Paul Mencel

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2,431 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Aug

Paul Mencel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Handcrafted Podcast: The Business of making things · Don't Niche Too Soon: Let Your Customers Build Your Business · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's a bunch of other big furniture companies that started like that. voice-verified

Hey, we're gonna just do custom stuff and then we're gonna morph it into offering a furniture line once we have a feel for what people actually like and what people are going to purchase. voice-verified

And for us, even after. voice-verified

after eleven years, we're still kind of navigating that. voice-verified

And I think that's the other important thing too, is to remember that the path isn't straight. voice-verified

It's always going to be winding. voice-verified

I mean, for all I know, the rest of the year I could just be getting requests for voice-verified

Built-in stuff. voice-verified

And as much as I turn them away now, if I keep getting that thing, I might be like, you know what? voice-verified

Maybe we should take this on. voice-verified

Maybe this is a project that we should start to offer. voice-verified

This is something that we should do. voice-verified

And I might find out, hey, it's more lucrative, it's it's more fun, it's easier to manage, blah, blah, blah. voice-verified

So don't niche yourself too early. voice-verified

Don't draw a line in the sand and say, we do this, we don't do that, unless it's something like you maybe physically can't do or not. voice-verified

capable or don't jive with like one thing that we kind of just always said no to was epoxy tables. voice-verified

I wasn't a huge fan of them personally. voice-verified

And so we've kind of always shied away from those, but that was more just personal preference. voice-verified

Obviously, if I had no work and I had no business and somebody came in and asked for an epox table, I would do it. voice-verified

But we've actually been we've been fortunate enough to not have to say yes to those sorts of things. voice-verified

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