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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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John Callas is a writer, director, and producer with an extensive list of projects including his six novels, the television show Bobby's World, and much more. His career began in the mid-seventies, and offered John a creative outlet after a very tumultuous childhood. From losing his father at a young age to surviving highly abusive school environments, He joins us today to share all that came next for him after publicly disclosing his difficult childhood, and releasing a memoir that was fifty years-in-the-making. The Broken Cycle Media team is deeply appreciative of John's time, energy, and creativity in curating healing.
John’s Filmography & Website
John’s Amazon Author Page
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When The Rain Stops by John Callas
John’s IMDB
John’s Amazon Author Page
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What Came Next
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0:00.0 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
0:04.3 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, |
0:07.0 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
0:13.6 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
0:16.9 | If you're in need of support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com |
0:20.6 | forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
0:26.1 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
0:34.8 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. John Callis is a writer, director and producer with an extensive list of projects, including his six novels, the television show Bobby's |
1:11.9 | world, and much more. His career began in the mid-70s and offered John a creative outlet after a |
1:19.0 | very tumultuous childhood. From losing his father at a young age to surviving highly abusive |
1:24.8 | school environments, he joins us today to share all that came next for him |
1:29.3 | after publicly disclosing the institutional abuse he endured |
1:33.3 | and releasing a memoir that was 50 years in the making. |
1:37.3 | The Broken Cycle Media team is deeply appreciative |
1:40.3 | of John's time, energy, and creativity in curating healing. |
1:45.0 | Hi, I'm John Callis. |
1:49.0 | My loved ones would describe me as a very loyal father, dedicated to his children, |
1:55.0 | will do anything for his friends, is very open and honest, there's no hidden agenda, but there are some rules with them |
2:02.7 | and boundaries that you don't cross. You don't ever disrespect my family or hurt them. You don't |
2:07.9 | lie to me and you don't cheat or steal. Any of those will trigger me to saying, we're done. |
2:14.1 | Overall, they would say that if John says something, you can bet that he will do what he says he will do. |
2:21.0 | I'm a 40-year writer-director, producer, veteran in Hollywood that has eight award-winning productions, including an Emmy nomination. |
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