Moving from Bitterness to Resilience with Toni Collier

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Jackie Hill Perry (1:16)

Hi, St. Denise. How are you? What's good, what's wrong? I hope you're good. I ain't going to hold you, the mic being over here is kind of, but yeah, I don't really know what to say.

Toni Collier (1:27)

Me neither.

Jackie Hill Perry (1:28)

Okay, so we got Toni Collier here. Hi, Toni.

Toni Collier (1:31)

Hi.

Jackie Hill Perry (1:32)

How are you? And I like your outfit. You're all here.

Toni Collier (1:34)

Honestly, I stayed up all night. I was like, how can I be cool? How can I channel a Perry? I am a Perry.

Jackie Hill Perry (1:41)

What?

Toni Collier (1:41)

And then I came up with this color, and then I remember you said the bold pant, and I've got the bold pant.

Jackie Hill Perry (1:48)

I like it.

Toni Collier (1:49)

Thanks.

Jackie Hill Perry (1:50)

Yeah, when I saw you, I said, okay.

Toni Collier (1:51)

I almost wore a hat, but I just got my hair done.

Jackie Hill Perry (1:54)

That would have been interesting. You only want to know what they say. Yeah, you would have to do it neutral.

Preston Perry (2:00)

You say pant.

Toni Collier (2:01)

Well, it's only one pair. I don't know what you're saying. You say pants?

Preston Perry (2:05)

Usually people say pants.

Toni Collier (2:06)

Pairs of pants.

Preston Perry (2:07)

I know, I get it.

Toni Collier (2:08)

This is a pant.

Preston Perry (2:08)

I actually think that might be correct, but it's just weird. I've never seen it.

Toni Collier (2:12)

Pants. It's because black people put an S on anything.

Jackie Hill Perry (2:14)

Yes, we do. JCPenney's.

Publix.

Preston Perry (2:18)

You say pants.

Toni Collier (2:20)

Pants. Pants does feel better.

Jackie Hill Perry (2:24)

Pant? It sounds like Bridgerton or something. No, I'm nervous.

Toni Collier (2:29)

I just wanted to be accurate.

Preston Perry (2:30)

It's okay.

Toni Collier (2:33)

A pant.

Jackie Hill Perry (2:34)

Toni, for those who don't know you, introduce yourself. I think you would be better at that than we would.

Toni Collier (2:39)

Okay, this is good.

I don't really know what to say about myself. I feel like the most important thing is, I'm a single mom in ministry. I got two kids and two baby daddies.

Jackie Hill Perry (2:49)

Okay.

Toni Collier (2:50)

So let's just start there. Married, divorced twice. Let's just go deeper, go home.

Jackie Hill Perry (2:54)

Okay.

Toni Collier (2:54)

You know?

I would say when people look for me or look for guidance for me, they're trying their best to still have hope when there's a lot of pain involved. Because I think that I've at least tried to have a lot of hope with a lot of pain involved in my life. So lots of trauma, but I'm just holding on. I love Jesus.

Jackie Hill Perry (3:17)

Yeah.

Toni Collier (3:17)

And I feel like I'm smart.

Jackie Hill Perry (3:19)

You are.

Toni Collier (3:19)

And I'm a little crazy.

Jackie Hill Perry (3:22)

You are.

Toni Collier (3:22)

And there may be ADHD involved.

Jackie Hill Perry (3:24)

There is. No, it is. It's not a maybe. It is.

Toni Collier (3:28)

It's so bad, I don't want to take the medicine. I just want to see. What's God going to do? What's he going to do?

I write books, podcasts, all the things, but it takes me a long time to do things because of ADHD.

Jackie Hill Perry (3:38)

Right.

Toni Collier (3:39)

And that's it.