Meet the Candelaria Design Principals: Vivian Ayala

07/27/20 • 48 min

We conclude the first season and 50th episode of our podcast Inspiring Living with a person who truly inspires living - my good friend and business partner, Vivian Ayala. This podcast is the third of our three part series featuring my three partners of Candelaria Design. Our first was with architect, Meredith Thomson, then our Candelaria Design CFO, Evelyn Jung, and now my third and final partner, Vivian Ayala who just celebrated her 20th year of employment with Candelaria Design!
Vivian is amazing and is one of the hardest working, most dedicated people I have ever known! We have collaborated on hundreds of projects and looking at what we have on the boards, the best is yet to come. In addition to being an amazing designer, business partner and friend, Vivian is a wonderful mother, sharing her time and love with her beautiful daughter Gabby who is a chip off the block and quite the achiever herself.
Our Candelaria Design family would not be the same without our Vivian. Her energy, passion and trademark laugh is cherished by all of us. Her work is phenomenal, from classic French estates to ultra contemporary homes on the sides of cliffs. The word "no" or "can't" does not exist in her vocabulary - Vivian never gives up and always finds a way.
For photos and more information on Vivian and our other podcast episodes, visit: www.candelariadesign.com/inspiring-living-podcast

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Meet the Candelaria Design Principals: Evelyn Jung

Our second featured partner and principal of Candelaria Design is Evelyn Jung. Evelyn has been with our firm for 15 years and became a partner because of her unique role with our company - Evelyn is basically our Chief Executive Officer and is the person who runs the business.
Yes, architecture is a business and many architects loose sight of that fact and do not dedicate the resources or skilled personnel to this critical function of their business. Evelyn Jung is dedicated to making our firm its best by instilling systems not only on the financial side of our business, but on the operations, personnel, HR and marketing components of our business, and does so with passion and commitment.

Evelyn started as a temporary receptionist at Candelaria Design in 2005, but soon became a full-time employee and Mark’s Executive Assistant. Three years later, as we all endured the great recession, she became the Director of Finance and HR, and in 2018, we were proud to make Evelyn a partner.

When Evelyn is not managing the business, she loves to spend time with her family and keep active. She and her husband Scott Jung just celebrated their 10th Wedding Anniversary in June (2020) and have two wonderful boys, Nathan and Evan.
For more on Evelyn and our other podcast episodes, visit Candelaria Design Associate's Podcast page: https://www.candelariadesign.com/inspiring-living-podcast

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Welcome to Season 2 of Inspiring Living with Mark and Isabel Candelaria

Welcome to our first episode of Season 2 of our podcast, Inspiring Living!
My wife, Isabel, joins me today as we take a quick look back on Season 1 and share some thoughts on our upcoming Season 2. Our podcast is about Inspiring Living and in each podcast we share the stories behind the people we live, work, and collaborate with in our daily lives.
I encourage you to go back and listen to as many of our first 50 podcast episodes from Season 1 as you can and stay tuned for a plethora of interesting and inspiring guests we have coming in Season 2! Please give us a rating and a review, we may just select your review as a winner of one of our Candelaria Collection Pasta Makers!
Thanks again for all of your continued support of our podcast and I wish you all love, laughter, wisdom and good health in your future.
For more information on all our podcast episodes, visit our website: www.candelariadesign.com/inspiring-living-podcast