Mush Hughes and Leigh Northrup talk with makers and artists to learn more about the stories behind their projects and their creative journeys so far. Thanks for joining us here in the tavern!
The Storyteller's Tavern
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Mush Hughes and Leigh Northrup talk with makers and artists to learn more about the stories behind their projects and their creative journeys so far. Thanks for joining us here in the tavern!
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Recent Episodes
March 16, 2026
Chapter 8:9 - Anne Briggs
<p>Anne Briggs is a farmer, woodworker, and educator who turns big, overwhelming dreams into approachable, everyday practices. She blends regenerative agriculture, “lazy gardening,” and traditional hand-tool woodworking into stories and systems that help people build real skills and a life they love using whatever they have to get there. Through her online content and in-person classes, she invites folks to use their hands and their minds in a way that feels playful, honest, and sustainable. She leaves every interaction with a challenge: get outside, get your hands dirty, and look for the good. Because “whether you look for the bad or the good, you’ll find it. Finding the good even in the mundane is the first step towards building a life and a legacy bigger than yourself.”</p><p>We close out 2025 Maker Camp with Anne as we talk about just how meaningful this event has become to the broader maker community. Anne discusses her start in making, learning from old timers with old tools, and guiding future generations of makers. She speaks about the importance of stewardship, not just with tools, but with skills and knowledge as well. And content creation as an act of service, not self-promotion. Anne touches on her long, difficult journey into motherhood and what it’s teaching her. We discuss the challenges, and well-earned rewards, that come with choosing hard work and creative living. In an emotional wrap up, we all share highlights from the weekend. Anne’s observation that “this is where the good stuff is” really hits home. </p><p>Like everything Anne does, this one is full of honesty, hope, a little humor, and a whole lot of heart.</p><p><strong>More Anne</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/anneofalltrades/"><u>Anne Briggs - Anne of All Trades</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.anneofalltrades.com/"><u>Website</u></a></p><p><br></p>
March 2, 2026
Chapter 8:8 - Ed & Jeff
<p>Ed Mancini of Mancini Woodworking and Jeff from Maker's Way are two furniture builders, storytellers, and longtime pillars of the maker community whose friendship is built on equal parts craftsmanship, mutual support, and an absolutely relentless commitment to giving each other a hard time.</p><p>Ed is a former Army tanker who spent twenty years learning how to destroy things before rediscovering the joy of creating them. What started as an outlet after military service became something much bigger: a way to rebuild identity, find community, and turn woodworking into both therapy and connection.</p><p>Jeff came up through vocational carpentry, building toolboxes by hand and framing houses before stepping away from making entirely for nearly two decades. It wasn’t until later in life that he found his way back, using Instagram and YouTube not just to share his work, but to document the people, relationships, and stories that make this community what it is.</p><p>Beyond woodworking, this conversation turns to rediscovery, friendship and what happens when people who’ve spent years building things finally find the community that helps them build themselves.</p><p>The four of us talk about Ed’s journey from operating main battle tanks to building furniture; Jeff’s path through vocational carpentry, military service, and back into creative work; the origin of their friendship through Sawdust Talk and the early days of the Instagram maker community; and why Maker Camp isn’t really about the tools at all - it’s about the people, the relationships, and the feeling of finally finding where you belong.</p><p>Heads up: this one goes off the rails in some places, but rest assured there’s plenty of laughter, some swears, and at least one discussion about tanks and disco balls.</p><p><strong>More Ed & Jeff</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/manciniwoodworking/"><u>Ed Mancini - Mancini Woodworking</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/makers_way/"><u>Jeff Henke - Maker's Way</u></a></p><p><br></p>
February 23, 2026
Chapter 8:7 - Kerges & Tamara
<p>Leigh and Mush sit down with Kerges Nimen and Tamara Robertson, two people whose paths into making couldn’t look more different on the surface, but who are connected by something deeper. Kergis is a silversmith whose work captures both delicacy and strength, fusing fire, metal, and meaning into jewelry that shines with unmistakable personality. Tamara - part engineer, part MythBuster, part author, part educator - is back on the pod and back at Maker Camp to lead Tinkering T-Rex workshops, build stomp rockets with kids, and spread her lifelong passion for curiosity in motion. Together, they represent two sides of the same spark: one grounded in patient craft, the other fueled by scientific wonder, both rooted in teaching and community.</p><p>We get into Tamara’s work restoring and operating steam locomotives, and what it means to care for machines that were built generations before us - ones that don’t forgive shortcuts, but teach you to listen, to feel, and to earn your understanding one mistake at a time.</p><p>We also talk about how learning used to happen through proximity - by standing next to someone who knew more than you, watching, trying and failing - and how that kind of learning still exists today, if you’re willing to seek it out.</p><p>And we get into a familiar truth about making: it’s not just about the object. It’s about the people, the mentors, the friendships, and the communities that form when curious humans gather around shared obsession.</p><p><strong>More Kerges & Tamara</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kergesnimensilversmithing/"><u>Kerges Nimen Silversmithing</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/therealtamararobertson/"><u>The Real Tamara Robertson</u></a></p><p><br></p>
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