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Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's up SLC And so how you doing? And I'm
good man, I'm glad to.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be here, and we're glad to here. So Tash, tell
the people a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am a Washingtonian going and raising uptown Northwest d
c H. I am an artist, a poet, actress, writer,
and I took all of the components of the arts
that I learned over the years and collaborated into one
(00:48):
genre that I would like to call being a poet,
not just a poet or an artist, but intertwining and
infusing me too. Okay, I watched you form yesterday and
the first thing that came to my mind, like, I
know there's a story, and I want to know what
it is that inspires you. Art inspires me, people inspire me.
(01:20):
Yeahweh inspires me.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Over the years, I've had an opportunity to showcase my
talents and in that, you know, you have a choice
on what you want to put out in the work,
and based on my background, based on my story, I
chose to take a couple of steps back and really
(01:45):
look at what I want to say and not just
putting anything out. And that has kind of honed and
trained me to show up in a unique way.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's the best that I could put it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So what you with you showing up in a very
unique way. Can you describe to us a moment where
you knew this is what's your passion to do performance,
to write poetry.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yes, I can say. How I even got into the
arts is because I played sports first, and I was
passionate about sports, very passionate at a young age, and
I did well in sports. I played basketball. I got hurt,
which frank. When I got hurt, I told my meniscus
(02:40):
and I tried to go back out after we had
to play again, and I realized that it just wasn't
going work going back because I played real hard in
the type of tearor that I had the agility, the
work it would have taken to get back even after
doing it. One time, I told myself, I think sports
(03:02):
is not it and I need to hang it up
and neither be a coach or do something different from
that came me getting into the arts. When I got hurt,
I was doing high school and I had to make
a decision was I going to be a manager of
a sports team or was I going to go on stage?
And learn how to act. And I chose going on
stage and learn how to act. And from the time
(03:23):
that I did that, I made it my business to
go to school and I went to school for professional theater.
So I committed to the art after I had to pivot.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So because what
there was like an energy behind your performance and I
didn't know the theater thing prior to so now it
makes sense because there was really like your words were powerful,
but there was an emphasis on how you paused, and
there was an emphasis on how you went about the
(03:54):
way you spoke and the way you moved on stage.
And so I want to ask you this as well,
what is something or one of the things that really
insires you along the way, So not the initial inspiration,
but what are some things or maybe people, what is
something like some of the things that you really are
able to feed off of and put together different projects
(04:16):
and things like that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So people, in my experience, outside of being an athlete,
outside of being in the arts, I was able to
work in the mental health field and the healthcare field,
and I was tricked into it. I came out of college,
(04:40):
I'm coming home. My grandfather told me he had a
job for me. The job was at art institute or
disabled individuals a day program. And at this day program,
I'm thinking I'm going there to be an art teacher. No,
I was going there to learn how to service that population.
(05:03):
And at that point I realized that even though you
have a gift, you can use it in different ways.
So most people that go to school for theater, they
end up on TV and film. Some people end up
in a business corporate world where you know, teaching corporate people.
(05:23):
I felt like God was telling me, Tasha, you will
be in this healthcare field and I need you to
use your gift to make a difference. And I had
to sit back and learn the difference because I, you know,
I wanted to get on on a big stage, the
Broadway and all of those things. And it was it
was like, do what you're called to do, but find jerkists.
(05:46):
And I found my purpose in intertwining art and health.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And I feel like, you know what you're finding purpose.
It's always great when you discover yourself and that as life.
I heard you mention some of you've got an injury
doing playing sports, and y'all know, when it comes down
to performing a lot of times, especially poetry or even
more drama or theater, there's a lot of pain that
goes inside of that. So I want you to tell
(06:14):
us in our audience, how do you use that pain
to put your out there?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So pain drives poetry, pain drives art, and for me,
I believe that people express pain in various different ways. Right,
you can express it directly, meaning it just pours off
(06:41):
of you and your every day. You can hone it
and turn it into something that is an art or a.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Craft or product. But each one of.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Us take our pain and we turn it into something.
