My Mom Wrote Movies, Saved Kids, And Broke The Internet’s Brain (Episode 347)

My Mom Wrote Movies, Saved Kids, And Broke The Internet’s Brain (Episode 347)

We trace David Solomon’s path with his mother, Sapphira, through survival, rescue work, ministry, and the hidden costs of telling the truth about trafficking and persecution in Nigeria. The story confronts censorship, medical neglect, and the shame pushed onto victims, while calling for courage and clarity.

• dedication to Sapphira Solomon and her legacy
• early media work, teaching, ministry and public service
• surviving domestic violence and a house fire
• writing as vocation and advocacy tool
• confronting abuse in church settings
• anti‑trafficking efforts and recoveries
• pastoring in a Nigerian church and witnessing persecution
• cancer, treatment barriers during lockdowns, and grief
• false accusations, reputational harm and resilience
• mission of Voices for VoicesⓇ to spotlight ignored crises

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Chapter Markers

0:02 Welcome And Mission

1:04 Why Nigeria Matters

2:30 Dedication To Severa Solomon

2:47 David Begins His Mother’s Story

7:18 Fire, Survival, And A Calling To Write

10:55 Churches, Politics, And Finding A Voice

13:49 Exploitation, Ghostwriting, And Industry Work

18:18 Illness, Cult Pressures, And A Move For Healing

20:07 Trafficking, Missing Reports, And A Name Stolen

22:01 Ministry In A Nigerian Church

22:41 Assault, Hospitals, And Creating Impact

23:11 Cancer, Lockdowns, And A Desperate Road Trip

25:27 Loss, Accusations, And Aftermath

29:16 Calling Out Slander And Standing Firm

32:36 Host Reflections And Purpose Of The Series

36:20 Closing And Part Two Tease

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Chapters

• 0:02 Welcome And Mission
• 1:04 Why Nigeria Matters
• 2:30 Dedication To Severa Solomon
• 2:47 David Begins His Mother’s Story
• 7:18 Fire, Survival, And A Calling To Write
• 10:55 Churches, Politics, And Finding A Voice
• 13:49 Exploitation, Ghostwriting, And Industry Work
• 18:18 Illness, Cult Pressures, And A Move For Healing
• 20:07 Trafficking, Missing Reports, And A Name Stolen
• 22:01 Ministry In A Nigerian Church
• 22:41 Assault, Hospitals, And Creating Impact
• 23:11 Cancer, Lockdowns, And A Desperate Road Trip
• 25:27 Loss, Accusations, And Aftermath
• 29:16 Calling Out Slander And Standing Firm
• 32:36 Host Reflections And Purpose Of The Series
• 36:20 Closing And Part Two Tease

Transcript

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: 0:02

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. I'm your host, Justin Alan Hayes. We're so grateful for all your support, watching, listening. You can smash that subscribe button, follow, like, share, uh, comment, that will help us greatly in reaching and helping 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond. Uh, we have a jam-packed uh episode here. Uh, so we are going to hop right in. Uh, many of you, uh, because we have such a great following, uh tuned in to, and you still can't tune in to episode 336 of ours, which again uh you can watch, you can listen. You can uh do that here in the United States or uh across the world, so wherever you're at. Uh Voices for Voices is at as well. But in episode 336, uh we uh dropped uh a little bit of information that the mainstream media uh wasn't and still I believe hasn't uh been addressing appropriately. Uh and and that is uh the what looks to be uh in our estimation in good faith, uh a uh persecution, a genocide against Christian people in Nigeria. So that is episode 336 where we we jump into that this episode here, uh that you're watching and listening to. We are gonna talk uh a little bit about that, but we are going to um we're gonna dedicate this particular uh episode uh to uh our guest, uh David Solomon, to his um his his late mom, uh Severa Solomon. And so we're going to uh talk a little bit about Nigeria. And I think uh David has some uh additional information on uh just the world we're living in now that he may uh want to share with us. So uh we will uh uh David uh take the floor and uh just buckle your seat belts, everybody.

