Chapter 1: What are the benefits of staying hydrated while traveling?
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Thankful for another day to tell my story. Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit. I'm from the dirtiest soul with a dirty mouth, might need orbit. I feel very strongly about If you don't have anything new or fresh to offer the conversation, it's best to let the people who are already having the conversation have it. Just have it. Right?
So, like, a lot of times people will say, they'll DM me or they'll comment, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? And I'm like, man, bro, it's... It's out there.
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Chapter 2: How did Taliah Waajid start her journey in natural hair care?
It's 15 videos about it, bro. You know what I'm saying? If I felt like I had anything different to offer, I would. But obviously, at this point... I think they got it covered, you know what I'm saying? And a lot of times, it's a picking and choosing thing. I don't need to be a part of every conversation. Sometimes I may not have an opinion on something, especially if I don't know enough about it.
That's smart. I mean, if you don't know enough about it, it's like, what's the point of talking? You sound like everybody else.
I think that's most people issue on the internet. It's like, I'm going to tackle all the trending topics, whether I'm informed or not. And then you get people putting their foot in their mouth and then they try to walk it back. But like, once it's out there, there ain't no walking it back. So I just, you know, I pick my spots. That's really what it come down to. It's like.
So you do research and then find out, okay, well, I'm going to talk about this. Correct. This is what's moving me.
Yes, absolutely. And often, sometimes it may not even be something that's trending. A lot of things I talk about may not even be what's in the current news cycle.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the World Natural Hair Health and Beauty Show?
It may just be things I'm observing. We have like some... We have some very collective movements in our community, whether it be good behavior or bad.
So if I see, like, that there's a collective conversation being had that's not necessarily a part attached to popular culture or attached to something that's going on politically and it's just something that I'm observing, like a behavior, I want to point that behavior out because I want to figure out where it come from. Mm-hmm. Like, why is it showing up in this time?
And a lot of it can be, okay, like, I'm not sure what your religious beliefs are, right? But it seems like there was a period where we was embracing a lot more Afro, like, African spirituality. Or at least... Redefining our belief system spiritually And the worse the world got The more we started seeing The uptick of Christian content Because From Just from my perspective Um
It seemed like the worse the world gets, the more divine things feel for Christians because of revelation teachings. So they look at the world as like the world is beginning to burn. You understand what I'm saying? So now it's like, okay, Jesus is definitely coming back because look at the world. But it's also like it becomes inaction. Like, I'm going to just sit back and let it unfold.
And I think that powerful people, like, really play into that. They play into that narrative of, like, people sitting back and letting God take control instead of them actually getting involved.
Encouraging them to do something.
Yeah, it's like now it's time to sit back.
Because it's just going to happen. We're just going to sit here and wait.
Yeah, but there are people orchestrating this. Like, if you have some of the most powerful people in the world, you know, they can pay other powerful people, right? Like, so whoever is the most, you know, like the greatest anthropologist, the greatest theologist, the greatest psychologist or sociologist to observe our behavior around us.
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Chapter 4: How has the perception of natural hair changed over the years?
You have to get out there and do it for yourself.
Yeah.
We have very few allies, and even when we do have people that come forth as supposed allies, there is such a history of anti-blackness within them or racism within them that maybe now their allyship is kind of like a veil that they can use. Like, look at me now. Right, right. Because they know that they have a past.
people can change kind of situation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, look at me. But it's like, the sentiments of a bigot kind of, like, to me, it's like, that's unwavering to me. It's like, I don't, you know, I don't want to be in close proximity with somebody who used to be a bigot, much less, like, believe that they aren't anymore.
So do you think someone can become educated and no longer be a bigot?
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Taliah face when promoting natural hair?
I do because in the sense that a lot of the black community have had to educate themselves on self and have undone ways of just being a coon or just being submissive and trying to assimilate into a white society or white supremacy, so to speak. So I do think that education is a powerful tool.
I also think that in our community, there is a lot of anti-blackness that is pushed onto us that we just subconsciously accept and then later have to undo. But I don't think that we have, like, anti-black practices within the black community. I think a lot of it is stuff we're subjected to. So in other communities, it's just harder for me because they have anti-black practices, like...
They're raised up to like, we're taught more so to hate ourselves. They're taught to hate us without any interaction, without any experience in the community. These are things to keep us susceptible or force us to assimilate. Whereas for them, it's like, this is their assimilation tool, too, to stay away from us so they can climb the ladder in the other direction.
