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Listen to the conversations in The Swagger Zone
Barber Shop...The place where brothers come
together to discuss our concerns and hot button
issues. We keep it REAL, yet SPIRITUAL at the
Barber Shop! So, if you want to join rich dialog that
will help build us as individuals and couples, click
below to listen:
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Tuesday - May 12th
Topic - Independent Woman (part 1)
Tuesday - May 26th
Topic - Independent Women (part 2)
Tuesday - June 9th
Topic - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (part 1)
Tuesday - June 23rd
Topic - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (part 2)
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Swagger Zone Intro
by Javis M. Brunson –Editor
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As the Financial Editor for The DIVA Zone
Magazine™ and the only male writer since the launch
in March 2008, it has truly been an honor to work
along side of Najiyyah Brooks, the Founder/President
of The DIVA Zone Magazine™. She’s a woman of
excellence, a visionary and passionate woman of
God. Her mission in life is to be a messenger and a
vessel of spiritual freedom, restoration of women,
men and families. Her passion for doing God’s will
drives her to continually search for new and
innovative ways to encourage, edify, empower,
nurture and usher God’s people into their unique
destinies.
The DIVA Zone Magazine™ is an outgrowth of her
passion to build up the entire women; mind, body and
soul. Through my association with the Magazine I’ve
had the unique opportunity to hear the many
concerns voiced by women. As a happily married
man to the same woman for 23 years, because of the
Magazine, I’ve gained a greater appreciation and
understanding of my wife’s concerns, emotions, fears
and needs.
If you’re wondering how I came to this greater
appreciation and understanding of my wife, I’ll tell
you. It’s simple; I’m more willing to first listen to the
real deep seeded feelings and concerns that my wife
is experiencing in her life. The key is I’m willing; she
has been waiting for me to get to this place in life. As
a writer for the Magazine, I’ve had the chance to hear
the real, “straight, no chaser”, thoughts of women
from across the country relating to things that they
only say to each other when their men are not
around. Like my wife, they too have been waiting for
their men to get to this place in life where they can be
heard, and possibly understood. I’ve learned a lot
by hearing the voices of The DIVA Zone Magazine™
readership and because of it my marriage has been
greatly enriched.
What would happen if men and women found a way
to communicate what they were feeling? I can
answer that for you, it would be the beginning
process of healing for all involved. The DIVA Zone
Magazine™ provides women with the forum to speak
out and the platform to experience healing in many
areas of their lives. However, what about the men in
their lives? Where do they experience healing or a
platform to speak out?
To answer this question, The DIVA Zone Magazine™
is ready to give birth to a male counterpart
magazine! His name will be called the Swagger
Zone™!
So women sit and listen to what your men are
saying. Men, it’s time to speak out!
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Swagger Zone Barber Shop™
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The Swagger Zone™ is committed to providing men with the forum to speak out freely and the platform to
experience healing in many areas of their lives. To this end, the Swagger Zone™ will feature the Swagger
Zone Barber Shop™ section of the magazine. The articles that appear in the Swagger Zone Barber Shop™
are for men by men. The content of the articles displayed in the Swagger Zone Barber Shop™ will be
“straight no chaser” type of writings that will reflect what some men are feeling. For men, going to the
barber shop has been the place to vent and be heard. The articles that appear in the Swagger Zone Barber
Shop™ are not intended to offend the reader. If you are a women reading the article contained in this
section of the magazine, we don’t expect you to agree with the writer, but we do thank you in advance for
listening. Maybe we can talk now?
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Independent Woman
By John Bess – “Da’ Barber”
I’ve been cutting hair in this barber shop for a long time. I love being a barber! My job is to cut
hair, listen to lies, and talk smack with the fellas all day. The beauty of it is that I get paid to
do it. America is a great country!
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During my years as a barber, I’ve watched boys become
men. Not only have I watched them grow-up, I’ve listen to
their conversations. It’s amazing what men talk about
when there ain’t a woman around. Yes, I said ain’t! I’ve
heard everything from men creeping on their woman to
why that same woman won’t give him any play. Yeah, I’ve
heard it all!
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Just the other day, this young brother, in his mid-twenties, sat in my chair, looking all jacked-
up. Now when a man sits in my chair and looks like he did, it’s has to do with one of two
things; a woman or money! Sometimes it could be both, that’s a special cut. It didn’t take long
before I found out it was a woman. Couple seconds into the cut he turned and said “man, I
just don’t understand women”! I laughed!
After I stopped laughing, I asked him what about women that he doesn’t understand? The
young man lets call him Ray, said, women don’t really understand themselves and expect a
man to jump through hoops trying to figure them out. I don’t understand why women place
these crazy demands on men. And don’t let a woman give a man some play, now she feels
like she’s entitled to the world!
Frankly, women can be high-maintenance, insensitive, overbearing, male-bashing gold-
diggers who operate under the appearance of an “independent woman.” If I had a dollar for
every time I heard a woman tell me that she’s an “independent woman” I could buy this
barber shop twice! If women are so independent then they should just tell a man from jump-
street, “look, I’m just an insecure woman who has a decent job that digs the mess out of you,
please don’t hurt me”!
But no, what do they do, they place unreal expectations on a man. That’s what I don’t
understand about women!
Thanks for the cut.
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