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 54.

As a business owner and a side hustler, you can build and grow your business by yourself.

But at some point, you can only do so much.

So hiring and managing people and having a solid team around you is crucial to taking your business to the next level.

Now, John and I are going through this right now. And today we're going to give you some of our initial thoughts and struggles as we try to build out the teams around our own businesses.

But before we get into it, we want to thank some new members that joined the MFP patron tribe

this week.

We had PC Makes, Kevin McCurdy, Brad Alfred from Project Build Stuff, Lakeside Woodworks, Scott Miller,

and Dave Van Fleet, who is our second business coaching patron. So we are super stoked to have

Dave on board, as well as everybody else. But we're excited to talk with Dave and learn about

his business. If you want to support the show and get some awesome rewards, head on over to patreon.com

forward slash made for profit. John, what is up, my man? Not much, brother. Hammering on a few

pieces for the upcoming weeks. I got a desk build that's going to an old teammate client of mine

as well as an absurdly large longhorn feeders

for another teammate.

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