Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria

This Podcast episode of Inspiring Living features two amazing individuals and members of our Candelaria Design Team. First, we welcome Architect, Jeffrey Kramer, AIA, who has been a member of our team for nearly 20 years. Over the course of that time Jeff and i have collaborated on a number of amazing projects including a true legacy project, El Chorro in Paradise Valley, AZ. Jeff Kramer came on b...

ICONIC HAUS is a luxury designer show house presented by Scottsdale-based, lifestyle magazine ICONIC LIFE that brings together 22 talented designers under one roof for an 18-day showcase. This Winter’s 2020/2021 ICONIC HAUS is a spec home located in Paradise Valley designed by Mark Candelaria and Vivian Ayala. The stunning “Mod-iterranean” style estate is 11,000 square feet and was built by Temac...

In this episode Mark speaks with the passionately loving parent of 9, Maria Hansen-Quine. Can we just say, we were absolutely blown away by Maria & husband Sam’s compassion, strength and deep desire to make the world a more loving and understanding place. Along with parenting, Maria has always been passionate about diversity. Twelve years ago, while a school counselor in Washington state she c...

Catch this recap of our top seven most downloaded podcasts from our Season 1 of Inspiring Living. We will start with the seventh most downloaded and work our way up to number 1. We will feature a short snippet of each of these seven podcasts along with some commentary and thoughts and then we encourage you to go back and check the full podcasts - I promise you, you will not be disappointed. Thank...

Today's podcast episode features someone special in the Willamette Wine community, being one of the first winemakers in the Ribbon Hill region/sub-AVA, Bruno Corneaux. We first visited their stunning winery Domaine Divio by chance, and boy was it a lucky find as there are a hundred wineries in the area! Pair stunning views with incredible Rose’, Chardonnay, Pino Grigio and Pinot Noirs and fri...

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...

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,...

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...

Welcome to our next three part series featuring the three Co-Principals of Candelaria Design. We will start with the principal/partner who has been with us the shortest period of time and work our way up to the principal who has been with us the longest and is currently celebrating her 20th anniversary with Candelaria Design!  Meredith grew up in Phoenix, then attended the University of Notre Dame...

This week we share Part 2 of "It's All in the Details with Anna & Scott Sadler of Surface Refinements". Part 1 Anna spoke about her and her husband's business, their craft and the various projects they've worked on together. but Part 2 features both Anna and husband Scott Sadler and their journey from Canada to right here in Scottsdale, Arizona and the twists and turns...

This week we have a two part series with artist Anna Sadler of Scottsdale-based business Surface Refinements. In Part 1, Anna delves into her work, her craft and the various projects she’s worked on. In Part 2,  we learn about her personal life and the amazing places she’s lived and visited and all the stories, people and projects that came with those places. Anna’s life and craft have so many inc...

Today’s podcast episode we talk with Abstract Artist out of Austin, Texas, Cody Hooper. He describes his process for helping clients find that special piece or pieces and how he approaches outfitting a home with his work, matching the feelings that a client wants in their home. His work is exhibited in prestigious galleries and featured in private and public collections worldwide, including here i...

Today's podcast features a collage of friends and contacts all with ties and connections to Italy or are actually in Italy and will share their insights and experiences on how Covid-19 has been affecting them. From my friend Elizabeth Wholey in Umbria who runs the farmhouse compound, AltaBella, we enjoy every year and just returned from the US and now is in quarantine in her home in Umbria to...

Today's episode is about goodness, kindness, charity, and compassion, as my guest today is a person who genuinely epitomizes all of these traits and does so in an energetic yet graceful manner. This person is Charles Keller, Founder of the Colten Cowell Foundation and the Monument to Compassion. The Colten Cowell Foundation is a non-profit that gives children with a disability or a terminal c...

Today’s podcast features our long-time friend in the architecture and home design, President of Berghoff Design Group , Jeff Berghoff. Jeff is regarded as one of the most influential landscape designers in the southwest. He founded Berghoff Design Group in 1997 and it has grown into over 200 employees. Throughout the past 20 years, he has continued to develop classic designs transforming residenti...

Our guest on this podcast is award-winning Chef Cory Oppold of Altas Bistro , former winner of Food Network’s Chopped , and owner of Course , an in-home dining and catering company. Cory joined Atlas Bistro as Executive Chef in 2014, a fine dining restaurant known for seasonal dishes and adventurous diners. “I believe a menu is everything a chef wants to say at that time and moment and it’s hard f...

Our guest on this episode is Arizona interior designer Anita Lang, founder of IMI Design . Mark and Anita have known each other for nearly 20 years as they have worked on a number of amazing homes together, including one they are just breaking ground on. They discuss much more than work and design however, delving into spirituality, being a single mother and business owner, travel, and sustainabil...

Today’s guest is one of my all-time icons, Mark Tarbell of Tarbell’s Restaurant ! You all know how much I love to cook, but this guy is at the top of the top when it comes to this profession and passion we both share. Mark will talk about his culinary beginnings in Amsterdam and Paris, share what it was like to compete on and win Food Network’s “Iron Chef America” and achieving his dream of openin...

Today’s guest is Pooja Babbrah, a strategy and policy consultant in the healthcare industry, and a wonderful client and friend of Isabel's and I. Her focus is on healthcare technology and the importance of using technology to help those involved in a patient’s care including doctors, nurses, clinical and administrative staff and the patients themselves. We discuss many different important top...

Today’s guest is the multi-talented Tracey Martin whose accolades include Immersive Transformational life coach, Author, Fashion Designer, Sustainable Living Strategist and Social Entrepreneur! For over twenty years, she has coached hundreds of people on their journeys of growth, doing so from the belief that everything is connected and thus, her coaching integrates mind, body and spirit.  In 2017...

Having already accomplished his dream as a professional cyclist in his early 20’s, he had to make “the toughest and easiest decision of my life to stop cycling” and stay in one place long enough to start a new career and life with his girlfriend who lived in Tucson, AZ. Just before his final race in 2007, Austin obtained his real estate license, proposed to his girlfriend, now wife of 10 years, an...

Truly a man that inspires so many of us, Jimmy Walker, founder and figurehead of Celebrity Fight Night which he started along with his good friend, Charles Barkley in 1994. As the event grew, Jimmy Walker collaborated and worked side by side with the great Muhammad Ali for nearly 20 years before he passed and has raised millions of dollars for the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center and the Banner Neuro...

This episode revisits every one of our past podcast episodes, 1-25 from our first season of Inspiring Living, bringing you highlight clips and commentary from each podcast! My daughter Tiffany and I have gone through and selected inspiring clips from each guest's podcast to share with you. We want to share the messages, stories, insights and wisdom that each guest has so vulnerably shared wit...

This episode features a highly motivated man, my friend and local home builder, Jim Steg. His journey began building homes with his father in the Midwest before they moved to AZ in 1979. Jim's early adult years were spent working for a nationally-recognized corporate company where he was responsible for managing over 250 employees, becoming proficient in cost planning, organizational, motivat...

Today we speak with one of the strongest, most caring people we know, Founder of Generation Justice, Darcy Olsen. In 2011, Darcy found herself with a foster baby in her arms and a mission: to put an end to the bureaucratic failures, violence, and deaths she’d seen children suffer in our nation’s broken child protection system. Today, Darcy has adopted all four of her children from foster care, has...