ZLORD podcast

Everyone wants to offer their opinion. Everywhere we go, we hear, see, and feel people's take on life's many intriguing subjects. In this episode teZa and Carter discuss what they see as a negative tendency among many people to force their opinions upon others. Respect and kindness, where are they? Well, the Lords think that by treating others with kindness, kindness and good fortune appears in on...

While Carter is off today, teZa shares her family's true story about how Grandpa Bruns survived the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918. Everyone is safe from the potential current pandemic if they follow Grandpa's example. Everyone is connected: we are one global blended family. That's why teZa shares her intimate stories and ideas, and that's why she sometimes gets so impassioned, especially about envi...

The two hosts of ZLORD, teZa and Carter decide to hop right in and address a very HOT topic in today's world: the great divide happening among American society. Is it political alone? Or, as both attest, it's the culmination of many factors in many arenas of life that have led up to today's highly charged emotional states and political despair. The couple share from their own experiences and keep...

Focusing on the "inner journey" now, teZa and Carter talk about how they try to keep in the present NOW, finding it more challenging since their return. When alone with just themselves during their months-long camping trip, it was considerably easier. Now, with multi-responsibilities and pulls coming from all direction, the Lords discuss how each of them attempt to keep balanced in our increasingl...

The Lords discuss how teZa's latest book "Zen Love: The Journey of a Blended Family" (which Carter is reading for the very first time) is about every human's inner journey. Remarkable especially when in contrast to the continuous drama of today's social clime & the exotic six months' worth of vision quest adventures the Lords have just returned from. Like teZa's other books, this is a nonfiction n...

The nomads have been home for two months now and are now embarking on new journeys, together and separately. teZa explains how she's changing her focus from authoring books (having changed her manuscript-crammed writing room into an art studio and is busy painting already). For the next year she is committed to learning how to disseminate her four published books. Meanwhile, Carter is transforming...

Not for the faint-hearted, teZa one half of ZLORD podcast; the other half, Carter, being absent today) starts off warning the listener. If you are squeamish about bodily functions, especially bathroom stuff, best you skip this particular episode and check out other, less intimate ZLORD conversations. This one explores the REAL and unmistakably pernicious-natured "animal spirit" that both teZa and...

Half of ZLORD is busy and unavailable, so teZa decides to make the podcast her own for this once (or maybe more?). Things are sure different now that the nomadic pair are back home. Carter is off somewhere else, as he loves playing tennis and hanging with his buds. But he'll participate in the ZLORD conversation whenever he can, he just said as this episode is being published. During this one here...

The Lords, Carter and teZa are back home after six months without much of an itinerary or even a very defined plan. Now home in Florida they are adapting to sharing the precious Presence they've been relishing, and which they've focused on during their time away from their "regular" life. Here, they discuss how to maintain their awareness of Presence as they continue to flow with family, friends,...

Recorded earlier in December but this episode is released late in January 2020 due to technical difficulties. Speaking from Louisiana where teZa and Carter, the itinerant pair featured in ZLORD podcast are headed for Grand Isle, at the very tip of the Bayou country; Carter shares what he's learned about the Apaches. The Lords are fascinated by this particular tribe of Native Americans because they...

Two intrepid car and tent campers, teZa and Carter are on their way home! As they drive Highway 10 from New Orleans on the final lap of their six-month sojourn over a vast part of North America, the pair reflects about what they've learned and what they'll keep close to their hearts, minds, and souls forever. Soon, they'll be back to their "regular" lives in Florida. But nothing they've experience...

The Lords speak from their totally isolated wilderness campsite in Big Bend National Park, close to Mexico in Texas. teZa had a dream the night before, and she talks about it with Carter, who has always helped her understand the significance of dreams. It's what they do. The couple speaks of different ways they connect to their Source: sometimes through the majesty of Nature, sometimes in quiet me...

Nomad teZa and Carter Lord are tent-camping for the next two weeks in the Big Bend National Park, which borders Mexico and Texas. They speak from the first of three wilderness camps they've already secured with permits. Sadly, no fires are allowed here. Sharing about whatever hits their hearts, the Lords are feeling melancholic because this magnificent spot marks the beginning of their return jour...

the Lords (teZa and Carter) speak from the side of a babbling book-like river in New Mexico. They've just been visiting friends of the Acoma Pueblo, close to Albuquerque. In presenting ways of helping heal the bleeding dissent of current times in America, these indigenous ancient pueblans have much to offer: the need for more conversations, the civility of peaceful pow-wows instead of war-like nam...

