The LIVing Room with Liv Harrison
Liv is the host of The LIVing Room podcast produced at her home studio in Houston, Texas. The LIVing Room is where authentic Catholic faith meets real conversations, culture, and creativity. Liv sits down with guests you know (and some you should) to talk about the stuff that actually matters: fear, identity, calling, and what happens after you think you’ve got it all figured out. It’s honest. It’s funny. And it might just change the way you see yourself.
Episodes
16 episodes
Writing, Conviction, and What It Actually Means to Stand for Something with Eliza Monts
✍️ Eliza signed a book deal with Penguin Random House's Catholic imprint — and it started with a Lilly Pulitzer blog about Demi Lovato in eighth grade. In this episode of The LIVing Room, Liv Harrison sits down with Catholic writer and content ...
From Federal Prosecutor to "Just His Beloved": Nell's Identity Overhaul at 43
🤍 She was a federal law clerk in Vegas, a managing editor of Law Review, and a prosecutor — and she drove home one morning drenched in spit-up thinking, who am I? Nell O'Leary spent decades performing her way through l...
She Quit Youth Ministry, Went Full-Time Artist, Then Closed Up Shop - Valarie Delgado
🎨 She quit a stable youth ministry job to become a full-time Catholic artist — then, after her biggest vendor event ever, realized she never wanted to do it again. Valerie Delgado (known online as Pax Valerie) spent three years running her own ...
What Does the Catholic Church Actually Expect from Gay Catholics?
🎙️ He came out, left the Church, got a dream from God he tried to ignore, and now he works full-time for a ministry that helped bring him home.Manny Gonzalez is a Catholic campus minister turned mission development director at Eden Invitati...
Building a Catholic Media Company and Going to Therapy in His 40s, This Is Edmundo Reyes
🎙️ He got on a bus at 17 with no faith, no plan, and honestly — hoping to meet a girl. He got off it a completely different person. That one weekend in Monterrey set the next three decades in motion: a career switch from economics to communicat...
Papal History, Wild Pope Facts & Inside Intel on Pope Leo XIV with Matt from The Popecast
🇻🇦He named all four of his sons after Popes — Leo, Gregory, Nicholas, and John Paul — and he's a contractor who fixes toilets by day. Matt from The Popecast joins Liv in The LIVing Room for one of the most surprisingly moving conversations abou...
Louisiana Catholic Mom to CNN Vaticanista. This is Katie McGrady.
🎙️ She called it. In 2005, as a high schooler, Katie McGrady emailed her principal requesting they air the papal conclave on school TVs — and she correctly predicted Benedict XVI. Fast forward to 2026, and she was front row in Rome on a CNN pan...
Fitz for Fitzgerald: The Kid Who Got a Miracle Liver and Started Going Viral
🥒 He got diagnosed with one of the rarest childhood liver cancers in the world — only 1 to 3 kids a year — and two months after his liver transplant, he's walking 1.5 miles a day and going viral for it.Fitz (short for Fitzgerald, age 9) ...
From Hot Flashes to Hallmark. Midlife Intimacy, with Mary Lenaberg
🔔 Mary Lenaburg and her husband Jerry started reviewing Hallmark Christmas movies to honor their daughter Courtney, who was blind and loved the sound of bells. What began as Instagram Stories turned into a viral moment on Yahoo Entertainment wi...
A Catholic Director in Hollywood Who Won't Preach at You
🎬 Evan Matthews never knew his father. When he finally met him at 37, cancer took him six months later. That story of loss, forgiveness, and healing is the same emotional DNA that made Evan the perfect director for Motherland, a...
Curvy, Catholic, and Done Comparing with Francesca Jansen
🍪 Francesca Jansen got pregnant with twins barely a year into her marriage, tore her ACL right before a missionary program she'd planned her whole life around, and spent years believing she wasn't worth pursuing because of her weight. In this c...
From Disney Merchandise to Princesses of Heaven: How One Artist Found Her Calling
🎨 Fabiola Garza spent 10+ years at Disney, then left it all to draw saints for kids. In this episode of The LIVing Room, she sits down with Liv Harrison to talk about hitting a creative plateau, the moment her side project outgrew her day job, ...
She Worked for Pope Francis, Left Religious Life, and Built a Life She Actually Loves
🎧 In this episode of The LIVing Room, Liv Harrison sits down with Marilis Piñeiro, former religious sister, Vatican insider, and the woman behind Ex Nun on the Run, for a conversation that covers convent life, conclave chaos, singleness, hot ta...
From SNL to EWTN: The Actress Who Never Hid Her Faith (and What It Cost Her)
🎤 In this episode of The Living Room, Liv Harrison sits down with actress, writer, and producer Siobhan Fallon Hogan for a hilarious, heartfelt, and totally unfiltered conversation about being Catholic in Hollywood for over 30 years. She tells ...
“I’m Scared But I Can’t Say No”... When God Makes It Obvious | Mackenzie Hunter
🎙️ In this episode of The LIVing Room, Liv Harrison sits down with Mackenzie Hunter: content creator, digital strategist, and the voice behind Caffeinated Catholic, for a honest, funny, and real conversation about taking the scariest leap of yo...
I Got Married… and Instantly Knew Something Was Wrong (A Story of Consent, Fear, and Healing)
🎙️In this episode of the living room, Liv Harrison sits down with Edmund Mitchell for a raw, unfiltered conversation about marriage, consent, and what happens when faith gets stress-tested in real life. Edmund shares the kind of behind-the-scen...