EntreArchitect Podcast with Mark R. LePage
By Mark R. LePage, Entrepreneur Architect exploring Business Success in Architecture
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Architect Mark R. LePage explores success in architecture, business, leadership and life for small firm entrepreneur architects. Architects, Architecture, Business, Marketing, Social Media, Success, Entrepreneur, Architect, Education, Strategies, Professional Practice, Sales, Marketing, AIA, AIAS
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CleanEA216: The Psychology of Success with Entrepreneur Psychotherapist Joyce Marter [Podcast] | The Psychology of Success | 4/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA215: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming an Architect Developer [Podcast] | A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming an Architect Developer | 4/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA214: Building an Architecture Firm Around a Delightful Client Journey [Podcast] | This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, AIA Contract Documents for Small Firms with Ken Cobleigh of the American Institute of Architects. | 4/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA213: AIA Contract Documents for Small Firms withKen Cobleigh of AIA [Podcast] | This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, AIA Contract Documents for Small Firms with Ken Cobleigh of the American Institute of Architects. | 3/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA212: The Slow Space Movement with Mette Aamodt of Aamodt Plumb Architects [Podcast] | This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, The Slow Space Movement with Mette Aamodt of Aamodt Plumb Architects. | 3/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA211: The Girl UNinterrupted Project with Juliet Chun & Zhanina Boyadzhieva [Podcast] | This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, The Girl UNinterrupted Project with Juliet Chun and Zhanina Boyadzhieva. | 3/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA210: Lessons Learned from Investing in 15 Architecture Firms with Todd Reding of Charrette Venture Group [Podcast] | This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Lessons Learned from Investing in 15 Architecture Firms with Todd Reding of Charrette Venture Group. | 3/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA209: How to Become an Influential Speaker with Dr. Michelle Mazur [Podcast] | How to Become an Influential Speaker Whether you’re proposing a project to a new client or presenting to a powerful decision making authority or spreading a message to the world one stage at a time, your voice and how you use it will be the difference between falling flat and persuading your audience to see it [...] | 3/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA208: How to Build a Million Dollar Small Firm Using a Remote Team [Podcast] | How to Build a Million Dollar Small Firm Using a Remote Team The future of architecture for small firms is the remote team. Using technology and online tools to acquire new clients, manage projects, and work with a team of top professionals distributed around the world, the virtual studio along with a remote team will allow [...] | 2/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA207: 5 Steps to Unleash the Significant Power of Sleep [Podcast] | 5 Steps to Unleash the Significant Power of Sleep Of our many skills, sleep may be the weakest. We know it’s important, and that it has a direct effect on our heath, well being, and overall success. Yet night after night we break the rules. This week on EntreArchitect, 5 Steps to Unleash the Significant [...] | 2/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA206: Organize Your Business Beautifully Using 6 Proven Principles of Design [Podcast] | Business by Design: Organize Your Business Beautifully Using 6 Proven Principles of Design Vision, mission, goals, hiring, culture, business systems, planning. These are all critical elements of success. Do you want to organize all of these into a successful business plan? Can you use the creative side of your brain to see your firm from [...] | 2/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA205: How to Develop a Powerful Owner Architect Agreement for Your Architecture Firm [Podcast] | How to Develop a Powerful Owner Architect Agreement for Your Architecture Firm If you purchase the Hybrid Proposal Digital Course TODAY – including complete documents ready for you to edit for your small firm – we will throw in a FREE bonus including access to the Construction Management for Small Firm Architects Course and the GetFocused Productivity Course [...] | 2/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA204: Construction Administration for Architects is NOT an Option [Podcast] | Construction Administration for Architects is NOT an Option A very popular topic around EntreArchitect is the role of the architect in the construction phase. The number of firms providing architecture services and forfeiting Construction Administration is surprising. One member of The EntreArchitect Community recently shared, “I need to get better at selling my clients on [...] | 1/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA203: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Every Small Firm Architect Should Read This Book [Podcast] | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Every Small Firm Architect Should Read This Book Fivecat Studio Architecture launched in 1999, and Mark discovered a book that changed the way he viewed business. It helped him realize that running a successful architecture firm required so much more than designing great architecture. Inside the owner of every small firm exists a battle [...] | 1/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA202: Walking the Talk of Equity by Design with Rosa Sheng [Podcast] | Walking the Talk of Equity by Design Sometime in the next few weeks, the AIA San Francisco Equity by Design comittee will launch it’s third Equity in Architecture Survey and distribute the findings from their previous survey. Check it out and take it, because it will affect everyone in the profession of architecture. Equity means [...] | 1/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA201: We’re Building a New House for Our Family [Podcast] | We’re Building a New House for Our Family We’re building a new house for our family! I’m going to share our process and our progress with you – right here – at EntreArchitect Podcast. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, We’re Building a New House! Last fall, Mark LePage and Annmarie McCarthy purchased a lot on a [...] | 1/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA200: Top 5 Most Popular Episodes for EntreArchitect Podcast in 2017 [Podcast] | Top 5 Most Popular Episodes for EntreArchitect Podcast in 2017 The EntreArchitect community is growing larger and more powerful every day, and this podcast has seen the results. The EntreArchiect podcast is now being downloaded more than 30,000 times per month. The progress we’re making is no doubt directly related to you, the EntreArchitect Community. Episode [...] | 12/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA199: Using Emotions to Market Your Architecture Firm [Podcast] | For years, Sheri teetered back and forth between staying small and practicing as a small practitioner or making plans for growth and executing toward a bigger future. | 12/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA198: How to Overcome the Fear of Growing Beyond You as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | For years, Sheri teetered back and forth between staying small and practicing as a small practitioner or making plans for growth and executing toward a bigger future. | 12/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA197: Finding Your Purpose in the Profession of Architecture with Michael Bernard [Podcast] | Finding Your Purpose in the Profession of Architecture with Michael Bernard of Virtual Practice Consulting When we decided to become architects, there was no doubt it was sparked from a desire to design. Maybe you love to draw, paint or build. Maybe someone recognized your talents and guided you toward architecture. All through architecture school and through your [...] | 12/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA196: A New Way to Practice Architecture with Diana Nicklaus of SAAM Architecture [Podcast] | A New Way to Practice Architecture with Diana Nicklaus of SAAM Architecture The world has changed in so many ways since Mark’s architecture firm, Fivcat Studio, was launched in 1999. The internet was in its infancy. Few architects were using digital marketing and communication tools. Today, we can communicate instantly with anyone in the world. [...] | 12/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA195: How to Use StrengthsFinder to Find YOUR Place in Architecture [Podcast] | How to Use StrengthsFinder to Find YOUR Place in Architecture We all have strengths and weaknesses. If we focus on finding, developing and building our strengths instead of filling in the gaps caused by our weaknesses, we’ll be more successful. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How to Use StrengthsFinder to Find Your Place in Architecture with Erin Poppe [...] | 11/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA194: Launching and Growing an Architecture Charity with AzuKo.org [Podcast] | Launching and Growing an Architecture Non-Profit Mark is often asked by students or young architects with an idea that might change the world in some big or small way, how might one start a charity; a non-profit organization that serves their community or serves the world. What is the first step? How do you obtain [...] | 11/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA193: 12 Steps to Take Control of Your Email [Podcast] | 12 Steps to Take Control of Your Email As small firm architects, we’re working so hard to get everything done. Between the many hours we dedicate to building our firms and the time spent fostering strong relationships, there isn’t time for much else. Each week offers us 168 hours, no more and no less. Half [...] | 11/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA192: Earl Parson – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series: Earl Parson At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. [...] | 11/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA191: How To Attract and Hire The Best of the Next Generation of Architects with Nick Serfass, AIAS National Executive Director [Podcast] | How To Attract and Hire The Best of the Next Generation of Architects with Nick Serfass, AIAS National Executive Director This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How To Attract and Hire The Best of the Next Generation of Architects with Nick Serfass, AIAS National Executive Director. Background In his role as Executive Director of the American Institute [...] | 10/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA190: EntreArchitect Live with Alex Gore of F9 Productions [Podcast] | EntreArchitect Live with Alex Gore of F9 Productions This week, Mark held his first live interview using Facebook live. Alex Gore from F9 Productions discussed his work with Daniel Libeskind, his firm in Longmont, Colorado, his podcast, Inside The Firm, sharing the behind-the-scenes with his partner, Lance Cayko, and his book The Creativity Code. This week [...] | 10/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA189: Building a Large Firm by Starting Small with Tabitha Ponte of Ponte Health [Podcast] | Building a Large Firm by Starting Small with Tabitha Ponte of Ponte Health Tabitha Ponte is a licensed architect and builder, a philanthropist, a mother and a wife who’s leading Ponte Health. She’s based in Orlando, Florida, specializing in single source delivery, resources management and best outcomes serving the healthcare sector exclusively. This week on EntreArchitect [...] | 10/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA188: Using Emotions to Successfully Attract the Clients You Want [Podcast] | Using Emotions to Successfully Attract the Clients You Want Our prospective clients learn with their heads, but they decide with their hearts. After years of research, often, when a client chooses to work with an architect it simply comes down to their feelings. They choose their team by deciding who they like the most. This [...] | 10/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA187: 60 Minute Business Plan for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | 60 Minute Business Plan for Small Firm Architects Did anyone tell you you needed to know how to run a business when you became an architect? Whether clients come knocking or not, it’s not so easy to keep them knocking. The solution is to write a business plan. