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Styling Faith: How a Preacher's Kid Found Her True Calling
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What happens when the path your parents envision for you doesn't align with the calling God has placed on your heart? In this deeply personal conversation, stylist and entrepreneur Teaira opens up about her journey from reluctant church leader to fashion industry professional, revealing the unique challenges preacher's kids face when discovering their true purpose.
Growing up in a small Seventh-day Pentecostal congregation, Teaira's world changed overnight when her parents announced they were starting their own church. Suddenly thrust into leadership as a teenager—leading worship, counting offerings, and eventually even preaching—she embodied the classic PK experience of being "voluntold" into ministry roles. When her father suffered a devastating stroke, the family's ministerial dreams were cut short, forcing Teaira to step up in ways she never anticipated.
The conversation takes a powerful turn as Teaira shares her revelation about purpose: "Just because I'm good at something doesn't mean I need to invest in it to be my future." This distinction helped her move beyond trying to please her parents through a teaching career and instead pursue her passion for fashion styling. Starting with almost nothing, she built her reputation by styling friends and family before landing celebrity clients—a move that finally earned her parents' validation and support.
Now based in Los Angeles and launching The POV Firm (Purpose, Obedience, Victory), Teaira helps visionaries execute their God-given ideas using what they already possess—much like the biblical widow's oil that never ran dry. Her story beautifully illustrates that ministry takes many forms beyond the pulpit, and that finding your authentic purpose often requires the courage to forge your own path while maintaining your faith.
Want to work with Teaira? Follow @thePOVfirm and @theePKpod for a chance to be selected as one of four visionaries for her exclusive program. Hear how self-discovery and obedience to God can coexist as you pursue the purpose He's uniquely designed for you.
Introduction to Tiara and Her PK Journey
Speaker 1Hey friends , welcome to the PK podcast , and I am your host , Jazz Literally . The PK podcast is a podcast that highlights extraordinary PKs , preacher kids because we all have platforms , but they don't necessarily need to be the pulpit . And today's guest is T Literally . We are going to get into some amazing conversation about pivoting to purpose , what it's like being a PK in the South , in an area where there's so many churches and all the things . So I am so excited to have one of my good friends here with me today . Literally , she is my sister , she is my wardrobe stylist . Oh , if you like my outfit , get into it . Get into it . Style by T . She is literally a confident and accountability partner . She is that girl and I'm so excited for y'all to meet the extraordinary , the incomparable , tiara . Hi Tiara . Oh , my goodness , Can you believe that we're here ?
Speaker 2I can't . I'm so proud of you . Oh my gosh , we were just talking about this at dinner a couple Sundays ago .
Speaker 1And here we are . We were just talking about this at dinner a couple Sundays ago and here we are , literally in an answer prayer . But I'm excited . I'm excited to chat with you today . As you know , pk to PK , there's a lot of things that we experience and that we go through , and so I want to just literally share with our friends and our community today a little bit of your journey as a PK . And so take us all the way back , not too far back , but let's go to the beginning , to your PK journey and what that was like for you and how you even became a PK .
Speaker 1Because , if we're really honest about it , what's that denomination ? The Church of God in Christ said you can't just join , you gotta be born in . But , baby , with PKs it's different . You can be born in , you can join in . So , true , you can be voluntold in . You know what I mean . So there's there's levels to this . You can also come out . So we want to hear from you Like , how did you become a PK ? Like , what's that journey ? How has it been ? So tell us .
Speaker 2What's up , hi friends . So I actually went to a Pentecostal church . My family , we were a part of a very small family-oriented church , so it wasn't a lot of us . We were very religious . We were Seventh-day Pentecostal right and people used to be like you know you , seventh-day Adventist , I'd be like you know you , seven day Adventist . I'm like no , I'm seven day Pentecostal , like it .
Speaker 2Like they knew the difference you know , but we went to this small church and we had so many rules , like we went to church on Saturdays . That's another reason why people thought we were Adventist , because they also go on Saturdays . Ok , went on Saturdays . My dad was the youth pastor , but he was more like an executive pastor , like if my dad wasn't preaching that Saturday , people wouldn't even be coming to church .
Speaker 2Like they was . I would hear people like , oh , pastor Ramon not preaching , we're not going to be there . But , um , we went to this , this small church . I was a part of the praise and worship team . You know you , you , you do everything . I literally got my training grounds for when my dad left , um at my home church . So that's , we're going to get into that . So I was on the praise team in youth ministry , doing all of the things and one night like my whole life , literally my whole life , all up until about , I'm going to say maybe like 10th grade .
