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What Would You Trade For Success · Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents

• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Hello there, I'm Regina Swern.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to take a deep breath for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, it feels good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to take a really deep breath.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really deep breath.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to try that with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: One, two, three, go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is another day that the Lord has made.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I will rejoice and be glad in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yay! I thank God for another day, always, always.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thankful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just for the little things.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back again to my podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Regina's wine audio series presents.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh this podcast officially started in 2017.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: Right after my radio show roughly it was gone.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: I was kind of tired of it really to be honest.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: It was a situation where I really wasn't happy.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: And well God knows all things.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like to talk about people, so I don't want to talk about anybody.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: But I thank God, you know, for everything.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: So officially my my podcast started in 217.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was doing it just off and on, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it was in 2020 that I c minted it.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: You've heard this story before.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wait.
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  SPEAKER_01: Talking about our sister Laura.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: I am because had it not been for her, I would have um totally given up.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you know it's weird.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: We give up on things sometimes when uh just sometimes when God is just getting ready to move in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: We just throw in the towel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was about to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was about to thank God for the wisdom of my sister.
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  SPEAKER_01: Laura Sworn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people wonder why I say Laura Sworn instead of her her married name.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Because nobody knows her married name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody knows who that was.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody knows I'm not gonna say the name, but nobody knew her with the name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Laura Sworn.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's why I always say Laura Sworn.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, not no disrespect.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Laura Sworn is a name that everybody knows.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows.
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  SPEAKER_01: Regina and Laura Sworn.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean I could use my my other name too if I wanted to.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: My other name.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not even going to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can use that too if I wanted to, but everybody knows Regina Sworn, so you know this podcast.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: I lift my hands up because it's uh it's an independent podcast.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's very independent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I thank God for all that he has done in my podcast or for my podcast.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: I look at people sometimes and I'm like they're they're they're budd budding heads like goats, you know, like sheep do uh to to get on major platforms.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking of myself a lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just thank you for my little podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's because it's it's Jesus and me.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got it all worked out.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when I see people like going head and head and head and head with one another, I'm like wow, gotta thank you so much for you know opening this door for me for my podcast.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: I thank you for blessing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: As I said, it's a little small independent podcast, but the Lord has blessed it.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god, the the the favor, the unmerited favor that the Lord has shown me is it's almost unbelievable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes when I'm recording a podcast and I I'm like God you're so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're sweeter than the honey in the honeycomb.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: I used to hear my pastor mother AB Jackson say that all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: God is so sweet, he's so good to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I thank God for this again.
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  SPEAKER_01: I thank God for this independent podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you can hear it at iHeart Radio podcast, Amazon, BuzzBrout, and so many other little bitty names you can hear it at.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it is not at Spotify, guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you go to Spotify, you're gonna hear the old podcast that I recorded.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna hear the last one that I recorded over there was about three years ago, and it's still there.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: I tried to get rid of it, but somehow it's still there.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: I need to just contact Spotify and say, guys, look, can you please remove it?
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because I don't want people to go there when my podcast is fresh and new, and this is the new thing I got going on, so I want people to come here to this one.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I need to get on that ASAP because sometimes people will go to Spotify, very, very, very much go to Spotify and say, Oh, I enjoyed your podcast, and what is he talking about?
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: The last one was talking about my dad, and about Laura, of course, always.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, guys, that is the wrong you're in the wrong area.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I'm happy to have my podcast on the um iHeart Radio Podcast platform, and that's where it is, guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're anywhere else, you're in the wrong place.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's so much to unpack here today.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna unpack it all, but I just want to thank God.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say be kind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can I start with be kind?
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  SPEAKER_01: It costs nothing to be kind.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was speaking to someone the other day, and this guy, you can just absolutely tell that he was just raring to get off the phone.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was looking for some information on some something about someone, and I asked him for a little help in you know with the information, and I could just hear it in his voice that he just didn't want to be bothered.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking to myself, oh Lord, as much as you don't want to be bothered, sir, that's the same way I feel about bothering you at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god, I want to scream.
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  SPEAKER_01: People, people, and I behold them, and I'm thinking to myself, they don't know what they're playing with, they don't know with their own lives what they're playing with.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: They need some help.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can look at you and say, Oh, god, you really need some help.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's going too far, right?
