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 109.

So what do you want to be doing in five to ten years?

I know it sounds like a cliche interview question,

but if you really want to take a step back and think about it,

it can help shape what you're going to be doing and be successful tomorrow or a decade in your business. And today we're going to be talking about the long game. We're going to be talking about how can you evaluate the life of your business and basically thinking about is it really viable to be doing what you're doing today for the next 5, 10, or even 20 years? And if it's not, then how can or should you be changing it? What are the things you should be doing to make sure you keep engaged and satisfied with the business that you've

created? But before we get into it, we do want to thank a couple new members that joined the

MFP patron tribe this week. We had Nicholas Brous and Clayton Collarin. Thanks, guys, for

joining. If you want to help support the show and get some awesome

rewards, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit. So, uh, yeah, John,

welcome back. I had to do the intro last week without you. So, uh, I'm, I apologize. I am

sorry. I'm not sorry. No, I was, thank you. I was, I was in Texas head down.

I'm cruising through it. You know, we, we do record some, a lot of our interviews, like we

bulk them up and batch them up. That way we can come back and do the, do the intro and we drop

the ball on that one. I thought, I thought we had nothing to do. I know. It's like, yo, I'm going to Texas. I'm going to be, you know, we had that on, we had that on the docket for six weeks, but like still, it was a, yeah, I mean, I was in the middle of nowhere. I stayed on this massive ranch with no internet or cell service.

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