Speaker 2One night my mom was like we need to have a meeting with y'all me and my siblings I'm the oldest of three . My brother he's a musician , literally did all the things . He got his training at our home church . And then my sister , lauren . So she was like we have to talk to y'all about something . And we're like , ok , we thinking somebody die immediately . Right , she tells us the night before this was a Friday night . She was like we're starting our own church and we're making an announcement at church tomorrow how old are you when ?
Speaker 2I think I would . I had to be in high school I want to remember what grade so but I had to be at least in 10th grade , I don't know . That sticks out to me . So , somewhere around there and we were just like huh , like we didn't know anything , I think in the moment I was so confused because I'm just like what , how y'all gonna tell us the night before . But I think I know what now that I'm older , okay . Okay , because my parents , though good and well , I would have told my friends at church , like they said , we like she knew it would have been been no longer a secret .
Speaker 2She knew I couldn't , we shouldn't have known . So we were , you know , we were shocked and we just had to go with it . Now , my mom doesn't play . She had us , like we were known for in our family , small oriented church , like we dressed down Like you'll never know what's going on at home Okay , but we're going to be , be , we're like the royal family , yeah , okay , like all at all times , very polished . So when , uh , she told us we were making this announcement , she had us in red and black , like very , very coordinated , like all of us . This is our moment I will never forget .
Speaker 2Walking in church that day . I mean like nerves , just knowing at any moment we're about to make this announcement . So the pastor of the church calls my dad up and it's like you know , pastor Ramon , his family need to say something . We got up there . We're standing in a single file line . It wasn't even planned , it wasn't even planned . But I mean like from like oldest to youngest , like dad , wife , me , my brother , my sister and my dad's , like In some church colloquialism way , you know real , like you know we're leaving , da-da-da .
Speaker 2And all I remember was people like it was like an outburst , like oh God . I don't know why I said , oh God , out of everything . But it was like the moment he said said it was just like a blur , like people just could not believe it , and it was hard . It was hard Like through . I think we might have made the announcement towards the end of service that day and I just remember everybody coming up to us like hugging us in confusion , like what ? Like , what do you mean ? Like my dad , they would call him like the David of the church , like he was , just , he was always the one to kind of um , like this is so churchy , pumping pride .
Speaker 1I cannot pump and pride , but we all know what that means .
Speaker 2But he literally , you know , we know that David was a praiser . So my dad was always the one who just came in to his house with Thanksgiving and into his course with praise . Like , that was my dad . So to know that that was leaving , that he was leaving , was just , it was a thing , it was very much a thing , so , anywho . So everybody's coming up to us , hugging us and I didn't know what to say because my friends were looking at me I'm looking at them like I really did not know and yeah , it was just . Like it was not my fingers , and my mom and dad were like , ok , so now we are getting into building the church . They already had it all planned out . Wow , I didn't get any say so . Wow , our church name was going to be called Greater Mercy's Tabernacle . Ok , and I will be the praise and worship leader . Ok , my brother was going to be . Yeah , I did not have a say to the soul . Yeah , ok , I was a praise worship leader . My brother was the MD and my sister , like , did the welcome . She also did media . Um , that was it .
Speaker 2I literally remember being like in that moment , like , okay , like I'm young , I'm die hard for my parents , whatever it is that y'all want , until much later we'll get into , like how I . It took a long time for me to actually process that because your parents tell you to do something . I'm like like , okay , okay , cool . So we uh start building the church and we rented out another church and , um , it was hard . It was hard .
Speaker 2I was counting offering stuff that I never like huh , doing , helping , do books , yeah , like it was crazy . Um , I remember asking some of my friends to help me . They were friends from other ministries . I didn't want to ask anybody from my home church to help us like sing , I didn't . We didn't have anybody , no members . And looking back , I wish that that was something my parents cultivated first , before we just started the church , because it was so much harder . Now , of course , my dad , we had family that was like die hard they were . They were coming , but I mean , you know , like other people to , to be there to make sure he had his own like flock , and we had people to help yeah um , so we did everything
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Speaker 2we did everything ourselves and we would just do the best that we can . We would go on Facebook Live . My mama would faithfully have me up there . Lord , you're mine On Facebook Live , y'all .
Speaker 1But why is Facebook Live literally the e-church platform for all of our parents ? Like it's so many other things , but Facebook Live is like the jam , like you gotta be live on Facebook . Like no other platform matters . If it's not Facebook Live , why do we need ?
Speaker 2to do a case study on that Give something to that .
