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 106.

Now, we've got an oversized episode for you today, or should I say a Jackman-sized episode?

Paul Jackman has built a strong YouTube and online following in the makerspace in an unconventional way.

He is educated in the skilled trades, but he found his passion and a more artistic approach to building and sharing with others. And the results are Paul

building things like a 16-time scale folding knife and a life-sized nutcracker, both made out

of pallet wood that he has totally breaking down and processed off the side of the roads.

Today, Paul talks with us about his journey to where he is now and how putting in the

time in different aspects of his business has really helped set him apart.

Yeah, and Paul is not only one of the most sought-after male models on the internet.

He's an impressive influencer in the maker community as well.

With 260,000 plus subscribers on YouTube and a growing Instagram following, Paul is not only a

force to be reckoned with on the two main platforms we focus on here, but is also an avid user of

the mystifying Reddit, which neither Brad or I can wrap our heads around. But Paul brings a lot of

personality and a very interesting approach to typical menial tasks like Brad

spoke about earlier. And we had a blast having him on the show today. Absolutely. This is

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