She Almost Died Trying to Feel Beautiful with Tiffany Toney
September 6, 2026 · 59 min
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A former pro athlete turned filmmaker shares how chasing beauty nearly cost her her life.
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In this episode
- How athletic discipline can carry over into creative careers
- What it looks like to reclaim ownership of your work and your body
- The health risks of breast implants one woman lived through
- How to bet on yourself when no one else is opening the door
About this episode
In this episode, Lisane Basquiat sits down with Tiffany Toney—actress, filmmaker, former professional athlete, author, and founder of the Watch Her Glow Foundation—for a powerful conversation about reinvention, ownership, body autonomy, and learning to trust yourself.
Tiffany shares how the discipline she developed as an athlete carried into acting and filmmaking, why she ultimately chose to create her own opportunities, and what it took to reclaim ownership of her work. She also opens up about her experience with breast implants, the health complications that followed, and the process of rebuilding her relationship with her body and self-worth.
Now, through her upcoming book Big Tits Almost Killed Me and the Watch Her Glow Foundation, Tiffany is turning her experience into advocacy by helping women access better education, support, and resources around breast health and recovery.
At its core, this is a conversation about betting on yourself, listening to your intuition, and refusing to let someone else define who you’re allowed to become.
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About Shaping Freedom With Lisane Basquiat
Shaping Freedom is a podcast about emotional leadership and legacy; examining the inherited patterns shaping how we live, create, relate, and build. I’m Lisane Basquiat - a legacy healing strategist, creator of the Shaping Freedom framework and a steward of a global cultural legacy.
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