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, 60 Minute [...] | 9/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA186: Brandon Hubbard, The Architect’s Guide [Podcast] | Brandon Hubbard, The Architect’s Guide This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, The Architect’s Guide with Brandon Hubbard. Background Brandon is a licensed architect based in San Francisco, California and the founder of TheArchitectsGuide.com, dedicated to helping architects with their job application and career goals. He practiced architecture with Foster + Partners in London where he worked on [...] | 9/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA185: The Passion, The Process and Problems of Running a Design/Build Architecture Firm [Podcast] | The Passion, The Process and Problems of Running a Design/Build Architecture Firm Do you want more control? More money? More happy clients? More architecture with better design? Is design/build the answer to our professions problems? Will building your own projects be the solution to success for your small firm? What does it take to run a successful [...] | 9/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA184: How to Establish a Lasting New Habit [Podcast] | How to Establish a Lasting New Habit Do you have a goal you want to accomplish? A new strategy or business process? A life change you want to make in your personal life? Are you keeping that goal locked away in the back of your mind instead of sharing it with others? Let’s accomplish our [...] | 9/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Build a Profitable Architecture Firm with author Mike Michalowicz (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | How to Build a Profitable Architecture Firm Profit… Then Art. In order to be a better architect, we must first be better business people. We need to build better businesses. This week’s guest is the author of Profit First, a book outlining the simple process of transforming any business from a cash-eating monster to a [...] | 9/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Get Started as an Architect Developer (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | How to Get Started as an Architect Developer This week, enjoy the Best of EntreArchitect Podcast as Mark R. LePage invites Declan Keefe of Placetailor back to share his knowledge about How to Get Started as an Architect Developer. For full show notes and a list of references from the original podcast, visit EntreArchitect.com/EA134. Connect [...] | 8/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA183: 5 Steps to Success and Relevance in Architecture with Carol Kurth, FAIA [Podcast] | 5 Steps to Success and Relevance in Architecture with Carol Kurth, FAIA Carol is the owner of Carol Kurth Architecture + Interiors in Bedford, New York. She specializes in architecture and interiors, and does some beautiful work. She’s a popular keynote speaker who’s sought after for her insights on architecture, design, sustainability and design trends. She’s won [...] | 8/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA182: Building an Online Media Empire with Devon Tilly of The Art of Construction Podcast [Podcast] | Building an Online Media Empire with Devon Tilly Devon is the Denver-based owner of Mountain View Window and Door, a nationally-recognized company providing windows and doors for high-end residential projects. He’s the creator and host of the Art of Construction Podcast and brand, cohosted by Kevin Keefe. There they talk about all things business, success, and building [...] | 8/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA181: Meghana Joshi – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Meghana Joshi At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. [...] | 8/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA180: Taking Action to Maximize the Value of the Architect with Ric Abramson, FAIA [Podcast] | Taking Action to Maximize the Value of the Architect with Ric Abramson, FAIA Ric Abramson, FAIA has been in professional practice as a licensed architect for 28 years. He established his small firm, WORKPLAYS, in 2003. He’s taught for over 18 years on the faculty of Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and USC School of Architecture. He’s been [...] | 7/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA179: Katie Hutchison Living a Portfolio Life [Podcast] | Katie Hutchison Living a Portfolio Life Katie is an architect, an author, photographer and many other things based in Warren Rhode Island. She’s passionate about residential architecture, specifically small projects. She’s the author of The New Small House and she’s currently working on a new book. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Living a Portfolio Life with Katie [...] | 7/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA178: Nathan Buhler – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Nathan Buhler At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. We [...] | 7/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA177: Daniel Robey – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Daniel Robey At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their [...] | 7/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA176: Danei Cesario – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Danei Cesario At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their [...] | 6/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA175: Michael Kilkelly – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Michael Kilkelly At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their [...] | 6/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA174: People for Urban Progress with Donna Sink [Podcast] | People for Urban Progress with Donna Sink Donna Sink is a practicing architect at Rowland Design based in Indianapolis. Until her recent move there, she was a small firm architect who owned her own practice. She was recently the campus architect at Indianapolis Museum of Art and she’s involve din the local arts and design [...] | 6/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA173: Lee Calisti – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Lee Calisti At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. [...] | 6/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA172: Sharon George – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Sharon George At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. [...] | 6/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA171: How Does NCARB Serve the Small Firm Architect? [Podcast] | How Does NCARB Serve the Small Firm Architect? The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards is a nonprofit organization made up of architectural licensing boards of 54 states and 8 rerrirotires. While each jurisdiction is responsible for regulating the practice of architecture within its borders, NCARB develops and administers programs for licensure candidates and architects throughout the [...] | 5/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA170: Kurt Krueger – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Kurt Krueger At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. [...] | 5/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA169: Architecture for Children with Vicky Chan [Podcast] | Architecture for Children with Vicky Chan One of the main struggles we hear is that the general public is ignorant of what we do as architects. If people don t know what we do, how will they ever value our services? How can we better educate and share our purpose with the world and, in doing [...] | 5/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA168: Chris Bailow – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Chris Bailow At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share their stories. [...] | 5/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA167: For Architects, By Architects with Steven Burns [Podcast] | For Architects, By Architects: The Story Behind ArchiOffice This week, we have another inspiring story from an architect turned accidental entrepreneur. He turned a need for managing finances at his own small firm into a new software tool to solve the problem. He shared the idea with some colleagues, formed a small company, and eventually [...] | 4/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA166: Beyond the Box with Katie Crepeau [Podcast] | Architects Practicing Beyond The Traditional Design Firm Beyond The Box Architects are trained to find solutions. We have a superpower many other people don’t have: we can see a problem and create a way to solve it. This gives us a huge opportunity to lead both as traditional practitioners and in roles in our society [...] | 4/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA165: Working Toward an Equitable Future in Architecture with Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA [Podcast] | Working Toward an Equitable Future in Architecture This week, the Chair of the AIA National Equity in Architecture Commission, Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA, shares an update on the work that the commission has done to promote equity and diversity in the profession of architecture. How is the AIA working to make the changes needed to have the profession [...] | 4/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA164: Finding MyCORBU with Rick Wolnitzek [Podcast] | Finding MyCORBU with Rick Wolnitzek Retired from the profession and finding himself eager to give back, today’s guest has partnered with a developer to create an app that helps small firm architects manage their time and money. After a long journey, he’s launching the product he wishes he had when he was the owner of [...] | 4/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA163: Michele Grace Hottel – The Entrepreneur Architect Series [Podcast] | The Entrepreneur Architect Series featuring Michele Grace Hottel At EntreArchitect, you’re encouraged to share your knowledge. When we share with other architects, we all benefit. We are able to learn from one another and the profession will grow. One of the goals of EntreArchitect is to provide a platform for other entrepreneur architects to share [...] | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA162: The Pain, the Passion, and the Process of Becoming a Young Architect with Michael Riscica [Podcast] | The Pain, the Passion, and the Process of Becoming a Young Architect Let’s dive deep into what it means to be a young architect and what it takes to get licensed. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Michael Riscica of YoungArchitect.com shares The Pain, the Passion, and the Process of Becoming a Young Architect. Origin Story Michael is based [...] | 3/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA161: SketchUp for Small Firm Architects with Mike LaValley [Podcast] | SketchUp for Architects SketchUp is a great tool for small firm architects to quickly develop 2D ideas into full, 3D models. It’s not BIM and it may not be super efficient for our whole workflow, but when used as a quick way to develop concepts, to share ideas with colleagues or to present to a client [...] | 3/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA160: Questions from The EntreArchitect Community [Podcast] | Questions from the EntreArchitect Community As an active community of entrepreneur architects, we’ve come together to build better businesses. We’re working together to build a better profession. Every day, we see the willingness to share our collective knowledge every day on the EntreArchitect Facebook Group. Members are sharing their struggles and not only are they [...] | 3/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA159: Compensation Strategies for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | Compensation Strategies for Architects How do you get paid? How to you structure your fees as an architect? Architects love to talk about this topic! This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Mark R. LePage shares his Compensation Strategies for Architects. Note: This episode is about how Mark structure’s the compensation strategies for his own firm. These strategies [...] | 3/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA158 (updated): Getting Noticed Through Fun Projects [Podcast] | Getting Noticed Through Fun Projects This week, you can hear the story of two young architects coming together to build their dream. These guys survived the recession by developing a company creating BIM objects for manufacturers, then designing and building tiny houses which led to getting noticed by media. Now, they’re launching their newest projects: [...] | 2/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA157: Modern Architecture and Design for the Masses with Architect Ben Uyeda [Podcast] | Modern Architecture and Design for the Masses Throughout the profession, a common theme we hear is how to leverage what we do as architects. How can we leverage what we do for the good of more people? How can we take our unique skills and talents and use them to better serve the entire population? How [...] | 2/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA156: The Architect Specialist with Alan Stein [Podcast] | The Architect Specialist This week on the podcast we have an architect pursuing his dreams, following his passions, serving a market outside the traditional design studio business model and building a successful company. