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.

Hey, howdy, and welcome to episode number 743 of the Potter's cast.

I'm so stoked we are spending time together today. I had the best weekend. I went to a place called Bend, Oregon. I'm not sure if you've been there yourself,

but good night. It is a beautiful town. Great resort town, kind of a resort town. People do other things there also,

but it's just this beautiful town in kind of like central Oregon. And my wife and I went there.

Mostly we went for a, for a wedding that we were going to go to. A good friend of my son was

getting married, so we went to the wedding. but also it was like this, this great weekend

to get away just for her and me, because, you know, the wedding is only a few hours, and then

what do you do? So we decided because it was a quite a long drive to just to get there,

that we would, we would, you know, like, it's like three or four hours from where we live.

We decided we would stay there,

and it was just beautiful. And the really cool thing is, and I'm going to have a couple of potters

on the show from Bend here in the near future, I got to bump into a lot of, well, not a lot,

but a couple, a couple of makers that were out there. So I'm pretty stoked about that. So, yeah,

really cool stuff, really cool stuff,

really cool stuff. So today we've got Kate Frey's coming on the show. And I really appreciate

what she had to share. She had this idea that we talked about about respecting healthy boundaries.

And I just really think that's a good thing to have in our lives.

Are those healthy boundaries that help to kind of lay the groundwork as to how we're going

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