Power of the Narrative
Power of the Narrative is more than a podcast it’s a movement for those healing out loud. Hosted by Jacob Newsome a Black, gay educator, poet, and Narcissist Hunter this space is for survivors, cycle-breakers, and truth-tellers reclaiming their voice after trauma. From spiritual gaslighting to narcissistic abuse, we unpack it all. Expect raw confession, poetic fire, emotional justice, and deep soul commentary. We don’t shrink. We don’t perform. We testify and we rise.
Episodes
A Father’s Search for Truth, Justice, and a Son Who Never Came Home
Host: Jacob Newsome
Guest: Willie Smith
Production: Power of the Narrative (in partnership with Texas Center for the Missing)
Recorded & Mixed by: Jacob Newsome and Riverside.fm
Full Video Episode: Coming soon
On January 12, 2018, 19-year-old Jared Chavis got into a black Ford Fusion in Houston, Texas—and was never seen again. Seven years later, his f...
Host: Jacob Newsome
Guest: Wayne Cella
Production: Power of the Narrative
Recorded & Mixed by: Jacob Newsome and Riverside.fm
Full Youtube Video Episode: Coming soon
What if the trauma we survive becomes the raw material for the art we create?
In this brave and soul-deep conversation, Jacob sits down with filmmaker and actor Wayne Cella to explore what it means to live and create after childhood sexual abuse, que...
In this devastating and urgent episode of Power of the Narrative, Jacob Newsome sits with Alejandro Carrillo and advocates to share the story of Mayolo Carrillo—a father, grandfather, and beloved brother who vanished near Eagle Pass after trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to say goodbye to his dying mother.
Mayolo's family opens up about their heartbreak, the systemic failures they’ve faced, and the haunting silence from in...
On April 23, 2021, Iris Santos, a radiant, fierce, 22-year-old trans woman, was murdered outside a Chick-fil-A in Houston. Her mother, Maria Carreon , never received a call from police. She found out through neighbors.
In this deeply intimate and heartbreaking conversation, Maria tells the story the media never fully captured: the pain of losing her youngest child, the coldness of the system, and the spiritual love that Iris carried...
What happens when we stop trying to “beat the odds” and start rewriting the whole system?
In this special guest feature on KPFT's Growing Up in America, Jacob Newsome—founder of Power of the Narrative and Sinclair Scholars—sits down with hosts Bob Sanborn and Carolyn Roberts to unpack how trauma shows up in public education, why most school systems fail to address it, and how narrative healing can change the game.
Topics include:
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What happens when a school district holds over half a billion dollars…
…but says there’s no room for trauma-informed care?
In this episode, I share my full public comment delivered live at the June 3, 2025, Humble ISD Board Meeting.
With $540 million in revenue and $160 million in reserves, the district claimed they had no funds to support equity-driven, student-centered programming. So I took the mic, and spoke truth to silence.
T...
Host: Jacob Newsome
Production: Power of the Narrative
Recorded & Mixed by: Jacob Newsome and Riverside.fm
What does it sound like when love leaves you hanging?
In this special episode of Power of the Narrative, I share a raw, unfiltered phone call between me and my now ex-partner, Wayne (performing under the stage name Weaux).
This conversation, legally recorded during the final moments of our relationship, captures, in real time, ...
Host: Jacob Newsome
Guest: Emma Moshola (TikTok: @daisyrose1994)
Production: Power of the Narrative
Recorded & Mixed by: Jacob Newsome and Riverside.fm
Full video: https://youtu.be/yhAZ_2HZ19s
What happens when you’re still learning how to love after being broken open?
In this raw, unscripted conversation, Jacob sits down with trauma educator and truth-teller Emma Moshola to explore the messy, sacred work of healing.
T...
Host: Jacob Newsome
Guest: Cortney Navarro
Cortney's Tiktok: mamasok88
Production: Power of the Narrative
Recorded & Mixed by: Jacob Newsome and Riverside.fm
Full Episode: https://youtu.be/7uCchw1Z6uo
What if trauma didn’t make you stronger, but fragmented your sense of self? In this vulnerable and liberating episode of Power of the Narrative, Jacob Newsome sits down with poet and survivor Cortney Navarro to explore the real, raw...
In this raw, intimate bonus episode, Jacob reads a personal letter of closure, releasing a former love, reclaiming his voice, and anchoring himself in truth. This is not a plea for pity. It’s a declaration of peace. A meditation on forgiveness, emotional maturity, and the power of letting go. For anyone who’s ever had to set someone free just to save themselves, this one’s for you.
Host: Jacob Newsome
Production: Power of the Narrati...
Host: Jacob Newsome
Guest: Brandon Ellington (TikTok: @kawaiikidd98)
Production: Power of the Narrative
Recorded & Mixed by: Jacob Newsome and Riverside.fm
In this raw, revealing first episode of Power of the Narrative, I sit down with one of my best friends, Brandon Ellington (he/they), to dissect the relationships that almost broke us, and the narcissistic patterns we never saw coming. This is not your average breakup story. It...
This isn’t a podcast. This is a reckoning.
In this opening episode of Power of the Narrative, Jacob Newsome sets the mic on fire with a prophetic dismantling of the systems that have silenced us, politically, spiritually, emotionally. This is a funeral for the myths we were taught to obey: the lie of neutrality, the trap of two-party politics, the illusion of safety inside systems designed to erase us.
For the misfits, the mouthy, th...
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