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, The Architect Specialist with Alan Stein of Tanglewood Conservatories. Alan’s Origin Story As a kid, Alan always loved building [...] | 2/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA155: Developing Specifications for Small Projects [Podcast] | Developing Specifications for Small Projects How do you put together specifications for your projects as a small firm architect? Do you put them on drawings? Do you use a separate project manual? Should you use outline specifications? What are the different options for small firm architects putting together construction documents for a small project? Is [...] | 2/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA154: How to Succeed as a Married Couple in Architecture [Podcast] | How to Succeed as a Married Couple in Architecture “Being a married couple in architecture may be the most difficult, the most satisfying and the most successful approach at being small firm architects. It’s not always easy and it’s not always pretty, but I wouldn’t trade my life as an architect with my wife and [...] | 1/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA153: Pursuing Your Passion as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | How to Pursue Your Passion as a Small Firm Architect Most architects are born dreamers, but we tend to be afraid to pursue those dreams. Often our dreams are stuck in our head and it’s hard to find a way to reach them. Success in achieving our greatest goals can only occur if we… start. Make a [...] | 1/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA152: 10 Steps for Creating Standard Operating Procedures for Architects [Podcast] | 10 Steps for Creating Standard Operating Procedures for Architects Michael Gerber, the author of The E-Myth Revisited, said, “Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go, but the systems remain constant.” This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Simple SOPs: 10 [...] | 1/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA151: How to Grow Your Architecture Firm [Podcast] | How to Grow Your Architecture Firm This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, How to Grow Your Architecture Firm with Todd Reding, President and CEO of Charrette Venture Group and Rena Klein, founder of RM Klein Consulting. What is Charrette Venture Group? Charrette Venture Group (CVG) is a firm that provides a wholistic approach to building a business; they provide services from [...] | 1/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA150: Beautifully Simple Websites for Architects with Robert Yuen [Podcast] | Beautifully Simple Websites for Architects How can you find more work? How can you convert more proposals into projects? Tell your unique story to your target audience. That’s brand building, the essence of marketing. The best and maybe most important tool we have to accomplish this strategy is our website. When our potential clients start [...] | 12/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA149: Copyright Protection for Architects [Podcast] | Copyright Protection for Architects A question often raised is, “How do we protect our designs?” How can we deter a client from overextending their license to our ideas and using our designs beyond their initially intended or contractually bound uses? As creatives, how do we protect our creativity? This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Copyright Protection for [...] | 12/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA148: Public Interest Design Firms [Podcast] | Public Interest Design Firms At EntreArchitect, we’re learning that we need to build a better business so we can be better architects. We want to make the work a better place. That’s why we became architects in the first place. We want to provide a positive social impact. What if by building better businesses we [...] | 12/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA147: How to Build a Profitable Architecture Firm with author Mike Michalowicz [Podcast] | How to Build a Profitable Architecture Firm Profit… Then Art. In order to be a better architect, we must first be better business people. We need to build better businesses. This week’s guest is the author of Profit First, a book outlining the simple process of transforming any business from a cash-eating monster to a [...] | 12/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA146: Design-Build is the Future of Architecture with Luis Jauregui [Podcast] | Design-Build is the Future of Architecture Architecture, construction, interiors and furniture. This week’s guest is a successful architect from Austin, Texas serving the high-end residential market. He started his firm with a single speculative project and grew it into a $20 million integrated design-build firm. How does a design-build firm like this work? How do they structure their [...] | 11/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA145: An Architect on the Inside at HGTV with Dawn Zuber, AIA [Podcast] | An Architect on the Inside at HGTV HGTV To many of us residential architects, that s a four letter word. Promoting unrealistic expectations for most projects regarding time, quality and budget, HGTV has made our tough job as architects even more difficult. This week s guest is a successful residential architect serving the southeastern region of Michigan. One [...] | 11/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA144: 3 Proven Public Relations Strategies for Small Firm Architects with Julie Taylor [Podcast] | Public Relations Strategies for Architects You’re out there hustling, shaking hands and responding to all your RFPs, you’ve got your business development down. At the other end, you have a strong brand, your website is working and your marketing material is telling your story. Somewhere in between the two, lies a critical step to your [...] | 11/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA143: 3 Steps to Happiness as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | How To Be Happy as an Architect Architecture is a tough profession. We work long hours for years with passion and dedication to become architects. We struggle to launch our firms without basic business fundamentals. We search for the best clients and then work to serve them to the best of our ability. Being entrepreneur [...] | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA142: How To Succeed as a Residential Architect with Dale Mulfinger, FAIA [Podcast] | How To Succeed as a Residential Architect with Dale Mulfinger, FAIA It’s a difficult choice to pick a target market and focus all your energy, resources and effort on one market. It’s a decision many small architects are afraid to make because we’re afraid of missing out on other opportunities and we don’t want to [...] | 10/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA141: How to Build a Brand that Resonates with Your Most Valuable Clients [Podcast] | How to Build a Brand That Resonates with Your Most Valuable Clients Your brand is more than just your logo. Your brand is your story in the minds of those interacting with your firm. It’s about emotions and feelings. It’s the way people see, feel, touch and experience our firms. This week at EntreArchitect podcast, Declan [...] | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA140: How To Use Your Story to Find the Work You Want with Architect Storyteller Jeff Echols [Podcast] | How To Use Your Story to Find the Work You Want We all know that storytelling is a critical part of your success in business. We need to know our story and how to tell it to our target market. That’s how we find the work we love and the clients we want. How do [...] | 10/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA139: Living an Integrated Life [Podcast] | Living an Integrated Life As small firm architects, work life balance plays a critical role in the success of our businesses as well as the success of our personal lives. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Mark R. LePage shares his thoughts on Living an Integrated Life as a Small Firm Architect. The integrated life allows [...] | 10/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA138: How to Design and Sell Modern Architecture as a Small Firm Architect with Cavin Costello [Podcast] | How to Design and Sell Modern Architecture as a Small Firm Architect When the world was in the midst of an economic crisis and there were no jobs, a young architect moved to a new town with one contact and a ton of ambition. Today’s guest built his own business flipping ordinary ranch houses into [...] | 9/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA137: How to Get Published as an Architect [Podcast] | Every architect has a dream of having their work published in books and magazines. For some, it s a right of passage a testament to hard work and years of focus. For others, it’s a marketing strategy. Publication is a form of social proof indicating that our designs are worthy of our prospective clients attention. Do you want [...] | 9/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA136: The Journey to Design the Thrivable Home with Architect Stacia Hood [Podcast] | When did you discover architecture? At what age did you learn that architecture was something you could do as a profession? When did you decide to become an architect? What was it that inspired you? Why did YOU choose to become an architect? Those are questions Mark asks every guest at EntreArchitect Podcast. Were there [...] | 9/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA135: Hacking Your Life for ARE Success and Beyond with Architect Evan Troxel [Podcast] | How To Pass the Architect Registration Exam When Real Life Gets in the Way How long did it take you to become a licensed architect? How many years went by before you focused on your studies and passed the Architect Registration Exam (ARE)? How do you do all the things that are going on in [...] | 9/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanProfit…Then Art (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | Profit…Then Art: 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture For the month of August at EntreArchitect Podcast, we focused on Personal Development and encouraged you to dedicate some time to building a better you. For our final installment, enjoy the Best of EntreArchitect Podcast as Mark R. LePage shares 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture. For [...] | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Quest for Predictable Revenue (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | Using Technology to Leverage a Powerful Idea for Predictable Revenue For the month of August at EntreArchitect Podcast, we’re focusing on Personal Development and we encourage you to dedicate some time to building a better you. This week, enjoy the Best of EntreArchitect Podcast as Mark R. LePage and Jared Perry, the founder of Paeven.com, discuss [...] | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRisks & Rewards as an Architect Developer (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | Risks & Rewards as an Architect Developer For the month of August at EntreArchitect Podcast, we’re focusing on Personal Development and we encourage you to dedicate some time to building a better