The Rick Charles Show
The Rick Charles Show
Rick Charles (owner)
Tell Us About Your Business?
A “start-up” political/news-talk podcast hosted by a guy who spent the better part of 3 decades doing *real* radio and coming out of a forced semi-retirement to try and bring people together and find solutions to the challenges we all are facing. Though I’m unabashedly conservative, I find that connecting with people from every arc of the spectrum of our great American life we find that when we locate the things we all care about, there is still a big fat target to work together on in that Ven diagram. Hope you’ll tune in and contribute.
What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
Hopefully my experience and the fact that I love to learn something every day. If I’m not learning, I feel that I’m stagnant. I’m like a shark that’s not moving forward if I’m not seeking some knowledge that either I didn’t have yesterday, or my M.S. addled brain has forgotten 🙂
What Do You Love About Your Business?
When I was young I watched my dad do what he loved, which was service and supply swimming pools and within a few years of going out on his own with a shove and a small loan from one of his customers, he built a pretty big business that stretched from the Mexican Border at the beach to the top of San Diego County and all the way out to the Borrego Valley in the East, including multiple retail pool supply stores and two sporting goods locations. Why? Because he LOVED what he did. I fell in love with radio when I first went on the air at age 15 while attending a boarding school in Homer, Alaska and never looked back. I knew that if my dream of being a big-league catcher didn’t happen RADIO was it for me, and it was. Now it’s a mess out there and podcasts and online streaming are the way to go, and I’m ready to ride that wave (again) until I fall off of my board.
What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Have the support of your family, especially your spouse if you have one, and then JUMP IN WITH BOTH FEET and work (smart but) as hard as you can. You *will* sometimes have to take those calls when you are tired, sick, spending time with friends, sometimes even when you’re sleeping. DO MAKE TIME FOR YOUR FAMILY, but besides that, until you are successful, you must put in the time!
What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
With this new podcast I’m still pre-launch, so I’ll let you know soon, but I’ve done this all before so finding those who believe in you and believing in yourself. That was the biggest hurdle in the beginning. I first broke away from *real* radio to do digital back in 2001, after doing both for two years, it was a REAL leap of faith, but I found those who believed in me and the listeners and advertisers followed and it was an huge success until my health could no longer stand up to the rigors and I was forced to retire.
How Do You Give Back To The Community?
I do my best to give back as much as I can with PSA’s and by having candidates for office on my show, also I love to have community leaders from non-profit and other NGO’s on. I feel that we are all in this together, no matter what “team” we’re on.
What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
If I told you that, I’d have to quit and go into hiding. I was a Rock n’ Roll DJ while I was single in the early 80’s. I’ll let you guys do the rest in your minds, and yes, I’ve met them all from back then.
What Do You Consider Successful?
I’m not really as concerned with chasing the dollar as I was back before I got sick. Having a life-changing illness like M.S. can do that to a person. I consider my two 30-something kids having kids of their own all of whom love me and respect me as the biggest success any of us can hope to achieve while we’re here on this Earth.
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