Saturday Night Reflections

Saturday nights once meant revival-like services, family gatherings, and the warmth of community. As Regina Swarn opens her heart in this candid conversation, she takes listeners on an emotional journey through cherished memories of those closest to her who have passed - her parents, sister Lora, and Mother Jackson. These weren't just family members; they were her confidants, supporters, and the foundation of her daily existence.

The conversation shifts to workplace dynamics, where Regina reflects on being perceived as "stuck up" simply because she avoids the gossip circles that dominate office culture. With refreshing honesty, she addresses the childishness of colleagues who fall silent when she approaches, making it clear she was their topic of conversation moments before. Her wisdom extends to a valuable warning: once you leave a workplace, any confidences shared with erstwhile colleagues often become public knowledge.

In stark contrast to these shallow work relationships, Regina celebrates the authentic connections that sustain her. She highlights her friendship with Stephen Paul - someone she can call at 2 AM who will listen without judgment - and the renewed creative partnership with her nephew Antonio that echoes the supportive relationship she once shared with her sister Lora. These genuine bonds have nurtured her podcast journey through moments of doubt toward its current success.

The episode concludes with powerful encouragement for listeners to persist with their dreams despite discouraging circumstances. Regina's own experience proves that genuine belief in your vision, coupled with determination, eventually bears fruit. Her excitement about upcoming interviews with artist Murphy Elliott and blues musician Chris Elliott is palpable as she continues building a platform that shares not only her stories but also the fascinating journeys of others.

Ready to join Regina's candid conversations? Contact her at swarnregina@gmail.com and share this podcast with someone who appreciates authentic discussion about life's challenges and joys.

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Chapters

• 1:51 Welcome to Regina's Candid Conversation
• 3:26 Missing Loved Ones and Family Bonds
• 8:03 Dealing with Workplace Drama
• 11:35 Podcast Support and True Friendships
• 16:33 Never Give Up On Your Dreams
• 17:18 The Sydney Sweeney Ad Controversy
• 20:40 Upcoming Interviews and Closing Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:58

Hey there, I'm Regina Swern. Welcome back to a little candid conversation with me. This is a Saturday night candid conversation. Welcome back to Regina Swern Audio Series Presents. You know, sometimes I'll come between and throw out a little podcast about life. In between my interviews and all that stuff with other people, I still throw out my little podcast about life in general and yeah, I want to do that tonight. I have a few things I want to speak about. Go ahead and tell you where you can contact me. Contact me at soaringretina at gmailcom, and my podcast is right here at Buzzsprout.

Speaker 1: 1:50

I know a lot of times, a lot of you pull up that same old podcast over at Spotify From a year and a half ago. What I got to do is go over there and remove everything from there and that way my stuff here would just come up. I think that's what I got to do is go over there and remove everything from there and that way my stuff here would just come up. I think that's what I need to do. I probably should have already taken care of that, but I've been so busy that I oh my god, I got to do that. I just got to go to Spotify and remove, just delete my account there. That's what I got to do Tonight.

Speaker 1: 2:18

I just want to speak candidly about things in life. I think one of the first things I want to talk about is I would like to speak about saturday nights and what they meant to me, what they mean to me now. Saturday nights 15 years ago were the most beautiful, or 20 years ago were the most beautiful Saturday nights ever. We had Mother Jackson was still here, my late great pastor. We had Saturday night service and it was like a revival. It was just you got prayer and it was just beautiful. It was very beautiful and I miss that.

Speaker 1: 3:04

I miss my family. I guess I still got family here, but when I say I miss my family, the ones who I was closest to, you see, I grew up with being there with my mom, my mother and my dad, and so I grew up being there with them and coming up with them and living with them, and and my sister, laura. And sometimes people say you only speak of mother Jackson, laura, your dad and your mom, and there's a reason for that it's because I was closest to them. And so by all those years, guys, put yourself in my shoes, if you can, for just a moment. I was closest to them. So therefore, yes, I miss them because I was closest to them, has nothing to do with love, because I do still love my other brothers and sisters and family. I love them.

