Tai Beauchamp: From Burnout to Beauty Empire

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to she Pivots. I'm your host. Emily Tish Sussman. I had left my decade long political career in DC after having my first two kids during the Trump presidency, and felt burnt out after having my third child, spending a year in lockdown with my family, and another tough and exhausting election. I began to find solace in the stories of women who had made these big career decisions and

then found success and happiness and their change. I began to realize that so many women had pivoted due to personal reasons, and they still found success through non traditional paths. This new show celebrates these stories, and I'm so excited to bring them to you with she Pivots. She was on track to become one of the youngest black female editor in chiefs in history when she decided to leave it all behind due to burnout at just twenty five.

Ty Beauchamp left behind her booming career in fashion publishing to pursue things that fed her mind. In spirit, she turned her burnout into one of her many pivots. Now over twenty years later, she divides her attention between Thie Life Media and Brown Girl Jane. So what exactly led to Ty's burnout and how did she turn it into the biggest pivot of her life. So justice at the stage. What is your name and what do you do? My name is ty Beauchamp and what do I do? I

do a lot of things. I think first and foremost, I try and empower and inspire women. And in terms of titles, one of the co founders of Brown Girl, Jane founder of Thai Life Media, I'm a host, I'm a producer. Yeah. So that's actually not the preferred way that you like to be introduced or introduce yourself to people. You like to ask people who are you? Yeah, you see, I was really uncomfortable when you asked me. I was like,

what do I do? Yeah? I think it's a it's you know, we live in a society where, you know, we're constantly asked what we do, and we are now about to enter you know what. Social scientists and anthropologists are deeming the next global epidemic of loneliness. And I think that's because we don't connect humanly as humans and ask who you are and really, how is your spirit? How is your heart? You know, where are you in your body and in your and so I don't know

it just it just makes sense to me. It makes sense to me. And I also I think I'm a person who is intentional about wanting to see people, and so it feels right. But I think I've always felt something within me that felt different. So I think I always just had this thing, that thing of wanting to understand people, wanting to connect with people in a genuine way. I don't know. I'm just very curious about who we are, especially as we evolve, and especially as becoming more seasoned

woman myself. I'm just really curious to understand who people are and want them to feel like their best selves, Like, how do we inspire, empower them and equip people, like, because people need tangible things to be their best selves. To really understand who Tie is and the catalyst for her pivot, we have to go back to when Tie was just out of college, coming off an internship at Good Housekeeping. My first job out of college when I

was twenty two was at Oprah magazine. So I started a magazine publishing actually while I was in college because I was able to intern quite a bit. So I started publishing when I was twenty years old, So that was publishing. The goal was the goal to be the yashion editor in Yes, Yes, that was definitely the goal.

Then when I started, you know, at in publishing, I definitely thought I was on pace to become an editor in chief, and I thought I would probably have that job for the rest of my life while doing some other things. I always thought entrepreneurially, so I always thought about creating, but I saw that as like that, that's it, that's the pinnacle. And Ty had a solid foundation. She had previously worked at magazines like the Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bizarre,

and more. This gave her the experience she needed to truly launch into her dream career and become that editor she had always imagined. At the time, I had become the beauty director at seventeen magazine, and I was twenty five years old, and I was the first African American and youngest in history or in recent history at that

time to have this title. So by all accounts outward looking in you know, I'm this, you know, young vibrant girl about town, live in my sex in the city, life, my best life, and had this incredible job with incredible

access and with incredible excess. Also quite frankly at the time, and I remember going into these spaces and having great conversations with some people and being with others who were just like caught up in their own personal matrix and no judgment now because I'm on a different side, you know, and just feeling like, you know, how do I juxtapose this to the life that I was born into, as you know, a child born to young parents in Newark,

New Jersey. How do I juxtapose this to the fact that my parents, my mom and my stepdad are educators in Newark, New Jersey, and I'm living this incredible life of excess, but also knowing that my parents have kids at our house often, and like, what does that look like? And so I started to really ask myself, like the title that people see isn't really like what I'm feeling

on my innermost self. I you know, started my career as a magazine editor and had the amazing fortune of working on incredible titles like Oh, the Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bizarre, A Good Housekeeping, where my mentor at the time was editor in chief, and went on to work for seventeen

and by Vixen and Styles. So I've had this incredible but I think I started to question a lot and have some of these deeper questions in a more intimate way and in mindful way for myself when I was realizing that I was being defined by the title that was assigned to me for my job and didn't always feel like I had alignment within my spirit self and my consciousness of how I reconciled that title in the public world. I feel like for myself when I was

