The inspirational quote for this episode is from Madonna.

Tess’s loves for this episode are League of Pigs on YouTube and “The Big Nailed It Baking Challenge” on Netflix.

Leif’s loves for this episode are “The Bible in a Year” podcast, and a trip he recently took with his family to Great Wolf Lodge.

This episode’s life lesson: Battling anxiety is a process, not a “poof,” as Tess recently discovered during an encounter with the world’s largest rubber duck.

We’re discontinuing our Tales from the Library segment to bring you a new segment exploring spiritual topics. We’ve placed this segment at the end of the podcast, so folks who are uninterested can easily skip it. But if you choose not to skip, in this episode you’ll hear how one of your hosts was almost recruited into a cult as a teenager…

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