The Maker's Playbook
Hosted by host · Rebecca Ickes Carra
4.8from 226 ratings
- 197
- Episodes
- 36
- Transcribed
- 226
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 5K
- YouTube views
About The Maker's Playbook
A podcast where we talk all about what it's really like to make a living from the things you make. Featuring candid interviews with other ceramicists and makers, as well as helpful business tips to make your side-hustle into a life-giving, viable business.
- Publisher
- Rebecca Ickes Carra
- Category
- arts · business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
36 of 197 episodes have a transcript.
26 Sept 2026
Kiln me Now: Peri - normal activity in the studio with Taylor Swilley
18 Sept 2026
Kiln Me Now: A Maker's Playbook Podcast Side-quest
22 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 723: AI and Your Handmade Art Business
Inside a recent episode
Ep 723: AI and Your Handmade Art Business
Published 22 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Maybe you don't have an answer to that question of why you make what you make right now, why you do what you do. And that's okay. It's a really big question. But I think if you remind yourself to keep sitting with it, wondering about it, asking yourself why, eventually, When you find that why unique to yourself, I think if it's really deeply your true why, it will seep into everything. Your product photos included. For me, personally, in my own actual making and creative practice, I am drawn to the process. Whether that's in what I make myself, watching my own growth as a craftsperson, being able to sit down and center in a minute instead of the 10 minutes it used to take me however many years ago, or whether it's in the mug that I'm holding that I've bought from a friend, feeling the process and the object itself, the gesture of the form, the feel of a handle that holds onto the hand of the person who made it, and now onto mine. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The Maker's Playbook
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Taylor Swilley
- Jessie
- Robin Corradino
- Christina Orthwein
- Debi Stoliar
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 4,790
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 115 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 111 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 78
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 98
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host host the show. Published by Rebecca Ickes Carra.
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