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The Long View is a podcast built around honest conversations about making a living with your hands — told across generations.
Hosted by Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters, the show brings together a working professional shop owner, a lifelong craftsman and teacher, and a next-generation woodworker navigating what it means to learn, build, and grow today.
These conversations are recorded after the dust settles — when there’s time to speak plainly about craft, business, teaching, learning, mistakes, and the realities that don’t always belong on public platforms.
What you’ll hear:
• Thoughtful discussions about craft and skill
• Real talk about running a shop and making a living
• Teaching and learning across generations
• Listener questions and ongoing conversations
• Reflections that take time, not shortcuts
No algorithms. Just honest, experience-driven conversation.
https://patreon.com/TheLongView
Hosted by Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters, the show brings together a working professional shop owner, a lifelong craftsman and teacher, and a next-generation woodworker navigating what it means to learn, build, and grow today.
These conversations are recorded after the dust settles — when there’s time to speak plainly about craft, business, teaching, learning, mistakes, and the realities that don’t always belong on public platforms.
What you’ll hear:
• Thoughtful discussions about craft and skill
• Real talk about running a shop and making a living
• Teaching and learning across generations
• Listener questions and ongoing conversations
• Reflections that take time, not shortcuts
No algorithms. Just honest, experience-driven conversation.
https://patreon.com/TheLongView
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Pricing your work should be straightforward — but for many people in craft and trade work, it’s one of the most difficult parts of the job.In this episode of The Long View, Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters talk about why pricing isn’t just about numbers. Experience, confidence, expectations, and emotion all play a role in how people value their work.In this first part of the conversation, they reflect on how their thinking around pricing has changed over time and why it can be so difficult to get it right.This is the first part of the discussion.The full episode continues on Patreon.www.patreon.com/thelongview
In this episode of The Long View, Jeff Krug and Jon Peters reflect on their recent trip to KBIS and IBS in Orlando.Rather than focusing on products or trends, they talk about what trade shows reveal about the state of the industry — how priorities shift, what conversations keep coming up, and how experience changes what you pay attention to when you walk the floor.Walter wasn’t able to join this trip, but the discussion sets the stage for how different perspectives shape what each generation notices in spaces like these.This is the first part of the conversation.The full episode continues on Patreon.
What’s the difference between staying busy and building something that lasts?In this episode of The Long View, Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters talk about the pride — and pressure — that often comes with staying busy in craft and trade work. Full schedules and long hours can feel like success, but they don’t always lead to something sustainable.In this first part of the conversation, they explore how definitions of “success” shift over time, how expectations change across generations, and why constant work can sometimes hide bigger problems underneath.This is the first part of the conversation.The full episode continues on Patreon.www.patreon.com/thelongview
Staying busy can feel like progress — but it doesn’t always build something you can live with long term.In this full episode of The Long View, Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters go deeper into what sustainability actually looks like in craft and small business. They talk honestly about burnout, identity, financial pressure, and the emotional side of building work that has to support both a livelihood and a life.The conversation explores how experience changes your definition of success, why “more work” isn’t always the answer, and how each generation approaches stability differently.This isn’t a conversation about productivity.It’s a conversation about longevity.
Making something for yourself should be the easiest kind of work — but often it’s the hardest.In this full episode of The Long View, Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters dig into why personal projects stall out. They talk honestly about perfectionism, identity, and the pressure that comes with wanting personal work to represent your best thinking and ability.The conversation explores how experience can make starting harder instead of easier, why unfinished projects carry so much weight, and how this struggle looks different across generations. Walter shares what it’s like to learn while watching this happen — and how that perspective shapes his own approach to making.This episode doesn’t offer neat solutions.It offers perspective.
Why do some craftspeople last decades, while others burn out or disappear?In this first episode of The Long View, we talk about why perspective matters — in craft, in work, and in building a life around making things.Across three generations, we discuss expectations, pressure, and what people often get wrong about “making it.” We reflect on how the work has changed, what hasn’t, and why taking the long view matters more than ever.This episode introduces the voices, the intent, and the tone of the show. It’s the beginning of a longer conversation.New episodes are released every other week.https://patreon.com/TheLongView
The Long View is a podcast about craft, work, and making a living with your hands — told across generations.Hosted by Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters, these conversations happen after the dust settles — when there’s time to talk honestly about the work, the business, the mistakes, and the lessons that only come with time.This isn’t about shortcuts or trends.It’s about perspective — and taking the long view.New full episodes are released every other week.https://patreon.com/TheLongView
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