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 125.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented time in our economy with the coronavirus and COVID-19 putting us on lockdown and shutting the doors of countless businesses and affecting all of us. So we don't know exactly where this thing is going, but we thought it was a great chance to talk about getting scrappy when times are tough

and how to survive this downturn because we're all going to be impacted in some shape, form,

or fashion. But before we do get into it, we wanted to thank our new members that joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We had Project Build Stuff and Philgate and Coon Fabrications.

You can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit if you want to join the made for

profit tribe and get access to the after show in our patron only Facebook group. So, John, I'm so glad, I mean, the funniest part,

I mean, there's not much funny about this, obviously, but the funniest part about it was like,

and I didn't go and look at it. Like, where did like Corona come from? I mean, I think

Bud Light virus would have been way more catchy. It would definitely would have. I mean, I got super confused early.

I went out, bought a bunch of limes.

I thought we were having a party.

But I have no idea with like the entomology.

Oh, did you?

What would you find?

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