Speaker 1: 3:59

But there was like I'm going to give you an illustration, like houses they are, we got one house over there, you got one house over there, you got one house down there, but one house, the house I'm talking about, is the house, our house, okay, the house that I was in and I'm using this family-wise, other family members were, like in other houses there were meaning we wasn't close Doesn't mean I don't love them, we just was not close ever. So, yes, I miss my sister Laura. You know we used to talk, we used to pick up the phone and they could talk about pretty much anything we could. You know, we just had a great, great relationship, which is probably why I still dream about her now. Um, so I I miss that. I miss them and they're all gone. You know they're all with the Lord. I know they are. They're all gone. You know they're all with the lord. I know they are my dad.

Speaker 1: 5:06

I miss my dad. You know my dad. He was people say you know, he had you so spoiled and he looked at you as a baby. And yeah, he did. Even when we got our first apartment, my dad, he god his soul. He was such a quiet man but he was a very powerful man. He would, um, he would still pay half of our rent. He would still give us money. Although we would have a job and we were doing well, my dad would still like put money out to help us. That's a real man for you, um, and I miss our mom.

Speaker 1: 5:43

I miss her mother very much. I miss her. I miss the times that we had together long years and years ago and I miss those later years. You know, people like to say, well, I took care of her in the end of her life, I took care of her. They are forgetting that my sister, laura, laura and me, we were there for them from the beginning, all the way to basically just definitely my dad all the way to the end. So that can never be taken away from us. That can never be erased, no matter how hard people try. I don't talk a lot about different things, so I'm not going to talk personally about anything or anybody, but I'm just saying right now that I truly miss those key figures Mother, dad, sister Laura and Mother AB Jackson and I'll always remember them. They will never die, because as long as I got a voice, I'm going to always, and as long as I got a voice, I'm gonna always. And as long as I'm here, I'm gonna always remember them, because I miss that part of my life again. It does not take away from what I feel about other family members. I love them very much, very much. I still love them, but I do miss the ones I just named out I want to talk about now.

Speaker 1: 7:05

Let me shift the gears a little bit about people that you work around. I I feel sometimes that I am such a loner because I don't like being in the company of them, and it may seem like I'm stuck up, and maybe I am, I don't know. I just don't like to be around all these old women and some men that walk around and all they got time to do is talk about people. That's all they got time to do. And a lot of times I'm walking down the hall and you know they're talking about you. They get really quiet. They get quiet and I've had it happen so many times. They'd be talking. It scared them to death because they're like, oh my god, she just walked up on me, let me shut up. So, yeah, you, they, they sit there and they talk about you. I'm walking down the hall and then I get really quiet. You can hear a pin drop and then I walk down the hall and one day I just threw my hair back like, oh, whatever, whatever. And then I'm standing there.

Speaker 1: 8:24

One day I'm drinking some orange juice in one of the rooms and one of the ladies probably didn't, even though I was in that room, and she was just babbling away and talking about me, talking about me really bad, saying this and that, and I guess one of the other ladies said she's in there, she's in there, she's in there, you, she's in there, she's in there. You know, I wish these people would get a life. These people are so old some of them, they are so childish, they are so ignorant and it breaks my heart. Am I stuck up? I am, if you want to call it stuck up, because I don't like being around people who are talking about other people. That makes me stuck up. Then, yeah, I guess I am. I don't like it. I mean you. You you're in somebody's face and you you act like you like them, and then, as soon as they turn their back, you're talking about's face and you act like you like them, and then, as soon as they turn their back, you're talking about them like a dog. That is one of the most disgraceful things I've ever heard of. So, yeah, I can't stand that.

