
Wheel Talk
Hosted by Ryan and Becca · Ryan Durbin & Becca Otis
4.6from 207 ratings
- 366
- Episodes
- 100
- Transcribed
- 207
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About Wheel Talk
Ryan Durbin (@rdceramics) & Becca Otis (@5linespottery) share their experiences as potters, makers, small business owners, and creatives. Becca is a full time studio potter, while Ryan is a full time website developer and part time potter. We'd love to share our ups and downs along the way as we build our skills as makers and small business owners in an honest, informal manner. We hope to bring you helpful tips we've learned over the years, learn from each other, and share expertise from a number of guests with you also. Please join us for some Wheel Talk!
- Publisher
- Ryan Durbin & Becca Otis
- Category
- arts · business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 22 Aug 2019
- Latest episode
- 3 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
100 of 366 episodes have a transcript.

3 Oct 2026
Rethinking Where We Spend Our Time and Energy

19 Sept 2026
Everything You Need to Know About Pot Swap 2026

29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wheel Talk Book Club: We Need Your Art (with Taylor Swilley)
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Wheel Talk Book Club: We Need Your Art (with Taylor Swilley)
Published 29 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's true. Make manageable small goals instead. Yeah, I mean, like I think about and I don't know if this is necessarily also like a beginner's advice, but I think about me when I. when I decided to do, uh, like to go back to full-time pottery or full-time earring making, cause I'm not, I haven't thrown a pot in like forever. Um, I, so anyway, I, um, I can make as much stuff in my, I don't work from, for eight hours. I work from 9am to 3pm. And, I get as much done as I used to get done, you know, like, and I take breaks. And when you are in this long enough, you learn tips and tricks that make everything so much easier. […]
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- Tzipporah
- Rachel Durbin
- Taylor Swilley
- Natalie Wagner
- Heidi Fahrenbacher
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 2,424
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 128 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 79 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 95
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Questions about Wheel Talk
Who hosts Wheel Talk?
Ryan and Becca host the show. Published by Ryan Durbin & Becca Otis.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Wheel Talk take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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