I thank God that he just instilled this sense of
peacing me that no matter what I went through, I
knew that it wasn't the end. I knew that there
was a tomorrow. As long as I woke up and
had breath in my life and those things that kept
(07:13):
me going. If he still kept me here, then I
knew that I had another day. So for me, it
was a little bottle and taking it one day at
a time.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Okay, you talked about utilizing your gift in a different way,
like than what you initially had thought, And I think
that a lot of times that's creative as entrepreneurs artists,
we have a vision of what we think it should be.
(07:45):
Like a lot of people, they want the big stage,
delights and things like that. How how did you come
to the conclusion to really see that this is still
my purpose. It's just so many ways it can play out.
So you can do the big stage, but in your
everyday life, it seems like you built a bridge between
what you were doing practically and what your gift was.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So how did you like was that a herd.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Was that like a hard realization or was it something
where you was like, look.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
This is even bigger.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Than what I could imagine on an everyday level.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yes, so when I said that I hadn't performed in
ten years, I took that ten year hiatus to come
to that realization. And for me, it was growing up
in the city like Washington, DC and having the background
that I have, which is Caribbean and Spanish. My parents
(08:43):
are Nicaraguin and got Neis, so I was I was
not traditionally traditionally brought up in the public school sector.
I went to private school, so I always was in
a space where I felt like I didn't fit.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And with that you either embrace it or it does
what it does to you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I was able to adjust and adapt to every you know,
transition that I went through in life.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I say that to say that I knew that
what we.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Consider or what it's said to be the American dream,
was not. It didn't make sense to me that you
would go to school, you would become.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Educated, you would go to college, you would bow.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
These things, and after that you get your house and
your family and your degree, and you're supposed to call
this a successful life.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well I felt like.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
To a certain degree, I did all those things and
I still didn't find the satisfaction in it. So I'm like,
this can't get There has to be a deeper There
has to be a deeper underlining to how we all
really live harmoniously, because this, this ain't it. I've seen
a lot of boken this and a lot of damage,
(10:17):
and it's just like this, this can't be it for
us as a people like this, this ain't right. So
when I dive back and I took it me off
being on the screen and just looking at life and
and and and for everyone across the board. God giving
me the experience to just deal with my own family,
(10:38):
but deal with plethoris of family Like this pain that
I feel, everyone else fills it too. So we've got
to get to a point where we hear each other.
And once we can hear each other, then we can
have a conversation and not just have a conversation, but
do something about it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So, and you mentioned basically community, right, so as no
speak like to uds built around community. So as you
see yourself more involved in the community, Like what is
your message to the community for those people who are
still trying to heal from those traumas or move past
that that they think education is the all and be on, Like,
(11:20):
what's what's your opinion to help those people get out
that run?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The first thing I would I would sell tell anyone
is being ignorant in the area that you want to
grow in. Is the is the first battle. If your
battle with something you don't know how to deal with it,
the first thing you want to do is gain more knowledge, right,
So seeking more information in that area. Once you do that,
(11:45):
now it's up to you and what you want to
do with the information. Sometimes you don't know who your
next network opportunity is. Right, but once you go seeking
and you take those steps, people start to come along,
and that's how you know who's the support you and
sometimes you're gonna get some people who not. But it's
for you to continue to walk and figure those things out.
(12:07):
So it is a walk. But again I say take
it a little by little and one day at a
time with purpose. If you just stagnant and you idle
and you're just talking about what's happening in a way
where you're complaining about life, you're not gonna get anywhere.
It'll just be a conversation that was had and other
people know about, but ultimately not.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Ignorant in the areas.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That you want to progm Okay, just a network. I
said network, just to piggyback off of the networking situation.
