Emmet Audio

Emmet Van Driesche

Business

Do you ever wish that you could go for a walk along a dirt road with a friend and talk about stuff? Let's go then!

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Episodes

So you want to start teaching spoon carving

Here's all my best advice

Jul 10, 2019•25 min

It's always easier to buy than it is to earn

Stop buying dumb stuff

Jul 09, 2019•12 min

Batch releasing your work gives you distorted data

And other reasons not to do it

Jul 08, 2019•18 min

Diagonal integration for long-term business stability

A useful metaphor

Jul 07, 2019•5 min

Turn off the radio

Find what your mind has to tell you

Jul 06, 2019•3 min

Weed your garden

We live in the present moment, which is shaped by our environment. Tend to it.

Jul 05, 2019•6 min

Being useful

Even when you can't be productive

Jul 04, 2019•5 min

Momentum

It's so often the deciding factor on whether or not you accomplish something

Jul 02, 2019•8 min

How to be productive when family is visiting

It can be easy to throw in the towel and lose all momentum

Jul 01, 2019•7 min

Gather

Just do it

Jun 30, 2019•3 min

Take 2 days off a week

And attend to your home environment

Jun 28, 2019•5 min

How to give a talk in eight minutes or less

Thoughts on a talk I gave last night that went really well

Jun 27, 2019•10 min

The story of our farm

And how that became our book

Jun 26, 2019•10 min

Enjoying the things you can't control

There are things that are on demand and things that are fleeting and have their own timeframe

Jun 25, 2019•4 min

Nothing is a Crisis

At least not professionally

Jun 24, 2019•9 min

Why you need to start now

True story!

Jun 23, 2019•3 min

227: taking care of your body

Tips for dealing with overdoing it as a craftsperson- stretching and massage included

Jun 22, 2019•18 min

226: Discipline, habit and boundaries

How do you continue something?

Jun 21, 2019•10 min

Bonus Episode: feedback and it's limitations

How to figure out the blind spots in your own sense of things

Jun 20, 2019•6 min

224: Improving your Sharpening

It always always always helps

Jun 20, 2019•6 min

23: Being Fully Human on Social Media

So often we place and keep ourselves in silos, afraid we'll lose what little we have if we open up. This is neither helpful nor true

Jun 19, 2019•14 min

Bonus Episode: ratchets vs. entropy

The scale of your ratchet matters

Jun 18, 2019•5 min

221: Ratchets

Both positive and negative, in our lives

Jun 18, 2019•8 min

220: New Tricks

It's never too late and nothing is "not for you"

Jun 17, 2019•6 min

Always question the process

Don't just blindly follow someone else's order of operations

Jun 16, 2019•5 min

Eliot Coleman's Rubric

Ad how we can apply it to a craft business

Jun 15, 2019•8 min

Pressure and Purpose

Possibly the secret to happiness

Jun 14, 2019•9 min

216: tips for carving small and large forms

These extremes are different in their requirements. Here are my best tricks 4 avoiding mistakes

Jun 13, 2019•12 min

If You Want to Work For Yourself

You should start right now

Jun 12, 2019•10 min

How Sharp is Your Pencil?

How sharp should it be?

Jun 11, 2019•5 min

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