Leigha Liuzza Interview | Red Dirt Catholics LIVE — 2025 Discipleship Conference

In this episode, Jayce and James sat down with Leigha Liuzza of Zelie Creative Co. to explore how beauty, prayer, and family vocation meet in the decision to leave the classroom and build a home studio. We unpack Visio Divina, why art trains the soul to see God, and simple ways to help kids notice the sacred.

• naming Zelie Creative Co after Saint Zélie Martin
• teaching art in a school with the Eucharist present
• painting saints as quiet evangelization
• discerning a leap from teaching to full-time art and motherhood
• peace as a sign in vocational shifts
• the Church’s need for beauty that invites awe
• how Visio Divina works and why it fits a visual age
• guided meditation on the healing of the boy and the mustard seed
• training imagination through objective beauty
• practical ideas for helping kids attend to beauty
• simple family prayer habits and visual aids
• painting as intercession and iterative discernment

Learn more about Leigha and her artwork at https://zeliecreativeco.com/

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