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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Hey True Crew! Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast! Friendship can be one of the most rewarding parts of life—but it can also be complicated, painful, and confusing. In this honest and heartfelt conversation, Madi sits down with author, blogger, speaker, and podcast host Grace Valentine to discuss her new book, The Better Friend: 12 Truths to Shift from Shallow and One-Sided Connections to Vibrant Friendships. Together, they unpack what it really means to build lasting, meaningful friendships in a world full of comparison and competition.
Whether you're healing from a broken friendship, struggling to find your people, or simply wanting to grow in the way you show up for others, this episode offers encouragement, truth, and practical wisdom you won’t want to miss. Tune in for an encouraging, truth-filled episode that will leave you challenged, comforted, and convicted.
Stay you and stay true!
Questions/topics discussed and answered:
- How do we stop comparing ourselves to our friends—and start celebrating them instead?
- Can friendships be recovered back after conflict—or is it okay to walk away?
- Why vulnerability is the key to deeper connection—and how to practice it safely
- Signs of a life-giving friendship
- How to you heal from past friendship wounds and learn to trust again
- Practical tips for making and keeping friendships
AND SO MUCH MORE!
Helpful Resources:
Dare To Be True: Defeat The Lies That Bind You and Live Out The Truth That Frees You by Madison Prewett Troutt: https://a.co/d/gdfpHX5
The Better Friend: 12 Truths to Shift from Shallow and One-Sided Connections to Vibrant Friendships by Grace Valentine: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Friend-One-Sided-Connections-Friendships/dp/0593601378
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💙 Follow Grace | @thegracevalentine
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0:00.0 | What are ways we can shift from the surface level friendships to more deeper, meaningful friendships that are godly? |
0:07.0 | Never be too busy for your friends. You have a list of excuses to not show up, but then at the end of the day, like radical love is so crucial and we'll take a friendship to the next level. |
0:15.0 | How do you know when you need to walk away from an unhealthy friendship? And how do you know if a friendship is unhealthy? |
0:21.4 | There are certain things in life that you should give grace towards, |
0:24.0 | but you don't have to give excuses towards. |
0:25.4 | You can realize that there are conflicts |
0:26.8 | that you've had with friendships where, yeah, |
0:28.4 | the friendship may need to change. |
0:29.5 | What's the difference between asking for wisdom |
0:31.1 | and advice versus allowing it to be gossip? |
0:33.9 | It's important before you walk towards God's new blessings, |
0:36.2 | that you realize that closure was never going to come from a text message. |
0:38.7 | It was never going to come from someone admitting they were wrong. |
0:41.0 | It was always going to come from trusting that God will be God. |
0:43.2 | What would you say is good advice for dealing with conflict and friendship? |
0:47.9 | We have to realize that jealousy will destroy not only the other person's life because you will act hurtful towards them. |
0:53.5 | It will also destroy your |
0:54.3 | own. How can we defeat comparison and competition in our life? |
1:06.2 | What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of stay true podcast I'm your host |
1:10.8 | Madison Pruitt Trout here with my friend grace of Valentine thank you Maddie |
1:17.4 | it's so it's so fun hearing Maddie Madison Pruitt trout I don't know even though |
1:21.2 | it's been like forever but it just like it's the longest time you thought my name was |
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