How powerful has working been for you?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Networking has been a part of my lifestyle. I've always
been a networker, and I feel like in the past
ten years, when I wasn't performing, I was working, and
me working was literally to network. I wasn't just going
(13:07):
to work for the chech. I knew that in the
audio visual field that I work in, there are people
that do camera and do makeup and do costume, and
so I want to be around the people that I'm
going to be working with in the future, So I
will go and take jobs, and I'm paying attention to
the people that I'm working because at the end of
(13:27):
the day, I want to know if I'm you the
next person I need to hire or we need to
partner with each other. So that has become my thing.
Like anywhere I go, I'm open to communicating with people
or people just talking to me.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
And you never know who needs what.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So I find myself being a connector whether it's in
the arts, whether it's in health, whether it's in law,
it's is you never.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Know who needs what, So I get to put you
back off connection in network. I want this one to
know all you could tell us as a whole interviewer
as far as yeah I did, or would you learn
to connect? Like how did you come in contact with
speak so with that, like how did you build that
connection and what ways are you benefiting from that connection?
(14:15):
But also spreading that connection around to help impact other
people or get other people off.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So ten years ago I was working with a group,
a collective of artists from the DC area, and we
were setting it up to whereas though we tried to
get artists each war and we did a collaborative where
we went into the studio. I was the poet and
everyone else was the artist artists, and.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
We went in.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We made couple songs and the songs were targeted towards
police brutality at the time. And after we made those records,
the group or the collective didn't stay together.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Life happened and everyone kind of beared off. But before
everyone split, I was networking.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Or part of the management team of this collective and
I found Catherine, that's our girl facebook man and I
seen speak Life and I was like, okay, what is this?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And she was having an event and it was tickets
to the event. And I seen the tickets and I
was I said, I'm twenty five tickets for an event.
I said, it's a lot of us. So I called
Katherine and I'm like, hey, I seen your event. I
have this collective of you know, artists that we just
came together and we're trying to do something. She said, okay,
(15:42):
let's do it, and Karen copped our tickets. That's all
of us. It was at least fifteen of us.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I don't even think I was there.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I was in the city at the time, but I
was connecting the dots and they all went to the
event and me and Katherine we just.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Worked it out, you know, in communication.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So I don't even remember when we met in person.
Catherine Wood, that was that was it. It was. I
found her, I saw her, I made contact, we connected
on you know what it was about. And from that
point they all came out. We I think they performed
and it was it was, it was a great event.
(16:25):
Ten years later, I think speak Life had died down
for a second and I had went into my hiatus
and then seeing it popped back out.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And I had been watching speak.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Life over the years, even though I wasn't in the area,
and I just knew when when it was time that
I would I would be ready, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
To reconnect.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Okay, what would you say to other artists entrepreneurs about
connecting the dots, the community and their gifts.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I would say, the first thing you gotta do is
you gotta you gotta get together, right, you gotta get
you ready to be ready for community. If you can't
do it, if you can't help yourself, you can't help
anybody else.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
That's just flat out. You can try.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And it may hurt and you'll learn from those mistakes.
But why when there's enough wisdom and resources out here
to guide you in the right way the first time.
So for a lot of us in our in our
age group, I'm thirty seven, we taking advice wasn't always
(17:47):
the first you know, earned by mistake and doing it alway.
I feel like in this era twenty twenty five, you
don't have.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
There's enough success stories to not have to take the
back road to being successful or just finding who you are.
So ultimately is finding out who you are, knowing yourself
and staying true to who you are first and then
in the world receive that because anything less you know,
(18:18):
it doesn't have a solid foundation.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And I heard you mentioned before as far as having
a mindset anewing that you knew it was time right
So at this point of stage, at this point of
the stage in your life, right now, how do you
maintain that mindset? Like we feel like you're gonna go
back to your that tenure gap, like whereas the origin
or now are you ready to be consistent with get
(18:44):
your whole artstryt.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So in that ten year gap, I actually it was
it was in the cave. So I was actually working.
