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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.

Here we are, episode number 998 of the Potterscast.

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Have you heard of the non-profit pottery called prodigal pottery? It's in Alabama, and I think it's like east of Birmingham, and this place is so cool because it's a studio that employs something like

14 women that have all experienced either homelessness or sex trafficking or domestic abuse

or they were addicts, former offenders, and now they're

getting their lives back together, and they are in the process of totally transforming their

lives. And it's incredible what's going on there. And there's two directors of the place. One of them

is Amanda Clarity who had been addicted to meth for like

15 years. She was pregnant at 19. She went to prison at 20. And then anyhow, she's getting her

life turned around. And now she's a director there. And her co-director, Jenna Collins, was a heroin addict for like 10 years.

And anyhow, I'm just saying, what an amazing place to see what they are doing.

So, yeah, I'm amazed by it.

And it's written up in the Alabama News Center that was published just earlier this week.

So, yeah, you may want to read the whole story because it's pretty incredible.

So the title of the article is Alabama's prodigal pottery empowers women to reclaim their lives.

Super phenomenal. Okay. So that's going on. Now, what else is going on is that the potter's

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