at twenty five, twenty six. You know, for many I think young women of our generation, like us, we were so career focused that getting to the dream job for me, I didn't get there, by the way, until I was like thirty five, and then I lost it because I three kids in three years and couldn't do it. But you know, getting to that dream job at twenty five seems so incredible that I think I would have done anything to keep it, and I would have contorted myself to be able to do it because it was a

different mindset. And now we talk about we talk about burnout, we talk about self care, we talk about mentalth. We didn't talk about it then. So how did you come to that realization in that moment that it just you were at the height, but it just wasn't for you. The burnout. Burnout not just to figure of speech anymore. It's actually been declared a legitimate medical diagnosis by the

World Health Organization. It is officially defined as a syndrome, a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Burnout is when the treadmill keeps going but the dopamine runs out, so you just keep running even though it doesn't feel good anymore. I mean, and I talked about it being burnout, it was burnout for me. It was burnout, and then trying to reconcile what was happening as a result of the burnout, because here here's

the thing. Burnout is both mental, spiritual, emotional, and it can also obviously manifest itself physically, right, And so as I was experiencing this burnout, I was emotionally drained. I was intellectually drained, right because I was working, and I was emotionally drained like and then the spiritual, like, the spiritual side of me was just like, this is not it, this is not it. And there were pieces of me that wanted to contort and say I'm gonna make this

happen by any means necessary. And then when the burnout touched my spirit in such a way where I felt like it wasn't going to be to my greater good. And then also I had this real kind of crazy moment because I was there one moment. Yeah, there was this one really crazy moment. So, I mean, I was a beauty editor, so you know, it's like a journalist obviously, because you have journalists and integrity, but you're you're also

playing with makeup and talking to people about science. And it was fun work, you know, go on on photo shoots. It was fun work. It was not supposed to be crazy. It was not supposed to be that. Between all of the brands and products samples, Ty began to realize that her ability to impact someone's life might lie beyond seventeen.

During her tenure, she had the idea to put real girls, the influencers of their day, next to their models and actresses, and learned an unlikely lesson with one of those women. My idea for the beauty pages, and what our then etter in chief did is that we put real girls on the pages next to models, actresses and all the above. So anyway, real girl was and her name was Caroline Oh.

Caroline Oh. She was a student at FIT. If you're listening, Caroline, hit me up because I would love to reconnect with you. But she came into my office and she said I changed her life by sending her to the dermatologist. And I thought to myself and again juxtaposing that with the fact that my parents, as educators, had kids at our house all the time, and I'm thinking, what could I do to change these kids live? If I could do that for Caroline, you know, what else could I do substantively?

And then I started to think, like, I've done and had these quote unquote achievements professionally, but it's so far removed from actually having the type of, you know, grassroots connected impact that I wanted. And my spirit spoke to me and I was like, I'm out, And you know, it was hard. It was a very difficult decision because I know that there were a lot of people at Hirst believing in me and really investing in me, as

they had all of my career. But I knew that my emotional wellbeing, my mental wellbeing, my physical wellbeing, especially my spiritual wellbeing, was at stake, and so I was out well being the first black beauty editor I imagine that means that you probably didn't have a lot of peers. Do you think that contributed to the burnout. I had a couple of peers, not very many. Tia Williams, who's an incredible writer and author, Tasha Turner who also is

a journalist. Mickey Taylor, who was more seasoned. There were just a few of us. But we didn't talk honestly about these things because you didn't speak about it because you were just glad to in the room number one. I was acutely aware that though I was in the room, the room was not necessarily built or intended for me. I was not white, I was not blonde. I was not the daughter or the niece of someone who had

an affiliation to the company. There was no nepotism. So when I entered these spaces, I held back parts of me that I thought wouldn't fit, And though conflicted in doing so, I had learned to compartmentalize. And so we're constantly trying to teach ourselves to be humbled and grateful for the experience, but sometimes to the detriment of what our truth is. So we didn't have those conversations. I mean, we talked about like the latest Manolo's, but we certainly

were not having those conversations at the time. You bring up a really good point that it is possible to

have burnout in something you love. For sure, I mean absolutely well, And I think that that just goes back to what I am so grateful for today, you know, one, with the work that I do with Brown Girl Jane and the work that I do with mourning mindset, and just it is okay to feel, you know, And I think we're living in a time where there is a new global consciousness of what wellness looks like, a celebration

of individuality around it. So absolutely you can have burnout in something that you love, and sometimes that's just another part of you saying to you, look at me, restore me, you know, support me. And so, if you're experiencing it intellectually, what is your creative side saying to you? If you're experiencing emotionally, what is your spirit side saying to you? And so I think, yeah, they're not mutually exclusive at all.