David Solomon: 2:47

So um, yeah, this this episode is gonna be mostly about my mom in Nigeria. Um because I've had a lot of hate on on my mom today, especially. And I kind of wanted to set the bars straight and and talk about Nigeria and why it hits home for me. So we're gonna we're gonna go back in time to uh to 1971, and then we're gonna move you forward to 2020 in a in a 30-minute period. Uh so like you said, buckle up. Um my mom was born Brenda Shireen Hall. Um, and she was a woman of faith from a very young age. She was raised by her uh grandparents, great-grandparents, uh, the Blick and Staffs, not her mother uh and father, who were alcoholics and also smokers and not nice people. At the age of 18, she uh ran away um and went missing for maybe about four months, and after those four months, um she joined the Olympics, and she was uh going to be on the Olympic United States swimming team in the 70s, the summer Olympics. Her mom uh hurt her. Um, I don't know all of the details because it wasn't a thing that she liked to talk about. She didn't like to go near a swimming pool because of it, but uh her mom broke her uh her leg so she couldn't go to the Olympics. So that was the end of my mom's Olympic career. From there, she married um a man named Barry. And Barry and her uh he was a pastor, and uh they went to found Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1975 with Paul and Jan Crouch in Santa Ana or Costa Mesa, California in Phoenix, Arizona. Um and she was the one that helped everybody uh with the communications and getting everything on air and uh managing some finances. She did all that behind the scenes stuff. Um she was an anchor after that for two news stations, and then she became a school teacher in Josephine County. From there, she enlisted herself in the military in Clemens Wells, Oregon. After that, she wanted to run for governor of Oregon and was going to successfully do that. Um, during that moment when she was gonna run for governor, she was helping run a church, a massive church. And she met my dad, who was a pastor at the time. And my dad um said, you know, I I wanna I want to marry you, and they fell in love and they married, and they had me. After they had me, he found that he needed to be called to the war, and he became a special forces sniper, and he went overseas and came back, and my mom tried to get him counseling, he pulled a gun on her, um, and finally he lit our house on fire and exploded the thing, and um and it changed our lives forever. Me and my mom um legally we died according to the doctor reports and and uh and came back, and we had carbon dioxide poisoning. We went to Klamath Balls, where we uh received treatment and were flown to Troutdale, Virginia for hyperbaric oxygen um by Dr. Castro, and uh and uh we uh we were well after that. My mom went to live in uh in Medford, Oregon. Uh well back up. My mom came back to Klamath. I started writing uh at the age of six, my first novel in Troutdale, uh, which I will release with Voices for Voices. Actually, this coming month, you guys will get to see the first novel I wrote as a six-year-old. That is going to be something. Um that's when God called me to write. Um it was really hard to go through that. Um my grandparents um forgave my dad, and they allowed my dad to contact me after he did what he did in uh killing us, and uh they they allowed visitation behind my mom's back, and so my mom said no, no more, and she refused for me to ever see my grandparents again. Good reason. Um my mom became a uh founder of another church in Medford, and she started to help fund this idea for children that had autistic uh needs for horseback riding, and then she became a special needs coach on top of that, and um then she wanted to get into politics as she was running this ranch. She wanted to get into politics of being the mayor of Medford, Oregon. So I would go with her uh to meet campaigns and to meet different people in the political party. I met Barack Obama and different people that came through that were running in the Democratic Party at that time. He wasn't president, he was just a candidate running through the Rogue Valley. So it was a lot different meeting Barack Obama and his family uh at that moment. Um and even though he was a Democrat, my mom was for all sides. She believed that all sides needed to be heard, not just one. I love that about her. So uh my mom helped me uh find my voice at the age of 13. Um, one of my youth pastors, Jeremy Haskell, uh, offered me a beer bottle, and I said no, and he broke it on my back, and uh I ran to my mom, and she went to him and he threw her on the floor, and uh and then she got him fired from uh Ashton Christian Fellowship for it, and rightfully so. After that, um we tried another church, and my mom became the choir director and also uh worship leader and and uh cook and also the behind-the-scenes person for getting everything on screen and the bulletins and everything else, and then she started her own flower arrangements and started making a lot of money that way. Um, I was still writing, I was about 14 when she knew that I was destined for uh something big. Um Brian Davis, who trafficked me, took interest in me at uh around eleven, I believe. Um and she saw that, and uh and I started writing Christian fantasy novels for him and other people because I could write at an extreme speed, and she would edit them. Um at 14 I rebelled against my mom. There was this girl I liked, and she was a part of this gang in Phoenix, Oregon, and I joined the gang for about seven days, and then they cut the tires of a cop car, and I turned myself in. That's how long that lasted. Um at that point, my mom wanted to find why I was so angry, and it turns out that I needed to be more creative, and I was frustrated because people would judge me because I was super smart. I already graduated high school, and you know, I was doing college-level stuff, and nobody really wanted to be around you because of that. Um, so I became a full-time writer for some famous TV shows that you know, and I got paid