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 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 55.

Today we're talking with one of our good friends, Ann Briggs.

You might know her better as Ann of all trades on Instagram and YouTube, where she's been active in the online woodworking community since 2012.

Ann talks with us today about knowing yourself, homesteading, why free help is rarely good help,

and how to get started. Anne has recently passed 100,000 followers on Instagram. She has a brand new

YouTube channel that is sizzling with over 28,000 subscribers, and she will be a featured instructor

in the Wood Whispererer guild she has been a

contributing columnist for furniture and cabinet making magazine she has been featured in wood

magazine and is a contributor to popular woodworking magazine she also ran the woodworking program

at pratt fine arts center in seattle she teaches fine woodworking at prestigious schools all over the

country and man oh man,

I can't say enough about Enbrex. She is a beast and this girl has major skills. Absolutely.

That's why she is and of all trades. But before we get going, we do want to thank a new patron we had

this week. We had Bodvin Custom Leather. Thank you so

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