430 | Part 1: Reclaiming Joy in a World That Wants You Exhausted | Balancing Joy, Purpose, and Rest as a Black Creator with Taylor Cassidy

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Podcast Summary:

Affirmations for Black Girls
Host: Tyra The Creative
Episode 430 | Part 1: Reclaiming Joy in a World That Wants You Exhausted
Guest: Taylor Cassidy
Date: September 29, 2025

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Overview

In this vibrant, heartfelt episode, Tyra welcomes Emmy-nominated creator Taylor Cassidy to unpack what it means to reclaim and protect joy as Black creators and women, especially in spaces where exhaustion—emotional and creative—is always lurking. They explore lineage, personal and collective Black history, setting boundaries, and the deep importance of intentionality and authenticity for content creators. The episode is rich in lived experience, family history, and strategies for resilience and community-building.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Meeting Taylor Cassidy: Joy as Survival and Play

• [03:55] Taylor introduces herself: She’s been a creator since age 17, known for her Fast Black History series and Hashtag Monday Motivation videos.
• Achievements: Over 2M TikTok followers, Time’s 100 Most Influential Creators, Emmy-nominated (Nick News), and a debut book (“Black History Is Your History” out 10/14/25).

Notable Quote:

"Staying rooted doesn’t mean staying heavy. Sometimes it just means remembering who you are, what's going on in the world around you, and choosing joy anyway."
— Podcast Host (01:29)

2. Icebreaker: Content That Sparks Joy

• [07:27] Taylor’s favorite joyful content: a video “throwing” joy at viewers in her mom’s backyard (“Come in here and get y’all joy!”).
• [08:51] Tyra shares about turning handwritten family recipes into kitchen wallpaper:

“And every time I look at that video, I’m just like, oh my gosh. I just love this so much.”
— Tyra

3. Rooted in Black History: Personal & Familial Connections

• [10:33] – [13:55] The hosts discover they both have Louisiana roots—Baton Rouge and St. Francisville.
• Tyra describes her close connection to the legacy of Southern Black history, from sharecropping to attending the first integrated prom in her town in 2007.

“My great-great grandma Phoebe...was born on a plantation. Like, they were basically still born into the remnants of slavery.”
— Tyra (12:14)

“That’s another part of my mission, showing that like, Black history is not far removed from us.”
— Taylor Cassidy (13:55)

4. Affirmation of the Week

• [14:21] Taylor leads:

“I create with intention and inspire with innovation.”

5. Monday Motivation Origins

• [15:41] Taylor began uploading spontaneous pep talks for herself at age 16, only later realizing their communal impact.
• She shifted to weekly content (Mondays) for consistency and self-preservation against burnout:

“I was just trying to like, talk to me, you know?”
— Taylor Cassidy

6. Inspiration & Process: Fast Black History

• [19:44] – [23:37]
  • Frustrated by trauma-focused Black history lessons in school, Taylor wanted to celebrate Black joy, innovation, and everyday excellence.
  • Origin Story: First “Fast Black History” video: Percy Julian, February 1st—15 seconds, blending facts with humor and relatability.
  • Research Approach: Taylor always acts “as a student,” visiting museums and linking stories to current pop culture for accessibility.

“Their perception of Black people was just very, very limited...it was so contrasting to the way I was taught Black history growing up, because my family made it like, you're gonna know your Black history or you’re not gonna get McDonald's.”
— Taylor Cassidy (21:18)

7. Personal History, Representation, and Healing Through Storytelling

• [23:43 – 31:39]
  • Tyra recalls learning her family’s deep history late and the discomfort of realizing how much was hidden or normalized, especially in the South.
  • Both host and guest stress the power (and necessity) of claiming oral histories and family stories before they’re lost.

“Our history lives with us.”
— Taylor Cassidy (30:11)
“You do have to ask...it is one of my priorities when I go home, whenever she’s actually, like, lucid…just make sure that I’m like, recording it so I can get out of it what I can.”
— Tyra (31:41)

8. The Reality of Ongoing Racism and the Responsibility of Black Creators

• [34:59 – 39:39]
  • Tyra describes growing up around open racism and segregation, including annual local festivals enacting slave labor and persistent KKK presence.
  • Taylor connects this to the widespread myth that “that doesn’t exist anymore,” especially outside the South, and asserts Black people must lead in preserving and teaching their full history.
  • Both discuss the disproportionate expectations placed on Black creators to speak out, represent, and educate—at times at the expense of their own rest or boundaries.

“It is not completely our job to fix the entire world because we’re not the ones who broke it.”
— Taylor Cassidy (39:25)

9. The Double-Edged Sword of Blackness Online

• [39:39 – 47:01]
  • Tyra describes being policed by both Black and non-Black audiences—her “white potato pie” video was called un-Black, despite being part of her family tradition. She turns criticism into education.
  • Taylor emphasizes how rigid definitions of “Blackness” can limit the community’s self-knowledge of its own diverse history and practices.