So I told you I'm a poet. I started doing
poetry first, but after we met in two years ago,
I started doing music. My brother was into music. He
(19:06):
was an engineer and he wrote music, so that he
pame my artist. We built a studio, so I lived
in the studio for the past five years and just
created music.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yes, yes, and that brings me to something else, because
consistency looks different for everyone. I feel like in that
space of time, you really highlighted that there was personal
development that you needed to do in order to strengthen
your artistry and make the connection between your artistry and
(19:42):
community and seeing how that all plays. So kind of
wrap up, I want to.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Ask you what advice would you give to your younger self.
Put God first, fear nothing, go after your dreams, and
(20:09):
believe in yourself no matter.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
If anyone else does or not.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I wouldn't wish you well in all your endeavors for
the anything that you would like for the audience to
know anything you have coming up projects, what would you
like for the audience.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So next show will definitely be speak like April seventeenth
at a signals okay, okay, And then also I want
to make sure that we highlight live water.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Okay, fact, I'm gonna take a set right now.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I want you to want to tell the world.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yes, I had yesterday actually and it's top tier.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yes, live yep, live water the Branks from Winston Salem,
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm feeling more live.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So we want to you want to live healthy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
If you want to free health, speak.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Life right, and so I like to partner with companies
or organizations that fit the fold.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
The brand, the lifestyle and.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Live is a company that is black On and my
partner that I worked with who came out yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
We went to school.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Together, okay, and t the Carolina Ant And again that's
one of the networking opportunities that I just I stuck.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I stuck in with over the years.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
We met ten years ago as well, and he told
me that he was doing this water business and I
bought in. I spent like he bought me a truckload.
I still got the video footage of gallons of water
to DC now Carolina and I just continue to be
apart over the years. So slow line, but at the
(22:06):
end of the day, necessary here.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I am Tasha Cash on Instagram Tasha Thorn on Facebook
and you don't have me no where else yet.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
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Speaker 1 (22:22):
We are there.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
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Speaker 4 (22:26):
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Make sure you stay in a loop with s l
T The Talk and Tasha thank you again for me
with thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I appreciate it.
What's up SLC And so how you doing? And I'm
good man, I'm glad to.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Be here, and we're glad to here. So Tash, tell
the people a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am a Washingtonian going and raising uptown Northwest d
c H. I am an artist, a poet, actress, writer,
and I took all of the components of the arts
that I learned over the years and collaborated into one
(00:48):
genre that I would like to call being a poet,
not just a poet or an artist, but intertwining and
infusing me too. Okay, I watched you form yesterday and
the first thing that came to my mind, like, I
know there's a story, and I want to know what
it is that inspires you. Art inspires me, people inspire me.
(01:20):
Yeahweh inspires me.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Over the years, I've had an opportunity to showcase my
talents and in that, you know, you have a choice
on what you want to put out in the work,
and based on my background, based on my story, I
chose to take a couple of steps back and really
(01:45):
look at what I want to say and not just
putting anything out. And that has kind of honed and
trained me to show up in a unique way.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's the best that I could put it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So what you with you showing up in a very
unique way. Can you describe to us a moment where
you knew this is what's your passion to do performance,
to write poetry.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yes, I can say. How I even got into the
arts is because I played sports first, and I was
passionate about sports, very passionate at a young age, and
I did well in sports. I played basketball. I got hurt,
which frank. When I got hurt, I told my meniscus
(02:40):
and I tried to go back out after we had
to play again, and I realized that it just wasn't
going work going back because I played real hard in
the type of tearor that I had the agility, the
work it would have taken to get back even after
doing it. One time, I told myself, I think sports
(03:02):
is not it and I need to hang it up
and neither be a coach or do something different from
that came me getting into the arts. When I got hurt,
I was doing high school and I had to make
a decision was I going to be a manager of
a sports team or was I going to go on stage?
And learn how to act. And I chose going on
stage and learn how to act. And from the time
(03:23):
that I did that, I made it my business to
go to school and I went to school for professional theater.
