Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - The Importance Of Audio

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

Fan MailA year of back-to-back losses can stop a life’s wheel from turning. After losing Laura to breast cancer and Pearl to lung cancer, I share how grief collided with art, why my body forced hard boundaries, and how a doctor’s warning reframed love, funerals, and the right to heal. This is a candid account of breaking down, learning to breathe again, and slowly rebuilding a creative practice—one verse at a time—until an EP became an album that honors memory without staying trapped in it.I talk about Asleep at the Will as both title and truth: when the wheel jams, faith and community can help it turn again. I open up about studio days that ended in tears, the moments that finally held steady, and the way Lora’s presence still sits in the room ³while the producer tweaks the mix. Along the way, we celebrate the power of testimony: my niece’s brave story about depression, an artist’s journey, and even an animal rescue advocate whose work reminds us compassion is a discipline. Those voices have reached more ears than I ever expected, proving that honest stories travel far.This show is audio-only by design. I grew up on radio, and I want attention on voice, not visuals—something you can take to work, on a drive, or on a walk. No paywall to listen. Following is free and keeps you close to new episodes on breast cancer awareness, lung cancer advocacy, mental health, and the everyday acts that help us keep going. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs courage today, and leave a review to help these stories find the next person who’s ready to speak up.Reaching for 🌟  The end of my showSupport the showContact [e-mail]

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I'm Regina Sworn. Thank you so much for listening to my podcast. And thank you so much to the guests that I've already had on my, um, show so far. We got some really great guests coming up. And we got some more topics and things that we need to discuss during this breast cancer month. And next month, November, is lung cancer. Now, I'm kind of focused on cancer because I've lost several family members to cancer.

and it is this is very touchy topic to me but at the same time I think God has given me the strength but this topic is very needed at this time and again because I have family you know they say it's in your history

cancer that's what they say but I don't claim it but I lost two sisters to cancer one to write cancer. Laura was my music partner. We did everything together. Everything. Everything you could imagine we did together. We were like twins. And in our mind, I was so tight that when she passed away of breast cancer in July of 2020, I had a nervous breakdown. A lot of people don't know that. Some people know it. A lot of people don't know that. It took me a long time.

I'm just starting to go back into the studio to record. The EP turned into an album. So I started working on an EP and now it's turning to an album. A Sleep at the Will is about the will of a life, the will in my life. You know a will if it doesn't keep turning is going to stop. And I felt for a short, brief moment, it seems like forever in my life that everything just stopped. But I know Laura would want me to keep going. But it hasn't been easy. After recovering through much prayer and through much love and support from family and friends, after recovering from the nervous breakdown, it's taken me a long time to go back into the studio.

I would go in the studio, especially when I first started on this album. I would go into the studio and I started recording and I would just run out, just crying and screaming. That's the way it was in the beginning. But now it's so much better because I can get through a song. I can get through a verse. I can get through parts that I need to. The only thing that bothers me now is sometimes just sitting there while the producer are the person who's in there with me while they're doing what they need to do.

I'm sitting there and all I can think about is Laura and the things that we used to do when we were in the studio. So it's very difficult. So I'm appreciative of prayers very much, very much. But I'm getting through it. I will record, this record will be released, rest assured. And then you got lung cancer. Now, long cancer is technically in November.

My sister Pearl passed away of Long Cancer. And it was a few months after Laura died. And if you listen to my podcast with my niece, Pearl's daughter, I explained when Pearl passed away in November, Laura died in July, my mom died in January. So it was like three, like to say it comes in threes, right? So that was a very, very difficult year. When Pearl died, I was focused on going to the funeral and focused on what would people think if I don't go. but my doctor said if you go

I'll never forget the words the way he said it is that if you go to another funeral right now you would necessarily be grieving your other sister you would be still grieving Laura and he said that would just be too much on your heart and he said you have had it was at that point that he told me that I had had a nervous breakdown He said, if you go to another funeral at this time, this early,

he said they could possibly be having another funeral. Because the heart sometimes can only take so much. I've seen in the past people are at funerals and they fall dead. And I've seen that with my natural eyes in the past. So I knew exactly what he was saying. So it was very difficult not to go, to show my last respects to my sister, Carl. But I had to be mindful of what the doctor had advised me to do.

If people only knew how I was feeling at that time, the burdened, my heart felt like it was going to burst. So had I went to Pearl Three in a row, and I wish I could have because I loved her. But that's why it's good to love a person in life, because even if you don't always go to their funeral, it doesn't mean you don't love them. And I know in my case,

I knew it wasn't because I didn't love her. It was just because it was something that I had to do health-wise or else. It was that or else, you know. So that's why doing the podcast of Breast Cancer Month and Long Cancer or November, we've already started. I'm so grateful to my niece. Teretta Ford, who is helping with this sheet, she signed on because I've asked everyone. It's like, would you like to, come on, would you like to tell your testimony?

I've asked different people because people got great, great testimonies, but sometimes I want to hold them to themselves or whatever. Maybe they just don't want to talk about it. But sometimes when you talk about things, it makes it better. I mean, the pain of it is never going to really go away, but when you talk about a situation, like when I had the nervous breakdown, trust me, I didn't want to talk to people about that.

I didn't even want to talk to people. Let along let people know what happened to me. But I had to do it. And I'm so thankful that God gave me the wisdom, courage, and strength to do that. it takes strength from God to get out there and tell your story. So I'm thankful to my niece, Geretta, for telling her story about the depression that she went through. It has helped so many people.

