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Swirling, Southern Style!

April 6, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Here at The Swirl World we receive a number of emails and Facebook in-boxes, and we’re thankful for the positive feedback we receive.

Our emails come from men and women who appreciate our upbeat, positive take on interracial dating and marriage, aka Swirling.

One of our fans, Rod, a White man happily married to a Black woman and living in Birmingham, AL, reached out to us.

He wanted to share his perspective on swirling in Birmingham, AL – a place many of us may not associate in a positive way with interracial relationships.

In this special Men’s Edition Podcast, Rod talked to Adrienne and me about “Swirling, Southern Style,” and shared with us about life and love in Birmingham – a Southern city with a storied civil rights history.

Rod also debunks the myth of the “shy guy” and shares a unique tip on a place non-Black men can go to meet Black women.

Enjoy!

If you can’t see the podcast player, click here for the direct download or here for the show’s permanent link.

You can also listen to this and other episodes on Sound Cloud.

If you can’t see the Sound Cloud player, click here. You can also head over to iTunes or Stitcher Radio.

The shout out for this episode goes to podcaster Mike Street of the “Smart Brown Voices” podcast and website.

Mike is a Digital Strategist living in Harlem NYC. #SmartBrownVoices is a passion project featuring the best and brightest voices of color working in the tech and creative space. If you’d like to be on his show shoot Mike an e-mail at smartbrownvoices@gmail.com.

Follow Mike on Twitter @MrMikeStreet and listen to his podcast at SmartBrownVoices.com.

Want to be a guest on The Swirl World podcast, or know someone who should? Send an email to Podcast@TheSwirlWorld.com.

Be sure to “Like” The Swirl World on Facebook and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or on Stitcher Radio!

Copyright ©2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, The Swirl World Inspiration Daily™, All rights reserved. Photo of interracial couple property of The Swirl World™. Photo of Mike Street obtained from SmartBrownVoices.com.

#96| You Can Do It!

April 6, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Monday.

Goals in place? Check.

Priorities set? Check.

Time to get going, and get after it.

Come on, you can do it!

The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing 365 days of inspiration in 2015. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and inspired by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#92| Dream On!

April 2, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Travel Thursday, and we want to ask: Got plans, goals and dreams?

Of course you do!

We encourage you to “dream on,” because we know if you keep pursuing your dream, that dream will take you where you want to go – and even farther than you could have imagined.

Here’s what The Swirl World fan John Jontez Montes posted on his Facebook page a few days ago:

“Just had too good of a time here in Hong Kong. Whoever tells you not to follow your dreams tell them to shut up and sit down somewhere! I’m a country boy who raised cows, chickens, horses, and pigs on a farm and for whatever reason, God sees fit to send me around the world “doing” what I’ve always known I would be doing. I’m not surprised, but I am extremely grateful every day I wake up. Stay focused and DO NOT GIVE UP!”

John’s dream took him to Hong Kong. Where will your dream take you?

PS–Want to learn more about Swirling with Latin men? Click here for the scoop!

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#86| A Good Sense Of Well-Being

March 27, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s the end of the week, and hopefully it’s time for you to wind down and get ready for the weekend.

As you review your week, what did you accomplish? Are you now enjoying the fruit of productivity – or are you experiencing frustration because you fell behind on your tasks and goals?

If you feel like you had a “bad week,” think of at least one thing that you did well – at least one thing you did correctly. Focus on that one thing and make a conscious decision not to beat yourself up over whatever went wrong.

Focusing on the positive will help you to get centered and reestablish a good sense of well-being.

Whatever happened (or didn’t happen), you can recover – you will recover.

There’s always next week to get back on track, right?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#85| Go Someplace!

March 26, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Travel Thursday, so you know what that means.

It’s time for our weekly check-in to see where you are on your travel plans.

We believe the Dalai Lama is on to something:

“Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before.”

Neicy and Jeff Aldrich, who have been married more than 20 years, certainly believe in taking vacations.

They met because she was friendly enough to say “Hi!”

To read their story, click here.

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#79| Spring Fling

March 20, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

A “spring fling” does not have to relate solely to romance.

You can have a fling with an idea; a notion to try something new.

You can decide to stop and smell the roses. Shucks, you can decide to plant some – or even wear some!

(We have it on good authority that few sights are more beautiful than a woman with a flower in her hair).

You can choose to embrace the season, remaining ever on the lookout for new avenues of happiness, abundance, laughter and love.

It’s Spring – so have a fling, why don’t you?

Happy Spring!

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

Loving Black Women Is Not A Fetish – It’s A Preference!

March 16, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 1 Comment

A bit of time has passed since we presented an edition of Mondays With Mike, featuring our good friend and Team Member, Australian Michael Miocevich.

When we began corresponding with him on The Swirl World Facebook page, he told us,

“I am a white guy from Western Australia, and I have always been attracted to black girls/women. At my first school social I danced with a girl from South Africa, and I never forgot it, or her. I have met and dated a lot of girls, but I never fall as hard as I do for Black women.”

Mike started writing a column for us and became a member of our Team.Since then, he’s been busy – working and doing things like being on national Australian television to discuss interracial dating.

You go, Boi!

Mike slowed down enough to chat with our Men’s Editor Mark Custard for a special segment of The Swirl World Podcast – The Men’s Edition.

Mike doesn’t hold anything back as he talks about his love for and appreciation of Black women.

He says unabashedly that his love for Black women is not a fetish – it’s a PREFERENCE!

What Black woman doesn’t appreciate knowing that?

If you don’t see the podcast player, click here to obtain a direct download of this episode. To listen on the podcast website, click here.

To listen on Sound Cloud, click here.

Follow Mike on Twitter @500and50, read his blog at 500and50.com, or message him on his 500and50 Facebook page.

Got questions for Mike? Send them to us via inbox on Facebook or email them to ASwirlGirl@TheSwirlWorld.com.

This week’s “Shout Out!” goes to fellow podcaster Joel Louis of The Start Up Dad HQ Podcast, available on iTunes and Android platforms.

Joel is on a mission to help extraordinary Fathers of today who are/want to be fully engaged in every aspect of their children lives and who are also trying to figure out how to purse their dreams of entrepreneurship. To visit his website, click here.

Want to be a guest on The Swirl World podcast, or know someone who should? Send an email to Podcast@TheSwirlWorld.com.

Be sure to “Like” The Swirl World on Facebook and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

You can also follow us on Sound Cloud and listen to the show on Stitcher Radio!