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Losing Our Religion

A former megachurch pastor leaves religion behind to rid himself of the exclusivity created by its dogmas in order to open himself up to learn from the lives, stories, and experiences of everyone else. To prove we are more alike than we think and we can all get along no matter what we believe. Topics range via guest's experiences growing up in religious homes, where Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Secularism, Judaism, Hinduism, Tao, Heathenism, Satanism, Wicca and all forms of dogmas and ideologies programmed into the mind of a child. What happens when that child becomes an adult? What good things do they hold onto? What things do they lose? Where are they now, and in what ways are they finding the peace that we all desire, with or apart from the religions they were raised with? Losing Our Religion is a wild ride with a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life away from dogma and exclusivity.
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Now displaying: February, 2020

Losing Our Religion is a hilarious and candid look at religion and culture, with former pastor, now commune living lover of sinners, Zac Gandara.  As he has drinks with former religious freaks, and others he used to shun.  Gays, Anarchists, Queers, Atheists, Transsexuals, Punk Rockers, and the rest of us that are considered rejects on this island of misfit toys.

Feb 27, 2020

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.

You are unique. Your struggles are not. We are universally bound to each other and face and deal with the same struggles. As we face our internal struggles we begin to have more compassion for the struggles of others. Keep going!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
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COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Be Encouraged, You’re Not Alone in Your Healing: Zac Gandara

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA

Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

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This podcast is produced by select producers and created by @ZacGandara & the CounterCulture Society™.

Feb 26, 2020

Warning, this episode includes a story of a traumatic fatal accident. It’s not easy healing, let alone healing from something fatal. Katherine shares her story of healing and becoming. It’s honest, heartfelt, and helpful.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training: Rembering Who You Are, Reprogramming & Transformation. Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

CONTACT THE GUEST: Katherine is a Therapist, Counselor, MA, LMHCA, MHP and can be reached by emailing Zac at zacg@losingourreligion.org.
CONTACT ZAC

FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 221: Self-Awareness, Traumatic Events, and Healing: Katherine

LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

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Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App!

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Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio.

This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

Feb 25, 2020

There’s no way around it. Change is hard. Taking ownership of your life and self-care is hard. But life is hard anyways so you might at well engage your dreams and change! It's time to leave your abusive or toxic situations. If it's not serving you well anymore why continue engaging it?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
It's time for change.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

SHOW NOTES:

MONDAY MELTDOWN: Change is Hard, But So is Not Changing: Zac Gandara

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."
- Anne Lamott

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. [GET COACHING NOW!]

Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It?
Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app.
Donate to the Podcast on VENMO.
Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com.

Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list.


This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

Feb 20, 2020

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.

The things that trigger our traumas are the very things that point us to what to heal in our lives. Traumas form our lives and if we don’t heal them we don’t grow or have significant reasons why we can’t grow. What do you think?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

How to Get Through an Emotional Trigger: Dr. Nicole LePera

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: How to Get Through an Emotional Trigger: Dr. Nicole LePera: Zac Gandara

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA

Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT.

Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App!

Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

FOLLOW US:

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com.

RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT:

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This podcast is produced by select producers and created by @ZacGandara & the CounterCulture Society™.

Feb 20, 2020

This episode is a repeat of 153, but it had so many downloads we made it a “Best Of!”

Josh Black and Haven Yates are completely enamored with one another in more ways than one. Clowns, BDSM, Polyamory, and Haven’s Borderline Personality Disorder make for a wild and beautiful story of helpful insight into relationships.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The Play Party Podcast

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training: Rembering Who You Are, Reprogramming & Transformation. Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

CONTACT THE GUEST: Josh & Haven

FULL SHOW NOTES: BEST OF THE PODCAST! EPISODE 153: A Daddy and His Little: Josh Black and Haven Yates

LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT.

Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App!

Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

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Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio.

This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

Feb 18, 2020

The journey inward is hard at first. It’s counterintuitive and certainly countercultural. But after waking up to the realization of the layers of programming others have put on us we begin the journey of accepting ourselves, hearing ourselves, and healing ourselves.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
It's time for change.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

SHOW NOTES:

MONDAY MELTDOWN: The Inward Work of Healing: Zac Gandara

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."
- Anne Lamott

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. [GET COACHING NOW!]

Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It?
Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app.
Donate to the Podcast on VENMO.
Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com.

Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list.


This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

Feb 13, 2020

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.

Ever try to force something to happen? Make someone like you? Yung Pueblo says, “If we are trying to force something to happen, we are acting with craving and attachment, meaning that our state of being is filled with the tension that often blocks the fulfilling of our desires.” Do you find this to be true? What do you think?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Yung Pueblo on Expectations, Attachments, and Goals.

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: When Results, Expectations Change Our Mood: Yung Pueblo: Zac Gandara

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA

Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT.

Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App!

Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

FOLLOW US:

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com.

RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT:

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This podcast is produced by select producers and created by @ZacGandara & the CounterCulture Society™.

Feb 12, 2020

Grief from the loss of a loved one triggered a deep fear of death. Meghann began coping with marijuana, which triggered a dormant dissociative disorder that separated her from her life for a time. This is the story of their healing journey back into living again.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training: Rembering Who You Are, Reprogramming & Transformation. Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

CONTACT THE GUEST: CONTACT ZAC

FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 220: Grief, Dissociative Disorder, PTSD and Healing it All: Meghann

LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT.

Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App!

Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

FOLLOW US:

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Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio.

This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

Feb 11, 2020

Valentine’s Day is upon us, and many of us feel the pressure to feel a certain way or be a certain way. Well, guess what? You don’t! Should our lives be lived out of obligation? Should obligation guide our love lives and relationships? What do you think?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
It's time for change.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

SHOW NOTES:

MONDAY MELTDOWN: Valentine's Day Narcissism and Obligation: Zac Gandara

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."
- Anne Lamott

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. [GET COACHING NOW!]

Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It?
Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app.
Donate to the Podcast on VENMO.
Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com.

Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list.


This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

Feb 6, 2020

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.

Many of us have had abusive encounters with narcissistic leaders, family members, or partners. Once we wake up from those experiences and heal, we learn that the only freedom will be to love them from afar and no longer give them voice or place in our life and turn that energy into self-care and self-love. What do you think?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES!
12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now!

COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:
Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit.

WEEKLY EMAIL:
Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release

THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: When We Heal We Open Ourselves up to Stronger Personal Power: Zac Gandara

LOSER DEALS:

Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed

Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA

Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below).

DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT.

Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App!

Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon.

FOLLOW US:

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com.

RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT:

Join our email list.


This podcast is produced by select producers and created by @ZacGandara & the CounterCulture Society™.

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