The Tetter Totter Approach | Micah Schedler | Episode 940
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Micah Schedler started his pottery journey with a simple desire to learn a skill and improve. As his skills grew and his hands got smarter, Micah started to care deeply about making "nice" pots; pots that are functionally sound with good proportions and surrounding all of those things, beautiful pots. Surrounded by incredible makers in Minnesota, Micah is lucky to land in such a rich pottery tradition rooted in functional and honest pottery. Now Micah is trying to make his own pots informed by that tradition. Right now Micah makes his wares in a renovated two car garage. He uses dark stoneware covered in white slip which helps to create some visual depth in an electric kiln. The slip brings folks into those moments of making with finger marks, drips and swipes. Joy permeates his work. Micah and his partner Emma have two small kids and live in Minnesota. He works 3 days as a Registered Nurse, a potter 2 days a week, and a tired, happy dad 7 days a week.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.5 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.2 | You just clicked into episode number 940 of the Potter's cast. Now, let me tell you what's going to go on today. We are going to be |
| 0:25.7 | talking to Micah Shedler and the last episode, episode number 939, where you learned how to do the |
| 0:33.7 | multiplication table on your fingers. Anyhow, we talk about working two jobs and chasing |
| 0:42.4 | the dream. And what's interesting about this conversation is that we kind of, we kind of look at |
| 0:48.3 | the same subject matter, maybe a little bit from a different perspective now. And we've titled |
| 0:53.9 | today's episode, the teeter- a different perspective now. And we've titled today's |
| 0:54.3 | episode, the teeter-totter approach. And basically what what Mike and I talked about was the idea |
| 1:02.8 | of putting the weight or moving more weight to the other side of the teeter-totter to give it more leverage, to give more leverage |
| 1:15.8 | to one side more than the other. So he's working two jobs. He's doing his gig. He's living his life, |
| 1:23.4 | but he's starting to move things onto the other side of the teeter-totter to give it more leverage to |
| 1:28.2 | to pull it down more quickly and give it that direction that he wants to have there, which I thought |
| 1:34.9 | was a very interesting idea and approach. |
| 1:38.8 | So yeah, super good. |
| 1:41.1 | Now, we talk about other things, like for instance, this subtitle for today's |
| 1:44.6 | episode is joyfully made to be joyfully used, which I think he is just a joyful dude, |
| 1:52.4 | and you're going to really see that come out in this conversation. The guy's got a really good |
| 1:57.0 | contagious spirit. It's got a heart that loves to be involved in people's lives, |
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