Loving Your Customers | Milla Istomina | Episode 910
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Milla Istomina was born and raised in Kazakhstan. Milla moved to the USA in 2013 and has been residing in Los Angeles, California. Milla took her first pottery class in 2018 at the Barnsdall Art Center. What started as a weekend hobby quickly turned into a monthly membership at a communal studio. Mist Ceramics was born, and experimenting with clays, techniques, glazes and styles has begun. Just like many people across the globe, Milla lost her full time job on the marketing team of an arts organization when the COVID pandemic struck. It was time to make a path for oneself and take risks, so Mist Ceramics slowly became Milla's main project. Mist Ceramics practice explores various techniques and genres while executing the neverending battle of trained wheel thrower versus self-taught hand builder.
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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. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, my dear friends, this is episode number 910 of The Potter's Cast. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the show. This past weekend, we had a great class for the Potter's class called Handmade Stories with Helen Beard, and it was amazing. She taught us |
| 0:33.3 | some great techniques that I think should be installed in everybody's repertoire. |
| 0:40.5 | Well, maybe not everybody's, you know, but I'm telling you, it was just phenomenal. |
| 0:45.0 | And it's now available that the live class is come and gone, but the recorded class is here to stay. |
| 0:52.5 | And you can get into that by going to the pottersclass.com and that'll get you to the class. |
| 1:00.0 | And it's going to be right there at the top of the thing. |
| 1:03.0 | You can be able to look at it and enjoy the class. |
| 1:06.5 | Now it's, it's, yeah, it's just phenomenal. |
| 1:10.3 | Okay, today's guests. We've got mila estomona coming on this show |
| 1:13.9 | and we she's a person who's from kuzitstan and she's now a californian and uh what what a |
| 1:23.8 | what a what a story she kind of gives is that journey of her ceramic career and |
| 1:30.8 | really really fun to listen to but one of the things we kind of narrowed in on is this idea |
| 1:37.4 | of loving your customers and you know that's not that's not the whole thing that defines her |
| 1:42.8 | I mean one her work is beautiful and she's so that's that's not the whole thing that defines her. I mean, one, her work is beautiful. |
| 1:45.1 | And she's so that's kind of like the main thing. |
| 1:48.4 | But this is one of those things that it's something that we could all strive to attain, |
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