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Solo on this episode while cohost Carter is away, teZa recounts a true story that'll make you laugh, perhaps wonder at, but definitely be amazed and astounded by!

We all remember how, as kids, every day was an exciting adventure! This pure, unaffected-by-adversity experience is within our grasp, still, for those of us who choose to have it. The choice is simple: focus on positives rather than the negatives of such fluctuating things as the political or material or "ordinary" view of what life's all about. How do we choose? By being aware that we DO HAVE fre...

Who would think it? Carter and teZa are both amazed as they contemplate the importance of developing patience. Without patience, a spiritual life is impossible, Carter is just finding out. teZa agrees, and both share how they're doing at practicing this little talked-about spiritual attribute. Especially in light of what's going on this particular day, January 6, 2021. ZLORD is a spiritual podcast...

teZa solo this time, offering a special GIFT (stay for the special ending!) for our ZLORD listeners. She shares how this year was not the worse one, in HER LIFE. Demonstrating what she learned from the actual worse one, decades earlier, when she decided to change her obsessively thrill-seeking life, listeners will be inspired to try her now-spiritual approach. As we all face more unknowns, more ch...

Co-hosts teZa and Carter Lord discuss how there's never "too much" when it comes to looking at, and responding to life from a spiritual perspective. They give numerous examples, both personally and from others' experiences. Perhaps the astronomical event of the past week, the multiple-centuries-rare conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter heralds in a new phase of humankind's understanding, commonly cal...

With recent conspiracy theories trying to usurp elections, covid vaccines and many other facets of human life, in this conversation Carter and teZa, the Lord cohosts, discuss evil and how it permeates daily life. And what we can do about not falling prey to its falsehoods. Love is our focus. How to discover and maintain the present moment, the place where Love abides within all our hearts, is our...

Dr. Deeh (Dorothy) Israel is back with us for a fourth installment of her magnificent and intriguing oral history. Carter, my co-host, and I joke that we're going to rename our podcast the "D'Zlord" podcast ... making it much more resonant to the purpose of recording for all posterity Deeh's remarkable life story. From Harlem and Bed-Sty in the heart of troubled Black times, with extreme prejudice...

Everyone wants to be happy. But some of us don't know how , or have forgotten how very simple it is to choose to BE content with "What Is." In this week's episode co-hosts teZa and Carter Lord give examples of how they use the simple formula of "Awareness, Acceptance, Action" to identify when a shift has to occur. First comes the recognition that a change is necessary (the Awareness part, from pay...

The world is often seen as a highly competitive arena. Everyone faces inner feelings of worthiness when we compare ourselves to the outer world. In our pre Covid-pandemic society, even more was made of a person's public persona. We definitely were (not so much today) a "celebrity culture." Today, anyone who wants to be can be a Rock Star! An overnight viral sensation! Thanks to social media, YouTu...

teZa and Carter Lord, the two co-hosts of ZLORD podcast, discuss the way they'd found WORKS to not only maintain the highest level of personal happiness for each of them, but also to get along with others, especially another person whose opinion sharply contrasts theirs in our highly divided society as today's political climate sadly is. In order to do both, stay personally content and get along s...

Change is a choice. Whether it's a national choice, a vote of presidential change, as we've witnessed just now in America--or our personal wish to change. Change begins with being AWARE of needing to change. Then, ACCEPTANCE that a better change is possible, over and over, until--ACTION can take place, which takes ... COURAGE. teZa and Carter Lord discuss the step-by-step process of how they work...

Waiting for the election's results teZa and Carter discuss all of life's other uncertainties. We express our free choice, but we must accept the powerful expression of the Divine. Sometimes that comes as a ferocious storm. Sometimes as an unexpected divorce, disease, or crisis--or election result. No matter what happens, the Divine aka God is in charge. As long as we approach our different materia...

It's presidential vote week! One week from today we'll know who won. For some of us it will be a time to celebrate. For others, it will be depressing news. No matter what happens, your vote counts! And also, what you THINK counts! Before an act, a thought arises in our consciousness. If you think positively, no matter what the results of any situation in life, you will be able to continue in a sta...