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's going too far.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get off that.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: Let's let's leave that one alone.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: But I want to thank God again for just that favor that he has shown my podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's untotally unmarried.
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  SPEAKER_01: Totally.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the things that the Lord has done for me, did for me, and continues to do for me is totally beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I was thinking back when I was doing my radio show how I felt like I was in a box.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really did.
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  SPEAKER_01: I felt boxed in certain things I could do, certain things I could not do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh god.
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  SPEAKER_01: I felt trapped in a situation that I can't even explain it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All I know is I feel free now.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you feel free when you're independent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Independent is freedom.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not looking to be tied down again with podcasts, with music, with radio, with nothing.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'd rather be independent with 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people than to be tied in almost like in a prison for millions of people.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: And my sister Laura, when we were recording, you guys don't know this story.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: We had the chance twice to sign on the Diet It Line.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: We had the opportunity twice to sign a record deal with two very, very popular, distinguished record labels.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: We had the chance to we're about to sign twice, but I thank God, oh my lord, thank you so much for Prophet's mother a b Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my lord, I thank God for that woman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because had she not been in our lives, all the beautiful things that was laid out on the table for us, all the traveling, all the promotion, all the clothes, and the little and the money that we thought, you know, all of these beautiful things was laid on the table right before our eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And let me tell you guys, let me just say this.
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  SPEAKER_01: All that glitterness is not go.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I thank the Lord that we had Mother A.B.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jackson in our lives during the time we were recording.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because today, if that same opportunity was in front of me today, I wouldn't do it now because I know better.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if that same opportunity was there, I would probably say yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we were offered so much, you guys, it was so much, all the promotion.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean 15-20 years ago, there was no Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there was Facebook, but there was no a lot of the stuff that's out there now, it wasn't there 20 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we had just uh did our music and was doing our music, all of that wasn't there then.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was it would have been so easy to sign on the dotted line.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very easy, but I do thank God for that woman of God, she said, I see the devil.
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  SPEAKER_01: And boy, when she said that cold chills was running through our bones.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were so scared.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean seriously, just scared, scared, scared.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I do thank the Lord for for Mother AB Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_01: I thank God for her.
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  SPEAKER_01: I do because you can do so many things when you're independent.
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  SPEAKER_01: So many.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're willing to work hard and build yourself up, everything may not come right then.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything didn't come to me right then.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's blessed me since then, he's blessed me abundantly.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it wasn't overnight, it wasn't an overnight success sensation, it wasn't overnight, not at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it was hard work, persistence, persistence, or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was hard work and just grinding, keeping at it, you know, and not giving up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in due season, as it is now, the Lord blessed it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm so grateful that we had Mother Jackson in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so happy for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because had we not had Mother Jackson in our lives, we most definitely would have signed our lives away, pretty much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because one guy wants us to do a hate.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_01: He took us out to eat, it everything was great, he had the paperwork, he had his briefcase, and we all had dinner, had a nice, expensive dinner, and we sat down with him, I'll never forget it, and he was like, Um, want to sign you to a contract.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now he was just gonna be our manager, and he started giving out all the things he wanted from us, and before we could chew our food up properly, we were like, excuse me?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_01: I thank God that we had sense enough to see through him immediately.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he thought he thought he caught himself being smart by we had an interview on the radio the next day in Fort Valley.
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  SPEAKER_01: He called himself trying to cancel that, but see, we knew the radio distalkies at the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: We knew all the radio people uh in Macon and Fort Valley and Byron and in Florida and all those places.
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  SPEAKER_01: We knew the radio announcers.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of them in Georgia, we knew them, so he thought he could just block something and uh cancel that show.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna cancel that interview.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, he couldn't cancel anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: We went on and did that interview and we spoke about him without calling his name.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, people want to get you in these ridiculous contracts, they're ridiculous, guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Signing your life away, you become a slave to that stuff, a real slave.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: But independence is the way to go.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: Independence is the way to go.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Being independent, it is the way to go.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: I tell anybody and everybody, from the new artists to the old artists, from the new actors to the old actors, from the whomever to the whomever.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: I I let them know, hey, look, is your life a lot of people want to wanna be a big shot.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: People like being big shots, you know?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: I like staying low, meek, and humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love being right at the feet of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like serving.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like serving opposed to sitting down being the guest.
