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The Potters Cast

"Say 'Yes!', and We'll Work Out The Details Later." | Zeynep Testoni | Episode 576

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Zeynep Testoni's work is inspired by the ocean and natural surrounds of her home in the seaside village of Gerroa, two hours south of Sydney in NSW, Australia. Zeynep has chosen ceramics as her 'encore career' after teaching English in secondary schools for almost 30 years. Zeynep's home studio is becoming a thriving local hub for pottery enthusiasts.

Transcript

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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.

0:13.9

We are now in episode number 576 of the Potters' cast,

0:19.0

and I'm really stoked to be spending time with you because we've got such

0:23.6

a cool guest on the show today. Her name is Zanip Testoni. And, well, you know, I think I'm saying

0:30.5

it correctly, but I tell you what, I have to practice our guest's names because I am not the best

0:36.5

at it. But we have a little bit of a stumble over her name.

0:41.5

And I just want to apologize to Zainip when we get to the beginning here. So, and to all,

0:48.3

sorry that I can't say her name perfectly. But whether or not I say her name perfectly,

0:54.0

one thing we did do is we had a perfectly

0:56.9

amazing conversation. I love the hard attitude of what she says. She says this one line that I think

1:04.2

is really significant. She said, say yes and we'll figure out the details later.

1:14.0

Sometimes that's just how life is.

1:17.2

You just got to say yes and go for it.

1:19.1

And then, hey, we'll figure out as we go.

1:24.7

Because there will be a thousand reasons the whole way through to say no when to quit.

1:30.6

But when you say yes and you've got that positive attitude of saying it's all learnable, we can figure it out later, we can take care of the details when we get there,

1:36.2

I like that, I like that.

1:38.3

And also one of the thing, tell me if this isn't true as you listen to this, this conversation. Doesn't her voice sound

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