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#272 - Jason Bent of Bent's Woodworking

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Modern Craftsman

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

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The Episode:

Jason Bent shares how he's turned his love of wood working into his livelihood and ways to pursue your craft. After recently cutting back his time making custom furniture to focus on creating content, Jason strives to help his audience diversify their income and become better craftsman.

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Find Our Guest: 

Bents Woodworking

Find Our Hosts: 

Nick Schiffer 

Tyler Grace 

Podcast Produced By:

Motif Media

Music:

"Dessert" by Nate Gusakov

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a Tyler hey. What's going on? Not too much my phone now. My phone just said SOS. Really? Yeah. Why doesn't that mean no service? Yeah. What the hell?

0:16.6

Why don't I have service on my phone? I don't know, but I just got your picture that you sent me of Nixon's passport photo that looks like fake hair.

0:25.6

I text it. I was like, Meg, why did you did you gel his hair? She's like, no. She's like, oh, yeah, his hair is up because he's laying down. That's amazing. And he's sweating. I'm like, that dude is not going to be allowed through customs.

0:38.6

These selfies first picture her eyes were closed.

0:41.6

Really? They allowed that. I mean, they're babies. So you can't really do that much. And like by last a couple of years. So it's not like they look like that anyway.

0:50.6

But yeah, they took a picture and her eyes were straight. I'll send you the picture. Just straight up closed. But now I'm doing good.

0:58.6

I'm sure you know the job I'm on has been beating me up to say the least, but we're moving forward with things.

1:04.6

Yeah, man, you're post every time you post them like, man, there's something like close to debilitating when you're trying to move forward. And it's just you're getting pushed back.

1:16.6

And back and back. And it's like, and then you get to a point of frustration where it's like, what, you know, who was even allowed to do this?

1:25.6

Yeah, it's it's definitely frustrating. And it's it's exhausting to be honest. And you have you feel for the customers.

1:35.6

But at the same time, you're like, this is impeding on everything in my life and my business right now and like lack of sleep and trying to navigate that entire conversation and experience where

1:49.6

it's not it's not easy for anyone and you're bumping subs and you're switching schedule and canceling inspections. And then you just feel like a dirt bag because you're not getting anything done and like, it's a tough, it's a tough situation.

2:01.6

But I feel as though we're turning a corner. We're making some big decisions. We really short it through a lot of numbers at this point. And hopefully we'll be at a point now where it's like we're done working backwards and moving forward.

2:17.6

And we're just behind schedule and over budget now. So once we're it's just down to being behind schedule and over budget. I'll be happy.

2:26.6

Yeah, I can't believe I'm saying that, but that's the case. No, it's, I mean, that's a tough situation. You're in. Yeah.

2:34.6

Well, today we have Jason Benz. Is it Benz or bent bent bent. Not sure why. Oh, Benz would working. This is his page.

2:46.6

You had met him previously, right? It was at the festival event. Yeah, so I was unaware of who he was and I met him at the festival recharged event out in Lebanon, Indiana, Indiana that dug and Canada myself went to.

3:03.6

So those are the first time I met with him, spoke with him, learned who he was, had a conversation with him.

3:09.6

He was a really nice down to earth humble guy, a military background recently just like within a couple of months officially retired from the military and is somewhat of a self-proclaimed hobby, hobbyist woodworker who just wants to learn wants to use good tools wants to better his skill set and just enjoys woodworking.

3:32.6

I say that he is a step above hobbyist woodworking at this point, he seems to be the type of guy who just like whatever he gets into goes dives in 110%. So he probably progresses at a faster rate than the standard person, but if you are into content creation, you have a business, you're looking as to how to market yourself or how to diversify your income stream, it's a really good podcast.

4:01.6

Yeah, I love the fact that he was like super open with it and we talk a little bit about revenue and what you can make on things like YouTube and other opportunities outside of just add add sense, which is the revenue generation on YouTube.

4:19.6

Yeah, so open book nice guy humble, very well educated, well spoken, I enjoyed the conversation, I'm sure you guys will enjoy the podcast, so give it a listen, as always, let us know what you think, send us a review, send us an email, whatever, whatever you guys have time for, it's all appreciated.

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