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 Malecki.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 85.

Now, to drive your Instagram, you've got to post daily.

And two times a day is even better.

Make sure you're engaging with all the comments as they come in.

You need to answer your DMs.

And don't forget about the stories.

IGTV is really taking off.

So you better be doing that too.

Seriously, who has time for all this stuff? I'm a full-time content creator, and I can barely keep up. And when I was working a day job, it just became suffocating at times, trying to keep up

with all these things on social media. So today we're going to be talking about the grind of

social media. John and I have both gone through the struggles of the burnout and being overwhelmed,

and we're going to just talk about some of the things that we've done to help avoid it and what

we still struggle with today trying to avoid social media burnout. But before we get into it,

we want to thank our sponsor for this week's episode, which is

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