Speaker 1: 9:39

Another thing, since we're on the job subject I cannot stand it when you are at a job and I had some good friends over at another job I was at. As long as you're there, you're good, you're good, you're good to go. But once you leave, don't ever have shared secrets with these people about anything, because if you're at a job or at a situation in your life I don't care if it's a job or not if you're at a situation in your life and you shared something with somebody and then you're no longer around that person, rest assured your business will be all over that place, because they feel like you're no longer there. So now they got room to tell the secret that you shared with them or that you talked with them about. So that's another thing to watch out for. I mean, seriously watch out for that, because people say they got your back. Yeah, they got your back. They got your back, baby, they got your back all the way.

Speaker 1: 10:37

So I want to say that I'm gonna get off the job thing now because I it gives me a headache to talk about that, to talk about drama and to talk about people like that. It just, I don't know, it makes me want to throw up headache to talk about that, to talk about drama and to talk about people like that. It just, I don't know, it makes me want to throw up when I talk about, you know, the job, people on the job. So let me get off of that. Now I want to talk about my podcast. I'm grateful to those who support it. I have supporters. I have strangers supporters who support my podcast and I do have friends who are close to me who support it.

Speaker 1: 11:10

I talk to Steve and Paul a lot. I know I talk to him my friend in Florida, steve and Paul a lot, but I really adore that man because he has not missed a beat as a friend. He's been a wonderful friend. There have been friends come in and out of my life, but he has remained a really treasured friend that I'll always remember, that I'll always hold near and dear to my heart. I love Stephen Ball. He's a great guy I can call him up at Sometimes a man is asleep, I can call him up at 2 o'clock in the morning. I can call him up, I wake him up, but you know He'll wake up, he'll get up, yeah, so he's a great man. I love Stephen Ball. You know I'm so grateful to have friends like him in my corner. He's a great guy and he's a wonderful friend. I truly, truly treasure friends like that and I do have good friends. I still have good friends. Everybody's not an enemy, so I want to say that. So kudos to Stephen Paul for always remaining a wonderful, wonderful friend.

Speaker 1: 12:21

Back to my podcast. I appreciate those who support it. I appreciate my nephew, brother Antonio, for it and his wife. I appreciate them for, you know, just being wonderful and being a part of my podcast and, you know, sharing it, and we were doing some stuff together, working on some projects together right now. And I'm so glad to involve family, because Laura was the only family that I involved or had in my, you know, on my business side, because we had the same vision. You know she, as I said, the wind beneath my wings there's a cat. Oh, you guys see a cat over there. She was the wind beneath my wings, you know she let me shine, but she was really the star behind me and and I miss that, I really miss that. So she was a great supporter. She supported me in everything. She was so freaking proud of my sister as a radio show, my sister as a podcast. I mean, she championed me. You know, she gave me motivation and I miss her so much. God, I miss that girl, I miss that lady. I miss that woman so much. I miss her so much.

Speaker 1: 13:38

But I'm thankful to my nephew, I'm thankful to him and his wife for just being just wonderful. You know I can call him up and talk to him and you know we'll talk and we'll talk about the old times, we'll laugh, we'll have a good time and you know I like that. I like that. You know I like that. I like that because we've always been Laura and I were always closest to Antonio. We're always closest to him. You know we make music together too as well. So I'm so grateful to have him back in my life. Not that he ever went anywhere, but you know it's kind of like sometimes you were on different sides of the board and then we kind of got back into the picture together and things are really great now and I'm thankful for he and his wife so thankful, and I just wanted to give them a shout out because they've been wonderful, amazing, amazing, amazing. So I really thank them for that.

Speaker 1: 14:34

And I'm really happy about my podcast, the places that it's going. God is really moving for me. He's blessing my podcast. He's blessed it. He's continuing to bless it in a mighty, mighty way. I don't like to give away too many details, but he's blessing me to interview people and go on location interviewing people and he's really blessing it. He's really, truly blessing my podcast.

