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 107.

Now, to grow a successful business, we know it takes dedication.

It takes hard work, consistency, a good business plan, new customers, and about 50 other things.

And when you do it right, it is a wonderful thing and your business can really take off. But one day, you might look up and have an amazing business and realize that you've gained 20 pounds, haven't talked to your friends in two months, and you can't remember the last time that you did something fun for yourself. So work-life balance is a tricky thing to keep on top of, and today we're going to talk about how John and I have both failed at it and what we've done to get better at it. So this will be an

interesting episode for all of you guys out there burning the candle at both ends of the stick.

And speaking of getting better, we want to thank this week's sponsor, Woodcraft, always helping

Brad and myself be better, not only in the

shop, but outside of the shop. And as you guys know, we've been partnered with them all year long

and will continue to be throughout. If you're not familiar, Woodcraft is one of the nation's oldest

and largest suppliers of quality woodworking tools and supplies. They have stores,

physical stores, and over 70 cities across the United States.

We absolutely love their website as well. And because they love us and we love you guys,

they are bringing us free shipping in the lower 48 with the code MFP at checkout. That's

all caps MFP. And I think that's for just about anything on the site except for massively heavy machinery.

So with that, we want to thank Woodcraft once again for sponsoring this episode and the podcast for the year.

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