Speaker 1We're gonna pack that at a different episode Because it just it's a thing .
Speaker 2It really is a thing . So really is , it's a thing . So everybody would be . All you know , I would see it later on . Be on their seat , Tiara , you got to read the comments back . You got to go see what they were saying about me sounding a . I love y'all , but y'all know I was sounding a man .
Speaker 2We , we was just making it joy for the Lord . Oh ye lands , literally , literally . So we were doing the best that we could . I think I think it was maybe Don't quote me , I should know this but it wasn't long after that my dad ended up having a brain injury stroke , jesus , and it threw everything off the journey that , because my mom is a planner , she has the A , b to the Y , point to three , like she knows the way everything is going to go .
Speaker 2So when my dad had a stroke , he was coming home from work one day and I think they said that his it's so traumatic I'm like even trying to remember all the details like basically my dad thought that he had a headache all day , like after it was said and done , he got to the hospital they found like painkillers in his back pocket because he had been taking like all sorts of medication all day . But basically he had a stroke at home and he was studying . My dad was literally studying bible , open at the kitchen table , studying , and had a stroke at home and he was studying . My dad was literally studying Bible open at the kitchen table , studying , and had a stroke . My cousin was there and they were . I think I was like coming home from work or something like that , but he could not speak . They didn't , like in that moment , they did not know what was happening to my dad , like he was just kind of looking at them and in like a blank stare . Yeah , and they asked him him like , you know , do you know my name ? Like , how many fingers am I holding ? My dad couldn't , was like nonverbal and , um , that changed the course of everything .
Speaker 2Yeah , it changed . It changed everything and we , uh , we try so hard to keep the ministry going . It was , it was tough . I will say . We had a lot of community in that moment to show up for my dad . We called in so many people Shout out to my people . I called in Reginald Sharp Shout out to Pastor in Chicago . Like literally called in all of my friends to come and preach . Like they came , wow , we had so many everybody .
Speaker 2Chandler , chandler moore , I know you know you big now , friend this is before the blow up before the blow up , friend , literally chandler came and sung at the church , him and the piano , you know , anointed . So he , yeah , him and himself by himself . But yeah , we tried , we tried as hard as we could to keep the ministry I preached .
Speaker 1Pause Wait , you preached your first . I forgot to add preacher to her title . First of all , what ?
Speaker 2It was a one and done y'all . I only preached one message and all my friends came . I preached and my brother also preached . What was the title of your message ? The Confessions of Uh no hold on oh my gosh , why would you ask ?
Speaker 1because I just felt like you would remember that .
Speaker 2But you do remember , I remember , but I the confessions it was the confessions of something okay , and I and you did it , I did it . I was so not well , I was so nervous in the preparation , but I wasn't that nervous when I got up there because I was already leading worship every single week . I was just like , hey , I was already assistant pastor .
Speaker 1Why ? You know you see how she does that . You was exhortating , what else was you doing ? You was counting the offering Baby . It was giving executive pastor , assistant pastor . That's really what the PK life is Hello .
Speaker 2You have to be a multitasker . That's really what the PK life is , hello .
Speaker 1You have to be a multitasker , because if you are not doing multiple things in the ministry , like I don't know if you're a PK . I wasn't going to say it , but she said it . She said it not me , because literally I feel like that's just a part of it . You know what I mean . Like you get voluntold to do several things because it essentially is the family business . Whether you wanted the job or not , you're hired with no pay . You were voluntold no , seriously , because I said so is why ? Because that is your parents , yeah , and you don't want to be in trouble and you just want to go hang out and go to the party . And if this is going to get me the green light to go hang out with my friends , I'm going to be up talking about some . Lord , you're mighty . Why do you know ? My life that is , that is literally the PK life . Yep , you know , yep , yep .
Speaker 2Wow . So first sermon , first sermon , preached it and , um , by that time cause I think we had all the different preachers come in I preached , my brother preached , and then we just couldn't hold on anymore . We didn't have we were a small church so we didn't have like executive pastors and this and that and a third . So it was just like we had to make that difficult decision of closing the ministry . And it was tough . We heard all kind of things that people were saying like , oh , if he would never left the home church I kid you not , if he would never left the home church he wouldn't have had that stroke Absolutely All kind of hurtful things from people that we loved . But it was . We had to get through it and we did . But in that moment I had to grow up and there were so many things you don't know how much your parents do . Until one of them is is down , I'll say you don't know , I didn't , I had no idea .
