North Augusta On Top
A new podcast experience celebrates the power of community through storytelling, conversation, and our virtual marketplace where every purchase benefits the local causes featured in our episodes. Become an engaged listener by joining the movement at NorthAugustaOnTop.com, where we’re working together to turn a city in South Carolina’s long-overdue coming-of-age story into its success story. North Augusta, this one’s for you! Hosted by Joseph Stanek, produced by TourdeFierce.VIP, the series benefits historical preservation, animal rights, fine arts training, local farms, and urban development.
Episodes
Everyone in North Augusta knows Manuel’s Bread Café, but few know the enchanting story of how its owner, Chef Manuel Verney-Carron, came to live North Augusta all the way from a tiny village in France. Joseph Stanek tells listeners, in a cinematic and 100% factual narration, how young Manuel, heir to France’s oldest family gun-making dynasty, chose instead to follow his passion for baking, and found his happily ever after in North ...
Joseph Stanek’s search for an inspiring young leader in North Augusta led him to 14-year-old Soniya Boston, who joins this episode of North Augusta On Top with her mother Tomia Holmes. How many other 14-year-olds can you think of that spearhead initiatives to clean up local parks and create toy drives to donate to children’s hospitals? Much of Soniya’s inspiration to help the community comes from being Young Miss Teen North Augusta...
Díana Thompson-Brewer is without a doubt the most talented vocalist in the American Southeast… and she climbed her way to the top while living in the city that was built for the top: North Augusta, South Carolina. Join host Joseph Stanek on a journey into the fascinating world of a local working opera singer making big waves as both a performer and an educator in our corner of the country. Main topics include: opera, professional o...
The episode title says it all. Joseph Stanek had no idea what he was in for when he reached out to Bob Bonnett from the United States Department of Energy's Savannah River Site to wrangle an employee of theirs for an interview on the North Augusta On Top podcast. Listen as he meets Freddie Grimm for the first time over the phone in this interview, and I guarantee that by the end of the episode, you'll want to be Freddie Gri...
Welcome to the first official episode of North Augusta On Top! Host Joseph Stanek introduces listeners to the podcast’s unique format: each episode benefits a different charitable industry in North Augusta to help support the city’s burgeoning growth. To begin the series, he takes listeners on a journey through North Augusta’s rich history, starting with a discovery of his own that will go down in the history books from now on. Loc...
IT’S TIME FOR NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA, TO HAVE A MOMENT. Join host Joseph Stanek in this eight-episode limited podcast series as he activates his hometown of North Augusta, South Carolina, for a much deserved cultural reawakening. Episode 00 offers listeners a peek into Joseph's career as a professional singer, television producer, and philanthropic entrepreneur, and explains how this podcast can lead the city of North August...
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