To Power!Talk

Host, Power!Talk Radio

“I’ve been near death a few times,” recalls St. Augustine. “It has given me the wonderful opportunity to appreciate and experience this priceless gift we all share called life. Back in 1978, while I was in college I was zapped by 1,500 volts while putting boxes in a bailing machine. My body was so hot I turned blue. A true miracle, I survived. In 1986, two weeks after our wedding, my wife Jackie and I were driving home from picking up our wedding pictures, and BAM – without warning we were broadsided by a drunk driver going 60 miles an hour. I had to be cut from the car. Again...I’m alive!”

“While waiting to be removed from the car, I asked God, ‘Why is it that I did not die?’ The response in my head and my heart was immediate. ‘You need to speak the truth.’ I could have chosen to leave life, I know this. However, I made a choice in some eternal instant to stay and continue to learn, to serve others, and to prosper. The new question became, ‘How may I serve?’”

It took St. Augustine nearly a decade to map out his journey and find his purpose in life. The turning point came in 1996. “I remember the first dream I had about the walk. Me on the road with a backpack heading North. Its been said that God has to stop a life to step into it, that’s exactly what happened. I followed the dream, we left Chicago and moved to Michigan to start anew and part of it was walking to Chicago and back. I knew I had to do it. Six weeks, three states and 800 miles later, I returned to Michigan exhausted. I was about halfway home when this little voice within said, ‘Talk on the radio.’”

“Once back, I called five radio stations with my idea for Power!Talk Radio. Four said no one will listen to a show like this. The fifth gave me a chance. With no broadcasting background, space, time or advertising I started with one day a week, the ripple effect spread and within a year it was a daily show...from 15th place to 2nd, unheard of in radio. This show is like no other on air today. Now you’ll find guest’s like Stedman Graham, Judy Collins, Mark Victor Hansen, Bonnie St. John Deane, Charles Osgood or Les Brown. Talk show legend Barry Farber calls it, ‘The new frontier in radio.’”

“Ten years ago I was cleaning sewers for a living. I kept re-inventing my self, now I host the most powerful hour on radio in America. I had the courage to pay the price and change. It’s worth the walk. The glory is sharing all this with my wife Jackie and my two kids, Amanda and Andrew.”

St. Augustine is also an inspirational speaker who has presented his message of hope and possibility to over 500,000 people from all walks of life. His wonderful book, “All Are Chosen,” will lift your spirits with priceless wisdom such as: What ever you are seeking – Is seeking you!

“To me, the American Dream is Johnny Appleseed. We are all here to plant seeds and watch them grow. Everybody has good seeds within, America is the most fertile ground I know.”

John St. Augustine walks his talk and reminds others to believe in themselves through speaking the truth. “To find your unique purpose in life may take some time. You may not have to walk 800 miles, but it is there waiting for you if you take the first step toward it.”