So I just wanted to keep that going and , and really like I said . A bet on myself because you know my parents believed in me through my entire years of sports my entire years of academic achievements , so I just wanted to keep the journey going , keep the domino effect going . If I achieved one thing I wanted to achieve another , raise the bar , work even harder to show them , to show myself , to show my family that I was really capable of , you know , raising the bar every single time .
That's what social media pushes out being yourself , being authentic because that's what not everybody can do . So my fitness page has really turned into just a me page and I first started off on fitness because people saw my physique and people saw the sports I played and they wanted tips from me and I felt like I was able to give them uh based off of , you know , what I've done myself and everything that I've done has been based off of personal experience . So if it worked for me , I'm sure that it can work for another person and it has and it's built me to have over 100,000 followers on TikTok and over 50,000 on Instagram .
It's been all about business . I think the one thing I picked up the message here is to really know why you came here and obviously that's cliche and obviously that's , you know , something that's going around in marketing and stuff , you know , know your why , but it really takes into effect when you're talking about athletics because there's a lot of team-based activities , obviously sports is a team based element but in track and field you're also learning about yourself personal . Communication so that interpersonal communication is gonna be really important for you specifically because if you don't know why you came here , if you don't know why you show up to practice , if you don't know why you get your body right , then you wouldn't be at Youngstown State and you wouldn't be a division one athlete .
Hello everybody , my name is Taziah Howard , and I'm a sports journalism major and senior at Youngstown State University who also runs track . I think through my career the best coaching and and advisory that I've been given through my sports career especially was to just be myself and have confidence because when you go out into the real world you really only have yourself and there's a lot of people in the world that aren't worried about what you're doing so if you're gonna be the only one worried about what you're doing that's gonna be the biggest impact you have on your life because at the end of the day no one's coming to save you so it's really impactful for you to , you know , reconcile with yourself and make sure that you show up for yourself every . Single day first and foremost to make me a better track runner , my training regimen is all about consistency , you know , especially with being a long sprinter , you want to make sure you're having the perfect amount of , well , perfect doesn't exist , but you want to make sure you're having a good amount of speed endurance days , a good amount of power days , speed days .
So if I bring my camera to practice , I'll know that I'm still practicing , but I'll also know I'm getting content for myself , content for social media , and content for my career . My advice to athletes trying to grow their personal brand is to simply be yourself . 8 billion people on the planet , but no one is you .