“We can really easily fall into putting ourselves in our own made-up stereotype...most of the time, the people that are doing that are not Black people. So whose stereotype are we really playing into?”
— Taylor Cassidy (46:06)

10. Claiming Joy, Connection, and Tradition Moving Forward

• [47:01 – 50:39]
  • Tyra makes a commitment to deepen her own family roots and pass down traditions.
  • Both urge listeners to “lean in,” ask elders questions, maintain family reunions, and keep history alive in practical, joyful ways.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Black history is not far removed from us.”
  — Taylor Cassidy (13:55)
• “Our history lives with us.”
  — Taylor Cassidy (30:11)
• “It is not completely our job to fix the entire world because we’re not the ones who broke it.”
  — Taylor Cassidy (39:25)
• “I try to make it a space where Black people can come and be themselves and find themselves in the things they do...More often than not, Black people are associated with every single detail, every single thing that has been deemed not Black or not white. And most of the time, the people that are doing that are not Black people. So whose stereotype are we really playing into?”
  — Taylor Cassidy (46:06)

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Key Timestamps

• [03:55] — Taylor’s intro & Fast Black History origins
• [07:27] — Icebreaker: Favorite joyful content
• [10:33] — Bonding over Louisiana roots & family history
• [13:55] — On Black history being recent and lived
• [14:21] — Affirmation of the week
• [15:41] — Monday Motivations: Why & how
• [19:44] — Fast Black History: Classroom frustration to viral video
• [23:43] — Tyra’s personal journey learning family history
• [34:59] — Living amid ongoing racism in the South
• [39:39] — The burden & expectation on Black content creators
• [43:42] — White potato pie: Debating Black authenticity online
• [46:06] — Challenging the “one way of being Black” narrative
• [50:39] — Preserving family stories & traditions

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Tone and Style

The conversation is warm, affirming, and honest—with laughter, vulnerability, and passionate pleas for greater self-discovery and collective healing in the Black community. Both speakers maintain an approachable, relatable style, rooting their advice in lived experiences rather than preaching.

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For Listeners

This episode is essential for anyone interested in:

• Navigating joy, history, and community as a Black woman/creator.
• The challenges and rewards of teaching Black history outside textbook frameworks.
• Finding purpose and boundaries in creative life.
• Practical steps to preserve and celebrate family stories and traditions.

Don’t miss Part 2, where Tyra and Taylor promise to dive even deeper into these topics.

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Transcript

[Taylor Cassidy]

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[Taylor Cassidy]

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[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

What happens when your work is rooted in educating others, not in a textbook way, but in a lived, breathed, passed down through generations kind of way? When you're a content creator or a leader, or just someone who knows how to bring people together, your work often starts long before the camera turns on or before people begin to show up. It's in your family history, in the way your great grandparents lived, in the stories that shaped you, even the ones that were unimaginably hard to carry. And sometimes your content or your intentions can get misunderstood. Sometimes people just don't get it. And that can take a toll not just on your creativity, but on your spirit as well. But we keep going. We do the research, we double check our sources, we try to make it easy to digest while still making it mean something. And in the middle of all of that, joy has to stay in the room.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Someone who does this very well and.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Exudes joy is Taylor Cassidy, the 22.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Year old content creator of the viral.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Video series Fast Black History, who's built a community of over 2.2 million followers by making Black History accessible, relatable, and full of life. Even while navigating the pressure that comes with the fame of it all and the responsibility, she exudes joy not just as a break in her day to day, but as a tool, as a survival skill and as play. And all that means is giving herself time for hobbies that don't make money, the parts of life that aren't attached to output. Because staying rooted doesn't mean staying heavy. Sometimes it just means remembering who you are, what's going on in the world around you, and choosing joy. Anyway.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

What is going on? Beautiful people. Welcome back to the Affirmations for Black Girls podcast where we focus on personal growth and cultivating a healthy relationship with ourselves. I am your host, Tyra, the creative actress, content creator and mental health enthusiast. And y', all, I'm so, so excited because we have a super dope guest today. We have Taylor Cassidy joining us on the show. Taylor. Hello girl. Hello.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Hello. I'm beyond excited to be here. I'm fangirling myself. Thank you so much for having me.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Girl, stop. I'm fangirling. Your content is so amazing. I've been following you since we were talking about this off, off camera for a second, but I've been following you since probably like 2021. I've been seeing your content. I saw you on TikTok first and now I just love the Monday motivation and all of that that you have going on. So thank you so much for wanting to be on the show.

[Taylor Cassidy]

That makes me so happy. And yes, like I already told you, like I've been listening to the podcast for over a year, so I feel like we both focus on like spreading joy and self love. So I'm, I'm excited to get into it.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yes. So today you guys, we'll be talking about reclaiming joy in a world that wants us to be exhausted. And I feel like as content creators, we may have a lot of the same type of sentiments around this. So I am so excited to jump in with you. Before we jump into the icebreaker, I'm gonna let you do your own introduction. What you want people to know. Introduce yourself to the AFBG audience.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Okay, I will. Well, hello, I'm Taylor Cassidy. I have been a content creator since I was 17. So I've been creating professionally for almost six full years now. And two large parts of my content are my Hashtag Monday Motivation Videos, where I create videos that are meant to lighten your day, encourage you, give you positivity. And I have another web series called Fast Black History that I started in 2020 where I talk about unknown black history figures or moments in 60 seconds or less. And that's expanded now as TikTok has changed their format. But I have over 50 episodes of that series, and it's helped me to gain over 2 million followers on TikTok. I was just named one of Time's 100 most influential creators for this year. And I'm coming out with a book based on my Fast black history series, Black History Is yous History. And it's coming out October 14th, but you can pre order it right now.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Where can I pre order it at?