Speaker 1: 15:01

And just to think that I wanted to give up on it um, some years ago when I first started it, I was going to give up, but my sister, laura, was like Gina, don't do that, don't do that and what I was going to. But she really gave me motivation not to do it and I didn't. So thank god for that. So, um, I just want to come to you tonight. I want to give you a little bit of encouragement now too, if you got a dream or a vision, to never give up on that dream or vision ever, regardless of how things look. It may look bleak for the moment, it may look like it's not going to work for you, but don't give up on it, because if you stick with something and you really stick with it long enough and you believe in it, even when no one else around you believe in your dream or would have you, if you believe in it, you would be surprised at how well you, how far you would go and how great it would be accomplished. So do not repeat, do not give up. Don't give up, guys, don't give up. So, yeah, don't give up. Please don't give up. Don't give up, guys, don't give up. So, um, yeah, don't give up. Please don't give up. And I'm just rambling tonight, so this is Saturday night.

Speaker 1: 16:25

So, uh, someone wanted me to bring up the Sidney Sweeney I think it's her name. Um, controversy about the American Eagle Jeans. Guys, that's a. I wish people would get a life.

Speaker 1: 16:39

I watched the, the commercial, the ad, and I think it's so incredibly beautiful. Sydney's beautiful. I don't think that. I know that has nothing to do with being racist and stuff. It's crazy that people would think something like that. It's just absolutely crazy. Um, the jeans are beautiful. Um, I was wondering did they have any jean skirts? Because I would love some of their jean skirts. Would I shop at American Eagle? Yes, I would, I would. I wish people would just get a life. It's so weird that people are trying to find something to talk about, something to criticize people about what is wrong with being beautiful and having it being honored. I see nothing wrong with that. I'm not going to talk about this too long, because talking about it too long makes me angry that people are having such a negative thoughts about this. I think the commercial is fine. The ad is fine.

Speaker 1: 17:51

I was looking at one of the Brooke Shields oh commercials about her, kevin Clines. I loved it. I loved it. I love that commercial, I love that ad. And when I see Sidney Sweeney's ad, I love the ad. I mean I really love it.

Speaker 1: 18:07

But you know people call me weird anyway. You know people have called me a lot of things. If someone ever called me asked me something stupid is are you black? And I had people ask me that before. That's so funny. I think it was a joke. But I didn't take it as a joke. It made me very angry that people because you don't agree with people sometimes and the way they think and when they talk. Sometimes they I don't got a problem with that, but I frankly, my dear, I don't care how you feel about it.

Speaker 1: 18:39

But yeah, I like the Sydney Sweeney ad. I think it's really Really Class A. It's beautiful. She looks great, the jeans look nice. I say, yeah, go shop at American Eagle. Yeah, go do it, guys, go do it. Bump the left, bump what people are saying. Go shop, have fun, ignore the negativity, ignore it.

Speaker 1: 19:04

So I touched on a lot of things tonight. I touched on a whole lot of things. I'm so thankful that I touched on a whole lot of things. I'm so thankful that, with my podcast, I'm able to bring you my stories as well as bring you the stories of other people, which is being a lot of fun. So if you enjoyed my friend, sherry Hayes, then I know you'll enjoy the new people that I got coming on board. Yay. So be on lookout, guys. Be on the lookout. So I'm going to go now. I know I've rambled here for almost 20 minutes. Has it been 20 minutes yet? Oh, my God, almost 20 minutes, okay. So thank you so much for listening. I'm Regina Sworn. You can write to me at swornretina at gmailcom. And yes, the new season not the new season, but the new month is here for new interviews on location.

Speaker 1: 20:06

I have the amazing Murphy Elliott, who is an artist. I mean, you got to check him out online. He paints, I know he draws and talking to him on the phone a few weeks ago, I said, oh God, I got to have an in-depth conversation with this man, because his stories just hearing it on the phone, just really, just oh, I'm like. I'm like really, oh, my god, what? Yeah, this is. I'm looking forward to doing that interviewing Murphy Elliott. His son, chris, is a musician. He's absolutely amazing as well. He's a blues musician, but I think he plays all types of music. Chris is amazing as well too. So, all right, y'all, I'm gonna go now, but thank you so much for listening to me, thank you so much for supporting this podcast, uh, for sharing it, and you can contact me at sorenregina at gmailcom. Be safe out there. I love you, and good night.