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 56. If you're engaging at all on Instagram or YouTube, you've definitely been seeing the uptick and sponsored content.

Today we're going to be talking about the landscape of sponsored content, how we see it changing, things to look out for if you're considering sponsorships, and also staying true to your audience and yourself without selling your soul for a quick buck.

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

this week. We had Travis Mendenhall and David from the roller coaster project. Thank you guys.

And if you want to support the show and get some awesome rewards,

head on over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit and check it out.

We'd love to have you.

John, what is up, my man?

Not much, brother.

Over here, just sweating bullets.

If you were catching my social content at all, it is warm up here in Pittsburgh.

I've been working on a desk

and a dining table for a client. And after that, it's a coffee bar and I am officially

wrapped on custom work. I don't think I'll be taking any more on for the year. And it feels

like I lost a lot of weight making I say man yeah I mean I

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