go Fulltime | Shawna Pincus | Episode 573

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Shawna Pincus is a ceramic artist living in Baltimore Maryland with her husband Michael, daughter Amelia, and their cat Bowie. Shawna grew up right outside of Philadelphia and attended school at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned a BFA in sculptural studies then continued on to Towson University earning her certification in Art Education. Shawna has taught as an art teacher in the public school system, as an adjunct Professor of Art Education for Towson University, instructs adult pottery classes at the Baltimore Clayworks and has led various workshops with adults, children and art teachers. Shawna spends most of her time working in her basement studio creating hand built functional pottery and perfecting her unique style of screen-printing on clay.

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0:00.0	This is the Potter's Cast, a podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of potters
0:06.7	dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host,
0:12.2	Paul Blaze. And this is episode number 573 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show.'m hoping that your november is going well can you
0:23.9	believe it we're in november i'm blown away how fast this year is going by but good night i'm
0:31.8	excited about november i'm excited about december it's one of my favorite times a year you know
0:36.5	i i think i already told you,
0:38.4	we got the eggnog season going on, right? Yep, just bought a new half gallon today. Finished off the old
0:45.2	one today. Made sure I didn't go long without it at all. Yes, I'm an eggnog fan. I put it in my tea.
0:53.7	Make eggnog latties, as I call them. A little bit of
0:57.5	agave. Get my PG tips going. And then I put eggnog in there and it's so good. Delicious
1:08.4	way to start the day. Anyhow, Shauna Pinkis is on the show today and we're
1:14.6	going to talk about this subject of how to know when to go full time. One of the worst things a person
1:23.8	can do is launch their business before it's time. If a person launches too soon,
1:29.6	then there's a huge chance that they will fail. That person can fail miserably. And then the
1:35.5	idea comes in like, well, guys should never be running a business because, you know, that
1:40.4	obviously doesn't work out. And the reality is if there just been a little bit of a runway given to a person,
1:47.8	success could have been easily achieved.
1:50.5	It's just a matter of knowing when is that critical time to pull the trigger.
1:55.2	Well, Shauna Pinkis and I get into that part of the subject, into that part of the,
2:03.5	or into that conversation, and we talk about that. So this is going to be a good conversation, especially for you, if you are thinking
2:10.3	about, you know, launching your ceramic business and then knowing when it is to go actually full time on it and quit the day job.
2:22.2	So there you go. That's what we're going to talk about. Hey, if you want to see her work before
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