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This month’s guest is the brilliant @james_stead_ceramics 🎨 James is a ceramics teacher (who taught me at school!), a potter and more recently a finalist on series 6 of @potterythrow 🏺

For more context on some of the things discussed from @potterythrow , you can watch all the series on @channel4 , and James also has some reels on a few of his creations

It was so great to chat all about the pottery world, and to get a completely different perspective into mugs & the intricacies of how they’re made

Every item talked about is quite astonishing in its craft so I’d highly recommend following along with the pictures as you listen for the full experience:

1. Ray Gridley large blue mug

2. @richmillerpots wood-fired orange mug

3. Drip down mug (slip trailing) - pottery circle swap at Potfest

4. A gift from @roynon_ceramics - red and white Voronoi mug

5. @danielboyleceramics black & blue salt-fired mug

6. Bonus item ✨ @clarewakefieldceramics bowl

Other things mentioned:

☕️ @potfest.co.uk

☕️ International ceramics festival - Aberystwyth

✨Takeshi Yasuda

🎙️ For Flux Sake

🎙️ @pottymouth_pottery_podcast

🪴 Baslow Pottery near Bakewell, Derbyshire (Ray Gridley’s pottery)

🪴 @whichfordpottery

☕️ @whittardofchelsea1886

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What we talk about in this episode:

• Pressure of the new year & January being a hard month!
• Overwhelm & Bullet journals
• Mood tracking, noticing that it was hard to be honest about a "bad day"
• The Pandemic Skip
• Breaking things down into manageable small chunks & signing up to things in advance
• Not being too hard on yourself
• Flexibility to your goals & kindness to yourself
• Self compassion
• Comparison being the thief of joy / everyone is on their own journeys
• Feeling behind in your 20s
• Living a life true to your values
• Embracing beginner-ness
• Being led by your heart
• Fake it till you make it!
• What do I want to do & establishing clear boundaries
• What’s in your pie (chart)? A balance is key
• What our words of the year are
• A year isn't just about what you achieved but how you felt

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