Alicia Hayes shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Alicia, we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
For me, integrity stands above all. Intelligence without integrity can be manipulative, and energy without integrity can be reckless. Integrity is the compass that keeps both intelligence and energy aligned with a higher purpose. As a filmmaker, storyteller, and entrepreneur, every project I create under Vero 8 Pictures and every story I write is built on a foundation of truth and authenticity. That said, integrity doesn’t diminish the role of intelligence and energy, it elevates them. Intelligence fuels curiosity, discovery, and the ability to ask the right questions. Energy sustains the passion to keep creating when the hours are long and the obstacles feel overwhelming. But integrity ensures that the work I produce is not just noise in the world, it’s meaningful, it has depth, and it has the power to move people. Whether I am working on my book God Logic or my upcoming film projects “AXIOM” and “SENTENCED”, I remind myself that the world doesn’t need more hollow content. It needs art with integrity, stories that resonate, challenge, and inspire. That’s the heartbeat of my work, and it’s what I hope people feel when they visit AliciaHayes.com or learn about my films at Vero8Pictures.com.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Alicia Hayes, and I am an Arkansas filmmaker, artist, and storyteller. At the heart of everything I do is the desire to create work that carries truth, artistic beauty, and spiritual depth. I’m also the founder of Vero8 Pictures, a film production company I established in 2015 as a home for bold and meaningful films. For me, filmmaking isn’t just entertainment, it’s a way of asking deeper questions about life, faith, and the human condition. Right now, I have two films in development: SENTENCED, a raw and emotional short documentary exposing the harsh reality of animal shelters in Benton and Washington County, Arkansas, and AXIOM, a dramatic, thought-provoking short that brings some of history’s greatest scientific minds together in a powerful roundtable of ideas and conflict. AXIOM grew directly out of the same creative spark as my book “God Logic”, which explores the intersection of faith and science. The two works are intertwined, one written and one visual, both born out of my years of searching for answers in physics, cosmology, and the quantum world. In “God Logic”, I lay bare the questions that haunted me, the evidence so many scientists seem to overlook, and the conclusions that only grew stronger as I dug deeper into the mysteries of creation. AXIOM takes that same fire and places it into a dramatic, visual arena, where legendary thinkers like Einstein, Hawking, Penrose, and others collide in a battle of ideas. Their arguments are fierce, brilliant, and deeply human, but in the end, they all circle the same haunting question: what holds the universe together? It’s a question that cannot be answered by theory alone. What makes my work unique is that it’s driven by both my creative instincts and my faith. I believe that true creativity comes from God, the same God who authored the very laws of physics, quantum mechanics, and the mysteries of the universe. My lifelong curiosity in science has only led me to one undeniable conclusion: the very evidence so many overlook points directly to Him. God is unseen, and the quantum world He created is also unseen. Both can feel improbable and impossible, which is why so many scientists — from Carl Sagan to Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Dalton, and countless astrophysicists and cosmologists — wrestled with theories to make sense of it. But to me, it makes perfect sense, because the Author of it all is the God who does the impossible. That belief, rooted in both logic and faith, is what fuels every story I tell.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a little girl, I believed the world had no limits. I thought if I just ran fast enough, maybe I could lift off the ground and fly. That’s how wide open my imagination was. I didn’t think in terms of boundaries or impossibilities. But the older I got, the more life pushed in. I was bullied, I was hurt, and I started to believe I was small, insignificant in a world too big for me to matter. That belief left an indelible mark, because once you experience and see cruelty or feel unseen, it can make you doubt your worth. Over time, though, I began to see differently. I came to the realization that the same questions that made me feel odd as a child were actually the very thing that gave me purpose. My curiosity about God, about science, about how the universe works became the path back to wonder. It’s what led me to write God Logic and to create AXIOM. I don’t hold on to the idea that I’m small or insignificant anymore. What I’ve learned instead is that wonder doesn’t vanish with age — it just asks to be fought for. And when you fight for it, you find not only meaning, but also your voice.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me that pain has a way of echoing through generations, but it also has the power to refine and reveal.
I’ve always known I was an artist. God created me that way before I ever took my first breath. Even as a little girl, creativity came naturally to me. I questioned everything, pushed against every “no,” and my mom, Karen Hayes, often said I was her most difficult child because of it. But she also nurtured that side of me, because she is an artist too. Much of my creativity flows from her side of the family, where art and imagination have always been part of the bloodline.
