Power is not authority. Legacy starts at home.
I’m Wesley Meoli, creative director and content strategist. For over 30 years I have told stories for organizations, leaders and faith communities, in more than 20 countries.
I learned, on set and off it, that great narratives are not born of technique. They are born of presence, honor and reconciliation. That is why my work begins by listening.
The journey
I was born in São Paulo, in 1972, between two traditions: a Catholic mother and an Evangelical father. I made my First Communion and attended church from childhood, and that is where I learned reverence for God and the Scriptures.
The encounter
At 25, I was working in post-production at Rede Gospel de Televisão, in São Paulo, when I gave my life to Jesus on the sidewalk outside a church. On May 5, 1998, I was baptized in water at the Renascer em Cristo headquarters.
The calling
I was interning at Nickelodeon, in Miami, when I received a vision to defend children at risk. In Oxford, England, Patrick McDonald, founder of Viva Network, commissioned me as a media missionary. Back in São Paulo, I worked as a communication facilitator and helped build what became RENAS (Rede Evangélica Nacional de Ação Social). I also coordinated Brazil’s first World Day of Prayer for Children at Risk.
Service
I worked alongside Pastor Randy Clark and the Global Awakening team in Brazil, as team coordinator and consecutive interpreter. I saw miracles and healings, and learned that spiritual authority rests on holiness, availability and humble service.
Media in another country
I served for two years as a missionary at Life International Church, in Durham, North Carolina. I worked as the church’s assistant media director and as post-production editor of the program Alive With Power, broadcast on WBTV.
Reconciliation
In 1959, my father separated from his first wife, and the three children of that marriage were left without their father. They waited 48 years.
While my public work was growing, I felt God calling me to tend to this wound within my own family. I left behind a rigid, judgmental religious posture and embraced the law of honor in Ephesians 6:2. In 2007, through a series of encounters I can only call providential, I reunited with my first family. I asked forgiveness on behalf of our lineage, and together we ended a division that had lasted almost half a century.
From that healing came my book O Sangue Que Nos Une é Mais Forte do que a História que nos Separa (in Portuguese).
That was where I understood what I now bring to companies, leaders and communities: the blood that unites us is stronger than the story that separates us, and a story can be rewritten.
Abba Our Father
I am VP of Media at Abba Our Father Inc. (Dallas, USA), leading the global Father’s Feast campaign and the AbbaFamily.org platform. Our mission is to lead people into a deep experience of God as Father, promoting reconciliation between parents and children.
Thirty years telling stories that last.
I started in 1992, at TV Bandeirantes, in technical direction, editing and programming coordination. Seven years of live broadcasts and decisions under pressure, and there I learned to turn information into narrative.
Since 2009, at MEOLI.TV, I have led narrative strategy and visual direction for organizations, NGOs and leaders. I was an ANCINE-registered production partner for Experian’s global Our Story initiative. For Qualcomm, the UN International Trade Centre and the British Consulate in São Paulo, I worked as a filmmaker: I directed, shot and edited. As a cinematographer, through Crews Control, I filmed with BlackRock CEOs in Brazil and worked on productions for McAfee, SABIC and Takeda.
I directed and shot the Brazilian segment of the documentary The Face of God the Father, filmed in Poland, Italy, Israel and Brazil. I also directed the documentaries Crackfix, about Cracolândia in São Paulo, and Points of Hope, in South Carolina.
I also produced content and interviews with names such as Robert Kiyosaki, Chris Gardner, T. Harv Eker and Nick Vujicic at Success Resources, and directed Pedro Superti’s videocast Supercast. For over a decade I worked with the CleanTech Business Club, as Country Manager in Brazil and later as a strategic communications consultant. In 2020, in Abu Dhabi, I coordinated the club’s dinner, with Akon in attendance.
Consecutive interpreting: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Since the start of my career, I have worked as a consecutive interpreter at events, executive meetings, interviews and broadcasts. I interpret so that the speaker’s message reaches the listener whole, with precision, meaning and culture.
The book
O Sangue Que Nos Une é Mais Forte do que a História que nos Separa
A story of family reconciliation. In 2007, the author reunited with the three siblings who grew up without their father, and a 48-year wait came to an end. In it, authority begins at home and reconciliation comes before government.
Second edition. The first edition was published under the name Weslei M. Vianna.
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Education
Social Communication, Radio & TV (FAAP) · Postgraduate in Film Industry Management (FAAP) · Marketing (ESPM) · Theology (ITQ, Global Legacy and Universidade da Família) · Transformational Leadership (UNILID, Orlando) · Cities Project, first class in Brazil (Cru) · Advanced Digital Editing (Miami Dade College)
Registrations and titles
Journalist (MTB/SP 40.607) · Audiovisual Director (DRT/SP 14.808) · Civil Humanitarian Diplomat · Chaplain (Jethro International 8.049)
Languages
Native Portuguese · Fluent English (C2) · Professional Spanish