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 101.

Now, John and I just got back from a trade show, and it sparked an interesting show topic.

John and Jory Brigham had a build-off set up right in the middle of the show floor,

and building out of your comfort zone and out of your normal space is just one example of adversity that you might have to face. You might be dealing with a new type of build or trying to jam more jobs through your shop

than you can handle. But overcoming adversity is a staple of a successful business and we'll

touch on some learnings that we've had over the years and some takeaways that have helped us out.

Yeah. And ironically, the trade show we were at was

Woodcraft's yearly vendor trade show. A really awesome experience. I know it was Brad's first,

my second. And as you guys know, we are super excited to have the support of Woodcraft this year

on Made for Profit as well. And if you're not familiar, Woodcraft is one of the nation's oldest and

largest suppliers of quality woodworking tools and supplies with stores in more than 70

cities across the U.S. and an amazing website. Woodcraft is both mine and Brad's go-to woodworking

tools and supplier. For all of our listeners, new and old, be sure to use the amazing code that

Woodcraft has benefited us with. That is all capital letters, MFP, and you can get free shipping

in the lower 48 states on all orders. So once again, we want to thank Woodcraft for supporting

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