Actress Florence St. George of The Great Pottery Throwdown: “Real strength isn’t pretending you’re ok, it’s admitting you’re not”

You are not alone and ask for help. Find something that makes you feel better. Do more of it. Then share your story to help others. Real strength isn’t pretending you’re ok, it’s admitting you’re not. Get off your phone and go and touch a friend and talk to a person.

As a part of my series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Florence St. George.

Florence St. George aka Flea, can be seen as a contestant on the third season of The Great Pottery Throw Down now streaming on HBO Max. Her love of ceramics started whilst studying for her BA in Art History at Bristol university. But it wasn’t until she experienced post-natal depression in 2013 that she transitioned from theory to practice and began working with ceramics.

She found the process of throwing and sculpting clay both therapeutic and an effective way of channeling her creative urges. The resulting work shows her technical talent, and her ability to harness raw emotion into beautiful, sculptural ceramics.