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 87.

Now, John and I just got back from WorkbenchCon down in Atlanta, and today we're going to be recapping some of the learnings that we took away.

And we've talked about WorkbenchCon.

It's a conference for makers to help grow their businesses through networking, their specific classes on social media, video editing, blogs, and more. And plus, there's a ton of brands there from the woodworking

and DIY space. So we're going to hit you with some solid takeaways that we had from the event

and why it's quickly become one of our favorite shows. All right, but first, we wanted to take a second

to thank this week's sponsor, which is Audible.

Now, in episode 85, we talked about burnout and we found ourselves in a lot of conversations with our listeners about staying motivated.

So I wanted to personally take a second and recommend a book I recently finished called Can't Hurt Me, Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Guggins.

David is a former Navy SEAL and Army Ranger who runs 100 Mile Marathon. hurt me, master your mind and defy the odds by David Guggins.

David is a former Navy SEAL and Army Ranger who runs 100 mile marathons and is an absolute

beast.

And when I downloaded the book, I did it because I have an admiration for our servicemen

and women and wanted to hear a good story.

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