Biography

Frank M. Sontag Jr. was born July 6th, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio. In his early toddler years, Frank showed a keen interest in two areas, horses and music. By the age of 8, Frank began taking accordion lessons, with possible aspirations of music as a career. Within the next year, Frank placed first in a number of competitions, with the highlight being a third place finish in a contest that featured more than 600 children from all over the entire state of Ohio. But in February of 1964, Frank's life would be changed forever. On a winter's night in the suburbs of Eastlake, Ohio, the Sontag family sat down to watch a little television. And on this particular evening, four lads from Liverpool, England made their American debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. No more accordion. A short time later Frank's father, Frank senior decided to move the family and make a go of it in Hollywood, having successfully landed a job in the electrical department of Universal Studios.

So in the summer of 1965, it was goodbye Ohio and hello to sunny Southern California. Four years later, Frank attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, where he graduated at the age of sixteen in 1972. For the next 8 years, Frank attended college on three different brief occasions, where he majored in Mathematics, Psychology, and Veterinary Medicine. He also tried his hand at a number of different jobs; store manager for Ralph's Grocery Markets, a fire insurance inspector, and a warehouse manager for a private airplane parts company. Frank even teamed up with his father for a short time, learning the ropes as a lighting technician in the movie industry. But nothing seemed to hold his interest, until one fateful evening in June of 1984, when Frank's life would again be changed forever. It was Sunday evening, June 17th to be exact, when Frank was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle crash. He was rear ended by someone driving in excess of 100mph on impact and would sustain injuries that took years to heal. A short time after the accident, Frank sold all of his possessions and moved to North Lake Tahoe. Spending the long cold winter, locked in a cabin with only the basic necessities to survive, Frank began to reassess everything he held true about life, including his own perceptions about himself. This was what Frank now refers to as the beginning of his, "Wake-Up Call". During his spiritual sabbatical, Frank began to practice meditation, discovered many of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders and teachers through their writings and oratory works, and started pursuing the many realms of consciousness and self-actualization.

About one year later, Frank would return to Southern California when in September of 1985, he began his new life as a radio broadcaster, being hired at 95.5 KLOS-FM in Los Angeles. At one of America’s most premiere music stations, Frank has been a disc-jockey, news director, sportscaster, board operator for the highly successful Mark and Brian radio program, and his real love, the "Impact" program. "Impact" is a talk-radio show, dedicated to raising consciousness, which Frank has currently hosted for more than 19 years. In 1987 Frank founded, "The Project For Social Change", an organization dedicated to helping serve the needs of the community. Over the years, some of Frank’s work through The Project" has been, giving lectures on a wide variety of life issues, hosting fundraising dinners for other non-profit organizations, facilitating personal growth workshops, and editing and publishing a bi-monthly newsletter. Frank still continues to share his life message through his radio program and the "Project" to this day. He is currently entertaining the idea of syndicating his radio program as well as starting a similar program on satellite radio. Frank is married to the former Erin Cline and is the proud father of his only daughter, Lindsay.