Peascod
https://wesort.co.uk/about/peascod-strategy
This artistic studio involving sculpting and glass gilding is owned and operated by Emma and Tobias.
When we first met in May 2021, their companies were outwardly separate but internally a collaboration. Since then, we’ve worked together to: combine into a single practice, develop the process of triaging and onboarding projects, clarify their long-term trajectory, build a new website, and launch a product line.
We have been speaking to Ben almost weekly, definitely monthly, since May 2021, on an ad hoc basis, and he has helped us enormously to keep a level head, make decisions when dealing with difficult customers, and generally tighten up things around here.
We have updated our production processes, how we deal with new enquiries, legal agreements, website, social media, and even restructured the business as a whole (Tobias and I had 2 separate companies, and we are combining them into 1 now). And it is no coincidence that through all this work we are finally releasing our first collaborative collection this Spring.
— Emma Peascod, April 2025 in an email introduction
Feels very different to the dark days of Bob.
— Emma Peascod
This refers to frustrating conversations with a third-party person who didn’t understand Peascod’s offering. This lack of clarity was something Peascod needed to improve.
Ben has been helpful to remind me it’s only golden glass.
— Emma Peascod
eg: Take stock of your context
When stress is coming from work it can be helpful to get some perspective. Our work in the creative industry is important, but it isn’t organ transplants or international peacekeeping logistics. Not to diminish our work to trivial, but merely to temper any rise in blood pressure (especially when being faced with unreasonable pressure from clients).
My own origins with this sentiment lay with “It’s only tofu” which Neil from Clean Bean was prone to saying.