Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode.

In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to some of our most popular episodes.

This is great for new listeners who want to learn more about the work we've done in the past.

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Mark, thanks for joining us, my friend. Really excited to join. Yeah, it's

great to have you. So how would you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you

do? Yeah, sure. So my name is Mark Howland. I grew up in a small, lower middle class household

in Cleveland, Ohio. My mom was a public defender for 40 years and

committed her entire life to improving the quality life of others. And she really instilled those

values in me. And I had a lot of opportunities that I was presented. I was able to do pretty

well in school, got scholarship to go to a top college preparatory high school and led to an opportunity to go to Brown University.

I was a business econ major, also a dual sport athlete in football and track and ended up going to the financial world.

Got an opportunity to work at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker for several years.

And then at the Carlislegg Group of Private Equity Fund after that and was able to get an opportunity to go to Harvard Business

School for my MBA. And I've been an entrepreneur ever since post 2018. And most recently,

I was called to build a company called Breadless. It is a quick service restaurant chain that serves

savory on the go breadless sandwiches made with leafy super greens like Red Swiss chard,

turnip greens, collared greens that empower a health conscious lifestyle. We don't use any bread

or lettuce. It's all leafy super greens with chef-crafted combinations that taste good. And you know what

really gets me particularly excited about what we're doing is that I firmly believe that we're

on the path to democratize the health and wealth of neighborhoods everywhere. Because not only are we

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