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  SPEAKER_01: I too.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the kind of person I am, and that's what God is looking for.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Servers.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't think you caught that.
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  SPEAKER_01: You probably didn't catch what I was saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, uh, I get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we had the opportunity to sign labor labels several times two times for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Big label.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we could have gotten I mean our name would have been way out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I thank God that we settled for selling some some thousands of records.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was good enough for us.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: I thank God for that.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: Because to this day, even to this day, I got enough sense to even with my podcast, I'm not looking to blow up and be the Joe Rogan or be the Ryan Secrets, or I'm not even looking for that.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: I like keeping it low, meek, and um humble.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: I like it that way.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be some big star in the lights, I don't want that.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a very private person.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like being out there in the lights.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: I love my audio podcast.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: I love it because people can listen to it, they can listen to it, they can go back and listen to it.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I've had parents, moms, and even dads that said, We're so thankful for your podcast, Miss Swaren, Gina.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: We're so happy for your podcast because our kids love to listen to your voice.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: Your voice is very calming, calms the kids down, you know, like really?
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Really, really?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: You serious?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: So I've had many parents to tell me that your voice is soft, beautiful, sweet, and the kids like listening to you.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: And one one parent, several parents tell me said my kids don't take to everybody's voice.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody said, but when they hear you speak, they it's like they're just it's like they're hypnotized.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: I hate using words like that, but I'm just saying, guys, that it makes me happy, it makes me feel good.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I thank God again for this independent podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just giving you guys a few tips and throwing out a few things out there to you out there who are thinking about are you on the edge of signing something major?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, to each his own, I guess, you know.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Just think about it.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, really, really, really think about it before you just jump into it.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Because I I know it's hard.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: Life is hard.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Life is hard out there.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: You it's really hard.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you want to get your stuff out there, you really want that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you can see the sunlight.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's really, really tough out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So sometimes you want to say, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and sign the contract.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna sign it.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes that can be the worst thing you can do.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I just hope that um I'm giving you some good tips today.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: I want to talk a little bit about I have a podcast that I'm gonna do about domestic violence.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: Ew, that's really ouch, that's touching.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Because I've heard of so many cases.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: So many people who lost their lives.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, so many people who lost their life to domestic violence.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, someone can tell you that they love you in one breath and then punch you in your face and the other love and hate.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's a thin line between love and hate.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's what that means.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen women beaten to a pulp.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: They call it love.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god, they call it love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Things people go through just to say that they got a man or they got a a wife or a husband or whatever.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: People would go through anything just to say they got somebody.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: But you're better off by yourself than to be with someone who's gonna abuse you, beat you, talk to you like a worse than a dog.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even say talk to you like a dog because some people talk to their dogs very nicely.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I do have a podcast coming up, Love Doesn't Hurt.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot, I think that's the name of it.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, I do have a podcast coming up where I'm gonna be speaking about domestic violence, and hopefully, a guest and guests coming up too.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a topic that a lot of people don't want to talk about, believe it or not.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: People don't like to talk about stuff like that.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna be talking about it.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be talking about it.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so be on the lookout for that.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Be on the lookout for it.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh for domestic violence.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna also be for upcoming when you see the poster, then you know he's.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very clear, very near and dear.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's on its way, guys.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: When you see the poster, when you see the poster.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be doing one also in breast breast cancer and cancer.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: I throw all the cancers in there, you know, breast cancer, cancer.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I I had a friend, dear friend of mine that died a couple of months ago.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: I love that lady so much, Evelyn Chapman.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: She passed away, she was my co-worker, and she passed away of uh stomach cancer.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: She's a big time smoker, but she had kind of stopped with the like then the damage she's done.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I miss her so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really miss her a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna be talking about cancer.
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  SPEAKER_01: So be on the lookout for that.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: Cancer awareness.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking out the window, I thought it was raining.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: Is it raining?