[Taylor Cassidy]

You can pre order at Barnes and Noble, on the Simon and Schuster website, on Amazon, Target, or if you go on any of my socials and go to the link in my bio, it'll take you directly where you need to go to pre order.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I love your life. I'm about to scream. If we didn't have these microphones, I would be screaming right now because this is just so amazing. Also, you're Emmy nominated. You ain't say that.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I am. Why? You. You reminded me of things. Yes, I'm Emmy nominated. I was a correspondent with a kids news show on Nickelodeon called Nick News. And in 2023, we got nominated for a children and family Emmy. So I'm a Emmy nominated host.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

That is so amazing. Y', all. Wherever y' all at, y' all just need to clap. I know we can't hear the clapping, but I'm about to clap because you are doing amaz work. So I just want to jump into the conversation. Let's do this. Let's do this icebreaker right quick. And then we're gonna jump in because I have questions. Okay. So our icebreaker. It's just a simple question. What is a piece of content that you've made that still makes you smile to this day? It could be something that you created way back in 2020 when you started, or it could be something that you made yesterday. What's one piece of content that still makes you smile?

[Taylor Cassidy]

Oh, that's a good one. Okay, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say this one because it made me smile when I was making it. And it's the kind of thing where after I edited it, I was, like, rewatching it over and over again because I was like, oh, this. This is how you know on people's face. You know, I think it's. I think it's still pinned on my Instagram. It's. I'm literally running out of nowhere in my mom's backyard with, like, one of her baskets that I stole from inside, pretending to throw out, like, emojis of, like, hearts and sparkles. And I start the video with saying, come in here and get y' all joy. And I'm basically like, throwing joy at the screen.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I love.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Yes. Like, I don't know, it was just a simple concept, but I honestly just made it to make me smile first. And I was definitely, like, giggling watching it back. So I'd say that one.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I love that one. I know exactly which one you're talking about. I. I smiled when I watched it. I was like, this is perfect. Like, this is the epit of what social media is for. Like, this is what I want my feed to be filled with at all times. Let's see. For me, ooh, a piece of content that has made me smile. Girl, I be doing food content outside of, like, my podcast. So it's like, it be making me smile because I be hungry, but I'm trying to. Let me see.

[Taylor Cassidy]

That's so real. That's so real.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Okay, I have one. A piece of content that made me smile. This is a recent piece of content because. Just a little bit more about me. I started out in long form content on YouTube. I was a YouTuber first. I started my YouTube channel in 2017, and that was before a short form was a thing. It took me a long time to be like, okay, how am I going to enter this short form content circuit? What do I like to do? Like, what are some types of things? Because my YouTube channel started out as an educational channel. I was talking about being an actress here in Los Angeles, how to make money in L. A without having a 9 to 5, like, as a full time creative person. And the reason I started my podcast was because I was like, I want to talk about mental health. But it didn't feel like it had a space that could. That it could breathe on my YouTube channel. So I was like, let me start a podcast. I don't want to do more video content. Let me do a different medium. Let me do just audio only. And now here we are doing video again on the podcast. But through starting my podcast and finding new ways to implement joy into my life, I started doing like DIY projects and stuff. And I found that I love putting my hometown and my childhood into my everyday life because I live in Los Angeles. Now my family's all in Louisiana. So one of the videos that I made, I had this idea for, like, a year and a half. I got my mama, my daddy, my grandparents, and my aunts to write down family recipes that I grew up loving, recipes that brought me so much joy, and I turned them into wallpaper, and now it's wallpaper in my K. And it's all of their handwriting. And every time I look at that video, I'm just like, oh, my gosh. I just love this so much. So that would be my piece of content.

[Taylor Cassidy]

That is so special. I'm about to steal your idea. That's something. My house. Oh, my goodness. That's so special. Like, I. Sometimes I do the same thing, except I have to, like, call my mom and then write down her recipes for things. And by the way, she lived in Louisiana for 12 years, and I was born in Baton Rouge.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Shut up.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Yes. But I don't have any memory living there.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

But okay.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I do, you know?

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Okay.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Okay.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah. I was born in Baton Rouge. I love that. At Women's Hospital. Were you born at Women's Hospital or Orko Long? Oh, I don't know.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I don't know the city.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah. Okay. You were probably born at Women's Hospital. I' ma say you was born at Women's, but it could have been, like, Women's Earl K. Long or even Our lady of the Lake. That's it.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I'm gonna have to look it up now.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah, look it up and then let me know, because I need to know, because if we were born at the same hospital, that would be crazy.

[Taylor Cassidy]

That would be so cool.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

So wait, is your family. Why was she in Louisiana? Is there any family from there or what?

[Taylor Cassidy]

I think my parents went there for work, and they just stayed there for over a decade. Like, both me and my sister were born there, but when I was three years old, we moved because of Hurricane Katrina.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. And y' all moved where? You moved to New York or.

[Taylor Cassidy]

We moved to Iowa first, then Minnesota, and after that. I can go down the list, but I moved eight times before ending up in St. Louis, Missouri, which is where I say I'm from, because that's where, like, I came of age there. And that's the. That's the place I spent the longest amount of time in my childhood, which was seven years. So we were hopping around until then.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Gotcha. Oh, wow. Thank you for sharing. I live. Yeah, of course. Born and raised in Louisiana. That's it. That's All I got for me. And that's important. Yeah, it is. And I. My whole, whole family is there. Like, my. I was talking to my mom when I was home. We're going off on a tangent, but listen, I don't care. My whole family was born, like, Louisiana, Mississippi, and I was talking to my mama when I was home last month. And her grandfather was a sharecropper. My great, great grandma Phoebe, who passed away in 2014 while I was in college, was born on a plantation. Like, they were basically still born into the remnants of slavery, because I'm from The Deep South, St. Francisville, Louisiana, plantation town. And it's just so crazy how I'm not so far removed. And that's why I think that's why I like to make sure that I am spending as much time learning about my history. And that's why this conversation is going to be so dope, because all of that is my history. It's all a part of me. And I'm still very connected to a time in life where black people could not do any. My grandma went to a segregated school. The first integrated prom in my Hometown was in 2007. I was in seventh grade. 2007 was the first. Yeah. My cousin Christy went to the first integrated prom, and it was this big thing in my little town, population 3,000, 4,000 people. My town is small, but, yeah, 2007 was the first integrated prom. So that's why this conversation is so important. But, yes, born and raised, Louisiana, backwoods country. Yes, that is me.

