Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - How Regina Builds A Positive Podcast Space

Episode Date: August 23, 2026

Fan MailA lot of people are exhausted right now and it is not just work. It is the constant noise, the hate, the arguing, and the pressure to stay plugged in every minute of the day. I sit down with a cup of tea and give you a real-life reset, starting with a personal update and a heartfelt reflection on my sister’s memorial month and the support that carried me through. Gratitude is not a performance for me, it is how I stay steady.Then I pull back the curtain on what is next for my show as we move toward Season 10 of Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents. I explain why my interviews are different: I let guests tell their story first, in their own words, and I ask questions after the truth is already on the table. If you love authentic podcast storytelling, faith-based encouragement, and conversations that lift your spirit instead of draining it, you will understand why this format matters.From there, we get practical with everyday peace: putting the phone down while walking, especially around traffic and kids, keeping a clean home that feels calm and healthy, and refusing to watch the news 24-7. I also talk social media boundaries, saving money instead of spending it all, building side hustles, and why I step away from chronic complainers and procrastinators. If you are working on mindset, personal finance habits, and entrepreneurship, this one gives you clear reminders you can use today. Subscribe for Season 10, share this with someone who needs a calmer voice, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What is one habit you are changing to protect your peace?Music Commrcoyÿ Show endSupport the showContact My official website https://www.reginaswarn.comEmail address [e-mail] Podcast  theme  composed by Chris Murphy Elliott  

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Welcome back to another episode of Regina Sworn Audio Series presents and have myself. nice, um, cup of tea here. I like, I love green tea. But, um, I really love my green tea here. So take a sip of that right,

good. It's good. So welcome back. I'll give you a place you can contact me. Contact me. At sworn regina at gmail.com. Um,

that's the official website to, uh, reach me at I just can't relax myself here a bit. How is everyone doing? I hope you're doing great. This is my official.

Now, I think I did maybe one or two other podcasts this month. This is August. But I am doing a full podcast right now. And I want to tell you what's been going on with me. Because I know a lot of you want to know, last month was such a beautiful month. Oh my God. My sister's Memorial Month, it was just awesome.

The great support that I received from the radio stations and from friends and from the public, from other YouTube channels, and just so much support that I received was awesome. I mean, out of this world, awesome. And I said thank to the Lord for that. And my two speakers were outstanding. Absolutely outstanding.

I had Elder Leonard Davis, his wife, Sister Donna Davis, his sister, Sister Dolores Davis. Absolutely beautiful. And then we had Pastor Tammy Watson. Jeez, what an awesome. speaker. So last month was awesome. It was great. It was wonderful. And the memorial for my sister

went over just perfect. Received so much adulation attention, hurt by several million people because the radio stations broadcasted as well. And it was online everywhere. So a lot of people heard it so I'm so thankful to God for that I'm trying not to hold you very long here today I just want to give you a quick update which has been going on with me I've taken time to just kind of

let myself relax a little bit before going into another month now we're about to start season 10 of my very popular now, very popular. Podcasts, Regina Sworn Audio Series, presents,

it's become so popular that even to me, I'm surprised. I mean, I'm really surprised by it. I'm like, oh, Lord, it's unbelievable. So I'm truthfully thankful

to the Lord for all of his grace and his love and his favor. Just favor. My podcast is about staying positive. I cheer away, shy away from all the negative stuff. So much hate being spurred. So much hatred going on right now. And this one against that one, that one is against this one. I'm so happy that you can come to my podcast. You can tune into my podcast. And if you want to

hear about the Lord Jesus are just a good story. Someone telling you their life story. If that's what you want to hear, then my doors are open for you to stop by. I love it that you're able to come over here and know that you're going to be uplifted, have your spirit uplifted. And whether it be good music, good stories, are just on the side of my voice. I'm so happy that I'm able to bring you something that can at least make you get away, let you get away from all the stuff that's going on out there right now, because it's so much, I just see so much hatred right now, so much hate. So much hate right now.