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: Is it I like rain, but you know, sometimes if it's too much, I don't like it.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: But I do like it overall.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: But so be on the lookout for cancer awareness, not just breast cancer, but cancer awareness.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's one of the topics I'll be speaking on the next couple of months.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because we do have Christmas and all that stuff coming up, so this is a very sad time of year for a lot of people.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: You may be happy, you may be with your family, you may be got it going on, but there's somebody on the other end over there who's living in their car, who don't have a place to stay, who's living on the street, who don't have anything, who don't have a roof over their head, who don't have money to get food, and things like that.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: So there's somebody on that other end.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whereas you're happy, there's somebody on the other end who's miserably sad.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: So this is a sad time of year, very sad time of year.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what I choose to do around this time of year is visit a lot of the different shelters and visit a lot of the different places where I I speak and talk to people, and that is a big time speaker, I'm not a big timer walking in like I'm all this and that.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: No, I go in there, might have my little guitar with me, uh, have a friend with me because I don't like to go anywhere by myself, it's not wise.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I go and um sing a song, tell my testimony, talk to the different people out in the audience, and it's not a big old audience, it's probably a nursing home, you know, or a children's home, or places like that.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: Those are the places I like and thrive on the best.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care about going somewhere making a big name for myself.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: I've been there, done that.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, back what 20 years ago, my sister and I would we was on Bobby Jones' show and we did a lot of things that people would be like, wow, you can't I've seen that, you guys did all of that, what but that's because I don't make a big name of myself, I don't talk about that.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the things sometimes people can be right beside me, and they don't even know of all the accomplishments that I got.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know why they don't know?
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because I don't say a word about him.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want him to know.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Because when I say to God be the glory, I mean that.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: To God be the glory in my life.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: It is what it is.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to be out here making a name for myself.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: The name is already made.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord's my shepherd, that's who I lift up, that's who I work for, and that's who gets all of my glory and all of my praises.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: So, thank you so much for joining me today for upcoming uh events that's happening for my podcast Ricina Story Audio Series presents.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy, god is doing so much for that podcast.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: He really is, he's blessed, and I want to stay humble.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: I want to stay humble as he blesses it, as he continues to bless it, I want to continue to stay low, meek, and humble, humble.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: I I pray hard that God keep me that way.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because if people knew some of the successes I have, people would be like, wow, you never said anything about it, you don't say anything about it.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to push myself out there like that.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: God is the reason for everything in my life.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: Any successes that I achieve along the way or have achieved along the way.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord gets the credit for that.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's not Regina Sworn.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's not Gina.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's the Lord who gets the credit, not me, guys.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: I want to make that very clear.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing to do with me.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: When I start making it about me, then that's when your head is already way bigger than it should be.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I and I pray often, I say, God, you know my heart.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know me.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: I said, God, please.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: Don't don't let me get a big head.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe my head is big naturally, I don't know.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: Especially when I wear a ponytail, you can see my bigger head.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, on a serious note, I um I just want to stay humble.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: Because when you stay humble, when you give God the praises, if I be lifted up, I'll draw all men.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord is the one that is drawing all of these different people from all around the world.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's kind of scary to me at times.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh god, look what you're doing in my life.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I see it, and I I look at all the different um things, how he's blessed me.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: I can see it on the side, and I'm like, oh my god, you're blessing me.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: You look at you, and then and that's when sometimes people would get ahead bigger than they should and start thinking to themselves, look at me, man.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm the best, I'm the bum.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: God, please don't let me get that way.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: Please don't.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: I pray hard, guys.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: You don't know just how hard I pray for God to keep me humble.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't ever want to think I'm more than what I am.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: Ever.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I try to to dress down even in my clothing.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: I like dressing modest.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: I love dressing modest.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care to show my bosom and all that.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: I I do have pictures sometimes.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: I run across some pictures where my chest is out a little bit more.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I say, hey, hey, give me the turtleneck, please.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Give me look I I want to be properly dressed.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I know a lot of people say, you got a pretty cute body, why do you hide it?