you. This week, enjoy the Best of EntreArchitect Podcast as Mark R. LePage speaks with Jim Zack of San Fransisco-based Zack de Vito Architecture about [...] | 8/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPassive Income for Architects (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | Passive Income for Architects For the month of August at EntreArchitect Podcast, we’re focusing on Personal Development and we encourage you to dedicate some time to building a better you. This week, enjoy the Best of EntreArchitect Podcast as Mark R. LePage speaks with Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop about Passive Income for Architects. [...] | 8/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBranding for Architects (Best of EntreArchitect Podcast) | Branding for Architects For the month of August at EntreArchitect Podcast, we’re focusing on Personal Development and we encourage you to dedicate some time to building a better you. This week, enjoy the Best of EntreArchitect Podcast as Mark R. LePage speaks with Emily Hall about the importance of Branding for Architects. For full [...] | 8/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA134: How to Get Started as an Architect Developer [Podcast] | This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, we invited Declan Keefe of Placetailor back to share his knowledge about How to Get Started as an Architect Developer. To hear Declan’s origin story about how he was hired by a firm as a student and ended up owning it less than three years later, check out EntreArchitect Podcast [...] | 7/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA133: The Power of Trying with Robert Yuen of SectionCut.com [Podcast] | Do you have an idea for a new product, service or business? Today, with all the tools available and so many of them free, you no longer have an excuse. If it’s something you really want and the only thing standing in your way is fear, just try! Mark R. LePage is talking with someone [...] | 7/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA132: Cycling, Licensing and How to Pass the Architect Registration Exam with Michael Riscica [Podcast] | The road to success is a long and bumpy ride. For us licensed architects, we all dealt with the challenge of passing the Architect Registration Exam. For those of you studying to pass the ARE today, you’re working through that challenge right now. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Mark R. LePage discusses How to Pass [...] | 7/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA131: How to Overcome the Fear of Hiring Your First Employee with Architect Marica McKeel [Podcast] | Most of us, when we launched our firms, we started solo, working by ourselves from a small private studio and wearing every hat required to run a successful architecture firm. We worked that way for as long as we could, but we finally reached a point when we knew it was time to get some [...] | 7/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA130: How to Build a Successful Architecture Firm That Works with Architect Declan Keefe [Podcast] | This month, we’re shifting our focus from technology to management. How do we build a successful business? How do we build the right systems and team? How can we efficiently and effectively do what we do as architects in the most profitable way? This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Declan Keefe of Placetailor talks about How [...] | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA129: From Architect to Tech Startup with Qi Su of Modelo.io [Podcast] | Have you ever had a great big idea for a product or service? Something bigger or completely different from what you re doing now? Do you ever wonder what your life would be like, if you pursued that idea? This week we re chatting with someone who had an idea in architecture school inspired by the technology [...] | 6/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA128: 5 Ways to Use Technology to Reduce Our Stress [Podcast] | Technology It can help us in so many ways. All month long, we ve been sharing information here at EntreArchitect Podcast and over at the blog on the many ways that technology can help us be better architects. At times, technology can be a burden. It can be overwhelming. It can be complicated and frustrating. It [...] | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA127: 6 Technologies That Will Radically Change the Architecture Profession in Less Than 10 Years [Podcast] | We are living during an amazing period of time with rapid change and global innovation. Human society is changing before our very eyes. The world I knew as a pre-internet child no longer exists and the world we are experiencing today will be unrecognizable in less than a decade. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast I [...] | 6/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA126: Successful Technologies for an Architect Startup with Architect Danny Cerezo [Podcast] | It s June and all month long we here at EntreArchitect are focusing our content on the category of Technology. On the blog, here on the podcast and inside EntreArchitect Academy we are diving deep into the many technologies we can use to make our architecture firms run more efficiently and more effectively. This week Mark [...] | 6/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA125: Using Technology to Leverage a Powerful Idea for Predictable Revenue [Podcast] | Have you ever had an idea to improve your process; to make it more efficient or more effective in some big way? Maybe you are inspired to start a new business that will help take your architecture firm to the next level and in doing so, will change the profession for all of us, forever. [...] | 5/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA124: And the Winner is… [Podcast] | CVG Architecture Business Plan Competition 2016 Recorded live from the Sonesta Hotel in Downtown Philadelphia the awards reception for the 2016 Charrette Venture Group Architecture Business Plan Competition. We chat with all the finalists, learn about the history of the competition and I sit down for a live one-on-one interview with the winner. We will [...] | 5/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA123: Sketch Your Way to ARE Success with Architect Lora Teagarden [Podcast] | How to Use Sketches to Pass the Architecture Registration Exam In and among the everyday workings of being an architect, or studying to become one, we often find ourselves with new and innovative ideas for doing what we do more efficiently, more effectively or just more enjoyably. We might develop these ideas into new systems [...] | 5/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA122: How to Build a System to Manage Your Architecture Clients’ Expectations [Podcast] | Happy clients are the result of clients knowing what to expect, when to expect it, and how much it’s going to cost when their expectations are met. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Mark R. LePage shares How to Build a System to Manage Your Architecture Clients’ Expectations. How do we deliver services to our clients [...] | 5/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA121: The 12 Critical Categories of Business That Will Take Your Firm from Struggling Studio to Small Firm Success Story [Podcast] | In architecture school, we all had a dream of what we would become when we became architects; designing beautiful spaces and making the world a better place with each project. We each told ourselves a story of success as an architect. We imagined a studio filled with light, working with talented people and surrounded by [...] | 4/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA120: The 7 Essential Elements of an Equitable Architecture Firm [Podcast] | What if you were going to start your firm today, from scratch, with the knowledge that you now have? Would you do things differently? How could you ensure that the firm is prosperous and encourages equity for everyone involved? This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Rosa Sheng, AIA joins Mark R. LePage to share The 7 [...] | 4/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA119: The Sole Practitioner Architecture Firm Culture [Podcast] | When we talk about firm culture, our first thoughts lead us to a busy studio full of staff working with dozens of clients. Don t we need a firm full of people before we can have a firm culture? What if we work alone, as many of you do? Do you have a culture? If so, [...] | 4/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA118: Architecture Firm Culture… Why is it Critical to Our Success? [Podcast] | Architecture Firm Culture Many of us architects are so focused on our business, our design and all the things we have going on that we don t think about culture. We may not even think it s that important to the success of our firm compared to financial management, design, sales or marketing. What if you were [...] | 4/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA117: How the Next Generation of Architects will Change the World [Podcast] | Every new generation of architects hopes that they will make a difference and change society for the better. We have so many new skills, access to new tools, and a driving passion to serve others. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Mark R. LePage talks with the National President of the American Institute of Architecture Students [...] | 4/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA116: How to Successfully Prepare and Present Your Ideas as an Architect [Podcast] | Presentation Skills for Architects Leadership is about visions and ideas and being able to clearly communicate that knowledge to an audience. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I welcome back futurist and professional speaker David Zach and we talk about How to Successfully Prepare and Present Your Ideas as an Architect. What steps can you [...] | 3/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA115: How to Become a Thought Leader in Architecture [Podcast] | Are you an expert on a specific topic or technique? Do you have a passion for a specific cause? Do you seek to influence a group of people? Are you a leader or want to be one for innovation and change? This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I will share How to Become a Thought [...] | 3/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA114: The Three Rs of Team Building [Podcast] | How to Build a Strong Balanced Team in Architecture As leaders, we determine who s on our team and how it will work. Getting this right is the difference between experiencing frustration verses experiencing a thriving team working toward your dreams. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, I will share The Three Rs of Team Building. Where [...] | 3/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA113: How to Start, Grow, and Inspire a Team as the Leader of a Small Firm Architecture Studio [Podcast] | Leadership for Architects Leadership can be overwhelming; where do we start? How do we grow a team and inspire them to work toward a common vision? Often, fear makes it difficult for us to try something new or take a step in a different direction. We find ourselves stuck in the same place we’ve always [...] | 3/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA112: How to Face Your Fear of Selling as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | How To Sell Architectural Services Throughout my years as an architect and since launching EntreArchitect in 2012, I have discovered that the number one weakness of small firm architects is Sales and the process of selling. We have no sales system or sales pipeline set up. We either don’t know that we should be selling, [...] | 2/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA111: How to Manage Your Sales Pipeline as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | Every week we receive calls from potential clients; people who have come our way through word of mouth, a Google search or in response to our amazing marketing efforts. We answer those calls and we begin a process that will, hopefully, lead the most qualified of the bunch to signing a contract. That process is [...] | 2/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA110: How to Negotiate as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | When someone wants one thing and we want another, how do we successfully convince them to go our way? How do we find a solution that works for everyone involved? Negotiation doesn t always come easy to us small firm architects. We are lovers, not fighters. We just want to make beautiful art and live a [...] | 2/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA109: 5 Steps to Successful Sales for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | Sales… It conjures up images of slippery slick salespeople pushing their unnecessary products on to people who don t even want them. For many of us small firm architects, the idea of high pressure sales tactics and dishonest tricks and techniques makes us squirm and sweat. Well, I have good news. Sales tricks don t work. High [...] | 2/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA108: 4 Steps for Changing the Architect’s Mindset on Money [Podcast] | With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of starving artist . Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. New firms are launched every day without proper planning, without an understanding of basic [...] | 1/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA107: Financial Intelligence for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | It takes time and effort to learn what we need to know to be successful. As EntreArchitects, we need to build better businesses. Focusing on our finances must be a priority. Understanding how to prepare, and why to review, the financial reports for our business will make everything else we do easier. It will allow [...] | 1/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA106: How To Use Design Awards to Promote Your Architecture Firm [Podcast] | Are you an award wining architect? Would you like to promote your firm through the recognition of your design excellence? Design awards are a great way to differentiate your firm from others. This week at the EntreArchitect Podcast, I am speaking with two residential architects about a new design awards program that is specifically created [...] | 1/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA105: The All-New EntreArchitect Academy [Podcast] | Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your holiday and have started your new year with enthusiasm, determination and focus. It s going to be a great 2016. I m sure you are noticing a few changes around here. We ve been very hard at work during the year-end break. Today on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I am going to [...] | 1/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA104: Success in 2016 with Just ONE Goal [Podcast] | It s that time of year again. The bells are ringing for the holidays and we re all busy wrapping up deadlines before the turn of a new year. It s also time to look ahead to 2016. How are we going to make 2016 our best year ever? How are we going to find the work we [...] | 12/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA103: 3 Roadblocks Experienced by Every Entrepreneur Architect and What To Do About It [Podcast] | Architecture is a tough business. How do we find work? How do we find help? How do we grow, make more money and ensure that our small firms are profitable? This week I welcome back a friend of the show who, in the past 12 months has interviewed almost 200 small firm architects. He knows [...] | 12/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA102: Risks and Rewards with Architect Developer Jim Zack [ Podcast] | A dream for so many of us small firm architects; design, build and develop our own residential architecture. No rules. No limits. No clients. You make the decisions for what gets built and what does not. There is much risk in residential development, but there is also much reward. Creative rewards, professional rewards and financial [...] | 12/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA101: How To Grow Your Design Business with Brian Corcodilos [Podcast] | Starting your own design business while still in architecture school. Graduating, growing and building that simple idea into a thriving multi-disciplined design build company. That s what this week s guest did. On the show is a former guest from way back at Episode 8. He’s here to share an update after 2 years of business development. [...] | 11/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA100: Featuring You! [Podcast] | So, this is it! Episode 100 of the EntreArchitect Podcast. This is certainly a milestone in the history of the EntreArchitect Platform and there is no way this could have happened without you, the EntreArchitect Community. Those of you who subscribe and download and listen to this show each and every week have been the [...] | 11/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA099: Field Guide Series – Marketing Your Self-Published Book as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | You listened to Episode 97 and you have your upcoming self-published book all figured out. You know what you re writing about, to whom you are writing, how to actually sit down every day and write. Yes you can do it in addition to being a full time architect if you want to. You even know [...] | 11/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA098: Life of an Entrepreneur Architect with Marc Teer of BlackSpectacles.com [Podcast] | Have you ever considered following a dream other than a traditional practice in architecture? Do you have a passion that is burning inside? Maybe you have a great idea for a new business, but you are afraid to pursue it because of all the work it required to become a licensed architect? You don t want [...] | 11/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA097: Field Guide Series – How to Self-Publish Your Book as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | We all have a story. We all have knowledge that we can share. We are all experts at something. I think… we all have a book in us that needs to be written. On this.. Part Three of the EntreArchitect Podcast Field Guide Series, I welcome back to the show, the founder of 30X40 Design [...] | 10/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA096: 15 Reasons Why Hiring a Professional Architectural Photographer is Worth Every Penny [Podcast] | We all work so hard at what we do. We spend hours meeting with potential clients, preparing proposals and selling our services. When we finally get the job, we spend months developing the designs for our projects to be the best they can be. They re built under our observation and we provide construction administration services [...] | 10/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA095: 5 Steps for Successfully Managing Your Architecture Client’s Experience [Podcast] | Your story in the mind of the client is your brand. That story is told, one chapter at a time, through everything you do and everything you say. At every point of contact your client is learning more about who you are and what you do. They are developing their thoughts and carrying their opinions [...] | 10/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA094: The Consequence of Technology on the Profession with George Valdes [Podcast] | We are living at a time when massive, paradigm shifting technologies are being introduced everyday. Change is happening very rapidly. New technologies are going to change the way we practice, how we run our businesses and how we live our lives. Reach into your pocket and pull out that iPhone and you will understand what [...] | 10/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA093: The Anatomy of a Successful Small Business with Crown Point Cabinetry CEO Brian Stowell [Podcast] | Last week on the podcast, I shared my 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture, the same presentation I shared at the recent AIA CRAN Symposium. I proposed that if you learn how to execute on each of the 12 steps, you will be a successful architect, with a profitable business leading to creating more [...] | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA092: Profit… Then Art [Podcast] | 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture I m a day late on producing this episode because Annmarie and I just returned from Minneapolis, Minnesota where we attended the Custom Residential Architects Network 2015 Symposium (aka CRAN). This was the second CRAN event we attended. Last year we traveled to Charleston, SC, which was a fantastic [...] | 9/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA091: Beginning Your Career in Architecture with Kevin J. Singh [Podcast] | One guest-post that has made a major impact on the EntreArchitect Community was written by architect and educator Kevin J. Singh about a year ago. That post, 21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture, is consistently one of the most visited articles on the site. This week I invite Kevin to join us here [...] | 9/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA090: Innovation and the Practice of Architecture with Jeremy Welu of DELV Design [Podcast] | One of my favorite parts of running things here at EntreArchitect is that I get to speak with people who are thinking outside the box; people who are coloring outside the lines; people who have new, innovative ideas and have “jumped in with both feet and are making things happen. They are taking their ideas, [...] | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA089: Field Guide Series – Passive Income for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | Imagine working in your studio, designing a great project for another happy client and your receive a notification on your iPhone that Paypal dropped $50 in your pocket. Then after work, you head over to the ball field to watch your daughter s game. As you are cheering her on, Paypal drops another $50 in your [...] | 9/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA088: How to Avoid Burnout as an Architect with Jane Walton [Podcast] | Leaders of small firms are experiencing many of the same challenges as the leaders of large firms. Leadership transition, balancing our firms and our families, and equity in architecture (as my friend Rosa Sheng calls it) The Missing 32%. As architects and leaders, we all have our issues and we are all struggling with finding [...] | 8/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA087: 12 Rules for Hiring Your First Employee [Podcast] | After you have all your business fundamentals in place; your branding is nailed, your marketing is set up and your sales system is bringing in consistent new work… you are going to start getting busy. Your going to need some help. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I will share my 12 Rules for Hiring [...] | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA086: Virtual Reality in Architecture with George Valdes [Podcast] | Imagine taking your client for a tour of their new building. Entering the front door, walking through the lobby full of natural light and vaulted ceilings. You point to a detail above where the sunlight enters the space and reflects from the wall surface and explodes into a rainbow of colors. Imagine taking this tour [...] | 8/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA085: Architecture Registration Exam with AIAS Past-President Charlie Klecha [Podcast] | He committed to taking all 7 sections of the Architecture Registration Exam in 7 days. He launched a new scholarship program where recent graduates of architecture school can be reimbursed for the cost of their first exam. He has worked with his team to rebuild the operational structure of his organization to better serve its [...] | 7/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA084: Field Guide Series – Building, Branding and Marketing Your Startup Design Business with Eric Reinholdt [Podcast] | Many of us have a dream of starting our own firm. Others of us have already taken the plunge and launched. The first question, after we make that fateful decision is, How do we find work? “How do we get noticed by the clients with whom we want to work?” This week s guest on the [...] | 7/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA083: Is EntreArchitect a Movement? [Podcast] | A Progress Report from EntreArchitect EntreArchitect is a movement that is slowly growing. It s a community of like-minded architects who are tired of the status quo; tired of working long hours, tired of society not recognizing the role of architects, beyond that of the creators of big shiny buildings designed by the most public of [...] | 7/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA082: 5 Rules for Living Your Life in the Present [Podcast] | I often find myself living in the past or in the future. I have my head down, focused on my plans and getting things done. It is not uncommon for me to go days without really experiencing the present. It s not good for me. It s not good for my work. It s not good for my [...] | 7/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA081: My 5 Tools for Pursuing a Productive Paperless Virtual Studio [Podcast] | For 11 years Fivecat Studio was located in Pleasantville, New York about 10 minutes from our home in Chappaqua. It was a 2000 square foot space with hardwood floors, large windows, exposed structure and tall ceilings. It was a fabulous space for an architecture studio and we enjoyed being there for all those years. In [...] | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA080: Business Systems for Architects with Norbert Lemermeyer [Podcast] | Building a successful business can be fun if you play it like a sport. Learn the rules, build your skills, make small improvements on a consistent basis and you will soon master the game. Soon you will have a successful small firm architecture studio. