Today we’d like to introduce you to Tayia Hayes.
Hi Tayia, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
I began in a really small town in Mississippi. Two things have always been true since I was a child, my love for any kind of art and my curiosity about the human mind. The pandemic started my social media status, where I had 14.4k followers before some issues with the platform but I have since begun regrowing and rebranding. I found my way to Memphis in my pursuit of mental health when I took a job at Youth Villages. I worked there for almost a year and loved it but needed more work-life balance to cultivate my creative side. I now write poetry a lot more and even perform it during Perform901 at HiTone on Mondays.
I will be starting a podcast soon, that addresses the “dangerous behaviors” we possess in early adulthood and how to rethink and readjust going into adulthood. I’ve recently gotten into photography and videography as a result of my desire to rebrand on social media as well as my modeling aspirations. I attended modeling school when I was very young and quickly found purpose and love in it. I still model from time to time and intend to focus more on it. I think I got where I am by not being scared of change, and making a move when I felt it was necessary, it had been hard, but not without reward.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
The road has not been the smoothest I would say.
Being in early adulthood, I’ve found that life can be very hard from financial woes to mental stability in the light of hardships. I’ve experienced both, but each hard lesson has prepared me more for the blessings to come. I don’t think we could appreciate the sun if we never experienced rain.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am most proud of my gift of sharing information with people in a digestible fashion. My platform has always been about sharing how I feel and interacting with like-minded individuals. In my more private life, I love to write. Poetry has been my safe space for as long as I could remember.
As I child I struggled with handling my emotions, I always sought out a thing or actions where I could release some of it. Poetry has always been cathartic for me and I couldn’t live without it. Modeling has always been a passion of mine from a 14-year-old in modeling school. To take photos current days. I get to assume the identity of someone else and cement a moment in time with a photograph.
We all have different ways of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
I define success as balance. Everyone wants to be right, but what is a man doing to gain the world and lose his soul? I believe that finding the balance between financial stability, mental stability, and love is the ultimate success. People will say you can’t have it all, but I don’t think that’s true.
All things worth having require hard work. All things in life are hard. Being broke is hard having money is hard. Being in a relationship is hard, being alone is hard. You just have to pick the hard you want to endure.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/tayia.asia
- Instagram: http://instagram.com/Tayia.asia
Image Credits
Austin Robinson and Tayia Hayes
