Carey Pena
Founder & CEO, Inspired Media 360
Carey Pena is an Emmy-winning journalist and founder and CEO of Inspired Media 360, a Phoenix production company with two studios. She also co-founded The Center for Positive Media with Andrea Tyler Evans in the Coronado Historic District.
She put herself through Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, working news and sports on Newswatch as a senior, and interned at KTVK in 1998. She spent 16 years at the station, moving from features writer to investigative reporter on the 3 on Your Side consumer unit, weekend anchor of Good Evening Arizona, then prime-time anchor and host of Politics Unplugged. She left in November 2014 after a contract impasse.
Inspired Media 360 produces video, podcasts, virtual and live events, media coaching, and emcee work. She hosted Carey Pena Reports past 100 episodes and has been involved with the Blank Canvas documentary on art therapy in Arizona prisons. She describes herself as a part-time Londoner.
Emmy Winner Carey Peña Reveals Her Path to Becoming a Media CEO
In this episode, Carey Pena shares her journey from a successful career in journalism to becoming an entrepreneur and documentarian. She discusses the challenges of balancing motherhood with her career, the importance of authenticity in storytelling, and her passion for addressing social issues through her work.
Carey emphasizes the significance of relationships, the joy of storytelling, and the need for innovative approaches in the nonprofit sector. She reflects on her family influe…