Co-hosts teZa and Carter Lord discuss how they work with setting goals. Goals for happiness, goals for work, goals for even family interactions. Even big LIfe goals Including how, as teZa tells Carter, "I manifested you," on this, their 29th wedding anniversary. Both discuss how they individually work with goal-setting. Carter gives a thorough step-by-step exactly how to discover one's current lif...

Carter's back and teZa, his cohost, feels like he's almost a "guest" because he's been absent for quite a few episodes (while she's been "interpreting" and reading her visionary book WE ARE ONE the last four episodes). Carter explains what's on his mind about this topic, "What's Really Important," and then teZa does. A back-and-forth discussion ensues about what they share, a three-decade-long cou...

This episode is the fourth and final installment of "We Are One" -- a verse n' vision artbook teZa narrates the poetic, scant text and describes each of the visionary images comprising this gem-like book honoring Oneness that she created. The previous three episodes of ZLORD podcast make, with this fourth, the completion of an intimate audial interpretation of this hardcover exploration of Unity C...

With Carter busy elsewhere, teZa continues with Part 3 of narrating/describing her visionary artbook "We Are One." Previous episodes present the introduction (Part 1) and beginning images (Part 2). Artist reads, and writer interprets the vibrant visual images in a calming bedtime-story fashion, both roles played by the book's author, teZa Lord. This special ZLORD audio book presentation of We Are...

Hello from teZa! Here, I continue narrating my own visionary artbook that was published several years ago. In the previous podcast I read "We Are One"'s short introduction to this linen-bound, 83-pages of vision n' verse, documenting my  true experiences of feeling the interconnectedness with all that is. I thought, since our podcast fans seem to love our quirky offerings, this to be an interestin...

This episode begins something new here on ZLORD podcast. In between our usual conversations, either with cohosts teZa and Carter Lord, or with a special guest, teZa will be reading and "interpreting" visual images of books she has published. This is something that has been asked for by many of our listeners. It's very soothing to be read to, and we hope you enjoy this special way of receiving an a...

In this insightful episode, Dr. Deeh (Dorothy) Israel starts us off remembering that this day of our recording, August 28, happens to be the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's giving his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln memorial during the March on Washington, attended by hundreds of thousands! On this day, 57 years ago, a sea of people of all colors and cultures came together in c...

This week's subject might be tough for lots of folks. People who have issues surrounding death might want to skip this episode. Because we, teZa and Carter Lord look compassionately deep inside the really hard letting-go involved with death, both by the person "doing the dying" and the loved ones who are left behind to grieve. During this time of Covid, death is on everyone's mind more than usual....

Going solo teZa focuses on gratitude in as many ways as colors shimmer in an expansive rainbow. Offering hope and love as the positive "charges" our world needs in order to spiritually transform, she reveals some pretty remarkable analogies from her own life experiences. Things Pretty Freaking Incredible, actually! Witnessing Death, Witnessing Space Ships, for teasers. Without her more reserved co...

Feisty and energized, the two Lords of ZLORD, teZa and Carter are at it again, on their own. In between back-to-back sessions with their special guest of two previous podcasts -- in which she offers the world her unique worldview, Dr. Dorothy Israel will return to continue offering us a unique oral history of her life as, first, a Black girl in Harlem, then as a Black mental health and social work...

Dr. Dorothy (Deeh) Israel has returned to ZLORD podcast! We welcome her reflections, memories, insights and just good old-fashioned darn good stories about a side of life we rarely hear firsthand: What it's like growing up as a self-proclaimed "colored girl" in an achingly prejudiced America of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Deeh's experiences are worthy turning over our mic (hand-held by teZa for this an...

This week we take a look, Carter and I, teZa Lord, at a golden opportunity made more available, during the disruption of "normal life" due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many folks know their inner Self. But some keep their minds too busy, and their bodies too, to explore the spiritual side of everyone's human nature. The so-called sacred Inner Voice is only heard when a person decides they want to kno...