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 77. Now, are you thinking about renting shop space for your business or expanding your space into a bigger space? And it could be a great way to increase capacity and grow your business. But if it's your first time renting a shop space, there are a ton of things you need to think about and concerns to address before making the leap. So we're going to talk through John's latest shop move. He just got into a new space and all the things that we went through as he evaluated different areas and different buildings to look at. And then we'll help use that to show what you should consider when you're thinking of making your own move. But before we get into that, we do want to thank a few new members who joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We had

Two Bit Woodworks and Craig Cowen. Thank you guys so much for joining. And if you want to support the

show and get some awesome rewards, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit.

John, what's going on, dude? Just just keeping my head down

rocking through the end of the year, dude. You know how it is. It's, it's a holidays. This will

drop, I think literally on Christmas maybe. So, yeah, where do we wear our manners? Merry

Christmas to everybody. Dropping on the right on Christmas.

We take no breaks. We take zero breaks.

But with that, you know, it's an extremely busy time of year for anybody that owns a

business one or two makes things because obviously we're making things for everybody.

So with that, you know, it's just trying to keep my head down and get through that end

of the year of fulfillment kind of stuff.

We're negotiating contracts for next year, you know, it's just trying to keep my head down, get through that end of the year of fulfillment kind of stuff. We're negotiating contracts for next year.

You know, a lot of planning and whatnot.

It's just a grind right now.

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