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 to episode number 1,191 of the Potter's Cast.

Here we are in the second full, or I should say the first full week of 2026.

And it's shaping up so far to be a good year so far because I had a long weekend.

It was like Wednesday through Sunday. I just had nothing to do except for enjoy

my, my times in the morning, having a bit of tea with Jennifer. And then we got to do stuff down at

the studio, which was just like vacation time. It was awesome. And so, yeah, pretty,

pretty much having to go back to work on Monday. That's, that's, that's, you know, a treat

five days off. So good. I love it. I hope you had a great long vacation or weekend for yourself,

for whatever it was it was that you were doing,

and that,

yeah,

and that this year is going to be amazing for you.

So we've got Deanna Wong coming on the show.

And the only dark cloud that I can see is that my eggnog is running out.

You know, it's just the last, I think today might have, maybe tomorrow morning,

might be the last official day of the nog season.

I was writing people saying, you know, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and may your

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