Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
You know who's going through BIG STUFF? Literally everyone. But it's how you handle it that makes the difference.
Award-winning author and life coach Danielle Colley gets real about the relentless expectations we put on ourselves, the comparison trap, and the gap between how life looks and how it actually feels.
For ambitious women who may be crushing their goals but are feeling crushed by them. Conversations that matter. A little advice, a little inspiration, and a lot of humanness. No toxic positivity - just raw honesty about what it really takes to thrive.
If you're burnt out from achieving everything or tired of pretending it's all fine, this is for you. Because life should feel GOOD to live.
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Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
She Lost Her Voice for a Year. Here's What She Found - Sophie Bretag
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Sophie Bretag came on this show to talk about kindness. But what she really gave us was something far more important — a front-row seat to what happens when everything you've built your identity around is taken from you, and what you discover in the silence that follows.
Two years ago, Sophie had surgery for tongue cancer — a rare diagnosis for a woman her age — and spent almost twelve months unable to speak clearly. For someone whose entire career is built on her voice, that enforced silence became the most profound teacher of her life.
This is a conversation about what it actually means to choose yourself — not as a concept, but when the stakes are real, when your husband is hospitalised the same week you are, when your kids need you, when going back to work two weeks post-surgery feels like the only option.
Sophie is warm, funny, and extraordinarily open, and I found myself receiving things in this conversation that I didn't even know I needed. I think you will too.
CHAPTERS
0:00 — Introduction
3:00 — The lump on Sophie's tongue
10:00 — The diagnosis: "baby cancer"
17:00 — The operation
22:00 — Speaking for the last time before surgery
27:00 — The biggest fears going under the knife
33:00 — When your other senses take over
38:00 — The outpouring of love
44:00 — Setting the hardest boundaries of her life
49:00 — "I chose to choose me"
54:00 — What kindness actually looks like day to day
56:00 — What she would tell herself two years ago
RESOURCES & LINKS
Sophie Bretag — mettaleaders.com
The Kind Way — available for pre-order now, in store 30 June 2025
Sophie on LinkedIn
Sophie on Instagram — @sophiebretag
Danielle Colley — daniellecolley.com.au
Instagram - @iamdaniellecolley
Contact Big Stuff — bigstuffpod@gmail.com
THINKING POINTS
When someone you love is struggling, do you offer an open door — "let me know if you need anything" — or do you give them options?
Think about one person in your life right now who might need A, B, C, or D instead.
Where are you still waiting for permission to stop going back to the way things were? You already have it.