It breaks my heart. It breaks my heart that the races are back and forth at each other. That hurts my heart. It hurt my heart. So I'm glad to have a podcast where you can come over and feel enlightened or feel free of all the stuff that's going on. At least while you're listening to it anyway. I have one lady said, and I have a lot of people tell me that at least when I come to and listen to your podcast,

at least I know that for that 30 minutes or 20 minutes or 10 minutes or an hour, that I'm going to be rewarded with his story or your voice, or hearing about the Lord, or hearing about somebody else's story about what the Lord is done for them. At least for that moment, I know I can come to your podcast and receive that. So I'm thankful to God that I'm able to supply that for you. I've been away basically for the entire month,

you know, getting together things for my new season, season 10. I have quite a few guests who are actually lined up to be on this new podcast. Oh, Jesus. People already contact me. I have things lined up where people want to be. be on my podcast. So I received letters and people tell me their story and they let my, the people that work with me, they tell them the story and then they get back with me. And what can I go from there, you know? So I do have a list of amazing guests. I mean, absolutely amazing guests for

season 10 and I'm really excited about it you know I think you'll enjoy it I know you will because they got a story for you and my podcast

is about the person telling you their story see my podcast is different than most people they may go and search and see what they can ask the person they want to ask you

this question and that question and that question well I let the guests come on my you tell your story, you are going to be the one telling your story. And while you tell your story, then I go from there with questions that I want to ask you. That's the way I do it.

I've been doing it like that from day one, guys. I'm not going to change it. If you have to make it very clear to people that be ready to come on my, my podcast to tell me your story. If you feel you got a story to tell, I want to hear that story. From there, I ask the questions. And if you're ready for that and you feel like, okay, yeah, okay, I could do that, didn't do that. And don't be waiting for me to ask you question, question, because I'm going to hear your story first before I ask the questions. I like it that way. It's best for me that way. And I give a person a chance to, you know,

hear about you that's never heard about you before. And nobody in the world can tell you a story better than you can. No one. So, yeah, when you come on my podcast, you tell your story. I don't tell your story. I do after you tell your story. While you're telling your story, I ask questions accordingly. So I want to speak about that real briefly.

Several things I'm speaking about today. I want to talk about people having their phones. Cell phones is a great thing to have right now. But what I don't like is to see people looking down, walking, not paying attention to where they're going, and they're looking down, just looking down at the screen of their podcast. I'm not their podcast. At the screen of their phone and not paying attention to where they're going. I've seen people walking with their children in busy intersections

or busy streets and your kids are just walking almost out in front of cars and you got your face buried in a darn phone I hate to see that I hate that to see people with their heads just buried in their phone

it can wait guys I wanted you just stand somewhere for a moment if you've got to text somebody text them then and then if you've got to walk somewhere, don't be walking with your head down in your phone and you're going to run into a car, you're going to run into a person, you're going to run out into the street.

Pay attention to your surroundings. Pay attention to where you're going, what you're doing. Long enough to, if you've got to text a person, text them, do that. But go ahead and just pay attention to what you're doing. Then look up, walk, what you got to do, and then you want to get back to your phone at that point, do that. But don't bury your head down in your phone and then not paying attention to where you're going. Not smart at all.

My next thing I want to speak about is a clean house. I have a person come over several times a week to, you know, just tidy things up for me. You know what she said to me? She said, I am getting free money. It made me feel good because she's telling nothing but the truth. I keep my place big and span, I tell you. When you walk into my apartment or my establishment, it is clean. I do have cats, but people oftentimes ask me,

I thought you had cats. Where are the cats? Well, number one, my cats are going to run. When you enter that door, they're going to run. They're afraid of you. If you're scared of them, they're more scared of you. It's only one of them that will come and greet you, but he's not going to greet you right away.

He's got to even get to know you a little bit. But my cats are extremely clean cats. They're clean. My apartment is clean. You're not going to walk into my apartment and see a sink full of dirty dishes. Trush running over. Smells from me wherever.