Speaker 2I knew my dad , my dad was that guy , but I didn't really know until then , because my brother and I we had to step up like I've never seen , and watching my mom shout out to my mommy , watching my mom through that entire thing even now , um , it's been a journey . It's been a journey but yeah , so that's how I got . We got into the ministry .
Speaker 1Jesus child , oh my goodness . But this is why I feel like God literally put this on my heart to do , because we all have different paths and journeys . Right , it's not all mega and glamorous and just sunshine and rainbows , like there are literally valleys that we don't necessarily talk about , that we feel like we can't share our story , that we're still processing through , that we are literally just feel like , you know , like okay , that was just a season . I don't know what to do , or I don't want to relive that , or I don't want people to know that I'm a PK . You know , it's just all these things and it's like we all overcome by the words of our testimony . That's literally Bible , so Bible .
Speaker 1And so why not encourage other people that are just like us that's trying to navigate their parents telling them while they're a sophomore in high school that they about to be a PK for the first time ? And this is what you about to do , when you had your whole life planned , your whole high school life planned out , and just got railroaded , like it's happening every day . Or people that had to close the ministry because things outside of their control , like , and so first I just want to thank you for being transparent with all of our friends that are listening , because that is so realty , and to know , like , how you got to where you are now . What you're about to get into is just like the cinderella story that only god can do . You know what I mean . Um , so I want to ask you like , so how long , essentially , just like for a point of reference , from y'all opening the church to shutting it , would you say that y'all were like active , like I would say five years five it was a .
Speaker 2It wasn't a very long time literally the number of grace .
Speaker 1He graced you for that season , right , really , like I mean , but yeah , yeah , right , so you come out of that season you're like , okay , god , that was a lot . Um , I gotta do something else . We gotta anything else but church , anything else but ministry , because I need to do something else . We got to anything else but church , anything else but ministry , because I need to be present . I'm taking on more responsibility in the household . I got to make sure that my father is OK . I got to make sure my mom , my sister , like I have to make sure all of these things are thinking right .
Speaker 1But while doing that , I have to remember who I am and my dreams and my gift is in my passions , which are so many things , so many things . And I mean my dreams and my gift is in my passions , which are so many things , so many things . But you're creative at heart and you put your mind to do something and you do it like that is one of the most like things that I admire most about you is that you are that girl . You know what I mean . Like everybody's not able to do that , and so talk to us a little bit about how you got into , like , styling the creative .
Speaker 2So in high school I had it all figured out I was going to be a cheerleader , which I was . I was doing all the things and shout out to my parents for that Because , like I mentioned , we went to church on a Saturday , so we were Pentecostal , we were seventh day , it was sun up to sundown is the Sabbath , and and from that's friday to saturday is the sabbath . So most of you know games basketball and football would be on saturdays , and my parents were like , no , like my baby is gonna cheer , like they . And I really appreciate them for that , because that , um , in that pivotal moment of , you know , puberty growing up , I needed to see my parents show up for me . Um , when there was something that I wanted to do , even if it didn't align with what everybody else said , like I'm a kid , I want to . You know , I want to have fun too . So , yeah , shout out to them for that . That was my plan .
Speaker 1And then I love that , though . I think that's very important . Me and my brother have this conversation all the time . Hey , mars , and we kind of sibling rival about this because his high school experience as a PK is different than my high school experience . He didn't get to do nothing I mean Nathan , like because he was the MD , the musician , you know all of the things and so he had to be at Vacation , bible School , sunday School , prayer meeting , shut in , rehearsal , all the things right , whereas my mom saw the toll that that took on him in his high school development .
Speaker 1So by the time I got to high school , she was like this is where we're gonna do this different with Jasmine . She's going to be able to go to a school dance . She's going to be able to do , you know , go to prom . I was super appreciative that my mom was
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Speaker 1advocating for me to have balance , because it is so important as PKs to have balance and not just only know church world and church culture . You know what I mean , because I feel like that literally did help me as I was navigating like puberty and figuring out the young woman I was becoming or going off to college Like although I still feel like I was green in a lot of areas , but I was more aware of the culture .
Speaker 2You know what I ?
Speaker 1mean Because I had that advocacy from my mom like no , they will have a balanced life . And then because of you know my personality type , like I was excelling in school , so I was senior class president , I was in ASB , like I was on all the committees , so it's like how am I curating stuff but I can't attend it . That don't make sense . I'm on homecoming court , like I . I kind of have to go to this , yeah . So I appreciated that they came to an agreement when it came to me and realized like how important it is , because it really is important yeah to our like adolescence and like our development growing up .