[Taylor Cassidy]

You know what? And I know. I know we're about to get into it, but that's so important because that's another part of my mission, showing that, like, black history is not far removed from us like this.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

It wasn't that long ago.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Like, all of this was not that long ago, so. Wow.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Exactly. Yeah. Okay, before we jump into the. The meat of the episode, we have to get into our affirmation of the week. So I'm going to hand it over.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

To Taylor so she can lead us.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Through this week's affirmation is I create with intention and inspire with innovation. I create with intention and inspire with innovation. I create with intention and inspire with innovation. I create with intention and inspire with innovation. I create with intention and inspire with innovation. I create with intention and inspire with innovation.

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[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I create with intention. I feel like that is literally at the center of both of our styles of content. Even though we talk about things that are so different from each other. Creating with intention and intentionality and authenticity is so important to me. And I can see that it's important to you in everything that you do. I do want to know. So your Monday motivations. How did you say, okay, this is what I'm going to start doing? I'm going to do this every Monday? How did that come about?

[Taylor Cassidy]

Well, first I. I used to upload these pep talks that I would film just for myself in high school. I think the first, like, encouragement kind of video that I uploaded to my TikTok was in 2019. So I was 16 at the time. And it was something that I just filmed for me. Like, I had just filmed them for me. And I would film them in my car. I'd film them in the bathroom to kind of do kind of like a video diary to pep me up before going to high school. Because, you know, high school is hard. It's hard being a teen. So once I started uploading them, I was really blown away by how many people resonated with what I was saying when it was truly just something to help myself. And I think that that aspect of it made it feel more personal and more, like, intimate, because I wasn't trying to be like, I'm being a motivational speaker. I was just trying to, like, talk to me, you know? So I've been uploading them since I was 16, and it wasn't until I think, like, last year, where I was like, okay, I'm going to start doing this every Monday just to keep it consistent and also not put so much pressure on myself to motivate people every single day. Because, you know, you can get burnout from that, too. Like, sometimes you're not having a good month. Exactly. Motivate somebody every single day. So that's how that came about.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Oh, I love that. I love that.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

So let me ask you guys a couple of serious questions. Do your joints feel older than you? And do you really know what's going.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

On inside of your body?

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Yeah, me either, y'.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

All.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Now, y' all know whenever I go home to Louisiana, family time is everything to me. When we're all together, I'm always so grateful for that quality time. It always reminds me to take care of myself so that I can keep making memories with the people I love for years to come. And I'm ready to get even more serious about that. So I just learned about TRU Diagnostic and their Truage Truhealth test, y'. All. This ain't nothing like a grade school test, okay? But the more research I do on it, the more I'm interested. Did you know that a single painless finger prick at home can lead you to over 180 personalized insights into your health and how you're aging? On one hand, TruHealth runs tests to look over 100 biomarkers, which is stuff like your body, vitamin levels and nutrient balance, your immune system, and even stuff like gut and cognitive health. On the other hand, true age goes even deeper, y'.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

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[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

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[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Okay, Taylor, so what inspired the first Fast Black History video? And how did you stay excited about the format while keeping it accurate and still digestible?

[Taylor Cassidy]

So how has. How Fast Black History came about came from me being in my history classroom junior year, it was already common knowledge to me that black history was not being taught in my public school as much as I would like it to be. And by that, I mean it was like a day where. A day that you spend on it in February, and that's it. But I think what really pushed me was that I was in an advanced history class that year. So we were having more conversations. We were having more debates in that class. We were having more like, constructive conversations, really talking about the context of different historical eras. And I started to realize that the students in my class at the time, I was the only black kid in my history class. And I started to notice that as people gave their opinions, as people tried to understand what the context would have been at the time, especially when it came to discussions about slavery and discussions about people of color. During that time, I started to see that it was very, very rooted in suffering and trauma. And their. Their perception of black people was just very, very limited to what public schools had taught to them, which wasn't. Isn't much of anything past trauma and just surviving it. And it was so very contrasting to the way that I was taught black history growing up, because my family made it like, you're gonna know your black history or you're not gonna get McDonald's. Like, you're not gonna get ice cream after school, you know, like.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yep.

[Taylor Cassidy]

And so I learned it with so much joy and so much, like, excitement.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I.

[Taylor Cassidy]

They made, like, events out of it. We would go to community events just to learn about black history. So I remember sitting on my bedroom floor after a hard day, being in that history class, listening to all of these things, where I'm like, that's not true. That's not right.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah.

