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, queer erasure, and years of silencing. With searing honesty and poetic clarity, Wayne reflects on healing as a nonlinear process, filmmaking as exorcism, and friendship as both mirror and medicine.
Together, they unpack:
Surviving priest-perpetrated abuse in childhood
Making art from grief, rage, and queer becoming
Trauma responses vs. true desire in intimacy
Why stories save us and why silence kills
How chosen family heals what bloodlines could not
Wayne’s films Insignificant, Talisman, and Mercury aren’t just projects. They’re ritual containers for reclaiming voice, queerness, and power.
This is a conversation about the ache of memory, the genius of inner children, and the courage it takes to stay alive when the world tells you you shouldn’t be.
If you’ve ever felt like your softness was unsafe or like your rage had nowhere to go this one’s for you.
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