Ep. 227 - Liahona Olayan - Singer, Actress, Model, American Idol Finalist

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.7 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Liahona Olayan is amazing. She is a talented singer, actress, and model. In the episode, we discuss growing up in a large family, in Hawaii, spending a year and a half living with her family in a tent, competing on American Idol, serving a mission, her message on modesty and standing up against things so many people her age struggle with. Liahona is so talented and so powerful. You will love her story!

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:10.6	Day Saints.
0:11.6	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:15.9	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:25.4	Thank you. specific organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends, and welcome to episode 227 of the Latter-day Lives podcast.
0:30.9	I'm your host, Sean Rope here.
0:32.5	Thank you so much for checking in with us again this week.
0:36.6	You know, I got a really sweet message. I actually
0:39.8	get a lot of listener messages, and I just love it. Thank you so much for all of those of you
0:44.4	who reach out. I do answer all of them individually, but I got a cool one this week from one
0:50.2	of our listeners who she said that we're on an amazing run of guests,
0:56.1	that specifically the last several episodes, she said,
1:00.2	all of our guests have been amazing.
1:02.4	And so I think it's a good time to put it out there that if you know someone
1:07.7	who would make for a great guest,
1:13.9	please suggest them to us or tell them about the show and have them reach out to us. You know, we do need to come up with a new guest every
1:18.5	single week. I don't have a producer. So I always appreciate suggestions of, hey, here's
1:24.3	who we'd like to see. You or they could reach out to me on Instagram or on Facebook or just email me,
1:32.5	Sean at latterday lives.com.
1:35.4	That's S-H-A-W-N at Latterday Lives.com.
1:38.6	So many of our great guests come from our listener's suggestions,
1:42.6	and I always reach out to your suggestions. So we'd love to hear who you would like to hear.
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