Welcome to Made for Profit, a podcast where we talk business in the shop and help you monetize as a maker.

Each week we cover business topics to help you grow your full-time business or your side hustle.

We'll also bring you interviews from a variety of people winning in their space to share valuable business insights and life lessons.

I'm Brad Rodriguez, a full-time content creator running Fix This Build That.com.

And my co-host, John Malecki, runs a full-time furniture company and his content site,

John Malecki.com.

We've been growing our successful businesses online, and we want to bring you into the conversation

and help you grow along with us.

Welcome to episode 35. wait 35, 34, 34, dang it. Failure. We all deal with it on a weekly, if not daily basis. Some fails are small like forgetting the show number, but others are big,

like closing down a business. We're going to share some of the failures we've had along the way

what we learned from them and how we keep moving forward in the face of adversity.

John, I didn't tell you I was doing that. That was awesome. It was like genuine response.

It was.

Dude, I'm loving the new audiobook you recommended.

That is a killer one.

Story brand.

Yeah, man.

Yeah, I've recently been cruising through a lot more audio books, whether I'm in the shop

in my car or I got a new Alexa.

So when I'm washing dishes, I fire up the audio book and I've been consuming

a lot more. The last book, as you mentioned, is called Building a Storybrand. It's by Donald Miller.

This book has some unbelievable insight on how you can improve your business messaging and help it grow

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