Speaker 1So I get it . I mean , I just wasn't never gonna cheer though , because I was never doing a black clip , a cartwheel or anything baby why , do we ? And the skirt was too short and I didn't want to hear that from my father , but I was never going to be class president .
Speaker 2So you see how we balance , because I know , because balance .
Speaker 1Because balance , oh my God , I absolutely love that . Okay , so let's fast forward now to post-closing of the church , post-high school . Like you're creative , like how did you know ? Like , hey , I am creative , I'm creative outside of , like singing leading worship on Sunday and like decide to pivot more into , like fashion and like all of those things .
Speaker 2Yeah , so I mentioned before , my mom had us decked out like we would always be the flyest and it wasn't even like we just had it , it was . My mom knew how to turn rags into riches , literally Like we would thrift which I still thrift today because of my mom and my grandma Like it actually starts with my mom's mom . To this day , my grandma still decorates all of the events at my home . She still goes to my home church . She decorates literally for like 60 years . We've always been creative .
Speaker 2So from that to my mom always having us decked down , so I was just always surrounded by creativity as it pertains to fashion . So I would be in church when I got done singing , drawing , I would be sketching . Some of my friends in church they remember I would be just doodling during service and um I . So when I we dissolved the ministry , I was like you know what , when I go off to school , I'm gonna be . Um , you know , I'm looking for some fashion . You know classes , see , you know what I can do . And I ended up coming across a stylist . I had never heard of it before . Um , I was like , oh , I just thought there were designers , you know , buyers for Macy's , boomydale's , but not I didn't know that people would pay someone to just put their clothes together .
Speaker 1I thought it was insane Because we will because we don't have the time Never knew . Save me time to do a task and where's my checkbook ?
Speaker 2No , seriously , I mean clearly .
Speaker 1I made . That is my whole life .
Speaker 2So I'm like , oh okay , and and from that point I went to college . I went for something completely different . That's like a whole other era of my life . I went to college to be a middle grades education teacher . I wanted to teach middle school and that was under the influence of my parents Because I was good with kids . But that doesn't mean that I'm supposed to invest into that to be my future Just because I'm good at something .
Speaker 1Oh , you're preaching . So that's two different things .
Speaker 2I like it . I'm good at it , but that doesn't mean I need to invest into it . You have to . That's so good too Seriously , and I learned that the hard way because I actually went . I did it just to appease them . So , anywho , I didn't do well , I didn't finish because I didn't , I didn't want to be there . I would be in class dying inside .
Speaker 2So , then I started skipping class . I would be in the mall . So I knew that I something about fashion was pulling at me , so discovered what being a stylist was . And I was like , ok , cool . And it was just like one thing after another . So my parents found out that I was flunking Obviously I wasn't in school and they were like , ok , what do you want to do ? We're going to give you a year to figure this out . Like what is it ? And it was crazy .
Speaker 2A celebrity stylist posted that he was looking for interns . It was like at the perfect time . And I was just like , okay , I don't have a lot of followers . Instagram was like just coming out at that time . So I was like , okay , I'm just going to apply . And I ended up getting it . And that's how I got my hands on training in the industry .
Speaker 2I was in all kinds of rooms it was the grace of God literally All kinds of rooms . I learned what not to do , what to do , and I wasn't with that celebrity stylist for very long because it just he told me that basically I just needed to , he needed to let me just go be on my own wings and fly , sort of thing . So I started styling myself , my family , my friends . I didn't have any clients , but that wasn't for people to know . I just needed to show what I could do , you know . So I would style them , post and I would start to get bookings . Literally just make a flyer , make it seem like how do people know what you ? Literally they had no idea . And bookings started coming in and that was in like 2012 . Wow , that was in like 2012 . Wow .
Speaker 1That was in like 2012 . Oh my goodness , so literally over 10 years , just stepping out and said , what do I actually like to do versus what I'm good at ? Like that was a whole mouthful for me , because gifted people have a hard time identifying what we like to do versus just what we're good at , and I feel like that's something that is a big deal , because we waste time just doing things that we may be good at , but is it ? Purpose , that's so good .
Speaker 1Is our passion connected to this ? Is this what God actually wants for us to do ? And so I think us identifying quicker , like a lot more faster , like that tugging that inner voice , like that's telling us no , this ain't it will allow for us to align and pivot to purpose a lot quicker , quicker , quicker you know what I mean even in the like you're saying , like you were trying to appease your parents because you were in school , they were paying for it .