The Lords first speak from the sacred place of Canyon de Chelly, which lies in the remote yet inhabited Navajo Nation of northeastern Arizona. Since leaving Las Vegas they've been running from the bitter winter cold, their tent-camping spirits warmed by campfires outside, their bellies with delicious meals cooked on their camp stove. After Vegas they visited Cochise's Stronghold, famed for the 19t...

A mammoth week for the Lords as the awesomeness continues to amaze them! They left car-camping in the bosom of Nature to head straight into the heart of Los Angeles, for a special visit to a film studio. Now teZa and Carter are on their way back to their tent but first, a quick stop in Las Vegas. That's where teZa had to do some serious pre-book-launch promo work on Wifi. Gaining Bestseller status...

ZLORD's two artist cohosts, teZa and Carter Lord find themselves in a humbled state of awe. It is now their fourth month traveling as car-camping-style nomads. They wonder at what "Art" means to them, surrounded by the highest example of artistic expression -- the Magnificence of Nature -- the awe-inspiring, sculptural canyons of southern Utah. Both Lords express what their "role" as artist means...

the Lords (teZa and Carter) are in Escalante, Utah, having left their Moab campsite and friends behind a few days ago. They've spent the previous 3 nights wilderness camping near Mule Canyon, Utah, where such thrilling sights as Anasazi ruins and the "Natural Bridges" Park kept them in a constant state of awe. Now they've met the ultimate in awesomeness! Riding out-of-the-way Burr Trail, close to...

teZa and Carter are re-visiting the 9,000-plus-foot mountain bike trail in Moab, Utah, the "Whole Enchilada" but this time as hikers. Carter relates his previous experience biking this world-famous trail some years beforehand with a friend, before he knew the importance of eating carbs to fuel such strenuous activities as extreme sports. The couple's musings glide into the high winds they experien...

After their last podcast, both Carter and teZa feel much freer about expressing themselves, because of course a podcast is so very public. Their private lives are now bared to all. teZa shares a startling dream. Carter shares how he's just learned to "watch" his repetitive thought patterns. All is well as they travel down a lonely stretch of Oregon canyon rural road, where a herd of cattle, a lone...

the Lords are in Washington State, camping on the Natches River close to Mt. Rainier. They take a day hike to bat-colonized Boulder Cave where teZa wants to explore the subject of the inner "cave" of meditation, and Carter isn't in the mood. The rest of their back-and-forthing (the next day) is a light-hearted glimpse as to how they balance their major differences, as we all do in life in so many...

Staying put for a couple weeks so teZa can final-edit her next book (and needing electricity for her computer), Carter keeps busy on the organic farm of our friends, which is totally without screens of any sort. He gathers wild apples and nearly burns down the motel making applesauce! After an idyllic stay in this delightful river town of Twisp, Washington, they're off back on the road, tent-campi...

Carter and teZa Lord are now in Washington State, having driven through British Columbia after leaving the Canadian Rockies. Here, in the tiny agricultural town of Twisp, they're visiting garlic growers, and taking time off from their road trip for teZa to do a final edit on her next book. The pair discuss how setting goals strengthens, not diminishes, their ability to stay in the present moment....

teZa and Carter are almost incapable of describing the beauty of the Canadian Rockies as they drive and talk from their Banff-area campground to close to Jasper. Surrounding them are glacier-topped majestic rocky worlds, the mountains, with the crystalline turquoise Saskatchewan river below. They talk of First Nation people and the difference between spontaneity and needing to plan. And ... their...

After two weeks exploring North Dakota's badlands, mostly around Teddy Roosevelt National Park North, the nomadic travelers are heading out! teZa and Carter Lord sit around the campfire the night before breaking camp talking about whatever tickles their fancy, everything from the crazy weather to a synchronistic visit from a prophetic fellow tenter. Everything is synchronistic. Everything astounds...