The Lies Anxiety Tells & the Truth that Silences Them | Maddie Joy Fischer | Episode 406
The Speakeasy
The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today we're talking about anxiety, not the casual "I'm stressed" kind, but the kind that takes over your body, your thoughts, your sleep, your peace, and your sense of safety.
My friend Maddie Joy Fischer joins me to talk about our very real stories with anxiety, panic, fear, and the lies at the root of it all. We both know what it's like to feel trapped by fear and to wonder if this is just how life will always be. But we also know what it's like for God to meet us there, unravel self-reliance, expose the lies, and begin rebuilding something truer and stronger.
In this conversation we talk about:
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how anxiety can start small and slowly take over
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health anxiety, panic attacks, and feeling unsafe in your own body
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the lie that says "I'm not safe" and the truth that answers it
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fear of man, self-protection, and trying to stay in control
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what it looks like to come to the end of yourself
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why healing is often not linear
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how God uses even the darkest seasons for redemption
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what surrender actually looks like when you're in it
This episode is full of honesty, Scripture, and hope for the person still in the thick of anxiety, and for the person who loves someone who is.
If you've ever felt like fear was driving the bus, this conversation is for you. There is freedom in Jesus. There is truth stronger than the lies. And there is hope, even here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast. Today we are talking about anxiety, which has been a minute since we have discussed anxiety on the show. And if you know any of my story, you know that it's been a pretty overarching theme. So I think it's interesting that we haven't discussed it. And that makes me all the more excited to welcome my friend Maddie Joy Fisher onto the show today to talk about |
| 0:21.9 | our stories of anxiety, the depths of darkness that we have both reached, but even more so, |
| 0:29.9 | above all of it, what God has done, how he has unraveled our self-reliance and our fears, |
| 0:37.0 | how we have both experienced healing and freedom. |
| 0:39.9 | And ultimately, what I want to do is just send back hope for people that are still in it. |
| 0:45.9 | For individuals that are walking through the depths of anxiety, I remember when I was |
| 0:52.5 | really in it, I could not get enough of listening to people |
| 0:56.8 | talk about how God had used these things or what they had heard from him or what, even like |
| 1:01.6 | what they had done to experience victory. And I don't think that we can, this is something |
| 1:10.1 | we can dig ourselves out of. I think it's |
| 1:12.0 | something that we can only rely on the Lord for. But Maddie has a really incredible story. And we kind of |
| 1:19.1 | swapped war stories throughout the episode, but ultimately came down to like, how do we dig out these |
| 1:25.1 | lies that are at the root of our anxiety and our panic and what |
| 1:28.7 | do we replace them with? And so whether you experience anxiety, whether you love someone that |
| 1:33.5 | experiences anxiety, I think that this episode can be really helpful in that walk and hopefully |
| 1:38.9 | not just offer you hope, but truth as well. |
| 1:49.9 | Thank you. offer you hope but truth as well. Hey, Maddie, welcome to the speak-easy. |
| 1:52.5 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:55.1 | I know. |
| 1:55.8 | I am pumped to talk about anxiety, which is a weird sentence to say. |
| 2:00.8 | But we were kind of chatting before |
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