E236: Fasting, Fitness and Faith: How the Veil Was Lifted From My Eyes w/Franccesca Sevilla | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Franccesca Sevilla was building a glamorous life in music videos and social media when a growing desire for God took hold.
During a fast, she experienced His love in a way that changed everything. A second fast brought even deeper clarity—it felt like her world turned from black and white to color. She knew God was real.
She gave her life to Him, embraced modesty, committed to chastity, and launched a faith-based fitness ministry to help women honor their bodies. Franccesca’s story proves that life with God is anything but predictable.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:21 - Francescca’s Fitness Work
00:07:31 - Francescca’s Reversion Story
00:09:22 - We Heart Nutrition
00:10:18 - Losing Faith in College
00:21:33 - Covenant Eyes
00:22:35 - The Day That Changed Her Life
00:29:28 - EveryLife Diapers
00:30:19 - Going to Protestant churches
00:45:15 - The Issue with Many Catholic Schools
00:49:49 - What does faith look like now?
00:53:54 - Biggest challenges post reversion?
00:55:34 - Concrete advice for people’s journeys:
01:00:17 - Advice for Women:
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I did all the dumb high school things that you do, you know, partying and smoking and having sex before |
| 0:04.7 | marriage. I feel like I had always looked at people to have a close relationship with our Lord. |
| 0:08.9 | I felt like I was almost jealous of them. It was April 10th of last year, like changed my whole life. |
| 0:13.6 | I never want to go back to anything that I was doing. I really want to inspire women to be healthy |
| 0:18.7 | and to take care of their living tabernacle, their |
| 0:21.4 | walking tabernacle. |
| 0:22.5 | What has been the hardest thing about this shift in your life following Jesus? |
| 0:26.4 | I think... |
| 0:26.9 | She felt jealous towards the people who had a relationship with Jesus Christ, and she |
| 0:34.5 | wanted one too, but she didn't know how. |
| 0:37.0 | Today in the Lila Rose show, I sit down |
| 0:38.5 | with the lovely Francesca Savilla, who opens up about her journey, going to Catholic school, |
| 0:44.4 | K through 12, hungering for something deeper, but living in the culture, being into fitness and |
| 0:50.1 | partying and modeling, and then discovering one day the sweetness of the love of God. |
| 0:55.3 | Francesca shares the special graces that she experienced to bring her closer to God, |
| 0:59.2 | the role of a Protestant church in her faith journey, |
| 1:02.3 | as well as her and her boyfriend and now fiancé's relationship in pursuing chastity. |
| 1:07.4 | I am so excited personally about the growing trend today of young people who are discovering |
| 1:13.1 | God's love and mercy and hungering to be part of his church. Francesca's story will inspire and |
| 1:18.9 | encourage you. Also, a huge thank you to everyone who is listening to the Lila Rose show. |
| 1:23.5 | We are growing by leaps and bounds because of all of you. I couldn't be more overjoyed to do this podcast and get to build this community with you. If you're not already subscribed to the show, make sure that you hit that subscribe button. And if you're listening over on podcast app, make sure to leave us five stars, leave a review that helps the show reach more people. Francesca Savilla, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's so fun to see you. Thank you for having me here. This is like seriously like a full circle moment. I feel like I loved watching your, I still do. I still love watching your podcast, but it was, it had a really big impact on me, especially like coming back to the faith. So thank you so much for having me here. |
| 2:02.4 | That means the world to me. |
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