Speaker 1Like this is what they wanted , right um same with me , like my , my father was like I'm sending you to school to be an accountant because I need you to count these offerings better . Okay , I need an accountant at this church that's going to get these books in order , but it's the fact that it still goes back .
Speaker 2It goes back to what he wanted for me ?
Speaker 1what about me ? I got in there and started flunking day one . Like what ? How does z and y equal a number ?
Speaker 2the math isn't mathing you know what I mean . Like , literally , like oh my god .
Speaker 1And then feeling that shame of like , well , if I don't do what he wants me to do , then do I have , because you feel like this pressure of wanting to appease your parents right , but then it's just like how .
Speaker 2Why don't we know sooner how to identify what our purpose actually is Like we think purpose is rooted in what our parents want , because we're so used to being told by them what we should do .
Speaker 1Literally , that's literally what it is . It's like this transitional season from adolescence to adulthood that preacher's kids haven't identified how to lean into self-discovery that's missing , and so either you stay on the path in which your parents want you to go Right , or you lean into identifying what you have a desire to do , while seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and allowing him to reveal that to you . You know what I mean , yeah , and so it's like having this balance of you can still honor your parents by still and letting them know that you're also honoring the grace that's on your life by being obedient , because God speaks to me too . You know what I mean , and I think we get fearful in wanting to have those conversations with our parents because they're tough , they're hard , they're challenging , and we want .
Speaker 2You know , we want to make sure that they are happy with what we're doing . Self-discovery does not equal disobedience . If you're seeking first the kingdom of God , like your parents , should be all for it . If I'm saying God told me , do this , I want to take some time with God , I want to , that is not disobedience . But unfortunately it takes us a while to realize .
Speaker 1it takes us a while to get to that point of where everyone understands it . You know what I mean , because what they want and see for us can only be through their lens . It still leads to success , it still leads to happiness , but it's their purview of how you get there versus what we desire and how we see it . You know what ?
Speaker 2I mean , and I lived that jazz because we didn't have any examples of what I was trying to do in my community . So I had never seen a stylist that I could say , oh well , she did it that my parents could identify , you know , with . They know doctor , lawyer , teacher , and that's it . So I would often just find myself just kind of feeling alone in it and I just had to , like , show them , which is like an unhealthy part about it because I feel like I'm such a hard worker . It because I feel like I'm such a hard worker . Now I've recovered from
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Speaker 2it , but I was a hard worker in the notion of I want to show them when really I should be doing it , because this is what God told me to do and I'm good at it . It wasn't until I started working with celebrities hello that my parents were like , oh , this must be what it is .
Speaker 1It was like proof of concept .
Speaker 2Okay , oh , you working with so-and-so , I would be on the phone with my mom . That's my baby , that's my girl . I'll be on the phone with my mom . She'll be at Walgreens , one second my daughter at the Stellars . What'd you say ? What ?
Speaker 1Just so proud , you Just so proud .
Speaker 2You're at Walgreens , like , why , like , it's just so excited . And now it's just you posted for them . I'm on the refrigerator , huge poster , going crazy . I'm like now what happened to when I told you this is what I wanted to do . I'm crazy , no , but seriously they have to see it . But I love y'all . I have to because that's how y'all did me , don't y'all ?
Speaker 1do my girl like that . I mean , I tried to tell y'all no , like for real . It's like they don't see it and they just like I ain't never heard of this , I don't know , especially when you're forging a new path , like you said , like you were creating your own lane . Like it wasn't , styling wasn't popular in 2012 , like that .
Speaker 2And we can't expect them to see more than what they can see , literally Like I couldn't have expected that , and I was the eldest daughter . They wanted the best for me . They wanted to push all of the potential out of me , so I knew that that would have was much later , yeah .
Speaker 1Okay , so let's talk about it , because you are now in Los Angeles . We are literally here in LA filming live and in person . And you were in Atlanta your whole life , like , and you are living in Los Angeles , right , yeah , like it's been a year and some change , officially , right , some change , some change on that year . Welcome to the neighborhood . But I know that was hard for you , I know that was hard for you to leave your family , for everything that you know , that was familiar . What fueled you to take that faith leap Because it literally had to be a faith leap for you to leave everything that's familiar to you . Yeah , you know , like , what fueled you to do that , so one my love for fashion .
Speaker 2That was the number one thing . I knew that , so I have a clothing line . Shout out to TB Collection .
Speaker 1Shout out to them .
