S3 Ep3 - Going after what you love, an honest reflection on Instagram success & why Dolly Parton is Queen with Emma Puddick

This month’s guest is the brilliant @emmapuddickpottery. Emma creates colourful creations inspired by pop culture, tattoo iconography & vintage styles. She’s also a top 0.0001% worldwide** Dolly Parton fan (**unverified 😂)

Emma runs her own ceramics business, centred around monthly shop drops! These often sell out in minutes so you have to be quick ⏰ Her following & success really started to grow in 2022. At this time, the art director of The Great Pottery Throwdown spotted her mugs & the judges used them on the show in deliberation section when they decide who’s potter of the week & who’s going home

For those who’ve followed A Mug’s Life for a while you may have seen Emma’s mugs as they’re in many of my posts & stories. Her weather mugs are my personal mug favourites & also my most complimented mugs  ☀️⛅️⚡️☔️. Her designs are simply incredible & so creative!

Here are the mugs talked about, if you’d like to follow along and see: 

1. The start of Emma Puddick Pottery - purple leopard print mug 
2. Dolly Parton mug by Jake Ford Ceramics
3. A photo mug of Emma & friends in Schitt’s Creek fancy dress 
4. Keith Brymer Jones mug - made during lockdown from his studio 
5. Adam Frew ceramics porcelain mug 

 Some of her quick fire favourites!

☕️ Tea: Yorkshire tea Biscuit Brew 🍪 & Whittards Dreamtime

☕️ Coffee: Wogan coffee roastery

📺 Hacks & Sort your life out with Stacey Solomon 

🎙️Blindboy podcast & Dolly Parton’s America 

📚 Thursday Murder Club, The Avocado Hotel, The Satsuma Complex 

Available on all platforms now to listen (Spotify/Apple podcasts) or watch (Spotify/YouTube). Also linked in my bio 💫

We always love to hear what you think so please let us know ☕️💗

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:27 Start of episode
• 1:42 Emma's ICONIC weather mugs
• 3:50 Mug #1 The start of Emma Puddick Pottery - purple leopard print mug
• 8:47 Pottery as a hobby for 20 years!
• 15:53 Pottery holidays - Coombe Farm Studios
• 18:34 Continuity voiceovers
• 19:47 Mug #2 - Dolly Parton mug - Jake Ford Ceramics
• 21:07 A BIG Dolly Parton fan
• 22:55 There's a Dolly Parton song for every occasion
• 26:32 Left & Right-handed mugs
• 27:27 Mug #3 A mug of Emma & friends in Schitt's Creek fancy dress with warmest wishes, kindest regards on the back
• 31:14 Mug #4 Keith Brymer Jones mug - made during lockdown from his studio
• 31:54 The science of ceramics
• 35:43 Emma 's mugs featuring in Great Pottery Throwdown
• 37:29 The start of the growth & success
• 39:01 On social media comparison
• 40:11 Crowdfunding for the new kiln
• 43:39 The drops & selling out of mugs!
• 44:36 The two sides of social media
• 48:59 Perception of our value & behind the success
• 52:25 What right do I have to think that I can do this?
• 52:43 Changing mindset
• 53:28 Comparison is a thief!
• 54:40 Mug #5 Adam Frew porcelain mug
• 55:46 Dreamtime tea - Whittards
• 56:50 Everything has its mug!
• 58:04 Quick Fire Favourites
• 58:39 Wogan Coffee - Bristol based roastery
• 1:04:58 Desert Island Picks