First Born Daughter

Episode 8: Tai Beauchamp

Tai Beauchamp is an award-winning journalist, TV host, entrepreneur and style boss and as the founder of Tai Life Media, connects people around the world, empowering them to empower themselves. Tai has held various positions at popular women’s magazines such as O, the Oprah Magazine, InStyle, Vibe Vixen and Seventeen, where she made history as the youngest and first African American beauty editor in the publication’s history and is the creator of Morning Mindset with Tai, the inspirational wellness and mindfulness community. For our very last episode of First Born Daughter Season 1, here is my conversation with the lovely Tai Beauchamp. Please rate, download and share! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 7: Thysha Shabazz

Thysha Shabazz is an entrepreneur, author and parent living in Brooklyn. A Virginia native, she moved to New York over 20 years ago, and has worked in a variety of media roles at companies like NBC and Time Inc. In her twenties, Thysha ventured into entrepreneurship and created Shabazz Communications, now known as the Shabazz Team, an international events, communications and management company.  Thysha is also the creator of the LOUD Girl Movement, a platform for Black women, and is the author of LOVE YOUR LOUD, a guide to encouraging Black women to be authentically themselves in the workplace. As a wife and mother of two, Thysha spends a lot of time thinking about labor and success in the context of Black motherhood and Black family. During our chat, we discuss Thysha’s upbringing, striking it out on her own as an entrepreneur, and her intentionality-focused approach to rearing her two daughters. I think you’ll really enjoy this episode.  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 6: Felicia Pride

As an award-winning writer and director, Felicia Pride has written for TV shows “Queen Sugar” and “Grey’s Anatomy” and is currently supervising producer on “Bel-Air,” the reimagined version of the 90s sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of Really Love, produced by Netflix in 2020, and made her directorial debut with Tender, a short film. She is also the founder of Honey Chile, an independent media and production company that centers Black women over the age of 40 and is the co-host of their twice NAACP Image Award-nominated podcast, “Chile, Please.”  In this episode, Felicia talks about what it’s like being a successful Black woman in Hollywood, how her ideas of success have changed over time and why being on the other side of 40 is absolutely amazing. Rate and subscribe! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 5: Emma Dabiri

Continuing in our efforts to promote and facilitate Black women-centric conversations across the diaspora, this week's guest is the exceptional Emma Dabiri. Emma is an Irish Nigerian author and broadcaster who has spent over a decade as an academic at Villanova University and as a fellow in the African department of The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. An expert in the Black Irish experience, histories of oppression, the decolonization of Black history, and Black feminism, she’s written for The Guardian, Elle, Irish Times, Vice and others. Emma is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, WHAT WHITE PEOPLE CAN DO NEXT, along with DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR and her latest book, DISOBEDIENT BODIES: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty. In this wide-ranging episode, Emma talks to us about the ills of capitalism and its ties to patriarchy and evolving standards of beauty, the hazards of the male gaze and more. Get out your pen out and take notes--this week's show is a real education. Rate, download and subscribe! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 4: Zarinah Williams aka CultureWork

Zarinah Williams is the creator behind @CultureWork, the TikTok account where she discusses the latest news on the internet--from corporate takedowns, #MeToo and the best (and worst) Oscar looks. Zarinah's content is deeply-reported, incisive, and entertaining, making her a rising star within TikTok's influential creator landscape. Outside of Culture Work, Zarinah has worked for or with numerous major brands that have emerged in the last fifteen years, primarily in media and publishing-- companies like Apple, Spin Magazine, Complex, Spotify and others. In this episode, hear more about Zarinah's early career during the golden era of media, what it's like being a prominent Black woman creator on TikTok and what she considers to be her own personal Roman Empire.  Zarinah's Substack: https://culturework.substack.com/ Rate, like and subscribe! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.