Still Coloring with Toni Collier

Tori shares the story behind her new book Safe House and introduces us to Tanya—the woman who welcomed Tori during some of the hardest moments of her childhood, gave her somewhere to live after she aged out of foster care, and still keeps a key available so Tori always has a safe place to land.
Together, Toni and Tori unpack why hospitality is about so much more than opening your home.
It’s about access and presence.
Listening well.
Building trust.
Making room.
And being willing to love people closely enough that it actually costs you something.
Toni also gets vulnerable about overcoming her own fear of opening her home and what she is learning through hosting a small group for single moms around her table.
This conversation asks all of us a challenging question:
Do people experience the welcome of Jesus when they experience us?
Pre-order Tori’s new book Safe House here:
https://amzn.to/4jjWH65
And if the Still Coloring Podcast has encouraged you, consider supporting the show through the donation link in the show notes as Toni continues building the podcast while raising her kids as a single mom.
Watch the full conversation at YouTube.com/@tonijcollier and share this episode with someone who wants to become a safer, more present, more Jesus-like person.

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Connect with Toni:
Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonijcollier
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillcoloringpod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colliertoni
Newsletter: ToniJCollier.com/Newsletter
Website: ToniJCollier.com
Purchase Toni's newest book, Don’t Try This Alone: https://amzn.to/3BQqaBr
Purchase Toni’s children’s book, Broken Crayons Still Color: https://amzn.to/3x3I4xD
Purchase Toni’s first book, Brave Enough to be Broken: https://amzn.to/3VoCjVu

Christians…we need to talk about kindness.
In this solo episode of the Still Coloring Podcast, Toni tackles a conviction that has been sitting heavy on her heart:
We can know Scripture, understand theology, have strong convictions and still completely miss the heart of Jesus if we are not kind. Watch podcast episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tonijcollier

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Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonijcollier
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colliertoni
Newsletter: ToniJCollier.com/Newsletter
Website: ToniJCollier.com

Purchase Toni's newest book, Don’t Try This Alone:
https://amzn.to/3BQqaBr
Purchase Toni’s children’s book, Broken Crayons Still Color:
https://amzn.to/3x3I4xD
Purchase Toni’s first book, Brave Enough to be Broken:
https://amzn.to/3VoCjVu

What does it actually look like to keep going when you’re tired enough to quit?
In this episode of the Still Coloring Podcast, Toni sits down with author and friend Kaitlin Chappell Rogers for a vulnerable, practical conversation about perseverance, failure, burnout, motherhood, rejection, obedience, spiritual warfare, and learning how to take life one next step at a time.
Kaitlin shares the winding journey from broadcast journalism to writing, the dreams God asked her to surrender, and how some of the fruit she prayed for took nearly a decade to see.
She also opens up about one of the darkest seasons of her life and the reality that perseverance does not always look strong or impressive.
Sometimes it looks like finding one reason to stay for one more day.
Toni gets vulnerable about her own fear of failure and how that fear can sometimes keep us from even starting the things God has called us to do.
Together, they unpack the idea of everyday perseverance:
You do not have to solve your whole life today.
You do not have to carry tomorrow today.
You do not have to eat the whole elephant.
Sometimes you just need to ask:
“God, what is the next right thing?”
And then ask Him for the grace to do that.
One of the most powerful reminders from this conversation is simple:
Crawling still counts.
If you are exhausted, burned out, scared to fail, grieving, overwhelmed, or wondering if you have enough left to keep going, this episode is for you.
Grab Kaitlin’s new book She Just Won’t Quit: Embracing the Practice of Everyday Perseverance here:
https://amzn.to/4j66UDe
And if the Still Coloring Podcast has encouraged you, consider supporting the show through the donation link in the show notes as Toni continues building the podcast while raising her kids as a single mom.
Watch the full episode on YouTube.com/@tonijcollier and share it with someone who needs the reminder that they do not have to do everything today.
They just need the next right step.

