Build Well | Episode 14: Friendship, Loneliness & the People God Places Beside You

Leadership can be lonely. Ministry can be isolating. And real friendship, the kind that sticks closer than a sister, is rare. In this episode, Courtney Garner steps away from the usual format and sits down with one of her closest friends, Maggie Hernandez, a pastor, wife of 32 years, and mother of three. What begins as a conversation about friendship and the loneliness that so often comes with leadership opens into something much deeper: how to guard your heart without closing it off, how to discern the people God has truly placed beside you, and what it looks like to walk with a friend through the hardest seasons of life. Maggie shares her journey of raising three children, each with a unique and unexpected path, and what it means to trust God with the things you simply cannot fix. She and Courtney talk honestly about identity, health, self-discipline, and the quiet courage it takes to prioritize yourself after years of pouring out for everyone else.