Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - I Learned To Lift Others And Found My Own Strength

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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Now let's take you into an episode of Regina Swark Audio Series. Hello everyone, I'm Regina Sworn. Welcome back to another episode of Richina Swarn Audio Series presents. We are shaping up to some wonderful interviews, some wonderful conversations I like to say. Um, going into December. But November's not gone yet. So I do still have a couple of, uh, wonderful interviews for November. But going into December, I have some biographers, some novelists, some singers, some, um, record labels, some CEOs, some bounders, some singers gospel, just so many great, great people going forward. And yeah, some more great ministers as well. Um, if you guys can only see my email, it is like jam packed. But I'm so thankful that people, I'm really happy to be up at, um, iHeart radio because I've experienced a whole

new level. It's like this is another level. I don't know, but it's like a whole another level being at I Heart Radio. And it's a great blessing at the same time. So I am I'm very thankful for that opportunities because I don't think I've ever been more happy than I am now to be with a certain site as I am. with iHeart radio. I'm really happy about that. And so, yeah, it's really good to, when you plug into my podcast, it just takes you right to IHeart Radio.

I'm super, super thankful to Buzz Sprout because they are the ones that open a lot of the doors for me, you know. They still do a lot of stuff. So Buzz Sprout. Buzz. I don't say it really slow because I don't want to make a mistake and say it wrong, but they are

really wonderful. They're really wonderful. If you ever check them out, go check them out. And if you're looking for a podcasting host, I think Buzz Sprout is the best. I really do. So I'm really grateful to them for every, every, everything. Again, going forward,

looking forward, Um, I was speaking to someone the other day and I felt like when I was talking to this guy and I felt like we connected on so many levels because Thanksgiving's used to be my most favorite time of the year. Really, it did. I was always cook and everybody would come eat doing those sweet potato pies and, you know, cook dinner. Um, my brother and all of them would go and buy the food and I cook it. You know, and everybody came over and they would eat and they would take home pies that make so many sweet potato pies.

And a lot of my family are gone now, you know, my sister Laura and my mother, my dad, and even my pastor, you know, people that, that was around 15 years ago, 10, 15 years ago. So, well, I hope to say my dad's been going a lot longer than that, but, you know, it's, it's, I connected so wonderfully the other day speaking with a person that worked very closely beside me. And he just lost his wife. And we were just talking. We just had this conversation, and I was talking to him, and I didn't realize that I was encouraging him. At the end of the conversation, he said, you know what?

He said, I was feeling so sad before I talked to you. He said, that is a gift you should really, you know, really take very seriously. And I do take you seriously. He said, but you encourage people without even trying to. He said, you don't even know my situation, you know, you knew I lost my wife, but he said, but you don't know my whole situation, how it's sad I'd been, and I really didn't. All I know is, you know, I heard about it, but I didn't really know. So he just told me how much I encouraged them, and it made me feel good.

Because sometimes by me, I'm so glad that I do this podcast, when I talk to other people, when I get the stories of other people's stories, in other words, it lift my spirit. You know, I don't have time to feel sorry or sad for myself because I'm too busy trying to make sure the other person that I'm speaking to gets an encouraging word. And he told me, he said, you don't know the gift that you got. He said, you got a great gift.

He said it's a gift from God He said because before We started talking I see you all the time You know I see you every day He said but before We started talking He said I knew it was something about you though

I said I knew something strange about you But I didn't know what it was He said now that I talk to you I see now that You are very That's part of your gift And And as Laura told me

you know, when I first started the podcast, because I was going to end it, I've said that many times before, but she explained it to me. She broke it down to me so clearly. She said, you are like a butterfly. You cannot see the beautiful colors on your, you know, your wings. You can't see the beautiful colors on your wings or your back or whatever. She said, you can't see that, but other people can see that. It's like a butterfly. She referred to me as a butterfly. And this is a true story. She referred to me as a butterfly.

