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Today's guest is Letitia Gora.

She's the founder of Rourke Design Studio.

I first became aware of her designs far in advance of ever having known who she was when I

walked into my favorite crepandemic co-working space, The Wing.

Leticia had put her stamp all over that place. In fact, I loved it so

much that I made my bathroom a carbon copy of the bathroom at said wing. Cut to a couple of years

later, she emailed me in and I was so excited to understand her process from going from a jewelry

designer to an interior designer, how she scaled the company,

and what was the catalyst that drove her to quit her day job, take a chance, and explore

and soar in the world of interior design. Take a listen. Leticia, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. I have to share when I saw the inbound email and it said that you designed the wing, I was like, well, my bathroom was inspired by the bathroom. So I live in the same building as the Dumbo one. Oh, I love it. And so I have a Tarasso bathroom. Nice. And it was based, it was like, I was like, we need to copy this bathroom exactly. So thank you for that. Of course. My husband might paint you a little bit for he's like, why is our, all of our bathrooms are pink with Tarazzo? We had to step away from the pink at the end. I know. It had a good run. It did have a very good run, for sure. That whole era, that pink era, was great.

So what I found fascinating about your story is you were a jewelry designer before you ever got into interior. So I'd love for you to start there. It was Rourke, New York.

Yes.

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