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 58. We talk a lot about getting to yes with clients and sponsors and how to grow your business.

But something that should get just as much conversation is when to say no.

Today we're going to talk about how to evaluate opportunities and requests and when saying no is going to make you and your business better in the long run. But before we get into it, we do want to thank some new members

that joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We had Gary R. Halder, Tom Zellickman, Dominic

Biasco, and Bryce Roble. Thank you so much, guys, for joining over there. If you'd like to support

the show and get some cool rewards along with that, including our after show, you can head over

to patreon.com forward slash made for profit. John, what is up, my man? I am just trying to cool off

after our week at the Maker Ranch in Joshua Tree, as well as catch my breath and catch up with my life.

When this episode drops, we'll be back for about a week, and I am completely up to my ears and all the things that we left behind as we just went out there and cranked

out projects for a full week straight. So yeah, I'm just sifting through that stuff. And then I am

actually leaving for vacation the day before this episode drops, which will be my first vacation.

That wasn't a bachelor party since I think like 2004 five nice so yeah it's been a minute since

I've since I've taken time off to just go relax so I'm excited for that yeah that's awesome man

yeah maker ranch was awesome um I know just out there like working out in the heat. So a big shout out to Ben and Mike and Jesse for

having us out there. And we will actually have an episode coming up. We got a chance we were on

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