[Taylor Cassidy]

And I thought, okay, It's February. It's February 1st. I need to do at least something. And at that point, I had a little, like, a little over a hundred thousand people following me on TikTok. And I was like, okay, I have this platform. What can I do? So I made a. I think it was 15 seconds. I made a video about a chemist named Percy Julian, and I made him make jokes. I dressed up as him to make him, like, talk to the camera. I tried to make his history come alive in some way instead of just talking at the camera. And I wanted to make that engaging. So I thought, okay, my generation's attention span is really short, but I want to teach black history, so it's got to be fast. Okay, let's just call it fast. Black history. And it went viral. And from there, I was like, okay, this was really fun for me. I love learning black history. Let's just keep doing it. And over the years, to answer your second question, how I liked keeping the format alive. It went through so many revisions over the years, so many different writing styles. But I think what helped me the most was just continuing to be a student. Something that I always did in my class was write, draw little comics and doodles next to my notes about the history figure that we were learning about, just to make it engaging for me. So it was always trying to put myself in the form of a student again, learning something new. So I continue to go to museums. I continue to read different books and really try and take note of, like, the different things that I would think about if I related them to a TikTok trend I was really into, or if I just watched A movie I really loved. And I was like, oh, that's just like that character. I would use that as inspiration to keep it lively and keep it relatable for myself first. And then it ended up resonating with my audience too.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I absolutely love that. So from the first video, it went viral.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Yes.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

That's amazing. It just shows you how many of us don't have access to that information or that information isn't readily available. But we crave it. And I do think as we continue, as the. As time continues to go on, more and more of us are craving more of that. I also had like a little epiphany moment like that, but it wasn't until I was actually in college. So I was in all AP classes as well in high school, but we did not have an advanced placement history class. We had to take dual enrollment for college. But it was Western civilization. So we never really got to talk about anything. Especially like what I told you earlier. I'm from the deep South. Plantation town Myrtles Plantation rolls down Plantation every. People come here to get married on these plantations. Shotgun houses are still there. My, my great grandma, who is still alive, her mom is the one that I was telling you about earlier. But my great grandma Lily worked for the white man literally into her 60s. And she's in her early 80s now. But it's just so crazy how she's still like, like, kind of like living in that time in terms of like the verbiage that she uses and the things that she talks about. Because it's like that's all that she knows. And as I get older and I'm starting to pick up on that, I'm like, oh my gosh, I need to learn a little bit more about what was going on here in St. Francisville when you were younger, grandma. Like when I, the first time that I was like, oh shoot, this is real. Like my grandma was really a servant to these people. It wasn't content considered slavery at that time on paper, but it definitely was. We went to go pick pecans. My southern accent, the accent. We went to go get pick ons at this plantation. And I was like, oh my gosh. I was younger. I was probably in high school at the time. And we were going to pick these to weigh them to get some money. Like that's how my grandma, later in life, that's what she did. Later in life, that's what she did to make money. And she was like, oh yeah, I used to work for, I worked for this family for 35 years. Or something like that. I don't remember the exact time. And I was just like, like, we're on a plantation. You worked for this family. And the way that they say it is just so flippant. It's just like, oh yeah, like, I just worked at the mall. And I'm just so interested in learning more about especially black history, but especially Southern Louisiana history because it's so deeply ingrained. Like my grandma. I didn't even realize that my grandma went to a segregated school. And it's just when you're actually like in all of that and when you come away from it, like, I moved to the east coast for while and I ended up taking like a black history. I forgot the name of the course. African American Studies. I took an African American studies class and that was the first time I learned anything about black history for real. Because in St. Francisville, Louisiana, Martin Luther King Jr. That is the extent. That was the extent of my knowledge of my history. And I didn't necessarily grow up with parents that were like, you're saying, oh no, you're gonna learn this. So you get, you ain't getting McDonald's. But it's because the place where we grew up, they want us to stay in a space where we are ignorant about what's going on so that things don't change. So I just think it's so important and I'm just so glad that you're on the podcast because I, I want to talk about stuff like this way more often. And I do think if I would had a book like this growing up, because it's so digestible, I have not read, I've skimmed through it, but I haven't read through the whole thing. But you guys, I'm talking about Taylor Cassidy's book, Black History is your history. If I would have had even something like this that was easily digestible as a child that was readily available, I would feel more comfortable and confident.

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[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Confident in where I came from. Because when I started taking that class in New Jersey, I did the national student exchange program. I was uncomfortable. I had never been around so many confident black people that knew where they came from, that knew who all these people was. Like, I. And I just felt small. But I felt small in a way like, oh no, Tyra, we gotta figure this out. We gotta learn more about this. So you are doing important work. Point blank period.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

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[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Baby girl, you doing important work.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Oh, I love that. Thank you. Thank you. And can I, can I just say, like, you have such a rare resource available through. You said your great grandmother.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah, my great grandma. And I had my great great in my life until I was a sophomore in college.

[Taylor Cassidy]

She is such like, she is living history. Like that's like something have you ever considered like sitting down and like actually like asking those questions? Because a lot of times the black history that even I research, it's not like a college team was funded to go and do this, get their hands in this research. No, it's passed down from family to family. It's in written documents in families basements. And a lot of times it can be difficult to sort out what's fact and what's fiction. But what matters is that our history lives with us. So I think that's so beautiful that you even grew up with that. Like, I mean not a lot of, not a lot of black people have that and know where their roots really do lie. And I think that's really special. And what you said about like whenever your grandmother would Be like, oh, yeah. Like, I just. I worked for them. Like, it's casual. My nana does the same thing.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Oh, my God. One time.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Right? One time, we were at the. We were eating. I think it was like, Thanksgiving dinner. My nana not even looking up from her plate. She was like, oh, yeah. You know, I used to go to school with one of the Little Rock Nine. I said, I'm sorry. What? I'm sorry. What? And you've never told us this?

