Losing Our Religion
Losing Our Religion with host Zac Gandara is a wild often comedic ride alongside a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life and ideal experience away from the dogma and exclusivities they may have been raised to believe.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 463
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Are you in an Abusive Relationship with God?: Zac Gandara
In this week's episode, we talk about how similar religion and a "relationship with God" are to an abusive relationship, and how leaving it is like a divorce.
Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with …
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Trust Yourself: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
After years growing up around religious narcissists, then into a ch…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Trusting Yourself: Zac Gandara: Melody Beattie
When we come from a background of narcissism, control, and submitting to authority we've been programmed not to trust ourselves. To need someone's permission or approval is the symptom, resting in yo…
EPISODE 163: Teaching Moments: Amar
Amar is an educator, an activist, and a feminist all while filled with love and empathy. We have some hard conversations around how we can make a difference in our world and not feel overwhelmed.
DO …
THINKING THURSDAY: Some Tips on Setting Boundaries: Brené Brown and Dax Shepard
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
Jumping on board with this weeks Monday Meltdown, we're talking abo…
EPISODE 162: Ending the Cycles: Amar
Amar, Non-Binary, Grey-A-sexual, prefers the pronouns they/them. The clarity with which Amar tells the story of their life in regards to seeing the unhelpful cycles in life and breaking them is uniqu…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Abusers! How to Set Boundaries: Zac Gandara
Even in our everyday relationships, there are signs of "abuse." The human race is not as self-aware as we should be. How do we recognize relationship abuse? How do we begin to set boundaries?
THINKING THURSDAY: A New Way to Do Democracy.: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
On this weeks Monday Meltdown, we discussed our ambivalence toward…
EPISODE 161: My Love Called Their Bluff: It’s Weird Being An Empath. We’re All Here: Makhailla Morris
Mak and I connect on our common realization of being born "empaths." It's our "truth" that we have found that describes who we are as humans and how we relate to everyone and everything on the planet…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: To Vote, Or Not to Vote?: W.E.B. Du Bois
Do you vote? What are your feelings for those that don't or do? This is a conversation we need to engage. Despite how we think about politics or government these things do affect our lives and how we…
EPISODE 160: Sold a Lie, Until I Knew Who I Was and Trusted My Intuition: Makhailla Morris
Mak is an ExMoromon, Exvangelical, ExChristian, Empath who has done a lot of work within herself. She's full of wisdom beyond her years and feels therapeutic in her communication as we talk about her…
MINI MELTDOWN: We’re back!: Zac Gandara
Well, I’m back, which means you’re back, which means we’re back! Thank you for the break! I am feeling much better and getting re-grounded. Here's an update on my personal life and a teaser for the u…
UPDATE: Thank You for the Love Over the Break! What's Next?: Zac Gandara
If you're a fellow "Loser" with us, then you know that I just took my first break from the podcast since launch in 2015. This episode is an update on how the break has been going and when we will be …
EPISODE 159: Hitting Pause: Zac Gandara
Some big news for the podcast as we've moved into a new studio! Which has coincided with my marriage transitioning into a new place? Candidness, transparency, and honesty are the values of the podcas…
THINKING THURSDAY: The Second Sex: Men and Women are Equal: Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir is well known for her extensive work illuminating the ways in which women had become secondary to men throughout history. Fittingly, she is also well known as the lifelong partner …
EPISODE 158: Would You Die For This?: Remy Guts
Remy and I get a little drunk and a lot candid. We're trying to process through a lot of the political and societal things we're unsure about. But it's hard to find a safe place to do that without pe…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Explaining Your Change to Family and Friends, Demolition.
On this weeks episode, we continue our chat about how to talk to your family and friends about the life changes you are making. However, in this episode, we realize a demolition that's attached to ou…
THINKING THURSDAY: Valuing Life, This Shared Existence: Albert Camus
On this weeks episode, we talk about Albert Camus. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. The Absurd can be defined as a metaphysical tension or opposition that resul…
EPISODE 157: Abandoning Judaism: I am not a Stereotype: Remy Guts
Remy Guts grew up in a small east coast town in a Catholic and Jewish home. His love for music, punk, and rock and roll set him on a journey of reading, studying, and loving philosophy. Only recently…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Explaining Your Change to Family and Friends
What do you say to family and friends who want to have an intervention with you because you’re not Christian anymore?
On this weeks episode, we chat about how to talk to your family and friends about…