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 Mlecki, 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 86.

And today we have an interview with our favorite German maker, Laura Kompf.

Laura's builds are born out of pure creativity as she repurposes and reconfigures old and new items alike into amazing creations.

And she thrives on the challenge of coming up with new ideas and keeping the pureness of the creativity front and center. And she talks with us

today about the balance between being an artist and a businesswoman, how to monetize without

sacrificing your brand's vision as an artist or craftswoman, and how she works through the

creative process. Laura has been a huge influence of the maker community since she hit the scene,

amassing over 330,000 YouTube subscribers in just a few years.

With her eye for the cinematic and an amazing style, Laura is inspiring makers all over

the world, myself and Brad included.

She is a ball of inspiration and energy, and we're

super excited to have her on the show. But before we dive into the show, we want to thank this

week's sponsor, Spring Make. Spring Make is the only event for makers marrying skill building

and brand building with hands-on experience and workshops, with some of the makers' communities'

biggest names.

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