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Never, never, never. Girl, don't get me started. You never thought that was important to say ever?

[Taylor Cassidy]

Like, that's why you gotta ask.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

You do, but you do. You do have to ask. And for me, my great grandma Lily, she's starting to lose her memory and stuff like that. So I. It is one of my priorities when I go home, whenever she's actually, like, lucid. Anyway. Hey, can you answer these questions or just really, like, have a conversation and just make sure that I'm, like, recording it so I can get out of it? What. What I can. But, yeah, that's definitely high on my list. I was talking to another friend who was a filmmaker from. We went to high school together, and I was just like, we need to do something on the fact that the first integrated prom was in 2007. Because when I say that, people don't believe me. The first integrated prom was 2007. And they're like, no, you're lying. No. Y' all just wanted to. No, that's. No, no, that's really what it was, so. And we also used to have this. I forgot who I was telling somebody this, but I live in a little small racist town. I really do. But they're getting better, I guess. Well, I haven't lived there in 10 years, so let me not even say that. Let me not even say that. But we used to have this thing called the Pilgrimage every year. It was like this little festival, but there were demonstrations of slave labor happening. Happening. Exactly. And every year. Every year, Taylor, they would take us here for, like, a vacate, not a vacation. What is it? Field trip. A field trip. And it. It was just everyday life and where I was from. But a few years ago, they finally did, like, a petition. A few, like, people that I went to school with and stuff, did a position like, this is not right. We should not be doing this pilgrimage. And you're doing it under the guise of it being, like, some type of, like, festival and people are just like. Like a period thing. But no, it's not. You are constantly reminding us of what this town Used to be. And they stopped doing it like a couple of years ago. But that's. That's how behind. I would say air quotes behind where I'm from is in terms of equality and just appreciating everyone as. As equals, honestly. So, yeah, it's very. It's very important for me to start digging into those stories a little more and shining a light on where we need change, especially in the Deep South. Because a lot of the Deep south gets overlooked. There are still places that you can't go at night. Growing up, I. I lived on a street called Highway Tent. Well, it's a highway, but it's basically a street because it's St. Francisville, Louisiana. But I lived on Highway 10. And if you turned on one specific road, KKK flags all down the road. And they're so proud. They're so proud. So. And growing up, I was just like, oh, yeah, like, just like my grandma. Oh, yeah, KKK live over there. And that's it. And I'm just like, tyra, this is. We are. We are the future. We are our. Our history. But we need to also make sure that we are making change in the years to come. Because I don't want my children growing up around that. Like, girl, what?

[Taylor Cassidy]

And that's actually crazy.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Crazy.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I can slightly, I feel like on the same wavelength, not the kkk, but like, even in growing up in the Midwest, I know specific neighborhoods that used to be sundown towns. I know the places you can go where just. Just like you, like, the neighborhoods are filled with Confederate flags. I know the students from school that would don the Confederate flag like it was their uniform every single day. And I think especially moving to New York, which is where I'm based, I've learned that a lot of people truly believe that that is just not, like, that doesn't exist anymore. Like, people just. They don't do that anymore. And I, whenever I would tell them, like, well, no, like, it's still. Truly, it's really, really alive. And, you know, a lot of. Especially with a lot of black history being tampered with in public schools by the government recently. I've always said, like, from the beginning and now it doesn't matter what the government allows in terms of teaching black history. It is in our own hands to learn it and try and find it for ourselves. It's always been that way and nothing, nothing has changed. It's up to us to bring it to light and really make sure that our full stories and our humanity is being told.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yes, it is up to us. That's, it's up to us. It's up to us. Oh, I love that. We only got through one question in topic one. But you know what? That's totally fine. I'm have to have you back on the show. I'm down.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Wait, have you heard, have you heard that Tick Tock audio with Kiki Palmer where it was like, we're gonna have some more times together?

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yes, yes. That's how I feel. Whenever you're free, girl.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Whenever you're free. Whenever you have time.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Whenever you have time. Yeah, whenever you have time, I have to spend more time with you. I do, I do. Yes, I, I that sentiment. 100. Okay, let's move on to topic too, because it's already 146. I've actually never asked anybody this question before. Do you ever feel like people expect too much from black creators?

[Taylor Cassidy]

And you see, I'm so glad you asked this because I, I could get on a soapbox about it.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I could get on that soapbox, girl. Get on there. It's fine.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Let me get on it. I think that whenever there is an issue that is important to be talked about and whenever there's something happening in pop culture, in the media, in politics that is important to give a platform to, I think that people are more in a hurry to rush to black creators to immediately know all of the answers and explain for them more so than people who are not black or of color. And I think that's because in people's minds, it's almost like we have a responsibility to be the bearer of that information.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah.

