ZLORD podcast

During cohosts teZa and Carter Lord's lifetimes things have never felt so filled with things beyond their control. World events are catastrophic. Putin's Russia invading Ukraine has thrown the entire globe into a frightening tailspin. Never before has a nuclear threat loomed as REAL as we are experiencing right now. Today. So what can we do to ease the stress? Especially helping our young children...

Many in the free world feel imperiled right now. Upon this past week's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Putin's Russian military forces and the subsequent loss of life and river of refugees during a harsh winter, our conversation's mood is solemn. The fragile balance of world power hangs precariously in the hands of an apparent greedy madman What can we do to help? In this week's episode teZa and...

Carter and teZa Lord discuss how accessible real happiness is for every person alive--if they're willing to do "the work." No one can deny: life is hard. Many happiness "experts" are offering ways to grasp fulfillment because we are a more "mindful" culture in the West. In this week's conversation, as always, the ZLORD cohosts present personal anecdotes and true-life experiences of how these two l...

Carter and teZa Lord talk about a useful exercise they're doing: making a spiritual inventory of their assets as well as their deficits. Why do such a thing? Isn't being spiritual mindful enough? Well, we all can improve, right? By writing these self-reflexive things about ourself down (privately, but written down not just contemplated) they become tangible to us. Then we really know what we have...

Everyone's sick and tired of "them vs. us" vitriolic arguing. Nothing much gets done with this leak of psychic energy in society. This week's discussion has cohosts teZa and Carter Lord offering reasonable, workable solutions for helping to transform the divisiveness in our global society.  First, a person decides to be more aware in their own lives. Then they can influence others in their circle...

In this episode of ZLORD, Carter and teZa Lord, married for 30 years, discuss the different ways they use to stay focused in the moment, and experience greater peace as a result. Sometimes they have similar techniques, with different words to describe it. Whether they agree or not, the love they share is the true spirit of their honest conversations. That, and wishing to share with others what wor...

teZa and Carter, cohosts of ZLORD continue their spiritual-mental-physical discussion about many aspects of healing the body-mind-soul. Especially teZa's recent leg fracture. See tezalord.com for more

Carter and teZa Lord discuss how physical challenges are the same and effect us similarly as emotional, psychological, racial, economic, and spiritual hurdles we all get challenged by in life. Carter was blessed to have known Sidney Poitier during both men's early film careers. Here, Carter gives insights how Sidney overcame his lowly, impoverished beginnings to become the giant, the icon that he...

Happy 2022 means something entirely different to teZa now, who broke her right leg 10 days ago in a freak home accident! Carter and she discuss how so-called "accidents" can be catalysts for great change -- or not. Depending on how we regard such opportunities we meet as freak occurrences, dis-eases, pandemics, chance encounters--numerous ways accidents might be defined--they can effect our desire...

teZa is solo today while Carter is off fishing on a boat with the beautiful name of "Sea Love." She invites you to join her on an inward journey that can also be called My-Self Love Check-Up. Ending one phase of life (it's New Year's Eve!) and ready to start another (namely, 2022 begins at midnight) is a glorious time to do a "self-inventory." This we do together in three parts: mental, physical,...

In this season of honoring the sacred Light within, ZLORD focuses on unity among us all Even though many of us hold different worldviews, our oneness is pervasive. For people who think there's no "fixing" the divide in today's highly charged political climate, teZa and Carter have some good thoughts. Like: Each of us is responsible for our own happiness. Just because we run into someone who has di...

Every moment is an opportunity to experience the magic in life--no matter what's going on. In today's episode (in two parts) 1-Carter and teZa discuss the many ways people choose to stay present, and how being tolerant of others' choices is the highest of choices, and 2- teZa alone talks about using our mental thoughts to heal and empower others who are in need, whenever we can. In this seasonal t...

We mean "Divine Choice" because everything we talk about on ZLORD podcast is about becoming more aligned with the sacred of everyday life. Carter and teZa Lord are both committed to living in the Light: which means individually, and through their life partnership they have made the choice to live from the spiritual core all of us have. They share how the true nature of Divinity is explained best,...