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I had the great pleasure [...] | 6/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA079: Leadership in the Profession of Architecture with Jes Stafford | Your career in architecture is what you make it. Your success. Your failures. Whether you grow or stay small. Each decision you make will lead you to your destination. Choosing to be a leader sometimes adds complication to your life. Finding the time to build an architecture firm and raise a family AND taking the [...] | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA078: Creating a Culture of Profitability with June Jewell [Podcast] | Establishing a culture of profitability starts with you, the small firm architect. You need to change the way you think about business and money before you can foster a culture of success for your firm. but when you do, everything else will fall into place. You will have happier staff. You will have happier clients. [...] | 5/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA077: 3 Simple Steps to Success in Architecture [Podcast] | Success is not difficult. It s not a secret or magic. There are rules to success. There are steps we can take. The knowledge is out there. The knowledge is on the podcast and here at the blog. It’s everywhere. There are so many other sources of knowledge that we can use to find the information [...] | 5/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA076: How To Establish a Culture of Accountability at Your Architecture Firm with Architect Steve Wintner [Podcast] | Imagine an architecture firm where the systems are in place, the people are in place, the roles and responsibilities of everyone is established both at the ownership level and at the employee level and the trust is so strong that everything gets done when and how it should. Imagine the benefits of such a firm. [...] | 5/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA075: 12 Ways to Quickly Get Started Using Evernote [Podcast] | I know we have all heard the hype about Evernote. Many of us have downloaded the free app, took a spin and never looked again. Others have given it a try, created a few notebooks, added a few to-do lists and found no use. I know I did the same thing. This week on the [...] | 5/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA074: My Favorite Place [Podcast] | Each month, a group of dedicated architect bloggers, lead by my friend Bob Borson over at the Life of an Architect blog, participates at an online event called #ArchiTalks. Bob assigns a specific topic or theme and we each prepare a post written in response to that specific subject and we all coordinate our posts [...] | 4/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA073: The Power of Picking a Target Market [Podcast] | In addition to developing a sales system, the concept of Target Market is the one thing that I most credit for the success of my small firm, Fivecat Studio. Every day I see architects’ websites stating that they “specialize” in residential, commercial and institutional. Specialists in everything specialize in nothing. Your customers want you to [...] | 4/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA072: 7 Benefits to AIA Membership for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. This past recession has been tough on the architecture profession. For the past several years many of us have been struggling to survive. We ve taken the work we could get and reduced our expenses to the absolute minimum. As we [...] | 4/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA071: How to Build a Better Profession with Architect and Educator Larry Speck [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. Entrepreneurism, architects pursuing ventures outside the traditional practice, the education of architects, the AIA and how we all need to join together to build a better profession; these are all topics that I discussed with my guest this week on [...] | 4/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA070: Architectural Specification Systems for Residential Architects [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. The compilation and documentation of project specifications may be one of the most important services we provide as small firm architects and in my experience many of us, especially us residential architects, limit our specifications to a sheet of general [...] | 4/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA069: The 5 Business Structures for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. Fivecat Studio was founded in 1999. Annmarie and I were 29 years old. She was licensed. I was not. With no clients and no money, we launched the firm as a sole proprietorship; Annmarie McCarthy, Architect. Slowly, we grew the [...] | 3/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA068: Solutions for Architect Moms (and Dads) with ArchiMom.com Founder Amy Kalar [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. “Do you ever wonder what might happen if you chose not to work late on a deadline because you need to take care of your family? Do you ever daydream about working part time, but wonder how it may impact [...] | 3/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA067: My 10 Steps to a Successful Life [Podcast] | Take Action! Every once in a while I need to look inward at my own life and remind myself how blessed I am. I often find myself falling into a mild depression, stressed and discouraged by what I have not yet achieved. It is important for me to look to the good things in my [...] | 3/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA066: My 10 Rules for a Powerful Brand in Architecture [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. Last week on the podcast, I had the great opportunity to speak with Emily Hall, a senior associate with Union Studio Architecture and Community Design. We had a chat about how to take a very well known architecture firm with [...] | 3/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA065: How to Successfully Rebrand an Architecture Studio with Emily Hall [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. When Annmarie and I launched our residential architecture studio in 1999, we made a very important decision about the name of our firm. We wanted to be sure that our name was unique and would clearly separate our studio from [...] | 2/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA064: 7 Truths of Successful Small Firm Partnerships [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. After years of contributing to the profession of small firm architecture through my weekly post here at the blog, my weekly newsletter and at the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I wanted to make Entrepreneur Architect even more interactive; even more influential. [...] | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA063: Residential Construction Management with Architect Nicholas Renard [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. Have you ever put all your heart and soul into a architecture project? Have you ever worked from inception at Schematic Design, developed all the details during Design Development, assembled the construction documents, bid it out and then handled it [...] | 2/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA062: Emerging Leaders with AIAS President Charlie Klecha [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I have a very special guest. He s a friend of mine and a rising star in the profession. Elected as the current president of the American Institute of Architecture Students in December of [...] | 2/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA061: Marketing Trends for Architects with Sylvia Montgomery [Podcast] | Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. Sylvia Montgomery is a senior partner and head of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction practice at Hinge Marketing. When she s not traveling around the country for speaking engagements or client meetings, you will find Sylvia creating marketing and branding strategies [...] | 1/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA060: Architecture Business Plan Competition with Todd Reding [Podcast] | Last winter, the founder and CEO of Charrette Venture Group, Matt Ostanik contacted me and inquired about my interest in being a jury member of his new Architecture Business Plan Competition. I receive emails and requests all the time asking me to buy things or participate in surveys or to join a networking group or [...] | 1/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA059: The Invisible Force Working Against Every Small Firm Architect [Podcast] | There is an invisible force occurring with every project we start and it is working against us. It’s working against me. It’s working against you. It is working against every small firm architect, at a very rapid pace. You need to get things done before it shows up and finds your client. This week on [...] | 1/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA058: Work Harder [Podcast] | In this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I talk about my goals for 2015 and how I will accomplish each one. Please review this podcast on iTunes. Referenced in the Episode The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey (book) EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the [...] | 1/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA057: 7 Steps to a Successful Work Week for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | As the new year quickly approaches, we hear the annual recommendations for planning our year ahead. Every magazine and blog is running an article about how to plan for 2015. Although stating long term goals and planning for their success is important, I suggest that planning your week, every week, will put you closer to [...] | 12/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA056: My 5 Rules of Successful Leadership for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | As Entrepreneur Architects, we are all leaders. Whether we are running a firm of 1 or 100, it is leadership that will determine the success or failure of a firm. It does not matter how bad the economy gets or how your opportunities may have been reduced by circumstances outside your control. The fate of [...] | 12/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA055: The Passion Profit Cycle of Success for Your Small Firm [Podcast] | The passion required to overcome the fear and uncertainty of launching a start-up business is a very powerful emotion. It s what takes us from business-owner architect to Entrepreneur Architect. It s what gets us out of bed every morning and keeps us going years later. Passion for what we do though, will only take us so [...] | 12/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA054: A Day in the Life of Mark R. LePage [Podcast] | Once per month, my friend Bob Borson at LifeofanArchitect.com organizes a group of bloggers to write on a specific topic. The series is called #ArchiTalks. Search for it on Twitter or on EntreArchitect.com and you will find links to all the other posts from the series. This is a day in the life of Mark [...] | 11/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA053: Find Your Purpose Through Personal Productivity with Architect Dan Hart [Podcast] | As small firm architects, we are all wearing so many hats. We have so much going on in our lives. As Partner in Charge of Operations at my small firm Fivecat