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fire in the how did you hear about a section? Okay, fire Nation. Let's get started. I am

simply thrilled to introduce my guest today. Mark LePage. Mark, are you prepared to ignite?

I am ready to ignite. All right. Mark is the president of five cat studio architecture

in founder of EntrezArchitect.com. An online resource dedicated to educating and inspiring

small firm architects to build better businesses. Given our listeners just a little overview, Mark,

so take a minute. Tell us about you personally because we want to get to know you. Then give

us an overview of your business. Well, I'm a I'm a son of an auto mechanic. So entrepreneurism

is in my blood. My dad, in addition to my dad being an auto mechanic and owning his own shop

as a small business, he also was a Corvette collector. He had lots of old Corvettes and he would

buy them and sell them and fix them up and flip them. So I grew up as a Corvette kid.

I watched him build those cars and that business into a business that would give us a good life

as kids and take us on vacation. So I saw that happen. I wanted to become an architect on

other about 10. And I started my journey to become an architect, got my license and launched

a five cat studio architecture in 1999 with my white family McCarthy. We had no money, no clients,

but you know, we were 29 years old and sort of young and crazy and just wanted to do what we wanted

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