SOAP API Post Request (Cannot get response)

So i set up a SOAP post request through the API step and it works successfully (meaning i get 200 status) except I cannot get the response to appear. running the post request through make.com I was able to get the request-response as expected but voiceflow only shows this:
{
"VF_STATUS_CODE": 200,
"VF_HEADERS": {
"connection": "close",
"content-encoding": "gzip",
"content-type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
"date": "Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:45:40 GMT",
"kareo-decoded-response-size": "1451",
"server": "Microsoft-IIS/10.0",
"transfer-encoding": "chunked",
"vary": "Accept-Encoding",
"x-powered-by": "ASP.NET"
}
}

could this have something to do with the response being xml? or perhaps encoding? is there anyway to convert the response to json in order for VF to see it?

I have the integration setup that I want through a webhook + http request + webhook response in make.com but it costs a lot more operations than i am hoping for. if I could setup the api post and get the respone in the body that would be perfect.

Anybody have any advice?