Speaker 2I used to come here so much to meet with manufacturers , and I was like what if I could just pull up on them and be like I'm outside to get my stuff instead of having to do so much shipping back and forth ? And I decided to , you know , pray about it . And I knew I knew from a child that I would move around . I didn't . I never thought that I was just limited to Atlanta . And but why now ? Why I decided to do it was because I looked up it was actually watch night , I was at church . It actually watch night , I was at church . It was watch night and shout out to Change Church . Pastor Darius Daniels , love Pastor Darius . Oh my gosh , he preached and the word just really convicted me . Because location matters yes , it does , and I think that I maxed out of Atlanta .
Speaker 2I was that call ? I was that girl Like I had no problems in Atlanta , everybody calling Tierra for something and I , um , I knew I'm ambitious , I wanted more . I wanted more , so I picked Los Angeles . And I mean , nonstop , it's just been . God has just been beating me here left and right , left and right .
Speaker 1Beating you here , beating me , not meeting you , beating you , wow , I love having you here , okay . So Tiara moved to LA and you know , when you're first moving to a big city as a PK , as a church , kid you literally . You can't help , but try to figure out . Let me see what the church scene is . Okay , like we all know that .
Speaker 1Um , and so , tiara , I'll never forget the day that you literally walked into the church . Okay , I had been following you for a long time , okay , and I was like dang , she in atlanta . Like okay , cool , okay . Okay , we got some mutual friends , but every time I was working with our mutual friend shout out to google , google we were never scheduled at the same time . No , I don't know why , but we were never scheduled to help at the same time . And so I was like dang , I haven't officially met her yet . So when I saw you walking , I was like , oh my God , she's in Los Angeles , she's probably here styling like Beyonce . Let me go see and talk to her before she leaves , because you know she is hot commodity . Let me go see and talk to her before she leaves , because you know she is a hot commodity . And I feel like I like bum rushed you like .
Speaker 2Hey , tiara , oh my God , you looked at me like baby , who are you Y'all ? I am so like I and you have to think about so from my point of view . I came in church like I had just found a church on Instagram Shout out to Deeper Church . I had just found Deeper Church on Instagram . Shout out to Deeper Church . I had just found Deeper Church on Instagram . And I just came in . They already sent me on the second row . I'm like , why would you send me ? And I just had so many nerves and I think also we got to be honest , your first time going . I'm looking around , I'm kind of observing everything , so to be noticed . I was not expecting that I'm on the whole other side of the world like how does somebody know me ? Literally , that was crazy .
Speaker 1So that's why I was just like , who is this girl and baby ? When I tell you we have been at the hip ever since ,
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Speaker 1okay , like literally locked in , and I am so grateful for you stepping out and moving to LA , because , literally , you're my community .
Speaker 2I'm like if I didn't come to LA for anything else . I'm trying to tell you this is my sister and you know how people be like . I don't do that , but no , I don't this .
Speaker 1She know I be scared of people like I , because you just can't trust everybody , no , and so it was definitely God ordained and literally . We can go on and on , but I want to be conscious of time , so I have a few last questions . Ok , so I know that you're out here , you're excelling . God is beating you literally on the scene , like what does this next season look like for Tiara ? Like I feel like you cooking something up and I just want to know what's tea a little bit .
Speaker 2I'm always cooking something , literally , which goes into my next season , because God has finally , I'm saying finally I shouldn't even say God is finally . I am finally in a place where I consulted God , like I had to just get on my face , went on a fast like God , what is my purpose ? Show me what I'm supposed to be doing , because I've just been going through life . I'm gonna make it work . I'm a hustler , I'm gonna have a job , I'm gonna do all of the things , but what really aligns with the work that you want me to do for your kingdom , because that's the only thing that will last , what you do for the kingdom . So I
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Speaker 2started just jotting down what makes me special and I basically found a common thread . I've always been the type , like you said , what you cooking . Everybody that knows me knows I'm always coming up with new ideas , new businesses . I can drop a business at the drop of a dime and I don't have to have all the pieces to do it , and I thought that that was normal . I thought anybody could do that . Just like I said with my styling business , I can start that and nobody knew I didn't have any clients . So I am introducing a kingdom execution business . It's called the POV Firm . I'm so excited . I am too .
Speaker 2I want to help visionaries . I want to help people who feel like , oh , I'm waiting on this to get started . It's something that I do , so naturally it's insane and I find myself . I pour into people daily . My friends ask me all the time what'd you think about this , what you think I have it never occurred to me that that was just what's in me . It takes nothing . I'm happy to just let it flow and to pour into people . So the POV firm stands for it's obviously point of view , but it's purpose , obedience and victory . I want to teach people how to use what you have to further your vision . That's a whole other thing . That's a whole other thing . It's a whole other thing . But when I say it aligns like literally scripture-based from 2 Kings 4 , talking about the widow whose husband died and left her in debt , and she said you know , I don't know what I'm going to do , how am I going to get out of this place ?