And I think that once you've been indoctrinated in something like that, Education and experience can definitely turn it, but it just kind of seems like we're always let down by it.
Why do we depend on it? Why don't we look within ourselves and stop waiting for someone to validate us? And tell us what to do. Why don't we just do it? We are so strong as a people. I just wish we knew the power that we had. It would just be amazing. It would be really new, the power that we have.
And a lot of, I know you said that, you know, we're taught some things, certain things in our community that keep us down. So who's teaching that? We're teaching ourselves. And a lot of it is, you know, coming from slavery. You know, we say these little things that it just continues to the next generation and the next generation. You know, hair, right, for one thing. Absolutely.
Nappy hair, the bad. I still hear today, you know, people telling little children, oh, yeah, you got bad hair. You know, where does that come from?
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Chapter 6: How does Taliah's brand maintain its integrity in a competitive market?
You know, there should be nothing bad, you know, about that. Yeah.
I don't. Yeah, bad hair, good hair is crazy. Yeah. It's a crazy talk.
Don't stay out in the sun too long. That's crazy talk. Mike and Dawson is crazy talk. It's crazy talk. But it's the talk that we talk, you know? And we can say that we don't or, you know, does it matter? Those things really do matter.
They do because it's a self-esteem thing. It's a self-esteem thing. And a powerful movement has to be, like, people who have a high esteem of self. Right. Because that esteem, like, if I love myself, I'm going to love everyone, like, my neighbor. I'm going to love my people. That's so true. That was the point where I was like thinking about it.
It's like instead of this idea of like embracing outsiders and then being let down, like I want to do away with the idea that anybody on the outside.
That you need an outsider. We don't need outsiders. We really don't. But it depends on what you want as a person. You know, are you insecure about who you are? Do you need to be validated by an outsider? And a lot of people do. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What role does mental health play in Taliah's life and advocacy?
You know, I remember traveling, you know, with my business and I would go to these, you know, nice places, you know, because I have meetings in these different cities. And I would just see, you know, I would not see us. And then when I saw us, it's like, you know, turn the other way instead of, you know, hey, how you doing? You know, in embracing and engaging with each other. That wasn't a thing.
It was just, you know, oh. I'm the chosen black person because I'm here. And I'm like, oh, I want to talk to you. How can we get more of us here? That's my thing. Because who wants to be successful and you're among people that are not you? And then the people that are you, they don't want to be who they are.
So I just stay in the community and try to uplift the community because that's where I came from. And I know that there are diamonds in the rough. And just giving an opportunity. A lot of us don't want a handout. We want opportunity. And once you get the opportunity, we're going to do what needs to be done.
Absolutely.
we'll do a brief we'll do a brief introduction because they tell me that I have to start working on this like normally I just start talking to my guests and then we just because we recording now and we doing our thing you see what I'm saying that's how it happened and then people be like who are you talking to and I'm like damn I ain't even introduced but like I normally like to leave like descriptions in the because it's like more about your character and who you are than like sometimes it's like
not what you're selling pitching and plugging is like yeah that's that's that's secondary to me you know what i mean um so we have talia wajid in the building today founder and ceo of the talia wajid brand natural hair care you are a pioneering entrepreneur and the founder of the talia yg brand a globally recognized leader in natural hair care
Named to INC's 2023 Female Founders 200 list, celebrated as one of the most dynamic women shaping the future of beauty and business. And you're here to talk to me. What's this event I'm coming to?
You're coming to the World Natural Hair Health and Beauty Show. We're celebrating our 26th year. 26 years.
Everybody clap their hands.
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Chapter 8: How can consumers support black-owned beauty brands?
And we're just really excited. We're excited to have you be a part of it. I'm excited to be a part of it. Because the show is about community, entrepreneurship, empowerment, all the positive things that we need in the Black community. Absolutely. That's what the show is about.
As it's been going, so if you've been doing it 26 years, then that means I was... Ten.
Yeah, probably.
Ten, yeah, ten. I'll be 36 this year, so ten, yeah.
Okay, you're longer than my son.
You know what I'm saying? I'm doing my part. I love that.
And they grew up with the show, so.
That's great. How have you seen it evolve? Like, what was the push for you to, for one, start it? And then how do you celebrate 26 years of success? And how have you seen the show evolve over time?
Oh, I've seen the show evolve dramatically because there were hardly anyone that was interested in natural hair back when I started. Except for, you know, we call, well, they call themselves the community people that, you know, just want to go back to Africa and. After white man and all that stuff, which is, you know, cool. But they were the ones that started supporting my show.
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