Uncertain Crazy Cool Potential | Bennett Graves | Episode 1138
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Bennett Graves is a potter based in Pittsburgh, where he's been managing Fireborn Studios (alongside owner Dan Vito) since 2018. Bennett's work consists primarily of wheel-thrown porcelain, decorated with subtle surface variation and translucent high-fire glazes. Bennett's heart, however, belongs to humble, rough-hewn pots crafted from locally-sourced, minimally-processed materials.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to episode number 1138 of the Potter's cast. So stoked to be having this episode to share with you today because we've got Bennett Graves coming onto the show. And we have titled today's episode Uncertain, Crazy Cool, Potential. I don't know if you've ever been in that place |
| 0:41.8 | in life where you see this really cool potential that is coming up, and it's crazy cool, |
| 0:50.2 | but there's a lot of uncertainty. The reason there's uncertainty is because it's really hard to see the future. |
| 1:01.3 | It just is. |
| 1:02.4 | It's just so hard to see what's going to come in the future to be able to predict with perfect accuracy what's going to happen because there are things that are |
| 1:14.2 | completely out of our personal true abilities controlled like who's going to be in office or |
| 1:24.2 | what's my health going to be like next year or what are my relationships going to be like next year? |
| 1:27.8 | Or what are my relationships going to be like? |
| 1:31.0 | We can do things to help to mitigate or help those things, |
| 1:35.8 | like vote, be healthy in our choices, |
| 1:41.5 | work with our friendships, like work on friendships, so on and so forth. |
| 1:45.8 | Like those, all those things we can kind of mitigate, but it does, there's no guarantees. |
| 1:53.8 | There's no guarantees about tomorrow. |
| 1:56.2 | And Bennett is in that place of trying to figure out what his next steps are. |
| 2:01.7 | And he's got huge potential and they're crazy cool, but there is an uncertainty about it. |
| 2:08.7 | And that's where we catch Bennett in this conversation. |
| 2:12.8 | So it's going to be really cool to kind of watch what happens with Bennett over the next few months. |
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