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 75.

Now, we all know that machine learning is a very real thing, thanks to that fiasco with Skynet back in 97.

But in today's world, how do robots factor into your business?

Okay, I'm not talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger-shaped T-800s here. We're talking CNC's 3D printers and laser machines. By the way, if you're too young to get those

references, Terminator is a great movie to watch over the holidays. We've seen a lot of shops large

and small using CNC's to help increase their productivity. We're going to talk through it today

about the pros and the cons,

as well as our experiences with these machines, as we've both had a little bit of different CNC experience. But before we get going, we do want to thank all of our current members of

the MFP patron tribe. Yet today, this week again, we did not have any new patron members,

but we're actually experiencing some kind of weird things as Patreon is showing us that

people who are patrons are signing up again, but they're already patrons. So we're not exactly

sure what's going on here. If we have missed you and you have joined, be sure to send us an

email or a message or a pigeon or whatever and you have joined, be sure to send us an email or a message

or a pigeon or whatever and let us, because we want to make sure we're giving shout us to

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