The LIVing Room with Liv Harrison

🤝 What if the most countercultural thing a Catholic can do right now is stay friends with people he or she disagrees with? Jonathan Lewis leads The Communion Project, a brand-new initiative from the Paulist Fathers (the first Catholic men's religious order founded in America) that names toxic polarization for what it is: a sin. He sits down with Liv Harrison in Napa to talk about why differe...

🎬 Sr. Nancy, a Daughter of St. Paul and Hollywood film reviewer, once watched Harrison Ford walk into a room of journalists and head straight for the sisters. When she told him her whole community prays for him, he bowed his head and said it meant more than she knew. In this episode, she and Liv Harrison talk about red carpets, religious life, and how a teenager who prayed "as long as it&apo...

🎧 Fr. Dave Pivonka, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, walked 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago as a thank-you for his priesthood — and almost didn't become a priest at all, since school was never his thing. In this episode, he and Liv Harrison talk pilgrimage, purpose, and what he's watching happen to a generation raised on screens. They cover why he kept campus open...

🎙️ Kate Sell has spent 25 years as the "backroom person" behind Catholic dioceses, religious orders, universities, and authors — helping organizations like the Augustine Institute and the Eucharistic Congress figure out who they are and get their message out. In this episode, she traces her whole story: converting to Catholicism at 22 after a black cassette tape titled The Conversion of...

🙏 He walked into his boss's office at a top Chicago investment firm to resign and got cut off seven words in with, "Are you quitting right now?" The LIVing Room welcomes the co-founder of Hallow, the Catholic prayer app that beat six national Super Bowl campaigns to the #1 spot in the entire App Store. Liv Harrison talks with him about the year he went without a paycheck, the Mark...

✍️ 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 creator Eliza to trace the unlikely path from middle school recess "therapy sessions" to one of the most honest Catholic voices on the intern...

🤍 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 life until a daughter's mysterious illness, the collapse of a ministry, and a silent retreat stripped everything away and left her with one answer: beloved . In this episod...

🎨 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 Catholic shop, illustrating books, and traveling to conferences. Then she closed it all down. Not because she failed, but because she finally figured out w...

🎙️ 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 Invitation, an apostolate for LGBT+ disciples pursuing the Lord in alignment with Church teaching. In this episode, Manny walks through his full story — the years of s...

🎙️ 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 communications, a conviction that the Church deserved better storytelling, and the founding of Digital Continent — the creative powerhouse behind some of Catholic med...

🇻🇦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 about papal history, faith, and what it actually feels like to "meet God on the way down." Matt opens up about his first marriage, a quick annulm...

🎙️ 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 panel when white smoke rose over the Sistine Chapel. No theology PhD required — just a lifelong obsession, a microphone, and a Cajun accent. In this episode of...

🥒 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) joins Liv Harrison in The LIVing Room for a conversation that will wreck you in the best way. They talk about what it's like to grow up in the hospital...

🔔 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 with Candace Cameron Bure and Danica McKellar sliding into their DMs. But this episode goes way deeper than movie reviews. Mary opens up about navigating per...

🎬 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 film he landed after a tear-filled sushi lunch turned into the pitch of a lifetime. On this episode of The LIVing Room, Liv Harrison sits down with Evan to talk about ma...

🍪 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 conversation with Liv Harrison, she gets radically honest about what it's like to be a plus-size young mom in the Catholic world and how she...

🎨 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, and what it took to go full-time as the artist behind the beloved Princesses of Heaven children's book series. They also get real about Catholic singl...

🎧 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 takes, and what it actually looks like to build a life you love on your own terms. Marillis tells the story of working alongside Pope Francis during his 2015...

🎤 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 incredible stories about going to Sunday night Mass with Chris Farley after SNL, how the Hallow app helped Catholics finally "shout it out," and...

🎙️ 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 your life when God makes it obvious. Mackenzie Hunter is the creator behind Caffeinated Catholic and the founder of ACC Digital Strategy, where she helps Cath...

🎙️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-scenes honesty Catholics rarely hear out loud. They talk about the hidden reality of separation, divorce, and annulments in Catholic circles, and how complex th...