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#88| Get Lifted!

March 29, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

“Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher.”

~Oprah Winfrey

Lift someone today – and get lifted as well.

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.

#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.

#84| Write It Yourself!

March 25, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Reading is one of my absolute favorite things to do, and writing is a close second.

I can think of few places I’d rather be than in a library or bookstore.

I’m especially proud of the fact that here in The Swirl World, we feature a number of authors who have decided to take Toni Morrison’s advice:

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Mechal Renée Roe grew up as a child from a mixed shade family. She looked for a book that addressed some of the things she experienced with her hair – a book that celebrated the uniqueness of Black women’s hair in all its glory.

She couldn’t find the book she was looking for – and today, she’s the author and illustrator of Happy Hair!

To listen to her story and learn more about her book, click here.

So, what about you? What do you want to read? Have you been able to find it?

If not, why not write it yourself?

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.

#83| A Long Conversation

March 24, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Jamie and JuJu Lee held the first of many a long conversation – in Iraq!

To read their amazing love 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.

#82| Strive For Excellence

March 23, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

When we think of Oprah and her successes, knowing she attributes her determination to strive for excellence as the determining factor of not only what she achieved, but for how she was received.

Yes, in the world, school and in the workplace we will encounter all the “isms” – racism, sexism, ageism – all of those.

Even though we encounter the “isms,” we don’t have to allow them to define us.

How we carry ourselves, the goals we set, the way we perform – we determine the quality of our delivery.

We make the choice to strive for excellence; therefore, we make the choice to succeed.

Here’s to Oprah – and here’s to excellence!

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.

#81| Let There Be Light

March 22, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

~Desmond Tutu

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Genesis 1:3 KJV

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.

#77| Cruising

March 19, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Travel Thursday.

Mary Ellen and Dakota Danuser are Swirling and living the good life.

Here they are on a sunset cruise in Cabo San Lucas.

Cruising is . . . a very viable travel option.

Make your reservations yet?

By the way, Mary Ellen and Dakota are 50+!

To learn more about 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.

#76| So Good!

March 17, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

“I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work – when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns.

Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?”

~Rainbow Rowell

In case you missed it, check out Kylar and Katia Kline’s love story, “What KKK Can Teach Us About Love.”

It’s so good!

(And just so you know, “KKK” stands for “Kylar & Katia Kline!”)

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!

Black Men, You Mad Bro?

March 15, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

This is the final episode of “Chatting with CHONILLA,” Sherley Joseph and Clove Roy of Montreal, Quebec, a.k.a. CHO & NILLA.

In this episode, Clove asks, “Do Black men have legitimate concerns about Black women dating and marrying interracially?

Clove had questions – Sherley, Adrienne and I have answers!

(Black Men, You Mad Bro? Do We Care?)

We dig deep, y’all.

Thanks, Sherley and Clove – it’s been fun hanging out with you!

If you don’t see the podcast player, click here to download Part 3. To listen on the podcast site, click here.

To listen to this episode on Sound Cloud, click here.

If you missed Chatting With CHONILLA – Part 1, click here.

If you missed Is This TMI – Too Much Information? Part 2, click here.

Sherley and Clove have been blogging and podcasting from Canada for years.

Be sure to go check out Sherley (@Sherasaurus on Twitter) and Clove (@Clovasaurus on Twitter) on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to their podcast.

The shout out for this episode goes to blogger Lorraine Nowlin of LorMarie’s Place. She’s a writer with strong opinions on just about everything. Whether it’s using humor, ranting and raving, or writing positive affirmations, she does it all.

To visit LorMarie’s website, click here. To visit her blog page on Facebook, click here. If you’re not easily offended or afraid of controversy, she’s the person to follow on Twitter, so 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!

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