Cohosts teZa and Carter discuss how the "way the heart thinks" is the way our lives are. Citing this profound wisdom contained in the Old Testament's proverbs, attributing one's heartfelt feelings, rather than one's brain-based thoughts to how a person's life goes, whether peaceful or stressful--is helped by understanding the biological function of the vagus nerve. No longer purely a spiritual pri...

Everywhere, in private and in public places, difficult people are challenging to love. But as spiritual people who strive to see the Oneness in All, no matter who, teZa and Carter Lord discuss how they practice compassion for even those who hurt their hearts the most. Giving helpful ways to do this, and sharing how painful it is to not accept others as they are, is this episode's useful topic. see...

Setting goals has been a regular topic for us, Carter and teZa Lord, cohosts of ZLORD podcast. Our discussion here goes to the next obvious, and essentially spiritual step--using whatever time we have wisely. Because without knowing what one's life goals (or for the week, the month, the year, etc) are--it's very hard, and for use we both agree virtually impossible to use our time wisely. Before wo...

teZa and Carter discuss how the main theme of their 3-years of podcasting--once their original camping trip was curtained by the pandemic--is how to achieve inner peace. Bliss. Happiness. And once that state is glimpsed, even for ever so briefly, how can it be cultivated? And eventually, embraced as the permanent state that each one of us can choose to live in. Some call that state enlightenment,...

A spirited discussion of the most interesting and inspiring book we've read in a long time. James R. Doty MD's autobiography, in which he shares a 4-step process of how to create the life we want. As a young boy of 12, without any support whatsoever (his parents, beyond dysfuctional) the story begins as Jim steps into a magic shop in his local California strip mall. There, he's taught this magical...

Cohost Carter returns after almost a month of teZa podcasting solo. They continue the discussion begun in last episode, of how our perceptions determine what kind of life we live. In teZa's case, she's comfortable thinking of life as a spiritual experience in her human "suit." Carter has similar perceptions, and together they share how even something like the so-called social "divide" promoted by...

Going solo this episode (Carter's off helping others, as he often is) teZa shares about who and what she is, knowing you too have this same insight about your own self. This is an introduction to the upcoming episode coming next, when Carter and teZa together discuss how we are all One, and that the so-called political/racial/sexual/social-economic "divisiveness" among us is only an illusion, and...

Carter and teZa Lord have just returned from their honeymoon celebrating 30 years of purposefully-designed spiritual union. They discuss how they, both in their mid-40s, decided that was the only kind of love partnering for them. Discussing many details like: how they arrived at their marriage vows; how raising step-children (for teZa) fit into the plan; how Carter accepts Eastern mysticism into h...

While cohost Carter journeys, teZa speaks solo. She has a lot on her mind, three episodes in the last week! But urgency commands this sharing. Everywhere she turns teZa hears about younger people, more than most others, are feeling lost and confused these days. She can relate. Offering some insights and clear direction, she asks anyone listening to forward this to any person feeling similarly. It'...

teZa solo shares how, once an old negative source within us is identified, how to transform it into a positive NEW creation. This is the 2nd step to Letting Go. Allowing the creative intelligence we all have to flourish, we must destroy as much negativity within our energy field (including unhealthy habits, friends, jobs, environments, etc) so that the creative force of the Universe can propel us...

While cohost Carter travels, teZa shares how she works at letting go of negative, disturbing occurrences in everyday life. Sometimes it's a personal slight, sometimes an injurious rumor. Sometimes anger over global injustices. To make our lives more full, more complete, we must choose to let go of fear, and therefore we make space for new and better things to arise, like love, creativity, self-wor...

Carter (for the first time!) listened to ZLORD podcast. He chose the previous episode, about Truth. Well, he wasn't happy with what he heard; thought things were not clear enough for his liking. So he wants to discuss Truth in more depth. teZa agrees, as any subject is interesting if it relates to understanding Spirit at greater depth. This episode could be: Truth, part 2 but more topics arise, na...