Postpartum depression.

After my twins, I had anxiety real bad.

And so I need an outlet to handle my anxiety is healing.

Most people couldn't dream of doing their passion every day.

It's just really a faith walk and whatever happens, happens.

I probably was about 12, 12 years old, just baking cookies.

I put baking down a long time and then I was a teenage mother, so a lot of times I would have to bake or cook something and didn't know what I was doing.

Being so young, having kids.

But then I picked it back up when my dad got sick.

He got sick and was in the hospital and my first big bake while he was in the hospital was a pound cake and so my sister said oh girl.

You did it.

You might need to do something about this.

I set it down for a long time after that, he got well.

I stopped baking.

And so once I started, once I had the twins, that's when I picked it back up.

So being that I had kids so early in life as a teenager, I had two kids by the age of 19, and then I had another child like 27.

And so in the end, and then having the twins at like 32 years old, I had pretty much teenagers and then I had a little baby.

And so just I think the shock of it all, having to come home and seeing so many kids at one time and then having to to alter my time with each one and making sure that I spent enough time with each child and still going to work.

The pressures of life just I just felt like I was running me crazy.

And so I just needed something like I would go home and just cry.

Didn't want to be there.

Postpartum is I mean, depressed that I don't have my mom, like, I don't have any help even though my husband was there.

But these babies crying all the time.

And I'm like, okay, I need something to kind of tune that out just for me.

I need something just for me.

And so baking was that for me.

So I was a grant grant manager for the state of Florida, and so I couldn't concentrate at work.

And so one of my good friends, Brittany Jones, called me and she said, Girl, I just quit my job to go full time and be an entrepreneur.

And I said, Hold on, let me go.

Let me go outside real quick.

And so she kind of especially talked to me as she can inspire me.

And I was like, okay, maybe that's the message I needed to to get out here because I can't think about anything else.

But cake, I can't go nowhere in in the state because they like you the cake lady.

And so it's just like everybody just kept talking about Cake.

And so about a month later, I put them in two week notice.

Taylor Confections So in the beginning I was telling my sister I need a catchy name, and she was like, Oh, you tailored the confections to their tastebuds.

I was like, Okay, girl.

And so far, Taylor Confections, as we've grown, it became so it was too long.

And so I was like, T C. See?

So now known as Miss T C, which has nothing to do with my name, you so Southwood Sweets in Southwood.

They reached out to me.

I was like, Hey, would you be interested in partnering up?

I need a bakery because they had another bakery and they pulled out at the last minute.

And so someone mentioned me.

So that little spot red eye called, Hey, you're doing it for Southwood.

Can I get some too doing?

Okay, cool, man.

Somebody else will smoothie time.

Hey, you doing Redeye.

Can you do me now?

Oh, somebody.

I mean, this has always been.

And then the major one that we recently got about was the international airport.

So I went T L H I didn't even know until recently.

We, the first black woman owned bakery in the airport.

So that made huge news.

So, you know, it's it's been good.

It's been good.

Yes.

And we have vending the machines.

So those out of vending machines.

So we're just all over.

So they called me.

So they have a new bakery, they have a new tailwind is the actual vendor for the airport.

They called me and said, Hey, we want to bring in local businesses to help garner some more publicity for the airport.

Sure and we go there.

As soon as I walk into the airport, they're like T C bakery because I have a shirt on, you know, and they're like, You're coming in here, you coming here?

And I was like, Yeah.

And so from there he was like, Oh, I guess you're already here then.

And so I filled out the paperwork and it's been go ever since.

Those that airport has blessed my life because now not only am I being known here at home, but people are doing international flights just because of after TSA so they can take it on a plane with them.

So now I have people in like Ohio and Charlotte and different areas around the country like, hey, I had a product and I got it from Tallahassee Airport.

So we have catapulted it to business a little another level.

And then to have, you know, Black Enterprise come and say, hey, you know, you the first black one, I didn't even know because that's never my intention to get the notoriety.

And just it was just another opportunity for people to like my stuff.

You are my best cakes.

You can buy, you seeing someone smile, you know, the money is great and it's good and all that.

But at the end of the day, my main focus is I want you to enjoy my product.

That's all I really want.

So if you celebrate a birthday or a wedding and you chose me as part of your celebration, that's an honor for me.

You know, sometimes I don't even take money just because I just like to see the smiles that that's what's driving me.

That's my passion.

It's to see people enjoy my product because it takes them back to a time where, you know, I remember my mama used to make these and, you know, my sweet potato pie.

They'll say, Oh, my goodness, That is just like my grandmama.

That's what I want.

And so that's really was like the driving force behind everything.

So off and on I would get every blue moon.

But now I'm getting pretty often and I refer to all my friends, my church member and coworker and so forth, and just trying to, you know, support her a support.

You know what a black owned woman business who really has a heart for, you know, it's her business, but she has a heart for, you know, serving people.

So you want to support individuals that are doing things like that.

I tell her every single day how proud of her I am.

I am so glad you just like you blowing up.

You're there, you're doing your thing.

And you finna take world by storm.

When I tell her that every day and she's like, Oh, well, I appreciate, you know, you don't understand.

I appreciate you for letting me be a part.

So, yeah, I'm I'm just happy for what I have learned from Jennifer is to, regardless of what you go through, continue to keep pushing because there's sunshine on the other side.

It's I was in pain with that depression and he literally took birth out.

My purpose in in that place, that bad place that I was in, and then to have a supportive family on top of it that told me you could do it, you could do it.

And it has been surreal for all of us.

And I attribute just everything to my upbringing.

My daddy was the one that taught me.

He taught me how to be a woman, you know, when my mama died.

At ten he and he never remarried.

And so it was just him and I until the day he died like a year ago.

And so he would speak things.

Into me when I didn't even believe in myself.

And even I still have those times where I don't believe that I can't believe this is happening.

Why I question it all the time.

Why me?

Why am I the one is a million people probably better than me.

Why am I the one that has like taken Tallahassee over by storm?

And it's like, it's God ordained and so there is no explanation for it.

So it's just taking it all in.

Yeah, taking it all in.

He always told me I can do anything I want to do, anything I wanted to do.

Before he died, I saw him an hour before he died and he told me, Baby, you will be a household name.

And I was like, daddy you, we don't know what you're talking about.

And so and sure enough, he was like, People are gonna know your name.

And I was like, Well, I'm just trying to make a little something to get these kids through college.

And he died an hour later on my couch.

And it's when he spoke those words, are coming true.

Baking has provided the same outlet for me, especially now that my dad's gone.

It's healing.

It's healing to me and seeing that people are enjoying the product and seeing the fruits of my labor and seeing everything that he's spoken to in my life and seeing that is coming true.

I mean, that's a driving force for me.

Every morning that I get to do something I love every single day.

Most people couldn't dream of doing their passion every day, you know, because I would do it without money, you know, I would literally get up if I could do this every day, I would like literally without any pay anything.

So getting paid and getting the narrative is just extra for me.

I still don't know how to take all what's happened in, you know, I really, really don't.

I don't have a business plan.

I don't like.

I'm it like there's no business plan, there's no forecasting, there's nothing.

I'm still self funded.

I'm still playing it by ear.

I don't it's just really a faith.

Walk, and whatever happens, happens.