You know, because sometimes I walk into a person's house and the place, to be honest, is stink. Dishes in the sink piled up. Trash running over. The dog running around the house. Poop everywhere. And you know, the lady tried to, if they see me coming over, I pull up,

they're trying to clean up real quick, you know, oh my God, Gina's out there, oh my God. No, don't do it. Then keep a clean house. If you got kids or grandkids laying around the house, don't let them lay around there and do nothing. They should be making sure that trash is emptied out. You shouldn't have any trash in your cans.

Always after dinner, take your garbage out immediately. Don't let that garbage just sit there overnight. Don't do that. And I'm saying don't do it because it causes you to have, and bugs and fleets and roaches and all kinds of things. People wonder why they got these things in their home. Well, maybe because you're not a very good housekeeper. You can keep your place clean if you want to.

It's all up to you. But I refuse to go over to a person's house. I can only do it one time. But you go over to your house and you can hardly get in the door without it being so much junk laying around. trashed up in the trash can, I'm probably not going to come back inside meet you at the door or you can come out to my car.

I just cannot say I'm going into a house to a sturdy or an apartment. I can't. And there's no excuse. I'm not going to listen to excuses. You know, I just can't, I can't tolerate that. And if you've got grown kids,

you've got kids laying around doing nothing, I don't agree with that at all. My next thing I'm going to talk about is watching the news 24-7. I know people that sit there and watch the news from sun up to sundown. They're keeping up with everything that's going on in the news. Now, I didn't say that check on the things that's going on in your town. That's fine. In my case, I have to know what's going on in my city or what have you,

or what's going on in the world. I'm not going to sit there all day long looking at CNN, Fox, and all these other stations. I'm not going to do that. Or even the local news. I am not going to do that. I'm also not going to be on YouTube looking at all of this stuff going on on YouTube. I'm not going to do that. There are very few channels that I do watch on YouTube.

And it's specifically for a reason. You know, I just don't sit there and watch this and this and this. You know, because I need my peace. I need to be peaceful. I need to stay peaceful. I need to have something to give back to people when they need to speak with me. And I can't do that if I'm looking at all this stuff all over the TV and listening to all these things on YouTube and watching all this stuff. I can't do it.

But I love being uplifted by listening to you. the word of the Lord and listening to good uplifting music. Not always music where people are screaming and going on, because there are certain songs that you don't listen to too. I mean, I do like gospel, but I love that old time gospel music. I do. I love the old gospel. And I always tell you Walter Hawkins and that old Andre Crock's music, those are some of my favorites.

Sandy Patty. people like that. Those are some of my favorites. But I do like the easy smooth gospel too, gospel lounge. I love their music. It's just kind of jazzy, but I love it. You know, it's just something sweet. And, you know, that uplifts the spirit. Not always people in their screaming. You know, I'm not saying anything is wrong with that kind of gospel music to each

as own, but for me, I kind of steer away from that. The next thing on my list to talk about is living on social media, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, whatever the other ones are. The one that I use most is Instagram. I message my friends there on Instagram. I keep in contact with businesses. your Instagram, mostly. Facebook, I schedule my post over there.

Sometimes you catch me there every now and then, but I don't live there. In other words, I'm not just there all day long, strolling, see who's doing what, and see who's I don't have time for that, you know, whatever people are doing, they're doing, congratulations. But I don't have time to sit there and watch your life and be entwined with everything that's going on. I just personally talking about myself, I just don't have the time for it. But I do,

I'm pretty active on Instagram. That's my favorite. Instagram is my favorite. But I'm not even there every second of the day. You know, I go there maybe once a day to make a post or whatever. And I even schedule a post for my Instagram as well.

So first, TikTok goes. I don't use TikTok. I do have a TikTok, but I don't use it. Twitter, I don't use Twitter at all. I tried to, I tried, but I don't use it. So I don't use Twitter. Telegram, I do have an old telegram that I used when my sister Lord was alive.

