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 Mlecki, 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 47. We've talked about networking in the past and expanding your inner circle, but a key part of that is what happens after you've met somebody new. So today we're

going to talk about building relationships in three different areas around clients, sponsors, and

peers. These can be some of the most fruitful relationships to grow yourself and your business.

John and I are both firm believers in you are a product of your environment.

So a lot of that comes from who you surround yourself with.

So we're going to be hitting on that today.

But before we get into it, we do want to thank some of our new members that join the MFP

patron tribe this week.

We had Bryant Fender, Brody Bricky, make fail repeat, Andrew Brousseau, and Brad Hubbard.

Brad Hubbard, our first top-tier patron going some one-on-one coaching.

We are super stoked.

Brad's been a patron for a long time over eight months

now, and we want to give a special shout-out to him. Thank you so much, Brad. Now, if you guys want to

support the show and get some awesome rewards, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash

made-for-profit and get the after show and some other rewards going all the way up to that top tier we just

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