#30 Charles Hart | 80s + 90s DJ High-life, Nomadic Kite Industry, Custom Cars & more!

Charles was my neighbour next-door to the family home I lived in from 5 to 12 years old. His daughter and I, being the same age, grew up playing together over the shared fence.

Recently, shortly after seeing him for the first time in years at his 70th birthday, I took him up on an offer to help me service and oil change my car. Thus ensued a few hours of chats and skimming the surface of what was evidently a lifetime packed with unique stories and perspectives.

My interviewing skills felt a bit put to the test on this one but Charles pulled through and offered up loads of entertaining stories from war stories passed down through the generations to car mechanics, life as a nomadic kite salesman and naked acting jobs as well as a decade or two of the DJ high-life with plenty more in between.

Thanks Charles for some beautiful insights on judgement and acceptance.

Enjoy:)

Chapters

• 0:00 Youthful Preamble
• 11:55 Cars
• 26:05 Highlife DJ Career
• 42:35 Art of DJing
• 53:05 Marriage
• 1:02:55 Family Background (Latvia WW2)
• 1:09:55 Acting Career
• 1:13:24 Young Influences
• 1:19:05 Nomadic Kite Business
• 1:30:58 The System
• 1:40:25 Being a Parent
• 1:47:10 Car Mechanics
• 1:52:30 Throwing Me Under the Bus
• 1:55:50 Pass it Forward Mentality
• 2:01:15 Growing Old
• 2:03:22 Love of Cars
• 2:15:30 Business + Social Media
• 2:26:35 State of the World