Support Your Local Tattooer | Wild Stories, Wild Culture
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Support Your Local Tattooer is a tattoo podcast for artists, collectors and anyone who cares about tattoo culture. Hosted by Austin Spencer, the show brings honest conversations with tattooers, shop owners, and respected voices in the industry, covering tattoo history, apprenticeship stories, shop life, creative growth, tattoo business, and the real experiences shaping tattooing today.
Through authentic storytelling and meaningful conversations, each episode is built to keep tattooers connected, informed and inspired. If you care about the culture, the craft, and the people behind the work, this is the podcast for you.
New episodes every first Sunday of the month.
30 Episodes
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Tattoo artists building online audiences can learn how Beaver Duck went from jail and addiction to viral social media content. He bought his first machine on eBay, eventually landing at Beach Boulevard Tattoos in Anaheim. His sarcastic tattoo commentary, filmed in his car, went viral every single day for over a year. Host Austin Spencer and Rick Maloney dig into why authenticity is the only repeatable strategy, and why old-school tattooers going quiet hand the industry to online gurus. Instag...
Tattooers ready to push through visibility anxiety, stay mentally healthy, and build a career on their own terms will find honest company here. Lettie Lynch, Crocodile Jackson, and Jonathan Penchoff join Austin Spencer for a live panel on creative cringe, finding your voice online, and why client praise can quietly stunt your growth. Austin shares how starting this podcast led to a Squire sponsorship. The four also dig into building thick skin, choosing people who actually support you, stay...
Tattoo shop owners juggling multiple locations will want to hear what Joey Hamilton learned running Revolt Tattoos across Las Vegas and Houston: you cannot be a full-time tattoo artist and a full-time business owner without something breaking. Hamilton won Ink Master Season 3, opened his first shop for $12,000, and now faces $250,000 to $500,000 build-outs per location, yet still tattoos six days a week. That contradiction is exactly what he unpacks here, including how casino shop culture tr...
Blaze Ben Brooks designed more than 150 tattoo business cards, branded Maverick, and illustrated Tom Petty's final album. This one is for any artist figuring out how to stay original. Austin sits down with illustrator, graphic designer, and painter Blaze Ben Brooks, the artist behind the Maverick Supply Co brand. They get into the business-card project that opened the entire tattoo world to Blaze, how designing for artists became a trade for most of his tattoo collection, and why he walks aw...
Tattoo shop owners who treat their business like a lifestyle are losing clients to whoever learns the next trend first. In this episode of Support Your Local Tattooer, host Austin Spencer sits down with Nixx and Sabina Kelley, husband and wife entrepreneurs, creatives, and co-owners of Smiles and Cries in Las Vegas, for an unfiltered conversation about financial discipline, identity branding, and surviving major industry shifts. Nixx, a 26-year veteran who built Australia's lo...
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