The podcast, my podcast, so far, the ones that's been posted, one of Murphy Elliott, the one of Jerry Clay Hayes about the Katz organization. And of course, Sherrata's podcast, I mean, these things are breaking records for me. They're totally breaking records. And I'm thankful. I was telling my niece how thankful I was to hear her. Hearing her story, it blessed me. It was very sad.

It was sad. But it still, it blessed me. It gave me faith. It motivated me to want to. do something more to help other people, even if it's through my testimony. Listening to Geretta tell her testimony and the things that she had gone through, I knew she had suffered also with depression, but I didn't know to the extent. I didn't know to the extent of what she had gone through.

So I'm so thankful that she signed on to talk about it, because again, a lot of people hold their testimonies. They hold them. And sometimes, not always. Sometimes people think, well, maybe your podcast is not big enough. They want somebody else to get on somebody else's podcast, but let me tell you guys something. This podcast is hurt by many, many, many, many people.

I've got billionaire restaurant owners who hurt my podcast with Jerry Clay Hayes. and wanted to come talk to me. So I'm really happy that I got quite a few wonderful people who are going to take the mic and tell their story. Because that's what my podcast is all about. You know, a lot of people, they quote unquote, you know, sometimes people say, well, I want, I want to, it's a visual. It's not a visual podcast because that's why I call it audio series. It's a series of volumes and series of things in my life and things in other people's lives and other people's stories.

So it's an audio for a reason. Don't feel bad because your podcast is an audio. I tell people that all the time. My podcast is specifically an audio. And there's a reason for that because there's a reason for that because there's a podcast. room for audios. I grew up, I never forget it, my sister Laura, Lord God, rest her soul, we grew up listening to radio. And when I listen to radio, I tend to hold my attention span as longer. If I'm sitting there looking at something, I'm going to walk away from it. I'm

going to be checking out your clothes, your shoes, what you're wearing, what you're not wearing, You know, things like that. I do an audio series, not because of any specifically way that I look. I think it'll look fair. But it's not about that. I don't want people to focus necessarily on me to look, the way I'm looking, what I'm wearing, the way you're wearing a hair. I don't want them focusing on that. I want them to listen to the podcast.

And so that's why my podcast. and I cannot speak for everyone else. This is just about my podcast. I prefer it to be an audio series, which is why the Lord gave me that name, Regina Soren audio series. So there's room for audio. It's for people who are driving.

You can listen to it in your car. If you're at work, you can listen to it in your ear. If you're on your lunch break, you can listen to it. You can't do that if you're, podcast is one where you got to look at it. You got to stop and look. You get my points. So that's why I'm so grateful that there is room for this podcast.

And I'm thankful how God is, he's blessing it, he's elevating it, he's getting it to the right people because the people who are listening to it are the people who is meant to, who is meant for, you know. And I'm thankful for that. I'm very thankful. So if you are a fan of my podcast, I want to just say for a moment right now, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, a million times. Thank you. And thank you so much for everything.

Thank you for everything. You know, I'm kind of lost for words now, but I just want to thank you for everything. You can go up to the podcast. You can follow. If you want to, you can subscribe. Now, I am not saying that you've got to subscribe. You know, a lot of people ask me, do you have to pay anything? No, you don't have to pay anything.

Subscribing is at your own will. If you want to do that $3 thing, if you want to do a dollar, if you want to do a dollar, if you want to do a nickel. What if you want to do? If you want to do that, that's totally up to you. I'm not saying you got to do that. That's what I have to make very clear to people. Because some people ask, what do I have to pay? Can't break my heart a little bit.

It breaks my heart. But you can follow. Following you nothing. If there's a podcast that you really want to hear, you really like. If you follow, you will hear every single podcast that's posted, every one. So I think I'm going to wrap this up. rumbling on 9. And so I'm about to wrap this up.

But again, I want to thank you to all who support my podcast. I just want to do a solo podcast in the middle of my interviews, of course. Thankful again to all who has participated in coming on, telling their story. Murphy Elliott, the great artist, a genius. Woo! Boy, does he have a story. And I love hearing his story. And of course, my niece, Joretta, came on and told her story.

You know, it's just been a blessing so far. And I want to say this before I got. And one more thing to ramble about. One more thing. Jireta, the two of us, it came up with an idea that we're going to start doing podcasting a little bit more often, you know, just different topics, just things that in general, life, life things. And with Jerry, with the rescue cats, she had said she liked to do more podcasts about the cats and about animals and things like that. So it's working out so well and I'm so

happy and thankful to God and thankfuls to those who has been a part of this journey with me. Thank you. All right Tina Torin, thankful to the music. Oh boy, the soundtrack. Chris Murphy Elliott, man. Go check him out, guys. His music has been online for years. Reaching for The Stars was something that he created for my radio show. And sometimes things can be before their time. I am so thankful that reaching for the Stars is perfectly fitted for my podcast now. So thank you, Chris. If you listen to this, if you can hear this, Thank you. Guys, please go out and check out Chris online. He has some beautiful music out there. He's a very, very talented man, and I just all have power to him. He's really a great person as well.

So is his dad and his family. Thanks again, and you have a great day. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast. Thank you so much for joining me for Regina Soaring, 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.