She said, you cannot see the beautiful colors that you got. Other people can see that, but you can't see that. And she said oftentimes a person cannot see their value, but other people can see their value. So, you know, I got... I guess this time of year, it makes me, it lift my spirit. Normally, it would be such a sad time of year. Like a couple of years ago, I was just so coming back from a nervous breakdown and trying

to deal with it, trying to figure out how am I going to do this without Laura, without mom, dad, you know, Mother Jackson, you know, trying to come back from that thing, how am I to do this. But the podcast has really helped me so much because I spend the time talking to other people and lifting their spirits, not even thinking once about myself. And it makes me feel good when someone say, you really encourage me today. You really lifted my spirit. So again, and I'm going to forever thank my sister Laura because I would have given this podcast up. I was so close to just pulling the plug in the beginning.

I was going to pull the plug. It was like, nobody's listening. I mean, come on, you've got to give things time, right? Here I am one to just pull the plug after, like, a couple of episodes. But she said, no, don't do it. And if she was here today, I know she would be, so happy for me because she was always my biggest

supporter and so I feel like somewhere somewhere out there in the atmosphere she's somewhere cheered me on still and I

and I can feel it I can feel her around me you know so my I'm not going to say my job but I feel like my responsibility for the holiday

is to just be of encouragement to other people and spend that time encouraging someone who's going through a very tough time because, again, this time of year is the highest rate of suicide, it's the highest rate of depression, it's the highest rate of all the bad things. Whereas there are good things,

when you see other people celebrating their good times, then you got people who are equally as sad out there. And so I'm so glad that I have a platform where I could talk to people, encourage them, bring you other people's story because I just want to bring other people's story to the front, you know, and share my platform. It's just a little small platform. It's not a, I'll always say it's not a Joe Rogan. I'm not trying to be like all of that, but I'm just so happy to have a platform. where people can listen and that's why I like audio because again it has nothing to do with my looks or is she afraid to be on camera? Is she shy? Look, I was never shy, you guys. I was never

shy. I used to always be the first person in front of the camera to take a picture. I loved taking photos. I love being the ham, if that makes any sense. I love being the star of the video. I love that. But now, doing the audio, I like doing audio because it focuses on the conversation. You're not looking at how I'm wearing my hair, what color I'm wearing, what outfit I got on. What outfit I got on. you're listening to the conversation and that means everything to me it doesn't matter I have I have nothing to hide you know and I'll say this without being vain and I hope people don't think I'm being vain when I say this I look fair I look fair I look okay I think I think I look okay I think I can get a date if I wanted one but it's not about me and the way I look I don't want people to focus on that. I want them to focus on what I am saying. That means more to me than anything.

And bringing your story, bringing your story to life, means everything to me. Because the one person said, you know, I want to look in your eyes and I want to look in your beautiful eyes while we're having a conversation. And I'm thinking to myself, then I probably won't be interfering that person

because it's not about looking into my eyes and getting a conversation out of me, you know. That would make me very, very nervous, very nervous. I would not be able to concentrate and I want to be able to give of myself as much as I can. So which is why I love audio. Why do you think I call it Regina Sworn, audio, audio, people? I call it that for a reason. Regina Sworn Audio series. It's been that from the start.

Audio. I want people to focus on what I am saying. I want you to focus on the conversation that I'm having with another person. I know what someone sitting there looking into my eyes and, oh, and your eyes are pretty, and oh, that would, I mean, that would make. me so nervous. That would just make me nervous. And I know me, I would, I would, I would just freeze up. So I prefer to do interviews or to have a conversation with a person, knowing that we don't have to concentrate on that, we can concentrate on whatever topic that we are talking about. And that's why I like audio. And that's why I still love the idea of radio. So going forward,

I have some wonderful guests. I'm so glad they signed on to be a part of the podcast. Now, I wanted to save this news for less. I probably still should. I'm not sure how I feel about getting back into radio again. I've been offered to do radio once or twice a week, you know, whichever one I decide, you know, to go with. It's something that I've kind of, like a toss-up right now.

I'm not sure if I want to get back into radio. I'm just not so sure because podcast is just something that I love. I can take it at my own speed. But radio is a whole different ballgame, you know. And so, but the individuals said that we will work with you. We were training you. We would do everything we need to do to help. so they said well just at least think about it so it's kind of it's kind of a secondary thing

it's on the back burner i'm definitely thinking about it but um podcast is number one still but i'm definitely thinking about it especially when they said we're going to be patient with you would do everything you don't have to do anything but just show up and you know do your radio so yeah I wasn't sure I wanted to really get back into that aspect of it, that era of it. I really wasn't so sure. But, you know, they made it very clear that they would be working with me and doing whatever they needed to do to make things comfortable for me. So, yeah. So it's just, it's a toss-up right now.

