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: What Happens If You Stop Believing in God?
On this weeks episode, we talk about an article that many of you have sent in. It’s about our brains and what happens to them if stop believing in God.
FEATURED ARTICLE: What Happens to Your Brain Wh…
EPISODE 147: Escaping the Hare Krishna: Shane Browning
Shane, a hardcore, straight edge kid, recruited by a rock idol to join the Hare Krishna. Traveling with a guru and joining the Krishna Temple. Shane, Texas-raised with a KKK member dad and a Baptist …
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Suicide, Depression, Anxiety and Anthony Bourdain
On this weeks episode, we talk about suicide, anxiety, depression and losing Anthony Bourdain. He meant a lot to this podcast. We also hear from fellow Loser Simon, who called in from Orlando, Florid…
EPISODE 146: Your Thing. My Thing. WHO CARES!: Krystal Strifert
We get into the deep. Beginning with small talk about our Hispanic heritage and quickly dive into the discord we see in the world, our frustrations with it, and what we hope our future can be. All th…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: My Shadow Self Scares Me: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
On this weeks episode, I open up about the hauntings of my shadow self and trying to find the balance between embracing it and managing it with positivity and my bullshit frustration with manifesting…
EPISODE 145: It Get’s Easier: Church Cliques, Bad Brows, and Narcolepsy: Krystal Strifert
Krystal, frustrated with the social constructs of Christianity, the church, and institutionalized religion, walk away finding what she needed elsewhere. She's a makeup artist, microblade tattooer, pa…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Confession Tuesday! Fellow Loser Shares His Beliefs
On this weeks episode, Fellow Loser Mike Knicely shares with us what he believes after he's stopped believing and I share anonymous confessions from our monthly show The CounterCulture Society Variet…
EPISODE 144: Find Your Own Way: Josh Black, a.k.a. “Ronald McFondle”
Josh Black left his home in North Dakota when he was a teenager, in hunt of a bigger, better life. He found it and learned a lot along the way. This is the story of a transient, homeless kid, who fou…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: What Do We Believe, When We Stop Believing?
On this weeks episode, we’re chatting about: What Do We Believe, When We Stop Believing? Far to often it's assumed that when you walk away from religion and ideologies, you move from something to not…
EPISODE 143: Legalize Your Passion: “Ronald McFondle,” a.k.a. Josh Black
What would you do if the government came to shut down your art? Your Passion? Josh Black, a.k.a. "Ronald McFondle and his 321 Battle Wrestling partners had to face just that. They engaged the process…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Leaving Religion isn’t Giving Up, it’s Waking Up, It's Growing Up.
On this weeks episode. We discuss how leaving religion isn’t giving up, it’s waking up, it's growing up. If we stop believing in Religion. What do we then believe?
Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat …
EPISODE 142: How the Hell are We Still Married?: Zac and Jen Gandara
Jen and I have been through a lot. We're often wondering. How in the hell are we still married? Together for 18 years and not cheated on each other? Left each other? Divorced each other, or had kids?…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: How to Move Through the Grief of Feeling Like We Wasted Our Lives on Religion.
On this weeks episode, we receive a confession, and it leads us to a discussion of how to grow through the grief of feeling like we wasted our lives with religion.
Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat …
EPISODE 141: My Dad, The Stepdad, The Streets, and TV: Jeff Leonard
The story of what shaped Jeff Leonard. Divorced Parents, a single dad, the contemptible stepfather, the streets, and bootlegged television. Here is one of those episodes that are entertaining, inform…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Anonymous Confessions: Do We Deserve Our Lives?
On this weeks episode, I share anonymous confessions from our monthly live show, The CounterCulture Society Variety Hour. Anonymous confessions are everyone's favorite part of the show. They’re candi…
EPISODE 140: The Angriest, Most Hateful (Inclusive) Dude I’ve Ever Met: Jeff Leonard
Three Months after I left the church I met Jeff Leonard. That encounter has led to a long-term friendship, family relationships, and a lot of anger and hate. Meet Jeff Leonard, the angriest, most hat…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Learning to Sit in the Tough Emotions and Moments
On this weeks episode, I share the awakening of my newly found coping technique, avoidance. I make a public commitment to do better for myself, our guests, and the podcast.
Monday Meltdown is Our Wee…
EPISODE 139: Sex Positivity and Critical Thought: Sarah Quinn
Sarah is so fantastic I've invited her back again. In this installment, we find her most passionate critic of religion, purity culture and the lack of critical thought. We dive down this road with gr…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Leaving Religion Helped Me Love Unconditionally
On this weeks episode, we hear a story from fellow Loser David McPhail. He’s had a traumatic life and a trauma-filled religious experience. He feels as though Religion held him back from a genuine lo…
EPISODE 138: Did I Waste My Life?: Sarah Quinn
Sarah Quinn is a beautiful human with a beautiful misfit soul. We connect amidst the impression that we wasted our lives on our addiction, religion, Christianity in particular. Is our past something …