Speaker 2And she didn't even realize that crisis is when your mind is the sharpest , that's when you are on your toes because now I have to get out of this . Lord , what am I going to do ? She went to the prophet Elisha and she asked him for help . And he asked her one question what do you have in your house ? What do you already have ? He didn't give her any money . He didn't give her . He gave her an instruction . Instruction . And she went in her house . She said I have oil , and she poured that oil in all the jars and it never stopped flowing until she ran out of jars . So I'm going to literally teach people how to find that oil in their house and pour it until it never runs out .
Speaker 1I absolutely love it . I 100 percent support it . It's so needed . There are so many people literally that are listening right now . That's like , oh my God , I need that . Oh my God , I'm in my head , you know , I've been in my head Like we have this conversation all the time . It's a real thing that we will talk ourself out of the God given ideas because we'll allow self-doubt , we'll allow ourself to self-sabotage before actually executing , and so I want you to know the PK pot is backing you , we are supporting you . Um , literally , like we are so ready to see this take off because we know it's going to take off , and I just feel like we should literally do something for those people that are listening right now . Yes , I mean , I'm trying to think Like a contest or something right , yeah , what y'all think we could do ?
Speaker 1a contest , I think we love a good contest . We love a good freebie .
Speaker 2We love a good freebie . We love us a freebie around here at the PK pod . So what if we ? So I have an application process because I'm going to select four visionaries to be a part of it . Ok , so maybe we could have them to follow us . They follow the PK pod , follow the POV firm . Yes , and then what do you think ?
Speaker 1We could select a winner . I like that . So listen , friends , if you want to talk to this visionary , obviously you do , we all do . You need to follow the pov firm , you need to follow the pk . Pod and tiara and I are going to select a winner , and I just feel like they should share it in their stories as a bonus point , because the more the merrier we want to see it four people will selected and we want to make sure that you're a part of that .
Speaker 1So make sure you do that Literally , like right now , because that is going to be so huge , to literally encouraging and inspiring people to go after the things that God has called them to do . I am so excited for all the things that God is doing for you . I know with you , through you , all the things God is doing and I'm excited for you . I know In you , with you , through you , all the things . Okay , final question what advice would you give to PKs that have navigated similar paths ? Or a prayer for them , a word of encouragement ? I would just say take a moment , look in the camera and share that with them .
Speaker 2Hey , PKs , I understand . I'm just going to look you in your eyes and say I understand , because a lot of people don't get it . You may try to talk to your friends about it . If they are not in it , they will never understand what happens when you go home with your parents and you close that door . I understand the pressure and I just want to tell you that you really are not alone . I think that you are to even be in this position . You have to change your perspective and understand that there's a reason why God has placed this mantle on your family and why God has placed this mantle on your family . Take yourself out of it and look at what God is wanting to do through your family . I think that as long as you have your own relationship with the Lord , that's honestly the only thing that's going to carry you through . It's not about your parents . Serving will become easier if you have your own relationship . So I'll say a prayer Lord , we thank you for every PK who is under the sound of this podcast .
Speaker 2God , I thank you that you know what they are in the need of . I thank you that , before they even open their mouths , you already know . You're just waiting to hear their voice . You're just waiting for a connection . You're waiting for them to acknowledge you . God , I thank you for the season that they're in . God , I thank you that you will be with them in every room that they step in . Allow their light to shine so bright . Allow them to also be fishermen of men as they go out through life . God , I ask that you allow them to be themselves so much not what they think they should be or whatever the picture perfect version of that should be , but themselves so much that people will just want to know more about you through them . God , I thank you for their
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Speaker 2hearts , for their dreams , their desires . God , we thank you In your name . We pray Amen . You're going to be all right . I love you , Amen .
Speaker 1Thank you , tierra , for coming on the show . We love you , we're praying for you and we can't wait to see you continue to soar .
Speaker 1Thank you , sister . Until next time , y'all make sure to like , share and subscribe and we will be back next week Same time for a new episode of the PK pod . Talk to you soon , friends . If you enjoyed today's episode , we would love for you to stay connected with us on Instagram and TikTok by following us at the PK pod . We share clips and behind the scenes from episodes like today , where you can continue in the conversation . We would love for you guys to be a part of our community by following us at the pk pod . Until next time , family , have an amazing day .