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How A Small Faith Podcast Reached 2.8 Million · Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents

• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I hope you can understand my voice.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've been doing a lot of talking and uh a lot of celebrating, you know, and so much has been going on in my life.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, first let me say welcome back to another episode of Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Did that come across clearly?
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I hope so.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to only gonna be here for like maybe five minutes or ten minutes or so.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to say I am so thankful to the Lord.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so thankful to the Lord for his unmerited favor.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think I said that right.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: And as I said, guys, I've been talking a lot, so my voice is a little bit, a little bit not as clear as I want it to be, but I just wanted to come out here and and and give a few minutes of thanks, a celebrating thank you to the Lord for all of his greatness.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: He's so good to me, so good to me.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Waking me up this morning, and I thank God for this podcast.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: I thank God for this podcast, my podcast, which is a little small podcast, it's nothing big, you know, it's not like one of those huge podcasts, it's audio only, and so which makes me sit here and thank God and say, oh my god, look at you, look at you, Lori.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: But the Bible said, if I be lifted up, the Lord said, if I be lifted up, I'll draw amen.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: So bringing you to July for my memorial, my sister's memorial, my my beautiful sister, who is safely in the arms of the Lord right now, resting.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to do a memorial service in her honor because she's um been gone now, you know, since 2020, July.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to do a memorial service in her honor, but that honor was to lift up Jesus.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so thankful that I didn't disappoint, I did not disappoint.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um lift by lifting up the Lord and giving God all the praises, the Lord blessed it to be heard that those memorial services with Elder Leonard Davis, man of prayer, the Lord and and uh Pastor Tammy Watson, oh my god, just a woman of God.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord blessed those memorial services to really do well, to do well, and to be heard on radio, on YouTubers uh carried it, bloggers shared it, carried it.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um people were just talking about it, you know, just just posting it in their different um on their different platforms and I as I said this is a small, this is a small podcast, it's not a huge big podcast, it's small and God is so good.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: If if you lift up Jesus, lift up God, it's not telling what he would do for you to glow to God be the glory in my life, to God be the glory.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so thankful that this podcast, those two services were heard collectively, but were heard by 2.8 million people worldwide or around around the world, around online, you know.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: I am so thankful.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: I stand here right now tonight, and I'm standing right now because I couldn't sit down.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: I just been walking the floor, just thinking the Lord, like God, look at you.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Look at you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no telling what the Lord would do in our lives if we lift him up.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we lift him up, when we give him all our praises.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I thank God because there's no way I can do any of these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: No way.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: But is the Lord?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I thank God for the services in July, uh the memorial services again on behalf of my beautiful sister Laura L.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Sworn, who uh passed away July 29th, 2020.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: What a horrible time that was.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was just it was a time of COVID, and it you know, people could not get together and come to funerals and do things like that.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it was a very difficult time back in July 2020.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was a time that people could not just come together and be together.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: So my sister passed away.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I just thank God for for my dear brother, Elder Leonard Davis.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'll never forget him.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, as I was getting ready to drive back up to Atlanta to Soc Bridge.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: He walked over to me and I my heart was so heavy.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: He walked over to me as I was sitting in the car so overwhelmed with grief.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's what they say, grief will kill you.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: And he walked over to me, he said, I want to pray for you.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: I want to pray with you.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: And he grabbed my hands, and that man of God prayed with me.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: I never forget it.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was God that told him to do that because my heart was so heavy that thought it was going to burst.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: I was just so sad.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because you guys know it was very close to my sister Laura.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we did everything together, we were inseparable, even through death.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: And he came over to my car, he walked over to my car, and he just grabbed me by the hands and he started praying, and that was nobody but the Lori that led that man of God over to me.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm telling you right now, had he not did that, there's no telling what would have happened.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: I had to drive back.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't have been driving, you know?
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: But I had to drive back to my home and I was just so overwhelmed.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: My heart was overwhelmed.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: I was I was just scared and I was overwhelmed and I was crying and I really I shouldn't have been driving at all, you know, but I was driving because there were no one else to drive.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: So he caught me by the hands, he grabbed me by the hands, and he prayed with me, and and I thank God for that.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: But those two services that I did a couple of months ago, the two podcasts with Elder Leonard Davis, his wife, Sister Donna Davis, and his sister, Sister Dolores, and Pastor Tammy Watson.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Bless her heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: She um did a podcast as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they both were my two guest speakers in July.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I when I tell you that the Lord really moved in those services, he moved.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: I could not contain myself when Pastor Tammy was speaking.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: You probably hear it.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: I was just throughout the whole entire podcast.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was just I was overwhelmed with thankfulness and gratefulness.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: God really moved in those two podcasts.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it was carried by four, five different radio.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it was more radio station.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was carried by them.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: They rebroadcasted, uh, and so much they're rebroadcasting, but they rebroadcast it on their different shows at different times.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many times, but it w obviously it was a lot of times.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, YouTubers that I know who were good friends of mine carried the podcast and played it and and talked about it and had things to say about it.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to say, uh I thank them, I thank everyone who supported those two memorial service services because together, collectively, they were heard by 2.8 million people around the world, around the United States.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they were heard.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: And the two speakers, they just didn't didn't, they wasn't afraid.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: They spoke as the Lord gave them.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was with power.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: My pastor Mother A.