But I don't use that either, so truthfully, I really don't use anything, Instagram, but Facebook, again, scheduled post for Facebook. And my YouTube, I'm getting that started. Not quite yet, but guys, just be patient with me, please. I'm getting it together. It's the best I could say as where as my YouTube goes. I just over a few more things I'm to tell you about. I started my own business outside of online. I've opened up a few business. and I feel like they're going to be quite successful. I know they are. Decided to get the businesses located in some very wonderful areas. I didn't want the business to be in a rundown area. I wanted to be in a high traffic area, but an area that's really pleasant.

That's very nice. So we got three, four different locations. And I'm thinking about getting another location, location in Locust Grove, McDonough, Griffin, what do you want to call it? But in a nice area, I just like things to be in a very nice area. An area where people get traffic, you know, a lot of good traffic, but a nice area.

The next thing I want to talk about is is not how much you make, but how much you save. Now, a lot of people say, well, I don't make anything. I have to pay all of my bills. I have to do this. They can always have this little smart attitude behind it. I don't care what I say.

People always come back with a really smart snapping their finger attitude. You know, and I just said one lady I said, Well, it's not really how much you make, but how much you save. Be wise with that, you know, because a lot of people would say they make all of this money. Well, congratulations to you. But how much of that are you putting aside? There are some things that I hold off on doing, you know, like I don't go get my hair done.

Every week, every two weeks, I can afford to do that if I want to. I just don't. I don't feel like I need to. Sometimes I just wash my hair and go. My nails and all of that. I treat myself very now and I get that done to get that done. You know, but I don't go overboard. You know, do I have people door dash and all that bringing me food?

No, I don't. That is me now. I prefer fixing my own food. I prefer that. I do have a person that comes over three times a week that prepare meals. And there's a reason behind that. And she's awesome. She's absolutely awesome. But as far as ordering out, I don't do that at all. I don't do that to order out. I just don't. I take time and save that money. I don't care how much I got. Again, go back to the other saying, it's not how much you make, but how much you save. Hello there, I'm Ritina Swaring. Thank you so much for enjoying my podcast, stories, live true stories,

people from all walks of life. If you are interested in being a part of my show, my podcast, please write to me at Swarind Regina at Gmail.com. Now, stories from all walks of life means I cover everything. That's religion, politics, everyday life, music. You know, once a point of time, I just covered music, but now I cover everything. So again, contact me at Swarendraginia at Gmail.com. And thank you so much for checking out my shows right here at

iHeart radio. Take care. And a lot of times people get money before they can get it, it's gone because they're just not used to holding onto it or saving it of putting it aside for a rainy day.

Instead, they just spin, spin, spin, which a lot of times keep you broke. I hate when people say that they're broke, but I do understand why they're broke because you, guess what? You said, that you broke. So that's why you broke. So that's another thing I had to say that.

Complain all the time. I want to speak on that briefly. Why do you spend more time complaining than giving thanks? If the Lord woke you up this morning, or if you feel like you woke yourself up or whatever, because some people, they don't want to acknowledge the higher power, I don't care what. They don't want to say that they're saying I'm not a religious person. They don't want, they rather just say, well, something woke me up. Okay, whatever woke you up. Why are you complaining all the time? I refuse to be around a person that complains all the time, whether they're complaining about how much money they make, how much money they don't have, their life, the work that they do or don't do. I don't like to be around people like that. And I find ways of getting away from a person.

When I find out that you are a chronic complainer or a procrastinator, I find ways of getting away from you. I really do. I'd be trying to ease away from you. And before it's all over, I'm totally away from you altogether because I don't like a person that complain, complain, complain, complain, complain, complain. I've had people said to me, they're going to do something. And that's my next thing I'm talking about.

keep saying I will start soon, a business or whatever. So that falls in the line of complaining. When I am around a person that is complaining all the time are procrastinating about what they're going to do, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, I'm going to do this. And a lot of people have been saying they're going to do things for years. I know one guy he's still talking about, he's going to do thus and thus and this and that.