for it, and I ghostwrote them because I could speed write, still speed write. And my mom started to have fun with it, and she created several TV shows, several movies, several comics, several books, and we became the mean team lean machine, as we were called in the industry. About two thousand and ten. Um things were going good. And my mom my mom started to get a little sick and I went to a church that didn't believe in sickness. So we head butted and they brainwashed me into this cult, and um my mom brought me back from it, stuck by me. We moved to Oregon City and had a lovely life, started producing again. Um Thanksgiving. I found out that she had three months to live and um the church we were going to was not uh supportive of that. So I reached out for prayer to Brian Davis, out of all people who I hated when no one else is around, and your mom's your only friend, you reach out, and that is why I was taken because I asked for prayer. You know the rest of the story. You know I went to Canada, you know I was trafficked. If you don't, you can listen to it. Um when I made it back, my mom had filed about 12 missing persons reports in Clackamas County, and my name was legally changed by my trafficker, SOS, Solomon O. David Soldier. But I go by David Solomon because that's in the writing world, that's what I am. And my mom um was healed of that breast cancer. She never had to do chemo. Doctors couldn't explain it. I lost all my friends because I became the whore child. And my mom stu stood by me the whole way. Became paralyzed and blind. I had a lot of concussions, a lot of hit and runs and we left to start a new life. We uh we got to Virginia and uh my mom uh had a rental car. She was a day late and someone made a call and uh she went to prison. But it was a grand theft charge. It was horrifying for my mom to go through to get so scared. I was scared too. And so my mom would always be by my side no matter what when we got through that, we swore that we would fight this injustice. And we wrote the film Sound of Freedom because we helped rescue a kid that a mother sold in the United States to South America. And we brought that kid back. We worked with Operation Railroad and Underground Railroad and that's that's why that movie is there. My mom rescued one in four hundred children from being trafficked. She'll go out of a way to meet with people talk with them. Talk with the parents. She kind of became a private investigator of sorts. And then I became a assistant pastor at a Nigerian church in San Francisco. And uh it was so hard to see the Nigerian people be crucified because of race. They love God just like you do and me, and you have no idea until you see how much they love God. They're more extreme in how they worship because of how much they love God, because they don't have that freedom in their country. The reason it hits so hard is I was one of the assistant pastors, and my mom was the other. And we we did help pastor with a head lead pastor on Nigerian church successfully for a year and a half, and led a lot of people to Christ. And then my mom was stabbed in the breast with a syringe, and her breast exploded, and she ended up at the emergency room at Stanford Hospital at Stanford University, California in Palo Alto. And they said that she had lost so much blood she wouldn't survive, but they they got her where she would. So she healed from it, and then me and my mom made the best of our life, and we produced and wrote more books and more movies, like Sound of Freedom, ones that I can't talk about, admitting that I wrote with her for legal purposes. Um and we made a difference in 2020. Um my mom had the the breast explosion caused cancer, so she needed chemo. And we were in California and couldn't get the chemo started because California was locking down medical. So we drove across country to Virginia to get chemo. And when we did that, my uh my mom went to the doctor, and you know, we were hopeful that we were gonna restart the chemo, and she would be good to go. We could knock it into remission quickly. Only he told my mom to go die because they weren't gonna restart her chemo because it wasn't priority because of COVID. So she had tears in her eyes. And I did too. So the man that um that cared for me and my mom, a man, uh he made fun of me for crying about my mom being sick, call me a ragdoll, and we left Virginia for treatment in uh South Carolina so we could restart it. And we couldn't get it done there, but we could get it done in Alabama, but we'd have to go through Florida because there were so many checkpoints for COVID. So we went to Florida and my mom got out at the gas station at Panama City. And she emptied her bank account and then she wrote me a note. And um the last word she said was I'm sorry, and we're gonna be okay. You get 'em. You finish it. You finish what we started. I rush to the ER at Bay Medical Center. I tell them my mom just lost some consciousness. I was followed by another vehicle. They got out. The next thing I know, police are surrounding me, knock me unconscious on the ground, and I'm incarcerated for the death of my mom. Seven days I spent. But my trafficker, Brian Davis, apparently, and someone else called them and said I did. They were gonna lock me up for a long time. And I made it out. But I was denied my mom's ashes. Through thick and thin. Even when no one wanted to. I had lost a fiance, I had lost my best friend, I had lost my youth pastor, I had lost my pastor, I had lost everyone that I ever called a friend because I was trafficked. And no one wanted to be friends with a whore child. I was on TikTok the other day on a live. And this this woman, I won't say names. She was really inspirational talking about these things that have to be exposed. Evil things like why my mom wrote Sound of Freedom, like why my mom died? Why people are saying my mom is a bad person? Why are children going missing? Why is Nigeria not being talked about in the mainstream media? Why am I being crucified for telling the truth? Her and her husband, for that matter. Credit to him too.

