The Living Room Podcast
Culture meets clarity. Real talk meets rhythm.
Welcome to The Living Room — where the conversation doesn’t just land, it lingers.
Hosted by Elowen Sayla, this isn’t small talk. This is soul talk for grown folks navigating life, love, purpose, and power. It’s where we break things down, not for the likes, but for the clarity.
From unfiltered reflections to powerful panels, The Living Room is where culture, conversation, and connection collide.
Come for the truth. Stay for the resonance.
Let’s talk about what’s really going on.
Episodes
22 episodes
The Dialogue: The Dialogue Within
Sayla shifts the conversation inward in this episode.We’ve spent this season talking to friends, cousins, partners, and across generations. We’ve asked hard questions out loud.But what about the conversation you’ve been avoiding...
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20:17
The Dialogue Love Series: When Love Didn't Show Up
Valentine’s Day hits different when the love you expected... never came.In this raw and honest conversation, Selah opens the door to the ache many feel but few name: what happens when love doesn’t show up? No grand gestures. No flowers at w...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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24:05
The Dialogue Love Series: What's Love Got To Do With This?
This Valentine’s Day, Sayla returns to The Living Room for a solo conversation about love — not the Hallmark kind.What’s Love Got to Do With It? explores intent, emotion, timing, and the quiet truths that surface when love shows up… or ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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29:35
The Dialogue: Living Cousins
In this episode, Sayla is joined by her cousins—aka the Cousin Crew—and it’s pure comedy from start to finish. The stories are flying, the jokes interrupt the memories, and the truth slips out between laughs. If you grew up with your cousins as...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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48:22
The Dialogue Bonus Episode: Sit Down Somewhere
It felt like an interruption — but it was really a divine pause.In this solo episode, Sayla speaks to the stillness that stormed in and slowed us all down. From the first-day excitement to the fourth-day fatigue, we went from novelty to...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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17:24
The Dialogue: Forty Years A Friend
Some friends are for a moment.Others are for the making of you.In this episode of The Dialogue, Sayla is joined by her childhood friend K Stubbs to reflect on 40 years of friendship, growth, and everything in between. from young girls t...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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40:22
The Dialogue: The Friendship Tightrope
What happens when a man and a woman have chemistry, connection, and real respect — but choose not to cross the line?In this episode of The Living Room Podcast, Sayla sits down with Paul P. to talk through the tension that lives inside m...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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50:33
The Dialogue: Manhood In Fuller View
This week in The Living Room, we're pulling back the curtain on what manhood really looks like — beyond the ego, the pressure, and the performance. In this raw, honest episode, Sayla sits down with TFuller to talk manhood in full view: college ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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39:55
The Dialogue: Sister Sister
Sayla is joined by her real-life sister, Dawn J., for a conversation that’s as bold, hilarious, and unfiltered as sisterhood gets.From childhood memories to grown-woman confessions, this episode is packed with laughter, honest moments, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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35:20
New Vision vs Same You
It’s vision board season — but what good is a new vision if you’re still showing up the same way?In this first episode of The Dialogue, Sayla gets all the way grown about the gap between what you say you want and how you keep moving. Be...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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28:02
The Season 1 Finale
In this Season 1 finale, Sayla takes us back to the beginning, to the blueprint, to the quiet risk of building something from scratch. From launch nerves to living-room breakthroughs, this episode walks through the moments that made The Living ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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21:33
The Reset
In this episode, Sayla talks about what it really means to reset. To pivot before you hit a wall. To choose different, even if nothing around you has changed yet. To make the shift without waiting for a date, a title, or a breakdown.This...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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20:09
The Final Chapter
If this year were a book… where did the story shift? Did you see the ending coming back in Chapter 4? Did some characters exit before the final scene — or were you the one who finally walked away?In this episode, Sayl...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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25:47
Bonus: Let Me Answer That Real Quick
Y’all had questions after Woman to Woman.You asked. I answered.In this bonus Q&A, Sayla pulled up to answer a few — straight from the studio.Mic tappy. Let’s get into it.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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25:46
Woman to Woman
They didn’t say it in the comments. They said it to me.DMs. Voicenotes. Silence.This isn’t a call-out. It’s a call-in.Not about blame—but what was never said.Tonight, Syala speaks to the women, but brings the receipts from t...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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35:57
Holidays, Gatherings and The Space Between
Some people love the holidays. Some just survive them.The part where you show up… but you’re not all the way there. Where the chair is empty, but the memory is loud. Where the laughter don’t quite land like it used to. Where the bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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24:00
When Her Softness Meets His Safety
This is one of those moments —a reflection that came through without planning, without prep, without polish.What happens when a woman finally meets real safety?Not the kind she has to earn. The kind that just is.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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6:24
Highjacked Mind: Social Media Lies
In this episode, Sayla gets real about what happens when your thoughts get hijacked — by social media, content overload, and culture telling you who to be, how to move, and what to want. Somewhere in the scroll, you forgot what your own thought...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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22:08
You Good?
Tonight, there’s no outline. No notes.Just Sayla — showing up honest, open, and off-script.This episode isn’t about a topic.It’s about the weight some of us have been carrying all week...and the need for space to just breath...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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13:29
Left on Read: Why Are You Spiraling?
It was just a text. So why did it bother you that much when they didn’t reply — the silence triggered something. But what and why?In this episode, Sayla breaks down the emotional charge behind unanswered texts, the assumptions we make, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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29:11