I Keep My Personal Life Offline On Purpose

People love your content, then they start asking for more than content. Where do you live, do you have kids, why don’t you show your boyfriend, what are you hiding. I’m answering that head on, because the assumption is wrong: privacy is not shame, and keeping my relationship offline does not mean I don’t have a full, happy, beautiful personal life.

You’ll hear why I choose to make my work public and keep my private life protected, even while I’m excitedly promoting my new podcast Give Me 15. I talk about boundaries on social media, the pressure that comes with being a public figure, and how parasocial curiosity can turn into demands for access. I also share why I refuse to put the people I love on display, and why I see oversharing certain details like money and personal specifics as simply unwise.

This bonus conversation gets personal in a different way too. I reflect on how losing my sister in 2020 changed me, shifted my relationship with attention, and made a quieter life feel like freedom. If you’re navigating online privacy, creator branding, or just trying to protect your peace, this one will help you name your line and hold it. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs boundaries, and leave a review telling me: what do you keep offline on purpose?

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Bonus Intro And New Show

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Hi there. Welcome back to a bonus. Yeah, I said it. Another bonus episode of Retina Sworn audio series presents. Now you guys know I'm super excited about my new podcast show, Give Me 15. Getting a lot of promotion at the next two weeks. A couple of radio stations is going to be pushing it out there. Some people are going to be creating posters. I'm going to be getting uh promotion from other podcasters, some YouTubers. I mean, just the whole work. I'm so super excited about it. Because the show is really near and through to my heart and it's something brand new. So yeah. I want to talk briefly about personal life. Yeah, you want to hear that guys? Okay, I'm gonna talk about that. First, I'd like to give you a place that you can contact me. Write to me at my email, swornregina at gmail.com. That's sworn regina at gmail.com. You can also visit me at my official website, ReginaSworn.com. Now, if you want to just say www.reginasworn.com, you can get it that way as well. Yay! I want to talk briefly, just as a monus episode, so it's maybe just five or six minutes. I want to talk about personal life because a lot of people wonder why I don't put like a boyfriend, a husband, or my personal life, what my house, where I live, um why don't I put my personal stuff um on my social media? I'm always putting work on there. And a lot of people think sometimes, well, uh, if you don't have anything to be ashamed of, why would you put your personal life on there? Why don't you put your your your man on there? Why don't you let me tell you guys something? Just because I don't post

How To Contact Me

SPEAKER_00 2:05

my personal life or make it public does not mean that I don't have a beautiful public personal life, excuse me, behind the scenes. My personal life is guarded very closely, and it's a beautiful personal life. It's one that I don't feel that people I want people to know about my work, you know? It's my work that I want to bring to the public. That is what's important to me. The

Why I Stay Private Online

SPEAKER_00 2:35

work, guys, the work, not my personal life. So you know I don't put my personal life online. Very seldom do I even speak of my personal life, but that does not mean that I don't have a personal life, a beautiful personal life behind the scenes. You know, to each his own, you know, people that that that put their life out there like that and and put their significant others and and their children and uh all of that, more power to them. You know, I don't I don't come against that. I don't say, oh no, oh I whatever a person feels like they want to do, I say, yeah, go for it, guys, do it. If it makes you happy, do it. If you want to put your whole entire family online, you want to put raids your family, your husband, your wife, your children, um uh what you're eating for dinner. Now I love doing that. But as far as putting my personal life behind the scenes, I do not do that. And I have many, many reasons why I don't do that, but it has absolutely nothing to do with me being ashamed of it because I have a beautiful, beautiful personal life, it's very beautiful, beautiful people in my life as well. A beautiful, beautiful, um, significant other. So my personal life is very, very guarded, but at the same time, it's wonderful, there's nothing bad

