🎙️ 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 media's most recognizable productions, including Seeking Beauty on EWTN.

But building something great on the outside doesn't mean everything is okay on the inside. In this episode of The LIVing Room, Liv Harrison sits down with Edmundo Reyes for the conversation behind the résumé — the 14 months that quietly took everything apart and put it back together differently. Therapy for the first time at 48. This one is for anyone who has been building, serving, and showing up — and suspects there's still something God is trying to get to underneath all of it.

Guest Bio:
Edmundo Reyes is the founder and creative director of Digital Continent, a Catholic media and production collective that partners with organizations and individuals to bring mission-driven content to life. His work spans high-profile Catholic media productions, most notably Seeking Beauty, a series currently airing on EWTN that he counts among Digital Continent's proudest achievements. He and his wife Melanie live in Michigan where they have grown a beautiful family over the last 24 years.

In This Episode
00:00 Cold open: the retreat, the therapy, the spiritual director
01:30 Welcome, marriage jokes, and how Liv keeps getting Edmundo's story wrong
05:30 Meet Melanie's husband — and the man behind Digital Continent
07:00 Not an agency — a collective of dreamers and builders
09:30 Liv calls him a creative architect — and he nearly cries
12:00 Why great creative work looks effortless — and what that actually costs
13:30 Your team is not a contract — they're brothers and sisters in Christ
16:30 Growing up Catholic in Mexico — faith as a subject, not a relationship
18:30 17 years old, friendless, and talked into a retreat he didn't want to go to
19:30 Arms crossed in the back row — his first encounter with charismatic Catholics
21:30 The retreat leaders wrote him off as a lost cause — then God showed up
23:00 "What if this is actually true?" — the leap of faith that changed everything
24:30 From economics to communications — why the Church needed better storytellers
27:00 God's dodgeball team — and raising his hand to be picked
30:00 He said yes before he knew what he was good at — and that's how he found out
31:30 How is your prayer life different now? — the question that opens everything
32:30 Walking 46 miles on Holy Week because his ego takes two hours to quiet down
34:30 He used to see himself as St. Francis. Now he sees Pontius Pilate.
36:00 The Jesuit spiritual director who stopped him mid-sentence
37:30 Two things he finally learned: the depth of his sin and the depth of God's love
40:30 Gen X, Mexican, male — and finally in therapy at 48
42:30 The JP2 Institute healing work — and crying in a reflection he didn't expect
44:00 Healing shows you the wounds. Therapy explains why you kept reopening them.
46:00 How can we pray for you? — closing a chapter of healing, entering one of giving
47:30 Hurt people hurt people — but healed people heal people
48:00 Seeking Beauty on EWTN — where to find it and why you should watch it

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