It's Important to do The Same Thing Everyday | Reiko Miyagi | Episode 511
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Reiko Mihagi is a native of Japan who got her ceramic education in Tokyo and experience as a studio potter in Mashiko, a renowned pottery town. After moving to the US Reiko experienced new materials and techniques and developed her signature sgraffito stoneware. Reiko work is infused with an appreciation of subtle beauty and the animistic view of the world from her native land. Reiko lives in Western North Carolina and, along with her pottery studio, runs a small market garden with her husband.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for Potters Everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello, my dearly beloved, welcome to another episode of the Potter's cast, |
| 0:19.0 | and we are actually listening to right now, episode |
| 0:22.1 | number 511. What? How awesome is that? Well, anyhow, today we've got Leiko Miyagi |
| 0:31.7 | coming on the show, and I, look, I'll just tell you this. I'm a fan of superhero movies. |
| 0:39.5 | You know those movies where you have these people who got superhuman strength, |
| 0:43.6 | and they've got superhuman abilities, and it's amazing what they can do? |
| 0:47.4 | I love those type of shows. |
| 0:49.4 | Well, this is the thing. |
| 0:50.7 | Leiko Miyagi has a superpower that is absolutely stunning. It has the ability to stop you in |
| 0:59.6 | your tracks. That's what her work does to me. It stops me in my tracks. It is so moving and so |
| 1:07.7 | beautiful. When I saw her work, I knew instantly I needed to find out who this person was, |
| 1:15.8 | to get her story, to find out how she was able to get that kind of skill level and to share that |
| 1:24.6 | with the rest of the world. So I'm pretty excited because she responded, yes, that she |
| 1:30.0 | would come on the show. And the title that I gave today's episode is, it's important to do the same |
| 1:38.9 | thing every day. Now, that's something to think about. Because that's where she gets that skill from, |
| 1:50.1 | is by getting that routine going and getting the practice and getting the discipline going. |
| 1:55.4 | And I love that. I also like that she gave this great definition, like, how do you know when |
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