What’s ironic is that my mother suffered as a child in the same way I did — bullied, overlooked, and searching for meaning. She grew up fighting to be heard. I experienced that same loneliness and struggle, and it marked me deeply. Through it all, I’ve always felt a special connection with her. God gave me a love for her that transcends whatever we’ve faced, and we’ve faced a lot: disagreements, disappointments, and pain, much of it rooted in her being disappointed in me. Still, I’ve always strived to connect with her in a deeper way, to let her know that I see her, I understand her struggle, and I share in it. My mother is the earth from which I grow, and God is the consummate Gardener and Shepherd who continues to lead us both toward joy and discovery.
When my mother lost her firstborn son, my brother Tommy Hayes, on July 14, 2024, her pain became my pain. Her words in that season shaped me more than anything else. She said, “My son died peacefully, but I can’t imagine how Mary must have felt watching her son be tortured to death.” That perspective cut through me. My mom doesn’t know it, but in that moment she taught me something profound: my own suffering is nothing compared to that of a mother. I am not a mother myself, but witnessing her grief anchored me. It showed me that her journey, woven with mine, has been a mirror, shaping me into the woman I am today.
What I’ve learned is that suffering gives you empathy. It strips away the illusion that success can create, that we’re self-sufficient or invincible. It grounds you in the reality that every person carries wounds, and that those wounds can either harden us or make us more compassionate. For me, suffering sharpened my voice and my vision as an artist. It’s why SENTENCED is not just about animals behind bars, it’s about what it means to feel voiceless, forgotten, and discarded. It’s why AXIOM is not just a collision of scientific minds, but a deeper wrestling with the human need for truth when logic alone isn’t enough. And it’s why I’m writing God Logic, because even in my questions, I found that God’s presence is the one unshakable constant. Success can give you confidence. But suffering gave me clarity. It taught me humility, compassion, and perspective. And it showed me that even in the darkest seasons, Christ’s suffering redeems our own.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
The truth I hold onto is one that many don’t agree with, is that faith and logic are not enemies. In fact, they are inseparable. Real logic doesn’t disprove God, it points directly to Him. Over the years I’ve studied science, philosophy, and Scripture. I’ve listened to some of the most brilliant skeptics, men like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Carl Sagan, dismantle belief with surgical precision. But the deeper I searched, the more I realized they were standing in the very evidence of God and couldn’t see Him. From the quantum world to the cosmic, from the structure of DNA to the vastness of galaxies, everything points to design, not chaos. And that design is not silent. It speaks and it speaks loudly and with profound clarity. That conviction is why I’m currently writing God Logic. It’s why I created AXIOM. Both works come from the same burning question: what holds the universe together? For me, the answer is not abstract, it’s personal. It’s God—the Great ‘I AM’ That truth might sound foolish to some — but for me, it’s the only conclusion that makes perfect sense. I know many resist this idea. Our culture often insists that science and faith must be at war. But I don’t buy that. Because when you follow truth all the way to its edge of the universe, you don’t find a void. You find the Author.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
I understand that the visible world is temporary. The unseen is not less real than the seen, it is the foundation of everything. People think reality is only what they can measure, touch, or prove, but science itself shows us that’s not true. The most powerful forces in the universe are invisible. Gravity cannot be seen, yet it shapes galaxies. DNA coding is invisible to the naked eye, yet it writes the blueprint of life. In the quantum world, particles blink in and out of states we cannot fully explain, and yet they hold reality together. The entire physical world is built on laws we cannot see. And here’s where most stop short: they marvel at the code but deny the Coder. They see the architecture but refuse to acknowledge the Architect. Hitchens, Sagan, Dawkins, men like them spent their lives studying the unseen, and still concluded it was random. But randomness doesn’t code DNA. Chaos doesn’t create symmetry. Nothing doesn’t sustain everything. The unseen is not a void. It is order. It is meaning. It is God — present, eternal, and sustaining. That’s why I am writing the book “God Logic” and developing my film AXIOM, because the deeper I’ve searched, the more undeniable it becomes: the very logic the skeptics worship points to the Author they refuse to see. The unseen is eternal. It’s not chaos. It’s not chance. It’s GOD LOGIC.
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