The AMP (Al Mega Podcast) - Charles Richard Smith

Charles Smith is an inspiring survivor, warrior, author, and motivational coach. On the Al Mega podcast, he talks about his journey to success and the challenges he faced along the way. He reveals his secrets to perseverance and determination, and provides valuable insights into what it takes to reach one’s goals. Charles is originally from New York and he wore a Batman suit, jacket, and tie for the first time at Toy fair in New York, which caused people to stop him and take pictures. He talks about his journey and the lessons he has learned, including how to persevere and stay determined. In doing so, he hopes to inspire others to find the best of themselves.

Charles is from Worcester, Massachusetts, but some people call it Warchester. His father was an entrepreneur, owning multiple nursing homes and land in the area until one day it all disappeared. Charles is unsure what happened, but knows his father had to sell the house and other possessions, and his grandfather had to build a duplex for the family to live in. Charles wishes he could figure out the story behind it all, and his friend reassures him that he will because he’s Batman. His mother passed away from an overdose, leaving Charles and his father living in the duplex.

In this conversation, the speaker recounts their childhood in which they moved around Texas and Arizona with their father, who was a chef on a Navajo reservation and ran a gas station and owned a food truck. Their father was thirty years older than their mother, prompting the speaker to jokingly refer to him as a “cradle robber”. The speaker’s father eventually passed away suddenly when the speaker was eleven, leaving the speaker feeling shocked and uncertain. Despite the hardships, the speaker’s father maintained an entrepreneurial spirit, inspiring the speaker to do the same.

The speaker is recounting the story of how, at age 11, he came home from school one day and noticed that something was wrong with his father. He asked to stay home from school, and his father refused. The speaker then stuck his finger down his throat to induce vomiting and stayed home. His father passed out twice in the same hour, so the speaker ran to his neighbor’s house and asked for help to get his father to the hospital. His father passed away with the speaker holding his hand. The speaker then spoke about how he acted out in his youth and got into drugs until his aunt told him to get a job or not come back. He then joined the military, as his grandfather, mother, and uncles were all veterans of the Vietnam War.

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Highlights

Don’t give up hope. I talk about my suicide attempt and I tell people, that was 20 years ago. My son is ten. You do the math. If I didn’t make it through that, he wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be talking to you. I wouldn’t have multiple books out published. There’s so many things that wouldn’t have happened if I ended my life prematurely. So that’s my message is no matter how bad things get, keep stream forward, things will better.

There we go. And folks, we’re talking about books and how you help others. You could simply visit the website that I’ve been sharing at the bottom and let’s go take a look. So he’ll give us a little tour of his website over here. You could tell he got videos. And there goes the books. There goes that what he said. Ten homes in eleven years. That blows my mind. Still that number. My gosh. There you go.. So talk about the website. What’s going oh, you have a new book coming too. Look at this guy.

And at that, I decided that one way I was going to help people was to run programs about PTSD, and I learned everything I could about it over time, and that actually became one of my first books. And I had two other programs that I was running at the time, and those became my other two books. So there was three books, and then my addiction recovery book, battle of a Lifetime, was actually like the first book that I sat down and wrote as a book.

I went really dark into a really dark depression, and I ended up I didn’t end up using drugs again, but I ended up trying to take my own life. Yeah, I began carving on myself, cutting on myself, and then one day I just felt like I had enough, and I planned it all pills, and I wrote the words fu world on my arm and all that. And one night I did it the next night, and my friends found me. Luckily.

It was saying I felt like I couldn’t be broken when I was in the military because of all the stuff that I’ve already endured. I went through the military like an average person, I guess you would say. But I loved it, to be honest with you. I went to Cuba for six months. Yeah. We had in 95, I think it was, we had Cubans and Haitians in camps because they were trying to get over to the US. And we couldn’t let them just walk on our shores, so we put them in camps, and that was interesting. There was a lot of rioting going on because they were in one form of what was going on with them and their government that they wanted to leave.

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