I haven't decided completely, but it's definitely there in the back of my thoughts. It's a secondary thought, but it's definitely there. So I'm just happy that people really remember what I was doing for the radio and said, hey, you know how to draw an audience, you know? So, hey, thank you. Thank you so much. But yeah, that's just we're just kind of playing around that idea right now. But I'm so pleased with the podcast. I really am.

It's working out the way I want it. It's going to the way I want it. that people are contacting me now. In the beginning, I was like, rah, rah, rah, rah, you know, contacting other people, but they started, I still contact other people, by the way. But it's more or less like a 60, 40 people contacting me now, asking me, how can it be a part of your podcast? What does it take to be on your podcast?

And that means a lot because that makes me feel like I am on that side of it, where people really, you know, value my podcasting, I guess you can call it. So going forward, we got December coming up. I want to be an encouragement to people because it's a very sad time a year. You know, as happy as it is a time, it's also a very sad time, you know, for a lot of people. And I'm just happy that I would be able to, you know, to help people. And if my gift talking to them, you listen to my voice and you are soaking up all of the words that God has given me on this end to say to you or through one of my guests, then that makes me all the better. That makes me feel good.

It makes me feel good. And yes, for those out there who are wondering, how do I feel about, if you notice on my Facebook fan page, I have like all. all of these beautiful, generated black and white photos. And it's a, it's kind of an AI thing, but it's my real picture, guys. It is my picture, okay? So a lot of people say, oh, God, Gina, oh, God, Gina, is that you? Baby, listen. As I said before, people...

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And I'm so glad that AI could come in and fit me with the clothes that I so love. I love, you notice I do the black and white because I like the black and white era. And I choose the era. Most of them are back like in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, some 60s. And I'm so glad that they can fit me into those style perfect size and everything. I'm five feet. A lot of people don't know I'm only five feet.

Five, zero. So everybody are so much taller than me. I was telling the person one day he said, oh, your pictures, you just look tall. And this was just face, you know, headshots. The guy said, he said, oh, your pictures, you look so tall.

I'm like, really? I look tall in my pictures? I mean, how do you look tall on your pictures? I don't understand that. When all you can see was my face. shot, you know, in the past. So, but yeah, I'm only five feet, which is why I love Sabrina Carpenter, because she

brought style back. So what I love about AI, I got to throw this in there, what I love it by AI is because I love Sabrina Carpenter's style so much, because she's also very petite, she got the most beautiful outfits that's tailored for her. And so with AI, AI, it's like they choose the perfect, the perfect outfit for my petite little body. And I say that, not to be funny, but, you know, when you fly feet, I always have to shop in the little kids section for, this is real, or in the teenage, you know, the petite

teens of the, you know, the 12, 13-year-old section. But, you know, but I'm so glad that Sabrina Carpenter came along. She's been around for a while. But I made, if you haven't heard that podcast about short and sweet, go check it out. I had a podcast called Short and Sweet. And I talk about how at one point, I didn't embrace it. I used to hate because people were so much taller than me. And they would do, hey, little shardy, you're on top of your head and things like that.

And one lady asked me one day, she said, she said, how tall are you? And I guess it offended me, you know, just a few years ago, not lately. Now I embrace it. But a few years ago, she said, Tina, how tall are you? I said, okay, I tell you what? Let's make a deal. You tell me how much you wait, and I tell you how tall I am. Is that fair game?

And then, for my understanding, they say the lady was like 20 minutes later over in the corner crying. And I asked the guy, he said, it was something that you said to her. I said, what did I say to her? I see, you see people sometimes, they say things to you, and they could hurt your feelings. That's why it's good just to be careful what you say to people. You know, I didn't mean to hurt our feelings, but I guess I was so tired of people like, a little shorty, little shorty, this, little shorty, that. That used to really bother me.

It don't bother me anymore, but it used to. I'm being honestly, go check out my podcast, short and sweet. Go check that out. As a matter of fact, maybe I should put that into the description here. And you'll hear how much that really used to bother me because everybody in my phone, are so much taller than I am. And I take after, on my dad's side, my dad's side, there were a lot, you know, shorter on my dad's side.