I definitely felt that when I step back from my political career because of having three kids so close in age, that I loved you. I thrived off of it. It was my identity. I felt like I was doing good work that helped people's lives, and so I think it made it harder for me to accept that I was burnt out from it and that I wasn't able to continue doing the work at the level I wanted to do. It's would actually I had to rethink the whole thing.

I couldn't I couldn't keep doing it, and so it's still hard for me to not be to not have that same mindset that I had because when I stepped back from the political career, I didn't know what a next step could look like. Did you feel like you knew where you wanted to go when you step back from the editor job? Not at all? And I actually and thank you for sharing and for being so transparent about that, because I think so many of us do wrestle with knowing that it's time to go somewhere, but

not knowing exactly how to get where we want to go. Now, again, remember what I did know that I wanted to do is that there was this spiritual side and what ultimately equated for me philanthropic work that I wanted to do.

So I knew somewhat of the direction I wanted to go into, so I spoke with my mentor and I ended up becoming a consultant to his family foundation, where I did very different works, starting a program in Newark, New Jersey and developing partnerships with organizations like Prudential and others and what have you, in order to support high school kids on their job writing a journey. At any rate, you know, doing that was a step in the right direction.

But I did not plan to start a business. I did not plan to become a consultant outside of that. I only thought I was going to do it for one year. But what I was open to, and this

is what I think is really critical about pivoting. When we talk about the idea of pivoting to go from one thing that can seem super drastic or different to another is get to that pivot, and if you're not certain about it, lean into that very heavily and ask, like, what is being taught to you there, Like what other sides of you have you not tapped into that you really want to tap into more, And how can you

bridge the gap between what you were doing historically. I don't want to oversimplify it, but I think oftentimes we become paralyzed because we're so concerned with what the next move looks like, and we're also comparing it to what the previous move looked like. I remember very consciously saying, I'm going from this tower of an office to a little cubicle in this comprehensive high school. I had to lose my attachment to that identity. We talked about it

at the beginning like this title. So all of that exercise really ultimately led me here right ultimately knowing that I wanted to create and build something as I did with the job writing a training program or the magazines, to impact and elevate women and for them to feel spiritually, emotionally, professionally well and healthy, and so looks it's working well. I think that's part what's so interesting about this moment

that we're in culturally right now. The things that tied you down now feel like it's all kind of blown up, but there might be incredible things that come out, and so you free yourself from what had been holding you before to explore those sides. Did you feel like you were able to tap into the thing that you were reaching for in that moment with that first job that you took after the magazines or did it was it? Did it come after that? Now? I think I tapped

into it, like very very quickly. You know. I've always, like I said, my family are all educators, and so I've always loved school and education and teaching and the idea of teaching and learning. And I was given some license, in some leeway in my new role to carve out what that meant for me. And so that tapped into what I had done historically, because I've always worked on launches or relaunches, and so it was always about building.

And then I got a call to come back into being editor in chief for Vibe Vixen magazine, and I was able to when I went in to talk about this role connect immediately that I wanted it to have this less of a hierarchical kind of like dissemination of information in this ground swell. And this was in two thousand and six or two thousand and seven, and that's how that magazine then was rebirth, you know, with this consciousness of connection to community while also being this editorial

inspiring platform. Do you think that was the beginning of working philanthropy into the different businesses that you've had and where did you go from the editor in chief of Vibe Vixen. Yes, to answer your first question, I do think that it was definitely a catalyst for a lot of things, a philanthropic role. I was only in corporate

really for five years of my career. I definitely know that it was like an entry point for me because it helped me to tap into what I knew about building creative spaces as an editor and working on these

launches relaunches. It also taught me business because I was working with my mentor, Raye Chambers, so I worked directly with him for eight years, so I was able to learn business as well with him, and then I was able to apply that when I was always consulting with the Family Foundation, and so even when I became an editor, I went that was the beginning of my entrepreneurial thing.