[Taylor Cassidy]

And I think it does put a lot of pressure on a lot of black creators to be perfect or reach that idea of black excellence where, like, anything less, anything less than what the public is requiring of you is never going to be enough. It's not going to be enough. And you're like, if you are not performing as to what the public is expecting you to, then you're not performing at all. You know, you're not, you're not worth being listened to at all. And, you know, even I've experienced this where I've had to take time to learn about certain things myself or learn about topics people would be pressuring me to talk about myself before I said a word. Because if I listened to the public and just immediately started yapping because everybody is like, you need to do this, you need to do that, I would have looked crazy because I would have been speaking from an uninformed mind. I think that it's important for Creators to talk about things that are important to them and that are important that are happening in society. Yes. But I do feel that it's almost like people expect black people to carry everyone through the storm because we have fought for ourselves so well in the past. But we, like, we got to give black people a break. I'm sorry, we got to give each other a break. We have died for causes. We have lost families, lost jobs over fighting for certain causes. It is not completely our job to fix the entire world because we're not the ones who broke it.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Exactly. Girl. Oh, I'm about to scream. I think for me, especially since I am more in the food space, like, especially on like Instagram and Tick Tock and those types of things, I'm in the food space more so sometimes I feel like I air quote, can't talk about issues that are going on in the black community because I haven't talked about other issues that are happening in the world. And people are so quick to say, well, what about this? Well, you weren't, I didn't hear you last year when such and such happened. And I'm just like, I, I, I personally tend to stay out of it. And when I do want to not even put in my 2 cents but offer space, I do it on my podcast and I do it here in a way where it's more so talking about the mental health around whatever. The thing is, I don't like to get super into everything because I don't have a political stance on outwardly, I don't outwardly have a political stance. I don't outwardly speak on things. But I wish it wasn't like that because like you said, it's important for us to talk about things that are important to us. So when a political issue, or not even just political, but anything when an issue arises and it is important to me, I wish the Internet was a little more graceful in accepting what I have to say. And on the flip side of that, as a food creator who is from the deep south, who frequently shares recipes from previous generations of my family and like, where I'm from, how could I even say this, girl? They didn't try to take my black card. They then I've never been called this that. I, it's just CR and black from black people as well as everybody else. I'm like, dang, I'm getting it from every which way. So recently, well, this was like last year, I think I did a video about a white potato piece. Now white potato pies are from the Great Depression. They were popular in the 30s and 40s. And my great grandma Willie Mae, who passed away two years ago, made this every Thanksgiving and Christmas. I grew up. This is one of my favorite pies. It's delicious. So I had a part, and the thing is, why I was so much was because it was for a partnership. I shared this recipe, and they posted the video. Keeping that in mind, they posted the video. And in the video, I'm just like, this is a recipe from my childhood. My grandma made this every year. Blah, blah. Oh, my God. Black people just be doing anything. Girl, I'm about to take your black car. Cause what is this? What is a potato pie? What is wrong with you people? Stuff like that. And then Kev on stage took it and ran with it. He posted, girl, yes. Listen, listen. Yes. He took it and was like. Because the backstory behind that. Listen. The backstory behind that. He had been getting slack on Instagram because he likes pumpkin pie. And you already know the discourse with black people and sweet potato pie versus pumpkin pie, all of that stuff. So he came across my video and was just like, well, this white potato pie, I never heard of this. He didn't say anything bad, but the comments were what was getting to me. And it was all black people. So I do think that it's hard for us as black creators, but a lot of times, especially in the niches that I'm in, it's a lot of black people that be like, girl, what? But long story short, I just use that as a time to educate versus, like, what I wanted to do was curse everybody out. I didn't do that.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Yeah.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Because, girl, it happened last year. So my grandma had only been gone for less than a year, and I was vulnerable in my. I'm always very vulnerable in my content. My content always comes from a place of intentionality. And I was sharing a piece of me that I am proud of. And I'm also a pastry chef. I went to culinary school. The pie is good. Stop playing. Stop playing because I'm about to try it. Okay, listen. Okay, yes, please. So I just went in the comments and said, actually, I'm not being so creative. I'm not making anything up. This pie actually comes from the 30s and 40s, and white potatoes are cheaper than sweet potatoes. I just took them through that, and once I did all of that extra leg work, everybody was like, oh, wow, okay. I did know that. Let me try this pie. And so many people tried it. I even took some to Kev on stage, and we made another Video to, like, get, you know, the awareness around it. Yeah. So it ended up being good. But I had to go through all this rigamarole at the beginning.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Yeah.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Because of that. So I do think people do expect a little bit too much out of us. But they also, when it comes to, like, your content, I feel like people, and this is an everybody thing, they don't really care what they say to you. And they don't, when it's on the Internet, they don't really treat you like a real person whenever they're commenting. And I know 99 of y' all wouldn't say that if we was in person.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Okay. And for like, first of all, I'm so sorry that happened because that's so tough. Because it's something that was from your heart. You knew it was from your childhood, from your black family, from your black experience. And I think that's something that has. How do I say? It's something that I explore a lot in my content, specifically with my YouTube content is kind of a hive mindset that sometimes we can get into as black people of categorizing things as this is black and this is not.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Because we can really easily fall into putting ourselves in our own made up stereotype or putting ourselves in such. Such a hard box that we don't even see our own history whenever we look at it. And a lot of times whenever I share content that maybe a black person will go into the comments and be like, that's some white. That's some. Those are white things. Like what? Like, black people don't do this. Black people don't do that.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

But I'm black, baby, and I do it. So what is you talking about?

[Taylor Cassidy]

Exactly? And I try to make it a space where black people can come and be themselves and find themselves in the things they do. Because more often than not, black people are associated with every single detail, every single thing that has been deemed not black or not white. And most of the time, the people that are doing that are not black people. So whose stereotype are we really playing into?