My mom was a very tall lady. My grandfather, my mom's dad, was six, five or six, seven, one or the other. So on my dad's side, on the other hand, they were more on the shortest side. So that's the site that I take after. but I'm telling you right now I was like man it just seemed like everybody always tower over me and it was like

it really used to bother me but I learned to embrace it you know I'm like I can fit into anything I want I'm cute as they say excuse me I mean to say it like that but but that's what people say so

but they used to be one of the words they say you're cute, you know, I used to hate those words because I wasn't pleased with myself, but I know, like myself. But I'm so happy that I embrace that now and it's not a big deal anymore. But go check out the podcast, short and sweet, and you will hear my story about short and sweet. Go check it out. But going into December, I do want to. focus on

people out there who are really suffering who's going through depression people who are you know taking it really hard this time of year because as I said

this one spent a time was my favorite time of the year it was my favorite so and it's taken me a long time to really

to really pick back up it's taken a while and if you can just imagine growing up with the sister like I had with Laura, growing up as little kids, and then as we gotten older, we did everything together. We did our music together. We was in a studio together. We went to church together. You know, we did everything together. And to have her taken away is like a part of me. You know, it was taken away. And so,

hearing that song by the carpenters every year you just crack me up so bad Have yourself a merry little Christmas When I hear that Even thinking about it It gives me goosebumps right now But again I just feel like

I've gone through everything That I've gone through The Lord has let me and went through that, just to say, I did that so that you could be an encouragement to other people. And so I'm really thankful to the Lord for that, because it could be so much worse. It could be so much worse. So I still have so much to be thankful for. So, yeah, I got some really cool interviews in December.

But again, November's not over. We've got Thanksgiving's coming up on this week. We've got Thanksgiving. I just want to say be safe out there. Be careful. And thanks again. Thank you to all the people who has been on my show so far on my podcast. I want to thank all the guests who've been on.

You know, you are. I thank the speakers. I thank Elder Davis. I think Murphy Elliott. I think Apostle, Four. I think um um

um sister Geretta Taylor I just think everyone who's um Catherine Jason

I mean I thank all of the people who has been on my podcast so far I really truly thank you for just

taking the time to stop by and chat with me and I'm thankful for the ones who are going to be a part of

my podcast moving forward. I want to thank Jerry Clay Hayes would rescue cats in Fayetteville, Georgia. I was reading a post, I think it was over at X, about how the shelters are running over right now with cats and animals. And so I want to do another show with Jerry Because we We really connected on many, many levels You know, dealing with the animals In this time of year

A lot of people, they can't afford the animals Either they've lost their jobs Or they've made, you know, some adjustments in their lives So I need to do another show with her as well So, yeah But I just want to thank everyone That's been a part of my podcast Thank you so much

Thank you to IHeart Radio for taking a chance on me. I like that. I really like it. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you to Chris Murphy, Elliot, for my theme song that was composed 10 years ago for my radio show. 10 years ago, can you believe it? It was composed 10 years ago for my radio show.

but sometimes things can be ahead of their time and I truly believe that music was ahead of its time thankfully it is perfect timing now for my podcast so thank you Chris thank you and I hope I can interview you I hope I do and for all of those who think that you don't have a happy ending to a story one of my coworkers I spoke with one of the teachers I used to work with She said, I'm retired now, you know, I don't have anything to really talk about. And I like to remind people that if you got blood running warm in your veins and you don't have to

worry about somebody bathing you or feeding you or changing your clothes, your diapers, or anything like that, you're blessed. You're blessed. And it's so much that we can talk about, you know, you may not be, you might not want to talk about this, but maybe you could talk about this. You may not want to talk about that, but maybe you want to talk about this over here. So there's so many things that we can actually talk about. So, yeah, still so much to be thankful for. And I have to remind myself of that.

Thank you all so much for listening. I'm Regina Sworn. You can contact me at Sworn Regina at gmail.com. And again, for those who has been tuning into my podcast, week after week, I thank you. Have a great day. Be safe out there this week. Be safe this Christmas holiday season. Just be safe. I just feel like I need to say that. Be safe. And take care. Okay, that concludes another great podcast. Thank you so much for joining me for reaching me for Saurin audio series. If you'd like to be a part of this series, please send me an email at Swarenguagina 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. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Thank you.