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10 Questions with ... Rick Sanchez
November 28, 2022
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BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
Reporter, anchor, and host at KCMT-TV/Alexandria, MN; WSVN-TV/Miami; KHOU-TV/Houston; MSNBC; WTVJ/Miami; WBZL-TV/Miami; CNN; Fix News Latino; WIOD-A.Miami.
1. TV, radio, and now, podcasts -- what brings you to podcasting? What appeals to you about the medium?
The limitlessness of it. You can go short or long. You and say what’s in your heart and mind. You are not constrained by time cues, rundowns, or badly written copy. And most importantly, it is not a broadcast, it is a podcast. You are having a conversation with a friend, not an audience. Intimacy!
2. What is Agua Media doing that sets it apart? What will help Agua break through the mass of podcasts out there now?
There is a new type of American that is evolving and it’s becoming the new American mainstream. They are young Latinas or Latinos who are outliers and other like-minded often ethnically identifiable people, and what they're looking for is new answers, a new direction, and advice to help them grow and understand how they can improve.
3. You've weathered controversy throughout your career. What have you learned about handling that kind of thing? What would you advise someone who finds themself in a viral controversy -- do you wait it out or tackle it head-on?
I am lucky to have been knocked on my ass so many times, because it’s always spurred me to grow, stretch and come away better—actually, much better!
4. You've done TV news, national and local. You've been a sportscaster, radio talk show host, businessman, and pundit. Now, you're podcasting. What, if anything, have you NOT done that you would have liked to try? What job or business intrigues you that you haven't yet done?
I’ve always wanted to teach and or coach. I wish I’d done that.
5. Who are your mentors, influences, and heroes?
My mom and dad, Don Shula, Sol Trujillo, Marlow Hernandez, Tony Oliva, and Howard Twilley.
Over your long career, what one moment was the peak- an interview, a report, a segment, even off the air?
My jailhouse interview w/ Manuel Noriega, and interviews with Fidel Castro, Obama, Reagan, Carter, Clinton, and Gorbachev were important. Still, my greatest moment was learning to be a radio talk show host.
7. What are you most passionate about these days?
My two startups. Agua Media and my secret startup I can’t talk about yet.
8. Of what are you most proud?
Co-founding Cano Health and taking it public through one of the most unique and successful triangulated marketing strategies in the history of our healthcare sector.
9. Fill in the blank: I can't make it through the day without _______________.
...My wife!
10. What's the best advice you've ever gotten? The worst?
Best advice? “Nobody is better than you.” - Sol Trujillo
The worst? Can’t think of any.
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