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#225| A Traveling State Of Mind

August 13, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

When we began the practice of daily uploading blog posts during 2015, the concept of “Travel Thursdays” was instituted fairly quickly.

Travel Thursdays was inspired by an impromptu conversation I had with Interracial Dating Coach Lorraine Spencer, who at one point in her life packed up and moved to Alaska.

We were conversing prior to her guest appearance on the podcast, and she gave me my entire “Travel Thursday” life when making the declaration, “Black women need to travel!”

(If you want to listen to that episode, click here)

Most of us want to travel, yet for many, budgetary constraints pose a significant obstacle.

If you won’t be able travel abroad – or stateside – this year, don’t despair.

We can all still travel – even if we only travel across town, to a local park or lake.

Remember, “There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.”

If traveling isn’t possible as a state of being, make it a state of mind.

Join in the Fray: What are the best local places in your city you can visit on a day trip?

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.

Copyright ©2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, The Swirl World Inspiration Daily™, Swirl Nation™, All rights reserved. Quotation photo property of The Swirl World™.

#210| I’m At Podcast Movement 2015!

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

I’m in the final minutes of Travel Thursday, and I’ve arrived at Podcast Movement 2015!

This year’s event is held at the fabulous Hotel Omni in Ft. Worth, TX.

Stay tuned for updates, interviews and a behind the scenes peek at all the happenings.

Woot!

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.

#160| We Feel The Love!

June 9, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Today, June 9, is our 1-Year Podcast Anniversary – it’s our “Podaversary!”

Woot! Woot!

Here in The Swirl World, we believe we have one of the most amazing “jobs” on the planet.

We have the privilege of curating and sharing photos of interracial couples from around the globe.

They represent ordinary people who enjoy an extraordinary love – active demonstrations of individuals living their lives on their own terms.

Thankfully, you out there in Swirl Nation feel the love, because our Facebook community is now more than 21,500 strong, our monthly blog visitors have quadrupled and our podcast numbers are stellar.

We also enjoy the daily engagement in our private Facebook group, an interactive community composed of quality, carefully vetted interracial couples and singles that, when it comes to drama, are “not about that life!”

Hardly a day goes by without emails from you expressing how much you enjoy seeing the couples, receiving daily inspiration in your inbox and listening to the podcast episodes.

Thank you – we feel the love!

And you know what?

We bring you podcast episodes, write blogs, post to Facebook and interact in our private Facebook group because we are committed to you, our audience.

You feel the love for us: We feel the love 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.

A Match Made In Sierra Leone And Beijing!

May 13, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Sierra Leone native Neneh Ada Yang met her husband, renowned Chinese artist Yang Yan of Beijing, when he came to her country specifically looking for a BLACK woman to marry.

Within one week of meeting, they were married!

Yes.

Within. One. Week!

Note: This can happen when both persons:

Know themselves
Know what they want/don’t want in a mate.

Neneh has been featured in news articles too numerous to count. She was profiled by Lorraine Spencer on the Interracial Marriage and Family website in an article entitled, “China’s Black First Lady.”

Lorraine writes, “Neneh and her husband Yan are celebrities in China and of course she is loved in her home of Sierra Leone. Neneh’s foundation provided thousands of Ebola resistant, protective wear for healthcare workers and citizens.

Neneh has become fluent in Chinese since she lives in China. Her husband taught her art and now she has her own exhibitions as does her husband in various countries. Neneh also plays a rare instrument; a guqin, one of only a few in the world who mastered it in China.

She is a philanthropist and most importantly wife and mommy.”

To read the full article Lorraine wrote about Neneh (and to see more stunning photographs and a video), click here.

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 and listen to the show on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or PlayerFM.

To read national news articles about Neneh and her husband, click here, here, here, here and here.

The Shout Out! for this episode goes to cousins Lavinia Shebeshonuf and Boughetto Rising of the Just Thinkin’ Out Loud Podcast.

To visit the Just Thinkin’ Out Loud website, click here. To visit The Nerdy Black Chicks Talk Radio Show on Facebook, click here. To visit the Just Thinkin’ Out Loud Facebook page, click here.

To listen to their podcast on Stitcher, click here, and on Spreaker, click here. You can also listen to the show on PodBean and Podomatic.

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 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. Photos of Neneh and her husband Yang obtained with permission from the Interracial Marriage and Family website. JTOL logo used with permission.

