Viva and Happy Andrada–artists, fashion advocates, entrepreneurs–talk about Fashion Art or F*ART and how their business helps in uplifting the cause of some of today’s Filipino fashion designers, musicians, and artists.
F*ART is located at 24 K-D cor. K-1st, Kamuning, QC.
Coming soon: Viva walks us through her life and career highlighting on her passion for fashion, her new book "Survival: Your Guide to Life", and the importance of giving back to the community. All these and more only here on Greater Good Philippines.
This is an entry from Jay-R’s Journal at GreaterGoodRadio.com dated April 5, 2006.
No one can really see what’s in store for tomorrow. It boils down to one’s belief and faith that prophecies become a reality. Now, my point, it seems that people live in the ‘now’—and this opens a proclivity for one to become selfish and improvident. There opens a milieu of decadence when we see ourselves undistracted about the present. And it seems that it is inextricably linked to modernity. Some people choose not to be mindful of the past, because it’s gone; and the future, because it’s yet to come. Why should we when all we’ve got to live for is the present?
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Vicky Cayetano is president and chief executive officer of United Laundry Services, Inc., which employs more than 300 associates and serves the hospitality and healthcare community through the provision of laundry services. She emigrated from the Philippines to the United States at the age of three and starred with Elvis Presley at the 1962 movie, “It Happened At The World’s Fair.”
Vicky deeply personifies female empowerment. Vicky is an accomplished businesswoman, ambassador of multi-ethnicity, and a leading advocate of child protection. As Hawaii’s former first lady, she spearheaded many of Hawaii and the nation’s programs designed to uplift the standard of living amongst the disadvantaged and the youth.
In her career, she has received several awards and accolades including the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997, the Girl Scouts of Hawaii Woman of the Year in 2000, and the Boy Scouts of Hawaii Distinguished Citizen of the Year in 2002.
Vicky Cayetano believes that as a business leader, one needs to be available to his or her employees. To Vicky, providing motivation and inspiration to the workforce is an essential leadership performance that an entrepreneur or corporate officer needs to practice. She fulfills this by being hands on, interacting with both employees and clients, spending more time on the floor than in the office.
Despite many of Vicky’s successes in career and life, she maintains a very fundamental mindset of guardianship and care for others. Vicky is president and CEO of United Laundry Services and managing director of United Laundry Kona, but more importantly, she is a wife and mother of two hopefuls.
Vicky Cayetano chats with Evan and Kari, talking about the advantages of coming from a huge family, where she learned at an early age the value of sharing and the social skill sets needed to succeed in the dynamic world of business.
