Achieve, connect & enjoy! TV CARLY'S NEW MINDSET

Crushed by redundancies, the star's now blossoming in her new role

- Fleur Guthrie

With 30 years of reporting, television and radio hosting experience, journalist Carly Flynn, 48, grew to resist thinking about a life outside of media.

But after becoming desensitised to a number of shock industry announcements and tired of having to keep hustling for work, Carly - who presented Sunrise, Nightline, 3News and Target, among other things - decided to find out what else her media skills could translate to.

These days, Carly's working part-time in the corporate world in communications and events, while also emceeing and freelancing in the media world when the opportunity comes up.

The mum of three chats to the Weekly from her home on Auckland's North Shore, where she lives with cameraman husband Dave, 49, and their three children, Tilly, 15, Jude, 14, and Freddie, nine, and cocker spaniel Alfie.

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