Welcome to your brand amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference.

I am so thrilled to welcome another one of the phenomenal women to our podcast today.

I'm Anika Jackson, host of your brand Amplified,

and I'm here with Regina Weatherspoon Bell. Regina, thank you so much for being here today.

Oh, thank you. It's my joy. Oh, no, it's my joy, honestly.

So you have a lot of things that you've done in your career as deputy director for the first district in San Bernardino County

supervisor you have a not profit, dreamers, visionaries, and leaders,

and you've done a lot of other things to serve your community.

So I'd really love for you to share your story with our audience, you know, where did you go to school?

What did you think you were going to do and then how did you end up with the career that you have?

Okay, so long story short. For my high school years, I actually was a dancer and I studied

dance and I thought that I was going to be Debbie Allen. And as fate would have it, I, it didn't turn out to be that way. My second love was psychology. And so I went into a couple of years of college,

thinking that I was on that pathway.

And somewhere along the line, I got refocused and really started, I always had a love of music, but I really

started to want to be in that business,

although I couldn't sing, didn't play anything,

didn't act, any of that,

but just wanting to be in that creative space and environment.

And so left college decided to try my wings in the entertainment industry working behind the scenes and for about 20 years worked in the entertainment industry in entertainment management

management.

And little did I know that it was really preparing me for everything that I would need for, I'm going to call it the second half of my life, right, really inventing me and my career and what I was really focused on. So I worked for a number of

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