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 Mellecki.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 48.

Today we're going to be doing our first and a back-to-back interview series with a couple of our buddies from the Modern Maker podcast.

We're starting off with Mike Montgomery from Modern Builds, and Mike shares with us how he found his niche in YouTube space and then doubled down and repeated success by clustering projects and paying attention to the current and upcoming trends. And only 22 years old, Mike

has built a subscriber base to almost 600,000 subs with over 26.7 million views at the time of this

recording. He has some insane passion and energy, and we are super

stoked to have him on the show. Absolutely, man. But before we jump into the interview, we do

want to thank some of our new patrons that joined the MFP tribe over there at patreon.com

forward slash made for profit. We got Michael Kennedy, Stephen Ockmutey, and Caleb Noakes.

Thank you so much, guys, for joining.

And if you'd like to join, you can head over there as well and get access to the after show and some other cool rewards.

But without further ado, let's check out our episode and interview with Mike Montgomery.

All right, we are here with Buddy of ours and one of the trio from Modern Maker

Podcast.

That's right.

Mike Montgomery.

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