447: How to Find & Cultivate Good Friends in Adulthood Especially in Seasons of Heartbreak with Toni Collier
The Heart & Hustle Podcast
The Heart University
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Heart & Hustle Podcast, we welcome back the powerhouse herself — Toni Collier! If you've ever felt like you're too broken, too betrayed, or too worn down to keep going, this conversation will remind you that you're not alone. Toni opens up about one of the hardest seasons of her life and how it inspired her brand-new book, "Don't Try This Alone". (Link Below). She shares raw, personal stories of heartbreak, healing, and the power of leaning on others when you want to hide.
From building a "confessional community" that became her lifeline, to learning how to be brave enough to send a single vulnerable text, Toni reminds us that healing doesn't mean living pain-free — it means increasing your capacity to hold pain while finding hope in the middle of it. Together, we dive into what true community looks like, how to rebuild trust after betrayal, and why bravery often looks like simply saying, "I need help."
Whether you're in a valley right now or preparing for the storms that will inevitably come, Toni's wisdom and humor will leave you encouraged, empowered, and ready to believe in the goodness of people again.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your host, Evie McLeod and Lindsay Roman. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome back to the show, friend. We are just so honored to have you here week after week as we chat through life and business and all the things in between. |
| 0:14.7 | That's a lot of things. Anyways, today's conversation is such a joy. We are so honored to re-welcome the incredible Tony |
| 0:23.6 | Collier back on the Heart Nessel podcast. Now, if you didn't hear her previous episode and you |
| 0:28.1 | don't know who she is, Tony is the founder of an international women's organization called Broken |
| 0:32.6 | Cranes Still Color and helps women process through brokenness and get to healing and hope. |
| 0:38.1 | Tony is a speaker, host of the still coloring podcast, and author of two books, |
| 0:42.6 | Brave enough to be Broken and a children's book, Broken Grand Still Color. |
| 0:46.2 | Let's also adjust that bio to say she is coming out with her third book. |
| 0:50.9 | Or has already come out by the time this airs. |
| 0:52.9 | Yes. |
| 0:53.7 | Called Don't Go Alone. Don't Try This Alone. don't try this alone. Don't try this alone. I should know that. I don't have the note right in front of me. Anyways, Tony is an incredible, incredible person teaching people all over the globes that you can be broken and still worthy or feel unqualified and still be called to do great things. |
| 1:14.1 | And I'm going to give you a little, if you're listening to this, which you should be, |
| 1:15.2 | because don't skip the intros. |
| 1:19.3 | This episode with Tony is like a shot of espresso. |
| 1:20.5 | That's good. |
| 1:22.0 | I should have said that to her face. |
| 1:22.5 | I should have. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, oh well. |
| 1:29.6 | She like her energy, her vivaciousness is quite literally like like, receiving, like, the best shot of espresso ever. |
| 1:31.8 | She is so... I think I said this at the end of the interview, but, like, she's equally... |
| 1:35.3 | Uh, uh... |
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