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: I hide it because I don't want all that attention, guys.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: I do not want nor do I need the attention.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: That body behind those clothes belongs to my love, the love of my life.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: My man.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's not for the world.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I I wanna stay modest and dress modest and look modest and act modest.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't mind that.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have to show my body just because it's a pretty body.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: I have a cute body too.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: I really do.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not bragging.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: But you know that's because I've taken care of myself over the years.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when people find out my age, they're like, You're lying And they they're like, You're lying.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: People really say that to me.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_01: Because I've taken care of myself over the years.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: Great care of myself.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm vegan, nothing to do with that.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_01: I prefer to drink water, water, water instead of drinking soda, soda, sodas.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there are just so many things that I do.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's another podcast I'm gonna do.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna talk about health.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I've uh rego listen to some of some of my older podcasts from a couple of years ago.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: I was speaking on health, you know.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: When you take care of your body when you're younger, when you get older, listen to this young ladies out there, guys too.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Please listen.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: When you take care of your body when you are younger, when you take care of it, when you get older, you look pretty nice, you still look good.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: You won't look all washed up and beat up and chewed up and you know that, you know.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: I look at a few people now and I say, Oh, she looks pretty nice.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: She must have taken care of herself.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Tony Braxton, for instance, sh she had a nice look to be her age.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: We're around about the same age.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I see her, I'm like, alright, she looks pretty pretty nice.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Chili from TLC, she looks really nice.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, older, but looks nice, you know.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: You can tell when people have taken care of themselves, you know, when they were younger.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so uh Hallie Barry.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: These are just people that I know that has taken taken pretty good care of themselves, obviously when they're we're around about the same age and they still look really nice, older, but very nice looking.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: So you can you're not gonna ever look like you were if you're 60, you're not gonna look like you were when you were 20, 25, you're not gonna look like that.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: But it doesn't mean that you have to look all chewed up and beat up if you take care of yourself.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: So that's gonna be another upcoming podcast that I'm gonna speak about.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna speak about vegan, why I uh why I became vegan.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: It was uh nothing personal against nobody else.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: I don't go around with a tag on my back saying I'm vegan.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't do that.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: I really don't.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna make a podcast about it because a lot of people have asked me about that.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um I think I need to talk about it.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't mind talking about stuff when I think it's gonna help people.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: So that's gonna be a podcast too.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_01: And last but not least, I got so many upcoming podcasts.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: You guys know there's the the rescue cats.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yay! They're coming back.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be back on location with Jerry Hayes, uh, talking about this little kitty kitty kitty.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: Mew! Yeah, you know, I adopted several of my cats from rescue cats in uh Fayetteville, Georgia.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna bring Jerry Hayes back on and we're gonna talk.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: And you guys seem to really love the conversation I had with Jerry.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna bring her back on.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yay! Jerry would be back.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be back on location with her.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: I love going up to Pat Smart and enjoying my interview with Jerry.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_01: I love it so much.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: We have so much fun, we really do.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: I told her before, I said we need to just start a bike because we're uh one on the side, we're maybe twice a month or something where we're just talking about the cats, you know?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: Because the what Jerry is doing and what she has done over the years is just outstanding.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, she has a love and a passion for those animals.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: Love and a passion, and I love that about her.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: I met her back in when was it?
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_01: 2000 2004 or 5, one or the other.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: And um I was working at the private school at the time.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so I met her at at that time is where I got my cat Moni.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: You guys remember Moni, right?
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_01: Moni Moni.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: So that's where I got Moni from, and a couple of my other cats.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Panther, Girl, girl, you know, so and now the famous, well-known, famous Braxton.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyways, thank you for joining me today.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh for Rikina Swine Audio Series Presents.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I'm so thankful to God for what He you know, when I when I look at the numbers and when I think about what the Lord did in July, oh my god, you're so good.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: But when I do look at that and I see how God has blessed my podcast, and I'm like, wow, Lord, that was nobody but you.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody but you.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: See, God can bless you without you going out there selling your soul to the world.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people think that's the way to go.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's not the way to go.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: But if you want quick success, then you do what you want to do.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: But I thank God for just waiting on the Lord and letting him just elevate me to the status that he has me now.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm still growing, I'm still growing.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: I thank the Lord, and I thank you all.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Contact me at Sworn Regina at gmail.com.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_01: Visit my official website, ReginaSworn.com.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, we'll have that up again real really soon.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: We're doing some new things with my website, so you can uh check that out later, and hopefully it'd be all ready for you.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for listening to me today.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: Hey parents, I hope I said something to inspire you little kitties.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um let me leave the parents with a little something for the kids.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: Close your eyes Close your eyes It's going to be your eyes it's going to be going to be Thank you so much again and Regina Sworn.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: That was a little something for the babies, for the parents with the babies, and I hope you enjoyed it.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: Boy, we almost went 40 minutes over here.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh again, you can contact me at Sworn Regina at gmail.com.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: Take care.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: Be safe.