Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by our friends over at

Smasters and Branson

We love craft small businesses, you know ones with stories. I guess they aren't that small anymore

But one of the neat things I always find with companies is kind of their founding story

So Peter and Austin the founders of Smasters and Branson were you know friends in college

It all started with their girlfriends who made them both hand stitch needle-point belts as a gift and then after college

You know they've got together and thought hey, you know these belts are pretty awesome

Why don't we start doing them for a business?

So that's how it started, you know

I always respect the entrepreneurial hustle of this. They are a booming business with one of the best products out there for

Golfers and non-golfers alike. This is a great gift for anybody

It's 100% hand stitch needle point on vegetable-tanned Italian leather on the belt also on wallets

You know luggage tags all sorts of different products made with this same process

So on their website they have a huge offering

Huge offering of stuff like I think when they reached out about potentially sponsoring this podcast

That was a big revelation for me

I had just seen them in pro shops. I didn't know how much stuff was on the website

So you can get college stuff. You can get MLB NFL and NHL stuff. You can get your favorite bands

You know, and then also they have some golfers stuff with the iconic Arnold Palmer umbrella in the Jack Nicholas Golden Bear

Also for anybody any formula one

People they have that. So anyways go online

www.smathersbranson.com that smathers

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