So I committed to the art after I had to pivot.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So because what
there was like an energy behind your performance and I
didn't know the theater thing prior to so now it
makes sense because there was really like your words were powerful,
but there was an emphasis on how you paused, and
there was an emphasis on how you went about the
(03:54):
way you spoke and the way you moved on stage.
And so I want to ask you this as well,
what is something or one of the things that really
insires you along the way, So not the initial inspiration,
but what are some things or maybe people, what is
something like some of the things that you really are
able to feed off of and put together different projects
(04:16):
and things like that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So people, in my experience, outside of being an athlete,
outside of being in the arts, I was able to
work in the mental health field and the healthcare field,
and I was tricked into it. I came out of college,
(04:40):
I'm coming home. My grandfather told me he had a
job for me. The job was at art institute or
disabled individuals a day program. And at this day program,
I'm thinking I'm going there to be an art teacher. No,
I was going there to learn how to service that population.
(05:03):
And at that point I realized that even though you
have a gift, you can use it in different ways.
So most people that go to school for theater, they
end up on TV and film. Some people end up
in a business corporate world where you know, teaching corporate people.
(05:23):
I felt like God was telling me, Tasha, you will
be in this healthcare field and I need you to
use your gift to make a difference. And I had
to sit back and learn the difference because I, you know,
I wanted to get on on a big stage, the
Broadway and all of those things. And it was it
was like, do what you're called to do, but find jerkists.
(05:46):
And I found my purpose in intertwining art and health.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And I feel like, you know what you're finding purpose.
It's always great when you discover yourself and that as life.
I heard you mention some of you've got an injury
doing playing sports, and y'all know, when it comes down
to performing a lot of times, especially poetry or even
more drama or theater, there's a lot of pain that
goes inside of that. So I want you to tell
(06:14):
us in our audience, how do you use that pain
to put your out there?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So pain drives poetry, pain drives art, and for me,
I believe that people express pain in various different ways. Right,
you can express it directly, meaning it just pours off
(06:41):
of you and your every day. You can hone it
and turn it into something that is an art or a.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Craft or product. But each one of.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Us take our pain and we turn it into something.
I thank God that he just instilled this sense of
peacing me that no matter what I went through, I
knew that it wasn't the end. I knew that there
was a tomorrow. As long as I woke up and
had breath in my life and those things that kept
(07:13):
me going. If he still kept me here, then I
knew that I had another day. So for me, it
was a little bottle and taking it one day at
a time.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Okay, you talked about utilizing your gift in a different way,
like than what you initially had thought, And I think
that a lot of times that's creative as entrepreneurs artists,
we have a vision of what we think it should be.
(07:45):
Like a lot of people, they want the big stage,
delights and things like that. How how did you come
to the conclusion to really see that this is still
my purpose. It's just so many ways it can play out.
So you can do the big stage, but in your
everyday life, it seems like you built a bridge between
what you were doing practically and what your gift was.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So how did you like was that a herd.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Was that like a hard realization or was it something
where you was like, look.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
This is even bigger.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Than what I could imagine on an everyday level.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yes, so when I said that I hadn't performed in
ten years, I took that ten year hiatus to come
to that realization. And for me, it was growing up
in the city like Washington, DC and having the background
that I have, which is Caribbean and Spanish. My parents
(08:43):
are Nicaraguin and got Neis, so I was I was
not traditionally traditionally brought up in the public school sector.
I went to private school, so I always was in
a space where I felt like I didn't fit.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And with that you either embrace it or it does
what it does to you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I was able to adjust and adapt to every you know,
transition that I went through in life.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I say that to say that I knew that
what we.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Consider or what it's said to be the American dream,
was not. It didn't make sense to me that you
would go to school, you would become.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Educated, you would go to college, you would bow.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
These things, and after that you get your house and
your family and your degree, and you're supposed to call
this a successful life.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well I felt like.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
To a certain degree, I did all those things and
I still didn't find the satisfaction in it. So I'm like,
this can't get There has to be a deeper There
has to be a deeper underlining to how we all
really live harmoniously, because this, this ain't it. I've seen
a lot of boken this and a lot of damage,
(10:17):
and it's just like this, this can't be it for
us as a people like this, this ain't right. So
when I dive back and I took it me off
being on the screen and just looking at life and
and and and for everyone across the board. God giving
me the experience to just deal with my own family,
(10:38):
but deal with plethoris of family Like this pain that
I feel, everyone else fills it too. So we've got
to get to a point where we hear each other.
