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#310| The Best Feeling In The World

November 6, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 1 Comment

The best feeling in the world is being with someone who wants you as much as you want them.

Don’t ever settle for anything less!

Join in the Fray: In what area(s) of your life do you need to tell yourself, “Don’t settle?”

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.

#302| Traveling Solo

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

Traveling alone is the single best gift you can give yourself.

Join in the Fray: Traveling solo: A “yay” or a “nay?”

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.

A Brown Girl In An Anime World

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

Anime

noun an·i·me \ˈa-nə-ˌmā, ˈä-nē-\ : a style of animation that was created in Japan and that uses colorful images, strong characters, and stories that have a lot of action

Anime is taking the world by storm, and many of us find it fascinating.

I’m especially intrigued by women involved in anime and the involvement of Black women in particular.

Imagine my delight to discover and interview anime artist and comic-book creator Sharean Morishita of S.K.Y. Art & Design and the S-Morishita Studio.

Sharean chats about growing up as an awkward Black girl in a single-parent household, and how she found and makes her mark in the art world.

She also gives us the back story on her husband’s last name!

Enjoy!

If you can’t see the podcast player, click here or here.

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

To read and learn more about Black girls in anime, check out our blog post “They Don’t Always Have To Be White!” featuring a podcast with teenage anime artist Charlotte Spencer, daughter of Interracial Marriage and Family Dating Coach Lorraine Spencer.

Want to be a guest on the 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 the podcast on iTunes. You can also follow us on Sound Cloud and listen to the show on Stitcher Radio!

#289| Celebrate Your Life!

October 16, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

~Oprah Winfrey

I’ve attended a number of funerals in my life.

More often than not, a funeral program is where I most often see the words, “A Celebration of Life,” or, “Celebrating the Life of _________________.”

How much more sense does it make to celebrate life during the time you are alive?

The good. The bad. The ugly.

The whatever.

Celebrate.

Velda Rose Austin recently celebrated a birthday. She loves her life!

Join in the Fray: We’re having a party – and we’re celebrating #TeamYOU! What should our toast to you consist of?

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.

#283| So In Love!

October 10, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 5 Comments

Be in love with your life – every minute of it!

Join in the Fray: Are you in love with your life? Why or why not?

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.

#263| Grateful!

September 20, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 5 Comments

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

~John Henry Jowett

I’m enjoying the benefits of gratitude – how about you?

Join in the Fray: What are you grateful for?

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.

#259| Dare To Love – Yourself!

September 16, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 5 Comments

Here in The Swirl World, we’re all about self-love and self-confidence.

Of course we believe in setting goals, up leveling and doing whatever it takes to become better.

Each of us is a work in progress – we get that.

Nevertheless, during the process of going from good, to better, to your best self, we encourage you to love yourself right where you are.

You are unique and special.

So much so, only one edition of you exists!

If you dare to love yourself – and love yourself right, you’ll strive to make choices that are in your best interest.

Yes, you’ll help others and serve mankind, but in doing so you won’t leave you behind.

Go ahead: Dare to love yourself.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Go ahead.

Love yourself Just. That. Much.

Join in the Fray: What are the top three things you LOVE about you?

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.

#242| Family Is Everything

August 30, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 11 Comments

Whether by blood or by affinity, family is everything.

We trust you will have the opportunity to spend quality time with your family this weekend.

And for those family members living in other places, thank goodness for Skype, Face Time, Google Hangouts – and good ole telephones!

Join in the Fray: Which family member or friend will you spend time with (or contact) this weekend?

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.

#241| Make It Amazing!

August 29, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 7 Comments

I’m ready for the weekend – how about you?

Whatever you do today, enjoy.

Make it amazing!

Join in the Fray: What constitutes “an amazing day” for you?

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.

You Give Good Music!

August 26, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 4 Comments

I tell you, Swirl Nation is filled to the brim with cute with wonderful people – singles and couples alike.

Teneia Sanders-Eichelberger and her musician husband Ben are no exception.

They share life, songs and their love for making good music!

Wanna hear Tenia sing? Feast your eyes on this:

https://youtu.be/NIvd-Fj7zn0

You can find a number of videos on Teneia’s YouTube channel, Teneia Music, by clicking here.

In this podcast episode, Tenia and Ben reveal their favorite videos.

(Mine is Rest of My Life, which features a stunning array of interracial couples!)

Teneia and Ben share how they met and fell in love. They each provide their own personal words of wisdom for men and women interested in dating and marrying interracially.

Enjoy!

If you can’t see the podcast player, click here or here.

If you can’t see the Sound Cloud player, click here.

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

Visit Teneia’s website by clicking here. To “Like” Teneia’s Facebook page, click here. Follow Teneia on Twitter @Teneiamusic.

The Shout Out! for this episode goes to Natalie Loo of BaggageReclaim.com.

Natalie is the author of Mr. Unavailable and the Fallback Girl, and offers tried-and-true courses on building self-esteem and getting rid of the emotional baggage (and toxic people) in your life.

Be sure to check her out!

Want to be a guest on the 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 the podcast on iTunes.

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

Copyright © 2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, Swirl Nation™, All rights reserved. Photo of Natalie Loo obtained from BaggageReclaim.com. Black and white Photo of Tenia and Ben Copyright © Thabi Moyo.

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