Studio, I am CEO, COO, CFO, President, Director of Architectural Services, Architect, Project Manager, Office Manager, Book keeper, Receptionist and custodian and thats just [...] | 11/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA052: How to Take Your Idea to Market with HowToArchitect Founder Doug Patt | This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast is a registered Architect based in Allentown Pennsylvania. He has worked in the architectural field since 1993, specializing in high-end residential architecture. Published in a variety of professional journals and magazines, Doug Patt worked on projects that have received American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Builders Awards in [...] | 11/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA051: Finding The Missing 32% with Equity by Design Founder Rosa Sheng [Podcast] | A few week back, I traveled to the west coast of the United States to attend The Equity by Design Symposium organized by a committee of AIA San Francisco called The Missing 32%. The event was well attended (in fact it was sold out) and very well produced. It was a day filled with thought [...] | 11/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA050: Big Changes with AIAS Executive Director Nick Serfass [Podcast] | This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I have the privilege to be speaking with a man that may have some answers for students and professionals regarding IDP, the AIAS and the future of the profession. As a former assistant director of the Intern Development Program (IDP) for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards [...] | 10/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA048: Success Through Storytelling with Bob Fisher of DesignIntelligence [Podcast] | This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, Bob Fisher of DesignIntelligence and I have a fantastic conversation about how small firm architects may succeed through storytelling. Another submission to the #ArchiTalks blog series, this episode is being published simultaneously with many other #ArchiTalks blog posts from all over the internet. Scroll down to the bottom [...] | 10/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA047: 5 Ways To Focus Your Gift as a Dreamer [Podcast] | I am, like so many of you I am a dreamer. Every day of my life, since I was a small child, I have lived much of my waking life and in fact, many of my sleeping hours as well, dreaming about my future. What life will be like when I finally reach that pinnacle [...] | 10/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA046: My 10 Steps to Build Better Rapport and Close More Sales [Podcast] | I believe the most important business skill you need to succeed is knowing how to build rapport. This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I share my 10 steps to build better rapport and close more sales. Please review this podcast on iTunes. Referenced in This Episode Entrepreneur Architect Podcast Episode 31: The Architectural Services [...] | 9/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA045: 10 Tips From a Recovering Procrastinator [Podcast] | My name is Mark R. LePage and I am a recovering procrastinator. After 40+ years, I don t have much hope of ever finding a cure, but recently I have found some ways to hang on to the wagon and stay focused on getting things done. With so many things on my plate, I often find [...] | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA044: How to Land Your First Job in Architecture [Podcast] | Last December I was invited to speak at AIAS Forum 2013; the American Institute of Architecture Students national convention. This year the event was held in Chicago Yes, Chicago in December, and yes, we were snowed-in for days. While we waited for the airports to open, I had the opportunity to speak in length with [...] | 9/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA043: 5 Mistakes I Made When Launching My Virtual Architecture Studio [Podcast] | Everything I do in business, I approach as an experiment. It’s been 9 months since moving Fivecat Studio out of our 2,000 square foot studio in Pleasantville, New York to a new 200 square foot studio in our Chappaqua home. It’s been very successful and I love what we’re doing, but this week on the [...] | 8/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA042: This is Exciting – Making a Difference at Entrepreneur Architect [Podcast] | It is the individual small firm architects, taking charge of their own success and working with other individual architects; collaborating and sharing their knowledge that will really take this profession to new levels… and this really excites me. Today on the podcast, in the spirit of sharing what is exciting me most, I want to [...] | 8/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA041: Top 10 Ways Architects Can Earn More Money [Podcast] | To successfully complete a project, an architect is responsible for making thousands of critical decisions. To complete the development of a standard residential additions and alterations project, it takes several months of focus and dedication. Many of us work long hours, long into the night, through weekends and holidays. The innovative ideas and concepts we [...] | 8/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA040: My 4 Simple Steps to Getting Things Done [Podcast] | A little past 6AM, tunes from the local radio station wake me from a very deep slumber. Typically, I will set the alarm to 6:14, so I hear music rather than the daily bad news report. I am very serious about my full media blackout . I certainly don t spend enough time sleeping and for the [...] | 7/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA039: A Virtual Round Table Discussing the Virtual Studio [Podcast] | This week on the podcast, I invited small firm architects Lee Calisti, Jeremiah Russell, Steve May and Neal Pann to discuss the virtual studio business model. Neal was in the wilds of Canada on vacation and could not make it to the call, but Lee, Jeremiah, Steve and I had a very interesting conversation about [...] | 7/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA038: Hardware and Electronic Equipment for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] | In the 15 years that Annmarie and I have been practicing at our small residential architecture firm, we have seen much of our hardware come and go. We launched the firm with a single Dell workstation, a monster CRT monitor and an inexpensive all-in-one scanner, printer, fax machine. Today we re running Apple computers and the [...] | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA037: My Answers to 11 Big Questions About Architecture (Podcast) | Late yesterday afternoon, I received an email from my friend Bob Borson of Life of an Architect. His message was a challenge to all architect bloggers on the internet. Bob challenged us to coordinate a series of blog posts, (and this podcast episode) all to be published on the same day and answering the same [...] | 7/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA036: A Call to Action for Small Firm Architects at AIA Convention 2015 [Podcast] | This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I talk about my week and share my insights on the Business Plan Competition and the AIA National Convention. It was a fantastic week. Please review the podcast on iTunes. References from this Episode Architecture Business Plan Competition AIA Convention WoodenBoat Show in Mystic Connecticut Hotel Burnham Eleven:59 [...] | 7/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA035: Business Systems for Architects with Enoch Sears of BusinessOfArchitecture.com [Podcast] | This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast I chatted with my friend Enoch Sears, the founder of BusinessOfArchitecture.com. Each week, Enoch hosts the Business of Architecture Show, a video podcast, which may be viewed on his website, on his YouTube channel or you may listen to the audio on iTunes. Enoch’s show is specifically focused [...] | 6/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA034: How to Raise Your Fees [Podcast] | When Annmarie and I launched Fivecat Studio back in 1999, we took the work we could get and charged what we thought our clients wanted to pay. As we matured as architects and grew as a business, we learned that we needed to make more money in order to build a better business. Are you [...] | 6/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA033: Architects Creating Homes with Rand Soellner | Residential architecture is very different than any other building type. The scale is different. The materials are different. The details are different… and our clients well, they are very different. The life of a residential architect is very challenging. The psychology involved in a successful residential architecture project is something that can only be learned [...] | 5/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA032: Business Classes for Architecture Students, Architect Moms and More Q & A from the Community [Podcast] | This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I am turning things over to you, the Entrepreneur Architect Community. Every day I receive emails from members of the community. Many are letters of support and encouragement and truthfully, those are the emails that inspire me to continue and to grow Entrepreneur Architect into all that it [...] | 5/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA031: The Architectural Services Sales System [Podcast] | We need to talk. This may be uncomfortable, but we need to talk about money. Are you making enough to finish each month with a profit? Are you making enough to live comfortably? Are you making enough to simply pay the bills? So many architects I know are not making ends meet. We architects are [...] | 5/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA030: Ten Rules to Project Management Success [Podcast] | One of the most important of all the tasks we perform as architects is Project Management. The success of each project sits squarely in our hands. If managed poorly, a single project may set our progress back years. If managed well, it can take us to great heights. This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, [...] | 5/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA029: BIMsanity… Is AutoCAD LT a Better Choice for Small Firm Architects? [Podcast] | I met my wife Annmarie in 1993 at my first job with Barry Poskanzer Architecture and Planning in Ridgewood, NJ. I had been working as an intern for several months and Barry was seeking a new employee, another intern to help with lower level tasks and to work with the licensed architects in the firm [...] | 4/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA028: Business Software for Small Firm Architects with Steven Burns, FAIA [Podcast] | One of the most important tasks architects should be doing to improve the success of their firms is to develop strong business systems that will allow them to quickly perform the routine everyday tasks of running a busy architecture firm. The quickest and maybe the most effective way to do this is to leverage the [...] | 4/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA027: Investigating the Missing 32% with Architect Rosa Sheng [Podcast] | Architecture school graduating classes consist of approximately 50% men and 50% women, but somewhere along the way to licensure, 32% of the women drop out of the profession to pursue other paths. Why does this gender gap exist? What are those women doing, if they re not pursuing architecture? Where did they go? My guest this [...] | 4/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA026: Cool Spaces! on PBS TV with Architect Stephen Chung [Podcast] | When I speak with architects about the critical issues we are facing in the profession, many of us echo the same solution of educating the public on what we do and why we do it. “If they only understood…” This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast I speak with architect and teacher Stephen Chung; the [...] | 4/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA025: Successful Social Media Strategies for Architects [Podcast] | Annmarie and I launched our first website at fivecat.com in 1998, way before any other architects in the region were online. I ve been writing blogs since 2006 and as social media grew in popularity, we adopted early and benefited tremendously. Having a strong online presence has made us very accessible on search engines. We