And once we can hear each other, then we can
have a conversation and not just have a conversation, but
do something about it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So, and you mentioned basically community, right, so as no
speak like to uds built around community. So as you
see yourself more involved in the community, Like what is
your message to the community for those people who are
still trying to heal from those traumas or move past
that that they think education is the all and be on, Like,
(11:20):
what's what's your opinion to help those people get out
that run?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The first thing I would I would sell tell anyone
is being ignorant in the area that you want to
grow in. Is the is the first battle. If your
battle with something you don't know how to deal with it,
the first thing you want to do is gain more knowledge, right,
So seeking more information in that area. Once you do that,
(11:45):
now it's up to you and what you want to
do with the information. Sometimes you don't know who your
next network opportunity is. Right, but once you go seeking
and you take those steps, people start to come along,
and that's how you know who's the support you and
sometimes you're gonna get some people who not. But it's
for you to continue to walk and figure those things out.
(12:07):
So it is a walk. But again I say take
it a little by little and one day at a
time with purpose. If you just stagnant and you idle
and you're just talking about what's happening in a way
where you're complaining about life, you're not gonna get anywhere.
It'll just be a conversation that was had and other
people know about, but ultimately not.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Ignorant in the areas.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That you want to progm Okay, just a network. I
said network, just to piggyback off of the networking situation.
How powerful has working been for you?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Networking has been a part of my lifestyle. I've always
been a networker, and I feel like in the past
ten years, when I wasn't performing, I was working, and
me working was literally to network. I wasn't just going
(13:07):
to work for the chech. I knew that in the
audio visual field that I work in, there are people
that do camera and do makeup and do costume, and
so I want to be around the people that I'm
going to be working with in the future, So I
will go and take jobs, and I'm paying attention to
the people that I'm working because at the end of
(13:27):
the day, I want to know if I'm you the
next person I need to hire or we need to
partner with each other. So that has become my thing.
Like anywhere I go, I'm open to communicating with people
or people just talking to me.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
And you never know who needs what.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So I find myself being a connector whether it's in
the arts, whether it's in health, whether it's in law,
it's is you never.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Know who needs what, So I get to put you
back off connection in network. I want this one to
know all you could tell us as a whole interviewer
as far as yeah I did, or would you learn
to connect? Like how did you come in contact with
speak so with that, like how did you build that
connection and what ways are you benefiting from that connection?
(14:15):
But also spreading that connection around to help impact other
people or get other people off.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So ten years ago I was working with a group,
a collective of artists from the DC area, and we
were setting it up to whereas though we tried to
get artists each war and we did a collaborative where
we went into the studio. I was the poet and
everyone else was the artist artists, and.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
We went in.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We made couple songs and the songs were targeted towards
police brutality at the time. And after we made those records,
the group or the collective didn't stay together.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Life happened and everyone kind of beared off. But before
everyone split, I was networking.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Or part of the management team of this collective and
I found Catherine, that's our girl facebook man and I
seen speak Life and I was like, okay, what is this?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And she was having an event and it was tickets
to the event. And I seen the tickets and I
was I said, I'm twenty five tickets for an event.
I said, it's a lot of us. So I called
Katherine and I'm like, hey, I seen your event. I
have this collective of you know, artists that we just
came together and we're trying to do something. She said, okay,
(15:42):
let's do it, and Karen copped our tickets. That's all
of us. It was at least fifteen of us.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I don't even think I was there.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I was in the city at the time, but I
was connecting the dots and they all went to the
event and me and Katherine we just.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Worked it out, you know, in communication.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So I don't even remember when we met in person.
