YouTube for Potters | Jon Schmidt | Episode 502
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Jon Schmidt is a potter, entrepreneur, adventurer, videographer, photographer, father, and husband. Jon began his pottery adventures in 2010 when he took his first wheel throwing class at Gustavus Adolphus in St. Peter, MN. Jon graduated with a Business management degree. Jon combined his passion for handmade pottery and entrepreneurship skills to purchase the coffee shop, Mocha Monkey in 2011, at 21 years old. Since then, Mocha Monkey has grown from 1 store and 18 employees to 3 locations, and over 50 employees. Mocha Monkey uses and sells all handmade Jon Schmidt pottery. Jon has spent most of his time honing the pottery business, being a husband and father to his 18 month old son, Ryder and seeking out the next adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast, a podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of |
| 0:06.4 | potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, |
| 0:12.0 | Paul Blaze. And it's episode number 502 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the to the show now i'm really excited about today's |
| 0:25.6 | episode because we've got a very cool potter coming on to the show to talk to you about some cool |
| 0:33.7 | things and this is john smit and if you are into youtube then you will have already known |
| 0:41.9 | john because he is john the potter and i'm telling you what this guy is just a hoot to spend time with |
| 0:51.7 | and i'm looking forward to spending time with him when I go back |
| 0:55.0 | to Ancica because Enseca is happening in Minnesota this year and John Schmidt is just outside of that |
| 1:03.9 | area. So I'm going to be hanging out with John when I get back there. And I would love for you to hang out |
| 1:09.1 | with me also because we're going to be doing a meet also because we're going to be doing a meetup. |
| 1:13.4 | We're going to be doing a meetup with the Potter's cast in Minneapolis, |
| 1:18.4 | and I'm going to tell you the location of that very soon. |
| 1:23.0 | But please, please, please be making time for that. |
| 1:25.5 | It's going to be Thursday evening. |
| 1:27.2 | Usually we start around 9 to 9.30 and we just hang out and have the best of times. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, you need to have some food. |
| 1:33.7 | You can have some hangout time. |
| 1:35.7 | But mostly you can have some good times. |
| 1:38.4 | So that's coming up. |
| 1:40.3 | And anyhow, but back to John. |
| 1:43.5 | John today is going to be talking about YouTube for potters. |
| 1:50.1 | And, you know, we've had a lot of YouTubers or, you know, and a lot of potters in YouTube, I should say. |
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