MFP 051: Catching Fire with Alec Steele
Made for Profit
Brad Rodriguez & John Malecki
5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Today we’re interviewing our first craftsman who’s not a woodworker. Alec Steele found his passion early in life and has been blacksmithing since the age of 11. We talk with Alec about starting his business at 16 years old and the journey that lead him to be one of the fastest rising YouTube makers and […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Made for Profit, a podcast where we talk business in the shop and help you monetize as a maker. |
| 0:05.8 | Each week we cover business topics to help you grow your full-time business or your side hustle. |
| 0:10.1 | We'll also bring you interviews from a variety of people winning in their space to share valuable business insights and life lessons. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Brad Rodriguez, a full-time content creator running Fix This Build That.com. |
| 0:20.3 | And my co-host, John Mlecki, runs a full-time furniture company and his content site, |
| 0:24.7 | John Mellecki.com. |
| 0:26.0 | We've been growing our successful businesses online, and we want to bring you into the conversation |
| 0:29.8 | and help you grow along with us. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to episode 51. |
| 0:44.8 | And today we're interviewing our first craftsman who is not a woodworker. |
| 0:49.9 | Alex Steele found his passion early in life and he's been blacksmithing since the age of 11. |
| 1:02.8 | We talked to Alec about starting his business at 16 years old and the journey that led him to be one of the fastest rising YouTube makers and how he's leveraging and expanding his business through merchandise sales, courses, and other areas. |
| 1:13.7 | Alec has grown his YouTube channel to over 950,000 subscribers in less than two years and become one of the most recognizable makers in our growing community. |
| 1:21.6 | He was featured on History Channel's Forged and Fire TV show, and his contagious personality has inspired a wave of makers to begin blacksmithing. |
| 1:24.4 | It is an awesome interview, guys. |
| 1:25.6 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 1:33.3 | Before we get into it, we do want to thank a new patron over there who joined the MFP patron tribe, Southern Style DIY. Thank you so much. If you guys want to support the show and get some cool rewards like the after show, |
| 1:38.3 | you can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit and check that out. But without further ado, here is our |
| 1:46.3 | interview with Alex Steele. All right, guys, well, we are here with an exciting new guest who is a |
| 1:54.1 | little bit outside the woodworking space. Alex Steele, Alec, welcome to Made for Profit, my man. |
| 1:59.7 | Hey, hey, guys, how you doing? Great to be here. I'm very |
| 2:02.1 | excited. Yeah, absolutely. I think you're our first international guest, actually, too. Oh, that's good. |
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