Friendships That Go Beyond the Surface: Building Deep, Godly Community with Toni Collier

Truth Talks with Tara

Tara Sun

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Fiery and full of faith - that is my friend, Toni Collier. She's here to talk about building community when all you want to do is hide, how to accept God's gift of help from others when it feels like the hardest thing, finding friendships that go beyond the surface, healing from past hurts, and so much more. You'll laugh, cry, and say "Whoa, that's good!" all throughout this episode, I promise. Toni's new book, "Don't Try This Alone." Couple that with Tara's new book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Overbooked and Overwhelmed: How to Keep Up With God When You're Just Trying to Keep Up With Life⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - out now. FOLLOW TRUTH TALKS WITH TARA ON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- CONNECT WITH TARA: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Books⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Her website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jewelry line⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The free, email family⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sponsor a child through Compassion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Scream Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Truth Talks with Tara.
0:30.1	It is your friend Tara and we are all about knowing God's word, loving God's word,
0:35.3	and living it in our lives and not just by ourselves,
0:38.6	but with other people. And what a blessing to have Tony Collier, the one, the only on the show.
0:46.0	You know what's weird, Tony? And I cannot believe this is just the first time. But this is your
0:50.1	first time on the podcast. And like, not your last. Let let's just say that but i'm grateful you're here
0:55.7	let's talk all the things i mean i'm so excited to get into don't try this alone building community
1:01.7	when we want to hide what it looks like to press in why honestly we need each other more than ever
1:07.1	right now but before we do that because i'm getting ahead of myself, can you tell
1:11.0	our friends listening a little bit about who you are, what you do? And then at the top of the
1:15.6	episode, I want to hear something that you are loving and is bringing joy in your life. It could
1:19.2	be literally anything. Well, hey, y'all. I'm so excited to be here for so many reasons. Tara,
1:27.2	I love you. I love everything the Lord is doing in you. I'm so grateful to be here for so many reasons Tara I love you I love everything the Lord is doing in you
1:29.4	I'm so grateful to be on the second reason is I just love the name of the podcast okay because we are
1:34.7	big fans of going deep or going home being vulnerable telling the truth believing that the truth
1:40.4	will actually deeply set us free and so I'm excited to have a conversation
1:44.3	like that today. I want truth-telling conversation. So I'm excited about that. And so here's what I'll
1:51.0	say about me really quickly. I have an organization called Broken Crayon Still Color because I'm a
1:54.8	telotuby at heart. I truly do believe that the Lord can quite literally use any little broken thing
2:00.0	and turn it into something
2:01.0	so beautiful. And so everything I do revolves around that. Like how can we turn beauty into
2:07.4	amazing moments of redemption? Like that's what I want my whole life. So one of the things I'm
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