Scaling Your Pottery Business Without Breaking It (with Heidi Fahrenbacher)

About this episode

Ryan and Heidi discuss balancing growth and sustainability in a ceramics business.

Ryan is joined by Heidi Fahrenbacher for a conversation about balancing growth, production, and sustainability while building a ceramics business. Prompted by listener questions about burnout, workflow, and scaling a pottery side hustle, they discuss structuring making schedules around kiln cycles, managing inventory and multiple sales channels, and recognizing when momentum is supported versus unsustainable. Together, they reflect on the realities of building a long-term creative business wi...

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Durbin

Guest: Heidi Fahrenbacher

Topics covered

• scaling business
• pottery
• sustainability
• burnout
• workflow
• inventory management

Keywords

• pottery business
• ceramics
• scaling
• production
• creative business

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