How to Become an Outdoor TV Host with Chad Schearer
Day 3: Chad Schearer on How to Keep Your Family Together and Make It a Part of Your Television Business Plan
The divorce rate with fulltime outdoorsmen is extremely high. I’ve heard of surveys that report 50 to 75 percent of the professional outdoors men and women, including writers, TV hosts, salesmen and manufacturers get divorced at least once during an outdoor career. I believe that the divorce rate is so high, because most professionals in the outdoors are gone from home so much. When a husband or wife is on the road hunting, filming or working in the outdoors, the spouse has to take care of all the problems that every family has, including sick children, leaky roofs, money running out before the paycheck comes in and all the other physical, mental and emotional problems related to having a home, a family and a business.
Two of the questions associated with a person having an outdoor TV show that often go unanswered are, “Who’s taking care of the home and the kids while the outdoor celebrity is on the road?” and “Did that spouse sign-up to be a single parent for most of the year, while the TV host is on the road?” Chad Schearer and his family have developed a unique bond and a very-unusual relationship for families in the outdoors. The “Shoot Straight” TV show (http://www.shootstraighttv.com) is a family business, which involves every member of the family on-camera and off-camera. Today Schearer will explain why and how he has such a unique TV show and a family who enjoys working together in the outdoors.
