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 94.

We've got a great interview today with a woodworker who went from the verge of homelessness to having a thriving custom furniture business.

And Donnie Galley runs designs by Donnie out of Destin, Florida, and he's found a niche

in building huge over-the-top pieces.

And he's differentiated himself in a saturated market, and he's figured out how to go the

extra mile to delight his customers.

Donnie dives into his journey over the last five years in business and how he's applied

skills from his previous jobs to help him become a successful woodworker.

With his Instagram recently eclipsing 60,000 followers,

Donnie talks about how he uses the platform to his advantage as a custom builder

and how to showcase his work to his new clients and the clients he's working with currently.

And John and I are actually going to be traveling next week,

so we are not going to have the chance to thank the MFP patron tribe members

who join this week, but we will hit you guys on the next episode. So without further ado,

here's our interview with Donnie Galley from Designs by Donnie. All right, guys, welcome to the show.

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