I said to the magazine, I can come in three days a week and I continue my consulting work with the Foundation in New York, so that way I could stay connected to the young people in order to inform the content that we were then designing at the magazine. And so when the magazine folded, I continued to consult and I continue to consult with that with the foundation, but then I also took on additional clients and you know p andngs and what have you around brand narrative

and brand storytelling. And then that is what jump started my television career because as I was doing a lot of this brand consulting work with beauty, entertainment media and fashion brands, Procter and Gamble invited me to become a spokesperson for them. So then I became more visual, but I was always producing the content behind the scenes too, which a lot of people didn't realize. And love both of them, yeah, so it definitely was a gateway for me.

It helped me to understand that, you know, business doesn't have to be this space that is you know, unhealthy and toxic and unkind and not fair. And so those are all principles and values that I carry with me now. As you know, founder of Morning Mindset and Thigh Life Media and co founder of Brown Girl Jane. It's it's you can do well and do good. Tired of ads interrupting your gripping investigations. Good news, AD free listening on

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and I remember being so impressed. Here was this woman who had already done one hundred different things now creating new opportunities for herself and for others. Thaie Life Media is a multi brand agency focused on helping to tell stories and help brands to be energized around community and telling those stories as a part of Thaie Life Media. This whole new venture has just started to take off

called Morning Mindset with Thie. It's a daily motivational, inspirational, productivity conversation I like to have every single morning on IG at six fifteen ampst. And we also had an experience so well have the Morning Mindset with Ti Hiken experience and that right now is a monthly series that is taking place here in LA but also traveling now and partnering with organizations and corporations to help galvanize women around mindset. Good morning, Happy Monday. Everyone, Welcome to Morning

Mindset with Thie. This is where we come together and we set our hearts, our intentions on being great for the day. And then thirdly, I have Brown Girl Jane and I'm a co founder of Brown Girl Jane and

I am chief brand Officer at Brown Girl Jane. And Brown Girl Jane is a vegan beauty and wellness brand that is there to elevate your mood and create anti stress solutions for your every day and we were founded by myself and my co founders Malika Nia Jones, who are biological sisters, were all Spelman sisters, and we are here to change the face of wellness. How did you connect with them and decide to launch this brand together?

So Malika and I went to college together. Her sister, Nia, also went to Spelman College, but not at the same time, so I knew Malika. We were reconnected actually through another Spellman's sister who Malika. Nia had started to plan out this idea for this brand and they were like, you know, we really do want another co founder. And Malika and I got together. We had a couple of meetings, we talked a little bit. I was actually at this crossroads.

This was before COVID, right before COVID started. We had started having conversations about six months before, and I was really in this place of transition. I was between New York and LA At the time, I was producing and hosting a travel show, so that was traveling like crazy, and I was like, I really wanted to put my teeth into something. I really wanted to sink my teeth and see like what we could do to build something new,

but something tangible. See, the other thing about my other businesses is that it's either a service oriented business or it's a brand individual oriented business. So it requires me a physically, and I've always just been really curious, since my beauty editor day is about products, I've always envisioned going into product and probably multiple times. First and foremost, we share values. We share enthusiasm for celebrating and honoring

black women. We saw a mutual white between us, a mutual white space where you know, wellness solutions for women as a whole may be talked about for black and brown women, the conversation around wellness just isn't there. I was also experiencing this, So timing was all there, and I was also very intentional about wanting partnership in my

next venture. I've been a solopreneur for you know, at that point thirteen years and now it's fourteen years, sixteen years now, and I was, you know, exhausted of doing it on my own. You know, I'm still not married yet, and so being a single woman, unmarried single woman, I just you know, had started to think about like partnership all the way around, and so I was really excited

to partner with them. Yeah, but so you did launch the business just as Covid was hitting literally staying at a girlfriend's house on her couch when COVID hit because I had moved my stuff out of my place here in LA, had gone back to New York because I was shooting a travel show and I ended up in New York for like seven weeks, and then I wasn't sure whether I was coming back to LA to move or just coming back for work. So it was it

was crazy. All this time, Malika, me and I are having conversations about, like, you know, when I'm coming on in the timeline, I just really knew that there was so much alignment around, you know, what we could do, and wanting to start a product was always something and

just partnership is just key, you know. And for me, I realized that having partnership in life and in work is a good thing, you know, and you can still be badass at the same time, I think, you know, we have to also be intentional about how we navigate and manage the narrative around us having to do it

all and celebrating that all the time. You know, you can still be a feminist and woman woman is and still want support and so partnership I think is really key for me at this juncture and understanding that for myself, ties intend to focus on partnership expanded beyond her business and her relationships as she began to think about freezing her eggs. She was in her mid thirties, and, like so many women, had focused on her career so much

that she hadn't spent too much time thinking about it. So, just like with tie life media, she knew that if she wanted something, she'd have to create it for herself. I will tell you, up until that point, I didn't think about it hardly ever, And that's what I want, you know, and hope young women will ascertain from me sharing so much is you know, I waited until I was thirty three to actually be like, oh, yeah, I freeze my eggs. And then even after I froze my eggs,