Do you know that guy is still saying the same thing 10 years later or better? The same thing. He's saying the same thing because he never meant to move further. See, people complain, complain, procrastinate. I cannot be around people like that. I refuse to be around chronic complainers, chronic procrastinators. I refuse that, and I don't let myself be in that type of a company.

I'd rather be around people who are uplifting, positive-minded, you know, I love that type of person or people. I don't waste my time with people who complain all the time. I don't waste my time with people who are down and out. all the time. I ain't got this or I ain't got that or I need this or I

trust me if I'm around a person like that before you know it I'm away from that kind of person I get away from them slowly but surely because I can't stand that type of I can't stand that kind of person I just really can't

I like to be around people who are uplifting to me and we uplift one another that I like. I'm so thankful to what God is doing for my podcast. It's grown. You know, I started it in 2020 with the encouragement of my sister Laura. And I'm so glad that I did. It has grown and got more popular over time. And I'm so thankful to the Lord for all that he is done in my life. So I just want to talk to you briefly today. um season 10 will be starting in september but this month i was just taking this month to handle my

outside businesses because i do have some businesses that i'm doing on the side and um that's what i've been doing and that takes time and even that when you got a business um it keeps you busy and you can have more than one business you don't have to have just one business you don't have to have just one A person can have a job and have five or six other side hustles. It's nothing wrong with having several ways of income. You know, it's nothing wrong with that. Matter of fact, I encourage that to have several incomes coming in. Not just one, but quite a few.

If you're good at something, I mean, market it. Put it out there. Do it. Whatever. And don't just be tied down to something. somebody's job. But get something for yourself. A lot of people tell me, one lady said the other day, I think it was a couple of days, a couple of weeks ago, she said, oh, I'm going to be, I'm going to start in another department, and I'm going to be making all this money, and I'm going to,

and I'm going to be doing it. I asked her, I said, well, how much are you going to be making? She said, I'm going to be making $20 an hour. I was like, really? I guess I was thinking she was going to say she's going to be making quite a bit. You know, and I see some of the healthcare people. You can never make as much money as you can if you work for yourself. Working for yourself is the best way to go. If you got a skill, if you cultivate that skill and be the best with that skill that you can be, build on that skill, work around that skill,

get something going for yourself, work for yourself. Sure, I'm not telling you to quit your job by no means. But at the same time, have something for you, like on down the road. You might want to say goodbye to the job. Who knows? But have something for yourself. There's no amount of money that you can make working for someone else that will beat what you can be. what you can make working for yourself if you got the right job skill and you know what you're doing

and it's your own business trust me there's no better way to go than working for yourself so if you get a skill and you've got something that you're really really good at work on that make it your best and while you're working for someone else yeah take the time to build on your own self, build for what you can do. You know, there's nothing wrong with trying. I don't think so. So thank you for tuning in today. I'm Ritina Swerin.

You can contact me at Swornrita at gmail.com. I do hope all of you are well. If you got your help, if God is giving you your health and your strength, to me there's nothing greater than that. There's no amount. of money that's better than having good health, being in good health. Because if you got your health and you got your strength, then there's hope. There's hope for tomorrow. Because you can use

your hands and you can do things for yourself. But when you're down in your health and your health is fail you, that's when you got a problem. But if you got your health, be thankful. Be grateful. Be grateful. Thank the Lord for another day. Thank the Lord for life, health, and strength. Because when you don't have that, then that's when you got a problem. Again, you can contact me at Swarineretina at T-mail.com. God bless you. Stay safe at here.

Take care. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast. Thank you so much for joining me for Regina. the Swaring Audio series. If you like to be a part of this series, please send me an email at Swarineurgina at gmail.com. I want to thank all of my wonderful friends, fans, and guests for being a part of this show. Most of all, I'd like to thank the Lord. Until the next time, take care of yourself and be safe.