Knowing When To Pivot | Anita & Neil Lawrence | Episode 1113
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Anita & Neil Lawrence met in art school back in the late 80's and have been carving out a living together ever since. When Anita and Neil first graduated from art school they did various jobs on Vancouver Island in British Colombia to make ends meet. Eventually they bought a production studio, opened a restaurant, and lately a gallery studio.
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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. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to episode number 11113 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.6 | I am so happy to be here today because that means I am feeling well enough to actually start putting out episodes again. |
| 0:32.1 | I had my surgery where they removed my eye on Thursday and it was kind of amazing. I mean, |
| 0:42.1 | it's amazing to go in it. I think I got there at like six in the morning, well, 6.15. And by 9.30, |
| 0:50.8 | I think I was home. That's how quick they do it, man. It's such a fast procedure. |
| 0:56.2 | They put all sorts of bandages on there, so now I've got a big bandage that goes from the top of my forehead, |
| 1:03.6 | down to about my beard line, from my nose, back to about my... |
| 1:08.4 | That whole side of my face is basically taped off. Nobody wants to look at that |
| 1:12.9 | kind of a face right now. So it's, it's all hidden away with a lot of packing. So you can kind of |
| 1:19.6 | bump my eye and you're just going to be hitting bandages right now, which is, which is good stuff. |
| 1:25.3 | It was not a fun process the first three days. First three days, |
| 1:30.8 | it was good meds and good meds all day. Then on, I think it was, the doctor said by Sunday, |
| 1:39.5 | I would be amazed. It would just be done. The pain would be done. Well, it was almost that way. I was |
| 1:46.3 | just determined on Sunday that I was going to go Tylenol only. And I think I only took Tylenol twice. |
| 1:52.9 | I didn't feel all that great all day, but I was kind of back into feeling relatively good. |
| 2:00.8 | Like not perfect. |
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