ve held [...] | 4/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA024: My Architecture Business Plan for Fivecat Studio [Podcast] | This Episode is Top Secret In this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I talk about how to create your own life plan and I’ll walk you through my own business plan step-by-step; the actual plan that I developed for Fivecat Studio back in 2006. I’ll share all my previously confidential information and show you [...] | 3/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA023: How to Build a Debt-Zero Architecture Firm [Podcast] | Money is critical to the success of any architecture firm, but how and why you find that money may determine whether you live or die as a small business. In this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, we re talking about building a business without debt and if you already find yourself in the hole (like [...] | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA021: My Journey from Architecture School to My Own Architecture Firm [Podcast] | I am a born entrepreneur. It is in my blood. From age 10, when I decided to become an architect, I knew that someday I would lead my own firm. With certainty for my destination, I planned my path, step by step, from graduation to business launch. It wasn t a formal written plan, but I [...] | 3/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA022: How To Find Your First Job in Architecture with Edward Rowse Architects [Podcast] | This one is for the students. Dayne DeSerres is a working intern at Edward Rowse Architects based in Foxboro Massachusetts. He promotes the firm via Social Media and we communicate often on Twitter. A few weeks back, Dayne reached out in response to My Ultimate Guide to Landing Your First Job in Architecture. He offered [...] | 3/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA020: How To More Than Double Your Fee on Your Next Architecture Project [Podcast] | During my interview with a potential client, I answer many questions. Most are very similar; How much will it cost? How long will it take? Are you available to start right away? Do you have any references? You know all the questions they learn to ask from their favorite shows on HGTV. Another question that [...] | 2/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA019: My 6 Steps for Accomplishing Your Goals Without Feeling Overwhelmed [Podcast] | Do you ever feel overwhelmed with all your responsibilities? Of course you do, you re an architect. We are born and bred to be overcommitted and stressed. On this episode I am going to share my 6 steps for accomplishing your goals without feeling overwhelmed. I hope this episode helps you on your journey to greatness [...] | 2/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA018: David Zach is a Futurist [Podcast] | David Zach is a Futurist. I don t know about you, but before meeting David at AIAS Forum in Chicago, I thought Futurism was the creation of science fiction writers. But in fact, David Zach is a professional Futurist. David is a full time speaker and has given more than 1500 presentation over the past 27 [...] | 2/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA017: The Entrepreneur Architect Manifesto [Podcast] | In this episode I ll be talking about my Entrepreneur Architect Manifesto. I launched the Entrepreneur Architect blog in 2007 as a personal project to record my thoughts about business in architecture and to organize online resources about business and the profession of architecture. On December 12, 2012, I announced the relaunch of Entrepreneur Architect as [...] | 2/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA016: Five Ways to Embrace Your Personal Evolution [Podcast] | In this episode I ll share five ways to embrace your Personal Evolution. How, as we move through different seasons in our lives, our priorities change and the things that may have been important to us as an architecture student or as an emerging professional, may not be so important as we grow and our lives [...] | 1/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA015: Architectural Fees | How To Get Paid as an Architect [Podcast] | Since launching the blog back in 2007, there has been one topic that I have been asked about more than any other. Whenever I write about it, either at the blog or over at the Entrepreneur Architect Linkedin Group (which by the way is closing in on 6,000 members) the comment section lights up. It s [...] | 1/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA014: Architecture Does Matter | An Interview with BSA President Emily Grandstaff-Rice [Podcast] | She is the daughter of an economist inspired by an advocate St. Louis architect at the age of 15. This week s guest on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast climbed her way up through the profession, making a difference every step of the way. She s an instructor at Boston Architectural College, an associate at Cambridge Seven Associates [...] | 1/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA013: Profit… Then Art | Architects Build a Better World By Making More Money [Podcast] | It’s Official! The Entrepreneur Architect Podcast is now on a weekly schedule. In this, my 13th episode, I share the new schedule for everything Entrepreneur Architect including the weekly podcast and the new publication date for The Entrepreneur Architect Report, my free weekly newsletter. My weekly blog articles will continue to be published on Monday [...] | 1/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA012: How Business Consultants Will Help Small Firm Architects Build Better Businesses with Rena Klein [Podcast] | Rena Klein, FAIA is a teacher, a speaker, an author and principal of RM Klein Consulting; a firm offering a variety of services aimed at small firm architects. On this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect podcast, Rena and I discuss the many ways a business consultant may help you build a better business. We talk [...] | 12/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA011: The Virtual Studio with Kevin deFreitas [Podcast] | In this eleventh episode of the Entrepreneur Architect podcast, I speak with architect Kevin deFreitas about his success as an Entrepreneur Architect using a virtual studio business model. Annmarie and I have shifted our business model at Fivecat Studio to look much like what Kevin describes. I learned a bunch from Kevin and I hope [...] | 11/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA010: Alternative Business Structures for Architects with Oscia Wilson [Podcast] | Oscia Wilson has built an architecture firm based on the ideas she learned through practicing Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). Using a distributed business model, with members of the firm working remotely and coming together as necessary, Oscia has built an efficient, effective and rather flexible architecture firm. She shares why she chose an alternative business [...] | 10/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA009: The Power of Connection with Susan Serra [Podcast] | In this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect podcast we’re hanging out with a long time online friend of mine, Susan Serra. Susan is a kitchen designer, an online marketer, an entrepreneur many times over and a great friend. We talked about Susan’s many business ventures and how engaging online has helped her succeed. Its all [...] | 9/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA008: Breaking all the Rules | Building a Successful Design Firm While Still in Architecture School [Podcast] | Like many architecture students, Brian Corcodilos and Vincent DeFazio had a dream of one day starting their own architectural design firm. But they didn’t let the rules get in their way. While still attending Philadelphia University, Brian and Vince invited the top ten percent of their class to join them and they launched Designblendz, LLC. [...] | 8/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA007: Opportunities Come from Unexpected Places | An Interview with Pat Flynn [Podcast] | Pat Flynn graduated from UC Berkeley Architecture, loved the profession and was working his way through the ranks to become an architect. He was living his dream until the day he was Let Go. In this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, Pat Flynn tells the story about how he made the decision to leave [...] | 7/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA006: Living the archiCULTURE | An Interview with Film Director/Producer Ian Harris [Podcast] | In this episode of the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I am speaking with Ian Harris, the co-Founder of Arbuckle Industries and the co-Director and Producer of the new documentary film archiCULTURE. The film offers a unique glimpse into the world of studio-based design education through the eyes of a group of students finishing their final design [...] | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA005: Professional Liability Insurance with Frank D. Musica of Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., Inc. [Podcast] | Subscribe to The Entrepreneur Architect Podcast at iTunes We’ve enjoyed lots of engagement here on the blog lately and one subject that consistently triggers a response from readers is Professional Liability Insurance; what it is, why we need it and if we need it as sole proprietors and owners of small architecture firms. In this [...] | 5/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA004: Selling Architecture as a Product with Karl Daubmann of Blu Homes | Subscribe at iTunes Blu Homes has reinvented residential design with their patented folding prefab construction… offering architecture as a product. Todays guest at The Entrepreneur Architect Podcast is Blu Home’s VP of Design, Karl Daubmann. We talked about Karl’s background, how he landed an architect’s dream job at Blu and their integrated approach to delivering [...] | 4/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA003: Storytelling with Architect Collier Ward [Podcast] | Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe via RSS Architects are storytellers. We all know stories inspired by architecture. Stories of success and failure. Our greatest works of architecture hold stories that are passed down from generation to generation; no different than great works of art or a classic novel. Today on the podcast we’re speaking with architect [...] | 3/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA002: Secrets to Blogging Success with Bob Borson | Today I have another great interview with my friend, Bob Borson, a dallas based residential architect who has become rather well known online through his blog, Life of an Architect. We discussed his role at the firm, Burnbaum Magadini Architects, how he loves working with residential clients and he shares a few behind-the-scenes secrets to his success as a blogger. | 2/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA001: Architecture is Dead | An Interview with Christopher Pollard | In this first episode of The Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I sit down with Christopher Pollard, Founder and CEO of Anon Design Collective (live at Fivecat Studio). He is trained as an architect, but has taken his career in a very different direction. Chris says, "Architecture is Dead". Listen and find out if you agree. | 1/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEA000: Introduction to The Entrepreneur Architect Podcast | One month ago, on November 12, 2012, I published a blog post introducing The 12/12/12 Project. The idea behind the 12/12/12 Project is to push through your fear of failure, make a decision final and commit to something that will literally alter your life. Something that you have been dreaming about but have always been [...] | 12/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
CMB Owner/Architect
Great first podcast Mark! Looking forward to your next installment.
What's not to like?
Talking about success in business, and life? How much better can it get. Especially like Mark's focus on balancing family with work.
Are you an Architect? Then add this to your list and listen.
Mark has hit a home run with the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast! This is an excellent first episode that clearly illustrates the goal of the title by showing what can be done with an architectural education. Thank you and I'm looking forward to the 12th of each month for the next episode.
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