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yep.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I could honestly, I could go on another soapbox about that because I know where that, like, hive mindset does come from. The civil rights movement of trying to. The civil rights movement and moving into like the 70s and 80s, trying to claim pride in African identity more. But over time, I think with specifically the Internet, this idea of being black as one thing has kept us from a lot of our own history. So I'm sorry that happened. And honestly, you taught me something. I'm about to go look up black people. Great Depression recipes.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yeah, yeah, because. And I will say, like, there were also a lot of people coming to. To me or in the comments saying, no, she's right, y'. All. I grew up eating this pie. I'm from the east coast and all that. And I learned that. I was like, oh, shoot. Apparently the pie originated on the east coast, like, in the Maryland Baltimore area. And I was like, oh, shoot, I want to look up. Look this up a little bit more. Because when I was in the comment. So this is what happened. I'm asleep. I'm taking a nap. My best friend called me and was like, well, no, my best friend husband called me. I was like, why is Pat calling me? He was like, tara, did you see what he from Mississippi, Ty? You saw what happened. He was like, man, I think you need to go and do something. You need to do something. So I was like. So I was like, pat, what are you talking about? He was like, look at your Instagram, Mike. So I looked at my Instagram, and it's being blown up. And the. My first thought. My heart dropped because I had another video that went viral. I do a lot of work with Tastemade, so it's full content. So my first. I had another video that went viral with them, like, not even a year prior. I made something called Dixie Cups, which is a frozen Kool Aid cup. You already know racism in the comments. Racism in the comments on that. But I was like, oh, no, it's happening again. What is going on? So I wanted to just not say anything, but then. So he ended up calling me back and was like, well, you can spin this. You need to. You need to put on your story. Kev on stage. You need to taste this pie. You need to taste this pie. And I was like, okay, let me take 10 deep breaths, and then I'm gonna do that. So I did that. And while I was waiting on him to respond, I was like, okay, let me answer some of these dm. I mean, these comments. And I was like, well, actually, this is what it is. You know, all of that type of stuff. So I was like. I had a moment where I was like, y' all ain't about to jump down Willie May throat like that. Like, y' all not about to do. This is like my heritage. Like, this is something I take so much pride in. And ever since that moment, it's even. It's fueled me even more to just share more about where I came from and just continue sharing those deep Southern roots that I have. Especially since I've lived away from home for so long. I don't spend a lot of time around black people. That's just. It just is what it is living out here in Los Angeles. But every time I go home, I just make it a place. The point to do some real country, you know, like, I just had. Because I was at home recently, and my dad was like, you want to go pick some okra with me? Hell, yeah. Let's go pick some okra, Daddy. Let's go pick some okra in Boogie Ray Garden. Let's go pick some.

[Taylor Cassidy]

I know that's right.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

You know, like, it's just. It's just so important, and I. I continue to learn so much, and I definitely need to take full advantage of all of this while my greats are still here. I'm just so blessed to still have great grandparents still in my life. Like, well, one now. One great grandparents still in my life, and all of my grandparents, my mama, my daddy, all of their siblings. All of their siblings, you know, so I'm truly blessed, and I. I think more of us need to truly lean in when we do have these big family ties. Even if you're not super close, like, it's important to lean in, ask the questions, do the thing, go to the family reunion. It's. I was just talking to a friend. I was like, girl, it's our time to start planning these family reunions.

[Taylor Cassidy]

It's true.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I came up with that.

[Taylor Cassidy]

The baton has been passed.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Yes. I'm just like, oh, my God. What goes into planning a family reunion? I just know to put on a shirt and show up. That's all I.

[Taylor Cassidy]

And maybe a white potato pie in hand.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Hello. Because it's when. Yes. Like, it's only been two years, but, yes, we always had white potato pie. Mama always made them, and I think the baton has definitely been passed to me. I made them the last two years. Her white potato pie and buttermilk pie.

[Taylor Cassidy]

So I love that so much.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Girl, I'm asking one more question. It is a day. We could. We could move on. Let me see. All three of these questions are good. Let's just do a speed. I have three more questions that I really want to ask you. We go do a speed round, because.

[Taylor Cassidy]

Got it.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

You got to be back on the shelves. That's We. We are. I'm coming back. You're coming back? You coming back? You coming back.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Okay, now, y', all, I know it feels like we were just really getting into it, but Taylor and I were really connecting over where our love for content began, our lineage and family history as African American women, and setting boundaries as creatives, as well as celebrating the publishing of her book, Black History is your history.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

We were in it y'. All. It got a little too good to stop. And as Keke Palmer said, I need.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

To spend more time with you girl.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Because this conversation was everything.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Now we did decide to split it up into two parts. So make sure that you come back next week for part two of this episode. And trust me, y' all are gonna want to hear this. I will see you guys again. Thank you all for listening to this episode.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

This is all that we have for you this week.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Do not forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel if you are listening on your favorite listening platform. We do have a YouTube channel and there is a a video version of this episode so go check it out if you are a visual person like myself. So subscribe to the YouTube channel. Make sure you rate the podcast, review it and leave us, leave us some encouraging words. Leave us some love down there. It is so important for us to get great reviews on the podcast so that people know that we over here doing our thing. And make sure y' all go and follow Taylor on her socials. They are linked in the show notes. And thank you guys so much for listening.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

I am already so excited for you guys to hear part two to this episode.

[Podcast Host (Affirmations for Black Girls)]

Make sure you tune in again on Monday, again in one week to listen to part two. Thank you guys again for listening. This is affirmations for Black girls.

[Tyra (Podcast Host/Interviewer)]

Goodness.

[Taylor Cassidy]

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[Taylor Cassidy]

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