Ep 718: When Demand Meets Boundaries with Debi Stoliar of Curiosibee Ceramics

About this episode

The episode explores the balance between demand for creative work and the importance of setting boundaries, featuring a conversation with Debi Stoliar of Curiosibee Ceramics.

Send us Fan Mail Many of us assume that when demand for our work finally arrives, we're supposed to rise to meet all of it — that suddenly the rules of supply and demand apply to us the same way they apply to everyone else. What if deliberately not scaling up isn't leaving opportunity on the table, but is actually the thing that makes the work worth wanting in the first place? In her conversation with Debi Stoliar of Curiosibee Ceramics,, we explore what it looks like to hold two seemingly co...

People in this episode

Host: Rebecca Ickes Carra

Guest: Debi Stoliar

Topics covered

• demand and supply
• boundaries in business
• scaling up
• art and entrepreneurship
• value of work

Keywords

• demand
• boundaries
• Curiosibee Ceramics
• Debi Stoliar
• scaling
• entrepreneurship
• art

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Curiosibee Ceramics

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