Catherine Wood, that was that was it. It was. I
found her, I saw her, I made contact, we connected
on you know what it was about. And from that
point they all came out. We I think they performed
and it was it was, it was a great event.
(16:25):
Ten years later, I think speak Life had died down
for a second and I had went into my hiatus
and then seeing it popped back out.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And I had been watching speak.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Life over the years, even though I wasn't in the area,
and I just knew when when it was time that
I would I would be ready, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
To reconnect.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Okay, what would you say to other artists entrepreneurs about
connecting the dots, the community and their gifts.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I would say, the first thing you gotta do is
you gotta you gotta get together, right, you gotta get
you ready to be ready for community. If you can't
do it, if you can't help yourself, you can't help
anybody else.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
That's just flat out. You can try.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And it may hurt and you'll learn from those mistakes.
But why when there's enough wisdom and resources out here
to guide you in the right way the first time.
So for a lot of us in our in our
age group, I'm thirty seven, we taking advice wasn't always
(17:47):
the first you know, earned by mistake and doing it alway.
I feel like in this era twenty twenty five, you
don't have.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
There's enough success stories to not have to take the
back road to being successful or just finding who you are.
So ultimately is finding out who you are, knowing yourself
and staying true to who you are first and then
in the world receive that because anything less you know,
(18:18):
it doesn't have a solid foundation.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And I heard you mentioned before as far as having
a mindset anewing that you knew it was time right
So at this point of stage, at this point of
the stage in your life, right now, how do you
maintain that mindset? Like we feel like you're gonna go
back to your that tenure gap, like whereas the origin
or now are you ready to be consistent with get
(18:44):
your whole artstryt.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So in that ten year gap, I actually it was
it was in the cave. So I was actually working.
So I told you I'm a poet. I started doing
poetry first, but after we met in two years ago,
I started doing music. My brother was into music. He
(19:06):
was an engineer and he wrote music, so that he
pame my artist. We built a studio, so I lived
in the studio for the past five years and just
created music.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yes, yes, and that brings me to something else, because
consistency looks different for everyone. I feel like in that
space of time, you really highlighted that there was personal
development that you needed to do in order to strengthen
your artistry and make the connection between your artistry and
(19:42):
community and seeing how that all plays. So kind of
wrap up, I want to.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Ask you what advice would you give to your younger self.
Put God first, fear nothing, go after your dreams, and
(20:09):
believe in yourself no matter.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
If anyone else does or not.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I wouldn't wish you well in all your endeavors for
the anything that you would like for the audience to
know anything you have coming up projects, what would you
like for the audience.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So next show will definitely be speak like April seventeenth
at a signals okay, okay, And then also I want
to make sure that we highlight live water.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Okay, fact, I'm gonna take a set right now.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I want you to want to tell the world.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yes, I had yesterday actually and it's top tier.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yes, live yep, live water the Branks from Winston Salem,
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm feeling more live.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So we want to you want to live healthy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
If you want to free health, speak.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Life right, and so I like to partner with companies
or organizations that fit the fold.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
The brand, the lifestyle and.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Live is a company that is black On and my
partner that I worked with who came out yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
We went to school.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Together, okay, and t the Carolina Ant And again that's
one of the networking opportunities that I just I stuck.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I stuck in with over the years.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
We met ten years ago as well, and he told
me that he was doing this water business and I
bought in. I spent like he bought me a truckload.
I still got the video footage of gallons of water
to DC now Carolina and I just continue to be
apart over the years. So slow line, but at the
(22:06):
end of the day, necessary here.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I am Tasha Cash on Instagram Tasha Thorn on Facebook
and you don't have me no where else yet.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So there you have the guys.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
We are there.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
The host, it's myself, Little Boy artists, a long.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Time Missus, Mellan and Rainsy. You know you can find
us on all social media platforms as Speak Life Tour.
Make sure you stay in a loop with s l
T The Talk and Tasha thank you again for me
with thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I appreciate it.
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