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To celebrate small business week, we wanted to highlight Studio 13, a personal training business run by our friend Nick Medlock. In this video, Nick goes over some great exercise and pain management tips for musicians and folks who are stuck sitting most of the day. It should be noted that Nick is also an accomplished musician and has worked professionally as a guitar teacher for many years. I've also had the pleasure of playing music with him.  He's the real deal! You can get in touch with Nick via email at studio13phx@gmail, Studio13 LLC for Facebook, and Studio13PHX for Instagram.

We've been running this online business full-time for a couple of years now. At this point, we're well used to our routines, tasks, however the versions of ourselves from just a few years ago would find our current lives fantastic and foreign. The day in the life of our small business is a form-follows function model that adapts and changes as necessary. Here's what it looks like right now. First order of business: get up and take the dogs for a quick walk. We have a puppy named Winfield who has berserk time first thing every morning, so getting him...

I used to flip guitars. I'd buy something that was heavily used or had some kind of wiring issue/thing to get fixed, fix it up and then sell it. I'm sure many of you have done the same thing. I spent lots of years doing that in my spare time.  In high school, my dad and I would scour pawn shops and as Craigslist and eBay came on the scene, those became new places to search.  Before becoming a small business owner, I worked for State Farm, and in 2013 they relocated my wife and I from St. Louis Missouri to...