They Don’t Always Have To Be White!

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

Fourteen year-old Charlotte Spencer is a self-taught anime artist whose future aspirations include producing animated movies and cartoons.

Charlotte Spencer’s logo

She has some very definite ideas about the types of characters she wants to see in her movies – and she’s not shy about sharing her viewpoint.

“Main characters don’t always have to be white!” Charlotte exclaims.

She has her own website and has already begun putting in the work and time necessary to make her dreams come true.

Charlotte is the biracial daughter of Interracial Marriage and Family Dating Coach Lorraine Spencer. Charlotte has done the research and has some very definite ideas about the types of characters she wants to see in her movies.

She’s determined to ensure her characters – well, listen to the podcast and find out!

One thing we have to say about Charlotte and fact that she’s Lorraine’s daughter: the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!

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, Stitcher Radio and FMPlayer.

To visit Charlotte’s website, click here.

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!

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.

Chatting With CHONILLA – Part 1

March 4, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Whew . . . !

The upload of Podcast Episode 062 (and the next two upcoming podcast episodes) have been a long time in the making.

Y’all, I’m not even going to tell you when we recorded this podcast with the one, the only, Sherley and Clove aka CHO & NILLA of Montreal, Quebec.

Yep – CHONILLA.

CHONILLA!

Let me just say, Adrienne and I interviewed Shirley and Clove early in our podcast journey (we launched June 9, 2014).

We were such newbies, and thrilled to have these veteran interracial podcasters to come on our show.

Sherley and Clove have been blogging and podcasting from Canada for years, and we were thoroughly geeked out to have them on our show.

We wound up chatting for almost two hours, and it’s taken me with my anal self this long to get their show edited and up.

*Hangs head in shame*

I know they forgive me, though (thanks, Sherley and Clove!), and we’re happy to finally present our conversation with them.

Shucks, it’s almost time to have them back on!

*Grins*

If you don’t see the podcast player, click here to download Part 1. To listen on the podcast site, click here.

To listen on Sound Cloud, click here.

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

They’re a riot! Woot! Woot!

PS – Our shout-out for this episode goes to Rosetta Thurman of Happy Black Woman. Be sure to look Rosetta up on Facebook, Twitter and on her website, HappyBlackWoman.com. We <3 you, Rosetta!

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!

#61|Positive Networks

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

Sunday evening I had the distinct pleasure of participating in a roundtable discussion composed of Black women podcasters.

We spent an amazing 1.5 hours sharing our opinions on several key questions of interested to women podcasters, as well as some of our best podcasting practices.

We were a group of women sharing and interacting, and building positive networks that should prove solid and long-lasting.

So, as you enter this workweek, who can you call, send a note or email, or invite to lunch?

Who can you ask to mentor you – or whom can you offer to mentor?

With whom can you take active, practical steps toward building a positive network?

Go ahead – pick up the phone, send that email, type a text or put a note in the mail.

Do it now – you’ll be glad you did!

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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.

Unscripted: 5 Things NOT To Do On A First Date

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

In this unscripted episode, Co-Host Adrienne London Leach (whom, I might add, has been successfully interracially married for more than 20 years) shares five things men and women should NOT do on a first date.

*Looks around*

Um, which ones have you been guilty of??

To listen on the podcast player, click here or here.

To listen on the Sound Cloud player, click here.

Want to be a guest on the podcast, or know someone who should? Send an email to Adrienne at INeedMySay@gmail.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!

Medicine, Life – And The British Man Who Stole My Heart

January 18, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

In Podcast Episode 052 we chatted with Sepia, author of interracial and multicultural romance novels. (Sepia also writes under the pen name B.B. Fortune).

Sepia spoke passionately about the rights of Black women to “have preferences” and to also “like who they like.”

In this episode, Co-Host Adrienne London Leach chats with Teria Ester, a Reflexologist, Quantum Touch Practitioner and Herbal Body Wrap Specialist who has a specific preference: British Men!

Teria and Adrienne discuss holistic medicine, life, love – and the Brit who stole Teria’s heart.

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

To listen on Sound Cloud, click here.

Teria is currently in the Delaware area. To contact Teria and learn more about her mobile reflexology services and other holistic health modalities, contact her at 704.957.2892.

Want to be a guest on the podcast, or know someone who should? Send an email to INeedMySay@gmail.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!

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