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  Erin Schulte & Jessica Hocken with Cindy McCain If you thought millennials were lazy, entitled, and self absorbed, you need to hear what Erin Schulte and Jessica Hocken have to say.   The two ASU honors students, who have been friends since their sophomore year in high school, co-founded the student-led nonprofit " All Walks Project " to fight against sex trafficking and sexual abuse. They've re...

  "If you lea d a compassionate life, your children will naturally see its importance to you and will assume its importance for themselves," says Jim Taylor Ph. D. This is a concept that hits home with Arizona mothers Lisa Geyser and Alex Sklar who founded the charity Families Giving Back.  It is all based on parents bringing their children, no matter how young, to volunteer.   "We felt like this...

Named one of the top 25 CEOs in Phoenix, Christy McClendon's passion comes from her own personal experience.  McClendon, who runs the Phoenix based non-profit New Pathways for Youth, was raised in Kentucky by grandparents who had only 8th grade educations.  She joins Carey in studio along with 22 year old Mentor, Eugenia Folks, whose family immigrated from Mexico and struggled daily to survive.  T...

"If you share from a place of vulnerability, the real healing happens."  Tracey Martin is a Life and Wellness Coach based in Scottsdale, Arizona. At an early age, she was the victim of domestic violence.  Martin says walking out of that violent relationship helped frame the way she sees life.  She believes the key is focusing on the future, not the past. Martin is living proof that the strategy is...

"I like to compare it to wealth accumulation.  There is no one way that a person can accumulate large amounts of wealth at one time.  It takes time.  The same with a weight loss program.  If you have gained weight over many, many years, the way to loose that is to take some time.  But people get on an emotional response to losing quickly." Kevin Shepard is a former athlete turned trainer and nutri...

"You teach by behavior instead of what you say."  Dr. Kellie Warren is a powerhouse.  A CEO named one of the most admired leaders of 2015 in Phoenix.  Dr. Warren talks to Carey about her leadership style as the head of the powerful non-profit, Florence Crittenton.  Warren says she works with purpose and teaches her staff to do the same.   Their mission is for the girls who walk through their doors...

"It was that phone call that you get in the middle of the night.  The one that every parent dreads.  We got the call about 5 in the morning.  Christopher was taken to Tulane Emergency Medical Center.  They didn't know what was wrong.  He was non responsive." Eric Gregory and his wife Grace rushed to be with their son.  19 year old Christopher, a tall, handsome, gym going guy, had suffered a brain...

Lori Golberg is an Arizona wife and mother from an affluent neighborhood known as Paradise Valley.  She is also a philanthropy powerhouse.  Goldberg made it her mission to get outside of her comfort zone.  Her charity, Global Family, works to rescue from poverty as many children as possible in a place she fell in love with years ago — Haiti.  Not only has Goldberg changed the lives of hundreds of...

Michael Golde n is a former TV news guy, turned campaign manager who says he is fed up with the system — and he knows the system very well.  He has worked on the inside with some high profile people.   "I have seen politicians through a few different prisms, I've worked with them, for them and covered them.  I'm not one of those people who thinks they are all buffoons," Golden told us from his off...

It started with a tweet that read, "Mom needs a kidney.   it would take 2-6 years to get one and she doesn't have that long."   Phoenix Resident and organ donor, Amy Donohue, saw the tweet and decided she wanted to get tested.  After finding out she was a match, Donohue says she didn't think twice.  She made the decision to donate an organ to the mother of a woman she met on Twitter.   Crazy?  Not...

"What are you supposed to do … do the same thing your whole life until you croak?  I'm not doing that." Grant Woods is talking about his second act.   The former Arizona Attorney General is getting in touch with his creative side.  After spending years in the courtroom as a successful trial attorney, he is now spending time writing and creating mu sic.  "I think that is one of the downfalls of a c...

Jenni Hogan was on the rise as a local TV newscaster, one of the most followed newscasters in the country on social media. Then she realized she needed to make a major move ­­ jump ship from the TV world into the tech world. She had an idea about how to to build an app to make social media easier to see and interact with on TV. She teamed up with tech experts to make it happen. Today, Jenni is see...

Felicia Romero is a modern day success story. Encouraged by her mother and grandmother to make her dreams come true, Felicia decided against law school and focused on her love of fitness.  She overcame great odds to climb to the top of the fitness world becoming a fitness cover model, celebrity trainer and entrepreneur — recently opening her own gym.  Felicia talks to Carey about the secrets to he...

"Music does everything for my life.  It feeds me, it heals me, it gives me the opportunity to connect with people.  It's a language." Walt Richardson is an Arizona music legend and a man full of life lessons and poetic words. He was inducted into Arizona's  Music Hall of Fame at the Tempe Center for the Arts.  What he calls one of the great joys of his life. Climbing to the top of the music indust...

"We have taken out a 3 million dollar debt on our children".  Nick Dranias, President of Compact for America, says we can't afford to "kick the can down the road" any longer. Currently Dranias is trying to rally State support coast-to-coast for his efforts to cap how much Congress has to spend.  Yep, a cap. He breaks it down like this: Imagine you have a credit card with unlimited spending power....

"I'm inspired by people taking action towards their dreams; my job is to help them." Award Winning author and business Coach Pam Slim says she's building stronger communities, one contact at a time. Wow, can you imagine? A life where you don't wake up and go to some job that you hate, day after day.  A life filled with watercolor painting and classical music. Where your robe takes the place of a c...

Angela Hughey, co-founder and President of One Community and co-Chair of Competitive Arizona says we shouldn't see "opposition" when it comes to LGBT equality issues, we should see "opportunity".   Not just in Arizona, but all across the country. Hughey's group, One Community, is focused fighting for non-discrimination policies that they say will make Arizona equal and competitive for everyone. "T...

Carey talks with Al Lorenzi, President of ABL Wealth Management about #BlackMonday and what happens NOW? People were panic stricken when the market crashed more than 1,000 points. What caused a slide so massive and how do every day Americans rebound and have faith in the market. Or should we? Lorenzi shares his #1 piece of investment advice. The post How To Build Wealth with Al Lorenzi, President...

Former-Congressman Ben Quayle is watching the political drama of Donald Trump unfold from the sidelines, "taking a break" from his congressional seat to focus on family.   Quayle, son of former Republican Vice President Quayle, jokingly refers to Trump as a good entertainer who "gets ratings" and has "moments." But looking past the smoke and mirrors that cloud American politics today, Quayle warns...

You could be forced to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life."   Adam Levin doesn't mince words when it comes to warning people about protecting their privacy.  He is the author of new book Swiped, and founder of Credit.com and Identity Theft 911.     The recent Ashley Madison hack saw 36 million accounts compromised with massive ramifications ranging from divorce to suicide.  Not to m...

Carey Pena has been a television news reporter and anchor based in Phoenix for over a decade.  She is the Founder and CEO of the Media Firm, Inspired Media 360, focused on digital journalism including this Podcast, Carey Pena Reports.  Each week Carey and her producer, Radio Host Shannon Hernandez interview newsmakers, politicians, public figures, experts in the world of fitness, finance, health,...