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  SPEAKER_00: B.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jackson used to say, call down power, power, power.
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  SPEAKER_00: God really moved, let me tell you, the Lord moved in a mighty, mighty, mighty way.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so thankful.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: I stand here tonight thanking the Lord for his greatness.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God did it, if I be lifted up, I draw all men.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: It was the Lord who was drawing everybody.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I thank God for those two speakers again.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta go check them out online.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: My dear brother Elder Leonard Davis, on his page, he he writes spiritual things, he he he lifts up Jesus.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um you stop by his page, uh Leonard Davis.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's at Facebook, I know.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about any other area, but I know he's at Facebook.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: So check him out, Leonard Davis.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's an elder, he's the elder Leonard Davis, but Leonard Davis, go check him out at Facebook.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: Go check out my beautiful sister, woman of God, Pastor Tammy Watson.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: Check her out online, y'all.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: She is a powerhouse.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, she's all over the place.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: She's a singer as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's got records out there.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you gotta go check her out.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Her name is Pastor Tammy Watson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tammy Watson, go check her out.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to celebrate this moment.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Thank the Lord for um all of the listeners, all again, all of the radio stations who showed that unmerited favor.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, my pastor used to always say, ask and pray and ask God for the favor of people.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I thank God for the favor.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because if it wasn't for all the different stations that played at and all the different YouTubers who gave me a uh a shout out and did all this.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: If it wasn't for them, I'm telling you right now, there is no way that 2.8 million people could have heard that podcast.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm kind of losing my voice right now, but I just want to say thank you, Laura.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you everything you were doing in my life, Laura.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we are starting season 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um as we speak.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: I have a new I have new music uh for my podcast.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: I want to give um you know, when I pla played a different uh podcast music, it reached millions of people, thousands of people get a chance to hear that music.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so um for my podcast, I don't know if you heard it this time, but moving forward, you will be hearing um God's theme, and it is a a track from uh our CD, my sister Lori and I C D from years ago, back in 2001, 2001, we released that that um CD.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: And so the Lord just let me just take one of those songs off of there, and he pointed me right to God's theme.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: So um in the next podcast, you didn't hear it in this one, but in the next podcast, you will be hearing the God's theme as my uh brand new, brand new and it'll be new to you, it's not new to me, but it will be brand new to you all.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: It'll be my new theme for my show, and it's gonna become just as popular, just watch and see.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Because why?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because the show is is really popular, it's moved up the ranks.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I'm looking up right now.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: But oh, and I felt that.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: So that's gonna be my new podcast theme, which is called God's theme.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: And again, if you want to find that, you can find that on our CD uh from back in the year of 2000 when Lori, my sister Lori, and we released that album, The Sworn Sisters and Triends, um, uh, with uh Dr.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: John Thomas, Nathaniel Thomas, and then we did that with him, and it was really wonderful.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: Those were really wonderful times.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad I had those times, you know.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: I thank God for that.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: So that's gonna moving forward, that's gonna be my new theme song for the podcast.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: Thankful to Chris Murphy Elliott for his beautiful song.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: You guys, reach it for the stars guy.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: You've you heard it on my podcast for the last year, I think, last year and a half.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I played it at the beginning of my podcast, at the ending of my podcast.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're actually gonna hear it in this podcast.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: So you're still able to hear that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and that's Chris Murphy Elliott.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please go check him out online.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's an outstanding, outstanding musician.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Just outstanding.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: I I love that man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's outstanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: So check him out.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, check out his father, who's gonna be my first guest for season 10, Murphy Elliott.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: So we're broadcasting that everywhere right now, too.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, as did say goodbye on this celebration.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna say goodbye.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to say um, God bless you all.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for supporting me.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, even when you share my podcast, that is support, believe it or not.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I thank you all so much for the support, for the love, for everything.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: You're wonderful.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Retina Swan.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Contact me at SwanRetina at gmail.com.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Again, thank you to Royal Digitally for my posters.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: They are just outstanding.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: They're beautiful.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: What can you say?
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: They they do a great job.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: They just when people see the posters, they're like bang, yeah.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Say no more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they're really great at what they do.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: So check them out online, Royal Digitally.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: And please, my friend Stephen Erskine from England.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: I thank him a lot.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: He helps me as well.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: He to do he works in the background, you know.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: He did a lot of things in the background, as well as my friend Stephen Paul, whom I'll always give um a shout out to as well.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you all again so much.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: God is great.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for helping me celebrate this podcast with which was heard um the July podcast, which was hurt.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: 2.8 million people heard that podcast, and I'm so thankful to the Lord.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Have a great, great night, great day, or wherever you are listening in the world.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Please be safe, and thanks again.