I was like, oh I froze my eggs. I froze my eggs. And you know, it wasn't really until recently where I am at a place where I'm like, I really am ready to lean into those other aspects of my life. And I think young women having this information and knowledge from all different aspects and understandings is so healthy so that you can think about it. And I

just don't know. I when I was at age, I was thinking about a lot of things, and so I feel like I got to thirty five and froze the eggs because it's like, oh, yeah, this sounds like a great idea, and it's insurance, and I need insurance, and that's how I look at it as insurance. I still haven't decided if I would ever have a family on

my own, or even if I'll need the eggs. I just think it's healthy that truths come out and women have an option to think differently for themselves, and also great that we have options now, yeah, that we can think about it. I mean that was really, honestly the purpose of this whole show, that trying to open up the curtain of how we factor in our personal decisions into our professional narratives. And so in that sense, do the personal and professional factor at the same time for

you or do they kind of take turns. I am revisiting them right now in real time, because I was told that professional has always taken priority. I don't want that to be the case. I'm also at a place where this is not what I desire. I want to

build businesses. I want to continue to impact the world, but I want to do so as if I'm a forty four year old woman who has worked her ass off and also doesn't need to work at that pace anymore, and also knows like my genius and my ability to do operates at a higher frequency, and I want to that's where I want to be, and I want to spend more time investing in the areas where I haven't invested as much. And because I have partners and great teams, two shout out to my team members that then it

would take turns. But I think, you know, again, it's about the options, and I don't feel that overwhelming sense of you know, joy and saying I'm doing all the things anymore. Hearing you say that you want to make more space for the personal, because right now, at the place that I am in my life right now with three toddlers, I worry about the kind of judgment that I get or would get if I was with people

who weren't in a similarly situated position. So to hear you say that, just as a professional woman, that you also want to prioritize that personal and it makes me feel more comfortable engaging in business in that way. Do you find that with your business partners, with the people that you work with now for sure, A lot of our team or West Coast bas so, we all flew in because we launched this business during COVID and one of our team members is works on our product development

and her son is with her. He came to dinner and that's fine. I think, you know, Malika is a mother of three. I think that that's also what makes what we're building so dynamic because we have this insight and intel. I mean, you know, it's the real identity and real sense of what and who we are. We want to shift narratives around what wellness looks like. If we don't have insight in data points as a brand and as a business of what that actually looks and

feels like, how can we be a solution? Right? And so us having you know, women with dynamic experiences as a beauty and wellness brand, supporting women with dynamic experiences is essential. Well, it's clearly working and connecting because even though you launched a beauty brand during COVID, it took off. You had huge success. Congratulations from the beginning, big success just with the brand and also with the brown Girl pledge. Uh yeah, the Brown Girl swap was a call to

action that is still very much alive. Continue it hashtag brown Girl Swap on Instagram, where we challenged everyone to give up five of their everyday beauty and wellness brands for brands owned by black and brown women. Yeah, it's been incredible. I think well wellness, I think resonates with everyone. You know, even though our brand focuses and tells and narratives of centering, you know, multicultural women, all women and

even men love our brand. And we love that because the conversation around wellness is never any more relevant than now and during COVID or on the heels of COVID, we were voted Refinery twenty nine Beauty Innovator of the Year. In twenty twenty, Thank you Refinery. We were voted to wwd's Wellness Power Player List fifty top power players along the likes of some major major brands. So we're deeply humble. We have more than thirty five plus billion and media impressions.

We launched the Black Beauty and Wellness Summit, wanting to elevate conversations around what it means to be a black woman entrepreneur on the heels of everything that was happening during the summer of twenty twenty with George Floyd and wanting to also be a part of the solution that we know that the way that we're going to really you know, close this racial you know, economic divide is

through economic opportunity. And so when you support black women businesses, what you're in fact doing is actually building community and helping society to advance. And we have a grant initiative with Shame Moisture and Unilever where we've granted four hundred and five plus thousand dollars to twenty eight black women

owned businesses. In that moment in twenty twenty, when you launched it, I felt like every brand was crawling all over tripping all over themselves trying to either highlight what they had done for the black community, their black staff, and a lot of promises were made. How do you feel like that looks two years later? It was in a it was at a conference a couple of weeks ago, and this conversation came on. Performative marketing has always been there.