Watch podcast episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tonijcollier
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Connect with Toni:
Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonijcollier
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillcoloringpod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colliertoni
Newsletter: ToniJCollier.com/Newsletter
Website: ToniJCollier.com
Purchase Toni's newest book, Don’t Try This Alone: https://amzn.to/3BQqaBr
Purchase Toni’s children’s book, Broken Crayons Still Color: https://amzn.to/3x3I4xD
Purchase Toni’s first book, Brave Enough to be Broken: https://amzn.to/3VoCjVu

What happens when your life looks nothing like the plan?
On this episode of the Still Coloring Podcast, Toni sits down with Mac & Kenz, founders of Delight Ministries and authors of This Wasn’t the Plan, for a vulnerable conversation about feeling stuck, disappointment with God, unanswered prayer, surrender, sin, faith, and what it looks like to keep moving when God does not change your circumstances the way you hoped.
Kenz shares about years of chronic illness and the spiritual crisis that came when she prayed for healing but her symptoms remained. What eventually changed wasn’t immediately her body—it was how she understood God’s presence in her pain.
Mac opens up about reaching a point where life looked incredible externally while internally she felt deeply empty and lonely, eventually moving back into her parents’ basement with no plan for what came next.
Together, they unpack a practical framework from Matthew 7:7:
Ask. Seek. Knock.
Ask Jesus better questions.
Seek evidence of His faithfulness.
And then knock—take the next brave step and trust Him with the door.
They also talk about the hidden places of sin and shame we desperately try to keep locked away from Jesus. Toni shares vulnerably about her own battle with pornography and lust and how inviting God and trusted community into that hidden room became part of her freedom.
If you’ve been thinking:
“God, this wasn’t the plan…”
this conversation is for you.
Grab Mac & Kenz’s new book This Wasn’t the Plan on Amazon through this link: https://amzn.to/4hlmaL2
And if the Still Coloring Podcast has encouraged you, consider supporting the show through the donation link in the show notes as Toni continues building the podcast while raising her kids as a single mom.
Watch the full episode at YouTube.com/@tonijcollier and send it to someone who needs a reminder that feeling stuck does not mean God has stopped moving.

Watch podcast episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tonijcollier
Support the Still Coloring Podcast: https://square.link/u/u2FkAzC7?src=sheet
Shop Toni's merch: https://www.shopetch.co/collections/toni-collier

Connect with Toni:
Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonijcollier
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillcoloringpod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colliertoni
Newsletter: ToniJCollier.com/Newsletter
Website: ToniJCollier.com
Purchase Toni's newest book, Don’t Try This Alone: https://amzn.to/3BQqaBr
Purchase Toni’s children’s book, Broken Crayons Still Color: https://amzn.to/3x3I4xD
Purchase Toni’s first book, Brave Enough to be Broken: https://amzn.to/3VoCjVu

How do you keep your joy when life keeps giving you reasons to lose it?
On this episode of the Still Coloring Podcast, Toni sits down with Air1’s Lacy Abercrombie for a hilarious and deeply vulnerable conversation about what they call “sticky joy”—the kind of joy that can exist alongside grief, disappointment, addiction, and pain.
Lacy shares her journey from people-pleasing and searching for identity in other people to discovering who she was through actually following Jesus.
She also gets vulnerable about addiction, losing her ministry job, hiding from accountability, becoming dependent on alcohol, and the moment God used another woman’s obedience to help lead her toward sobriety.
Toni shares her own experience of turning to alcohol after divorce and realizing that something she used for temporary relief had slowly become an idol.
Then the conversation shifts into grief as Lacy shares about losing her brother DJ to addiction, seeing him days before his death, and singing “Goodness of God” at his funeral.
Together they wrestle with a hard question:
How can God still be good when life still hurts?
This conversation is a reminder that joy does not require denial.
Sometimes joy looks like finding one thing to hold onto today.
A Scripture.
A prayer.
A friend.
A worship song.
Or simply:
“Jesus, help me.”
If you’re grieving, fighting an unhealthy pattern, rebuilding your faith, or wondering why following Jesus hasn’t suddenly made life easier, this episode is for you.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube.com/@tonijcollier and send it to someone who needs a little sticky joy today.
AND watch Lacy's new YouTube show "Lacy's Lunch Table" with Elevation Rhythm here: https://tinyurl.com/4jhpr5rb

Watch podcast episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tonijcollier
Support the Still Coloring Podcast: https://square.link/u/u2FkAzC7?src=sheet
Shop Toni's merch: https://www.shopetch.co/collections/toni-collier

Connect with Toni:
Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonijcollier
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillcoloringpod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colliertoni
Newsletter: ToniJCollier.com/Newsletter
Website: ToniJCollier.com
Purchase Toni's newest book, Don’t Try This Alone: https://amzn.to/3BQqaBr
Purchase Toni’s children’s book, Broken Crayons Still Color: https://amzn.to/3x3I4xD
Purchase Toni’s first book, Brave Enough to be Broken: https://amzn.to/3VoCjVu