Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Welcome to Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria, hosted by architect, blogger, traveler, chef, father, husband, and founding partner of Candelaria Design Associates. Mark has designed timeless homes across the country for forty years, while hosting tours to Italy, Spain, and beyond. Throughout the course of his journey, Mark has met wonderful people who truly inspire him and this podcast is about them and the opportunities that are all around us to Inspire Living! While we talk about architecture and design on this podcast, Mark also introduces you to a wide gamut of guests and industries, and ventures into all sorts of topics that will teach you, motivate you and inspire living your best life.
Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Facing Challenges by Staying Relentless with Jim Steg
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, motivational and accountability skills. He mastered the art of setting goals; creating the action plan to achieve those goals, and executing the action plan, which brought him great success in the organization and all in all aspects of Jim’s life as we will hear in this episode.
Today, Jim owns and operates his a full-service custom home company, StegCustomHomes and is the brains and founder of 11 Summits: Attitude with Advocacy. He shares his story of turning his life around, completely transforming his physical and mental states and becoming an advocate for positive change. A few of his athletic accomplishments include:
4 time Ironman Triathlete
65 time Olympic Triathlete
Kokoro-52 hour Navy Seal Crucible finisher 20X Navy Seal Crucible finisher
9 year Bull Rider
6 time Ultra Marathon finisher
150 mile Ride for MS finisher
Licensed Skydiver
Philanthropist-Coach-Motivational Speaker-Thrill Seeker Fitness, Nutrition & Fasting Fanatic
11 Summits Founder....(53.4 miles, 17k ft, 42 hours completed back to back no sleep)
For photos and more on this episode and our other podcast episodes, visit Candelaria Design Associate's Podcast page: https://www.candelariadesign.com/inspiring-living-podcast
Link to the Mike Dillard podcast mentioned in this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-dillard-podcast/id982006298?i=1000468895703