ZLORD podcast

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...

Carter and teZa have different ways of expressing their individual understanding, but agree that the universal Truth of Love is the ultimate core of all in existence. Their understanding came through life experiences. They present, sometimes in lively, hot (but always loving) exchanges how they have searched, and each found, this unchanging Truth: the Sacred in All. See tezalord.com for more

Carter and teZa Lord discuss how suffering is synonymous with being human. We all know what it's like to suffer, in all its many forms. But what can we do when we're in the thrust of its pain? This episode explores some spiritual approaches to helping relieve suffering, both our own and the empathy we feel about others' suffering. Visit tezalord.com for more

In this longer Mind-Stiller teZa shares how she quiets her busy mind, this time in a place she's never been before. She does this to demonstrate that no matter where one is, under what circumstances going on in the outside world, it is possible for virtually anyone to discover the inner place of calm, within one's consciousness. Awareness Acceptance Action. Being aware of something is the beginnin...

teZa offers listeners a 5-minute "mini" guided Mind-Stiller (see more of t eZa's Mind-Stillers on SoundCloud ) to calm your busy or agitated mind. In honor of our third year podcasting, use this short, and the next, longer guided-meditation, episodes 107 and 108 respectively, often to experience inner serenity. The more you visit this quiet and peaceful inner place, the more it becomes part of you...

Carter thought he didn't have much to share about boundaries. But when teZa begins about how she had to learn about boundaries early in her sober life, suddenly Carter can relate to this podcast's subject from his own experiences, and has a lot to say. As always, the focus is our spiritual life, but today we talk about more practical matters ... like how to enJOY washing the dishes, accomplishing...

Last episode was teZa's story of how she came to be a God-lover; this week it's Carter's. He uses the word "testimonial" because he identifies as a born-again Christian. One of the many subjects covered in his story is how he, as a single parent of two young children, reconciled marrying teZa, a self-proclaimed Christian Sufi soldier, a mystic. Lots of laughs, and lots of honest introspection from...

Like a caterpillar, I was once a hungry weird-looking thing, searching searching searching to fulfill myself. In this episode I'm solo (Carter's on a caper) and share the story of how I got involved with yoga and yogic philosophy. Telling our stories is such a magical part of being human. Join me, pull up a stool, and gather around the blaze of my fire of Joy, Love, and most of all ... Truth. This...

We all have them. Bad days, bad decisions, bad moods. Sometimes we experience them tribally, like the more-than-year-long pandemic everyone's tired of. Here, Carter and teZa honestly share about what they do when confronted with negative emotions. Digging inside their spiritual "toolbox" sometimes helps, sometimes not. Sometimes we just have to ... Be in a funk. Check out tezalord.com and carterlo...

What exactly is Success? What's the meaning of equality? And what about Oneness? These are some of the things that matter to cohosts teZa and Carter Lord in this week's ZLORD discussion. Recorded before Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympics, but relevant to her decision, nonetheless. Write us with comments zlordpodcast@gmail.com