Boundaries Without Judging Others

SPEAKER_00 4:04

about it, and I'm very happy in my personal life. So I prefer not to put my personal stuff online, it's just me. And you know what other people do? I can't judge them. I can't say, you wow, what are you doing? I can't do that, but neither can people come and judge me. Like, why does she put her new car or new or new truck or her boyfriend or husband or or whatever? Why does she do that? She's always talking about her work because my work is what I want you to see. My work is public. I am a public figure, my work is public, and that's what I want to present to the public. My personal life is for me, is personal, is private, it's beautiful, is lovely, it's all those great things, and I have much respect for um the person in my life, very much respect for him. He has a lot of respect for me too. So I don't put my personal life out there. I think I've said that before, and I'm having to say it again because people just they want to know these things, you know. They want to see you as somebody, kissing somebody, held up close to somebody, hugging somebody. Uh they want to see all of these things that I'm just not gonna put out there. And no, I'm not ashamed of it. Not at all. Again, I'm very, very proud. That's with the capital P with all cap letters. I'm very proud of my personal life. I'm very proud of the person in my life. I'm very proud of this person. Reminds me a lot of my dad. A lot of my dad. And God knows I loved my dad with every fiber of my heart. So, so I hope I've explained that because I've tried explaining it before, but sometimes people they they just just nab at it, nab at it. I want to know more. I want to know, I want to know about your personal life. I want to know uh, do you have children? I want to know do you they want to know so many things that I'm not gonna talk about because I do have respect for not just my personal life, but for the people who are in my private and personal life. I give them a lot when I put my business out there, and even with that, I don't put all of my business out there because I'm never gonna get on here and just talk about a whole lot of money. I'm not gonna do that. That's just unwise to me. But you know, I will put my my podcast out there, I would talk about things. If other people want to bring their story, I bring their story with pleasure, but I am not gonna disclose my personal life is definitely not it's just something that's not wise to do for me. But make no mistake about it, and I want to make this very clear. It's not that it's unhappy because I have probably the happiest personal life. I'm happier than I've ever been in my life. Ever. And I want to keep it that way. I love it. I do love it. I love my life, I love my private life. I love it. I love being able to go on vacation and and and and travel incognito with glasses on and people not even notice you and yeah, cause sometimes people will notice who you are, believe it or not. I didn't think they would, but they will. And I I I like that. I like just just being oh god, I can't explain it. I like being able to go to a store and do things and you know, just dress just normal, be normal. I don't have to go out all dressed up and uh with lipstick and all looking all fancy, want people to look at me. I go out in just regular uh skirt and jeans or whatever, go to the store, come back, and and I love it. I don't like a lot of attention derives toward me. I

Happiness Behind The Scenes

SPEAKER_00 8:08

really don't. And I think it's probably why I like the audio only because I don't like the attention anymore. I used to love it. I used to be like I told you, I used to be the ham. Take my picture. I used to love it. I just love being up front and being out front, but I think it changed um back in 2020 when my sister died. Uh a lot of things just changed in my life, you know. I started being a little a lot more private, you know, and I just I like it that way. I really, really like it that way. I like being private, guys. I I do, I really do. So I do hope I explain this to you because sometimes people don't understand. They're like, well, but she never she never showed her boyfriend or husband or or or fiance or whatever. They don't even know what I got. They don't know if it's a boyfriend, husband, fiance. They don't know what it is. And that's good because I don't want them to know. And and they don't they want um does she ever post her kids, her son, or daughter, or they don't know anything about me except for my work. And that's the way I want it. And I like it that way. I've totally changed from the person I was ten years ago, fifteen years ago, where I wanted to be just out front. I want it all in my life to be paraded like some kind of uh display. I absolutely hate that now. I hate it. And I love my private life, I love it. I

How Loss Changed My Privacy

SPEAKER_00 9:36

love being able to go places and enjoy myself and and not have a uh uh I used to have like a camera person behind me, like uh taking pictures of everything I do, and I I really just love if you look at some of my older pictures, um I did a lot of stuff, it was just out there when it was on on different jobs I used to work at, man. It was just crazy. I just wanted to be the center of attention. I have totally changed, guys. I'm glad I'm not that person anymore. Nothing wrong with being that person, but I lived that life before. And I just now want to be live a private life. I want to do private things. I want the people in my life to ha to enjoy their lives as well and be private the way they want to be. And I'm happy. Most of all, we are happy over here. So that's what matters. And that's why I I post my work, I post as much as my work up for you, but I'm not gonna post my public life. My private life, sorry, and make it public. I'm not gonna do that. I had to talk about that. I hope you guys get the point. Come on now. I'm Regina Sworn, thank you so much for listening. You can contact me at Sworn Regina business only, sworn at gmail.com. Visit me at my official website, www.regenasworn.com. That's ReginaSwaren.com. Thanks for listening, guys.