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 120.

Now, I'm rolling solo again this week as John is honeymooning and enjoying that newlywed life.

Congrats again to John.

But today I'm talking with one of my oldest friends in the online woodworking community.

Andrew Bacon started field treasure designs back in 2012, making rustic

pallet clocks and hand-stinciled signs. He grew the side hustle and tested and produced dozens of

new products along the way. He sold products into all 50 states as well as overseas and had a

legit massive business going. Through several life changes and moves, Andrew's business

changed with him until he finally decided to pivot into a new venture. He's going to share with us

today the evolution that he went through and gives some awesome tips and nuggets of wisdom

for all the aspiring side hustlers out there. Now, before we get into, I do want to thank

the MFP patron tribe out there.

We're recording doubles, so don't have new patrons, but we will hit those next week.

And without further ado, here's the interview with Andrew Bacon.

Hey, guys, welcome back to another podcast. I'm super stoked for today because one of my, I don't know, if not the oldest, one of my

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