It's always been asn't you know someone who has spent twenty plus years in the media industry. Unfortunately a lot of things are promised and very little happens. Any change that we're going to see, any institutionalized change that we're going to see, cannot happen seasonally. It cannot it cannot happen during certain months, only February being one of them,

or you know, it can't happen seasonally. This is an ongoing thing, and so unfortunately, you know, as someone who knows the space and also as someone who runs a business that is deeply connected to community three hundred and sixty five days a year, both Brown Girl Jane and Anti Life Media, you know, the way that any anything is really going to happen on a consistent basis requires consistent investment, consistent awareness, you know, changing your hiring practices.

So how do I think we've measured up. I haven't done a case by case report. I think some people have done extremely well. We've seen some institutional advancements in some place and in others perhaps a little less. When you were talking, when I started thinking about I started thinking, yeah, what am I doing? How can I what can I do in my own position? So I love the swap

because I think it feels incredibly tangible and doable. Five seems like a good amount of products we're all thinking about using our consumer spending, I think more than we ever have. So being intentional in that way I think feels really very tangible and realistic and I think can also make a big impact. I mean it's a huge category. Yeah, it's a massive category. I mean US and global just it's it's ridiculous. But the thing is that the consciousness

has to be seated there and consistently watering. And I also say, like from a philanthropic standpoint, I encourage people like, whatever, whatever your cause is, your cause doesn't have to be the same thing as mine. I do think that there is wonderful when there is unity and you know, collective kind of like movement and support. But whatever you know resonates with you, Because when it resonates with you, that's when you'll commit. That's when it won't seem like a chore.

And can you explain the philanthropic piece of your business now? Absolutely? So. We actually we haven't been public about it, but we've launched our Brown Girl Jane Foundation, and so we're on a mission to really advance the wellness of black and brown women and multicultural women here in the US to start, but we're definitely thinking global, but you know, a percentage of all of our proceeds go to support organizations that either work with black and brown women around health and

wellness or advocacy around cannabis and the plant. Because our first collection harnessed the power of CBD, we are also working on something that will provide more tangible resource to black and brown women in order to support their mental health and wellness. That's all I'll say. Just know, some really great announcements are coming down the pipe. So what is something I asked this of all of my guests,

and I'm excited to hear your answer. What is something that at the time you thought felt like an insurmountable problem, but now that you look back on it, you actually now view as maybe putting you in a positive direction. I was a caregiver to my grandmother. My grandmother fell and broke her neck in two thousand and six, the same year I launched the business. And I was a caregiver to my grandmother along with my beautiful mom for

thirteen long years. And it was very hard. And now, actually, when I look back and I think about me saying that I didn't focus on my personal life. I didn't focus on my love life as much with intention, but I did have my family that I was incredibly focused on being a caregiver at such a young age. You know, becoming a caregiver at twenty eight years old seemed very

you know, insurmountable for a long time. But I think now looking back, not only did it expand my capacity to do a lot of things, but it also created in me a real appreciation for or the sacrifices that my grandmother made and and you know, just rich legacy. And that is the reason why I say that that's been so important and critical for me, because that's a

big driver for me. I remember having the conversation with my mom because I was visiting my grandmother every single day at the nursing home, and I said, look, if I take this job as then the editor of VI Vixen, I was already consulting, if I take this job, you know, I don't know my schedule, and you know my grandmother

would be in and out of the hospital. No, I think it was you know, and even when my grandmother passed just a couple of years ago, I know that those transitionary seasons like ultimately are birthing seasons as well. That's so beautiful. Thank you so much. It's been such a pleasure having you. I feel like I've learned. I mean, is this I that was so good? Ty still lives in la and somehow juggles her work with Thie Life Media, Morning Mindset and Brown Girl Jane. She is a motivator, innovator,

and bridge between so many women in communities. Her philanthropy has impacted the lives of thousands of women of color, and she is continuing to expand that work every day despite her impressive roster of pivots. I'm sure this is not the last time we'll be hearing of Ty Beauchamp and her ventures. Thanks for listening to this episode of She Pivots, where I talk with women about how their experiences and significant personal events led to their pivot and

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