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: 29:46

Five minute warning, just FYI. What is it? Five minute warning, just F.

David Solomon: 29:53

So that was my mom. She was always hopeful, always caring. And the Nigeria people, she would always be there. She was always in contact with missionaries. She was always rescuing kids out of those areas, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya. Australia, New Zealand. She was always rescuing kids. She was an incredible woman of faith. For people that mock her. Like Mindy Joy Davis from Illinois. Or Brian Allen Davis from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Or James Artville from Grants Pass. Or Tim Long from Oregon City. Or other people who have made blatant statements saying that my mom was a whore or a pathological liar. She would never lie a day in her life. She would always tell the truth. And she would always do anything for me. She showed me the true love of Christ. Because Christ sacrificed his life just as she sacrificed hers blood and sweat so that I could have a life again. Because after I was trafficked, I was broken and I had no hope. I sat in our home and I wouldn't leave the home for like six to eight months. I was horrified. On the Nigeria people, and watching this happen and no one covering it, it reminds me all of the time when I pastored in San Francisco. What we saw. The lesser. So I'll continue with part two, but this is part one. And thank you for listening.

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: 33:01

Yeah, thanks for share. Yeah, thanks for sharing. And it's uh uh you know transparency and talking about things that happened that are so personal in nature, uh, kind of takes us back to those points of trauma. Um, and and so just to be able to talk and share um that much detail uh about what uh kind of in like the past all the way up to kind of the current current state. And uh that's what we're that's what we're trying to do with Voices for Voices uh is to hopefully be a light to talk about tough subjects, things that we're going through, the we need so we've been through uh to help people, and whether we're helping one person or a hundred thousand, or we hit that three billion people mark over the course of my lifetime and beyond the fact of the matter is uh you know, we're we're we're doing this for others. Uh yeah, it does it does help us to share um information, but we're we're we're doing this so the mom, the dad, the uh child, the adult, uh that they're able to see what's going on, hear what's going on from uh another source since uh mainstream media uh for whatever reason or reasons isn't covering it. Um both the Nigerian uh persecution, genocide called uh in the country of Nigeria, um, as well as you know, hurtful words and thoughts and uh all the all the like you name it, uh there's just been just incredible things that I don't know that people would really say if they were face to face. Uh you know, they're keyboard warriors and uh and and so a lot of that's what is happening today, but then there's also uh from what you know David was sharing, there's individuals who uh uh what seems to be uh involved in quite a few things that don't seem right in the past. Um, and it and it sounds like to this day that those are still occurring, that those individuals are are still operating in the in the shadows. So that's what we wanted to share with here uh with part one. Uh we welcome you back uh for the following episode. So uh you'll you'll check out the uh the episode right after this, and that will be part two. And so we want to thank David for uh for joining us, and we want to thank you, uh Plusha 90 countries, 900 cities, governments, intelligence agencies, uh just incredible things that we we we we hear about, we we see, but we're not able to uh share. And uh just leave it at that. Uh but the the Lord is our savior, and uh like I said at a podium at church when I was I don't even know, maybe three, four, five years old. You know, come Lord Jesus, we need you. Not just David and I, but we all do. So we'll see you on the next episode. Take care.