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.

Welcome, my friend, to episode number 514.

So stoked, we is hanging out together with the potter's cast talking about pottery.

What else could be better than that?

Very few things I got to say.

Now, today we've got a rock star coming on the show.

His name is Phil Lyons and he is changing the planet,

one student at a time, high school teacher, and he is making an impact in students' lives.

And I'm really stoked to be able to share his story with you. I am a firm, firm believer that the work of a high school teacher or anyone

who works with that age group is really changing the world. You're making an impact, you're pouring

your life into them, and they, the students are growing and being changed. That's an amazing thing.

Well, Phil Lyons is one of these teachers that is doing that exact thing. Well, number one,

he's an amazing artist in and of himself, which I like that, but also he's got just some great basic ideas of how to be

an inspiring teacher. And one of his lines that he said that I just thought was so simple,

so brilliant, and so good was this line. He said, show up, try, clean up. I know it's basic,

but man, it's a good motto. I was just thinking the other day that I treat myself way

worse than I would treat anybody else.

I would never treat someone else the way I treat myself because I will do a job and then

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