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 Mulecki, 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 39. Today we're going to be covering an exciting topic, bookkeeping.

Okay, it's maybe not the most exciting topic, but it is one you need to understand as a growing business, especially around tax time.

So we're going to walk through bookkeeping needs and what we learned as a business grows from a hobby all the way up to a small business with employees.

But before we jump in,

we do want to thank some members that joined the MFP patron tribe.

It's actually one member this week.

Katie Harrow, Katie, thank you for joining.

If you want to join the MFP patron squad, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for

profit and get some great rewards over there as well as the after show where we answer your

questions and give you some special insights.

Actually, today we're going to be given some special insights on some late breaking

Instagram stuff that we'll be sharing later on in the main show, but our patrons get

a first crack at it. John, what is up, brother? Not much, dude. I am in full conference table

life domination mode over here. I guess when you're building something that's 15 feet long

and four feet wide, it tends to take

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