Teyana Taylor co-founded The Aunties, an all-female production company, with Coco Gilbert back in 2017. It's not a vanity credit — picture five acres of Atlanta real estate: sound stages with the lights still warm from the last shoot, a prop room stacked floor to ceiling, 360-degree green-screen bays humming even on the days she isn't the one standing in front of them, all of it built to run other people's productions, not just her own. On top of that, she's been enrolled at culinary school since 2025 — apron on, knife skills drilled, real ambitions toward her own restaurant — all while continuing her music and acting career. Most people are still deciding on a New Year's resolution. Teyana is three businesses deep and testing a menu.
🧰 What She Built
A working studio facility that generates revenue from other artists' productions, not just her own — real infrastructure, real assets, a staff that has to get paid whether or not Teyana herself is on the lot that week. And a second, entirely different career in motion at the same time, one that trades a soundstage for a stovetop. She called it a "double life" herself.
A five-acre lot with dance, recording, and prop studios plus 360-degree green-screen rooms doesn't run itself. Every square foot represents equipment to maintain, staff to schedule, and outside clients whose shoots can't collide with each other on the calendar. Booking a soundstage for a stranger's production is a fundamentally different operational skill than starring in your own — and Teyana is doing both, on the same five acres, often in the same week.
Meanwhile, culinary school doesn't pause for a music release or a film premiere. It has its own coursework, its own timeline, and its own eventual restaurant that will need entirely separate infrastructure — leases, staffing, health permits, none of which have anything to do with running a production company or dropping an album. Three genuinely different businesses, three genuinely different skill sets, one calendar trying to hold all of them without dropping a single ball.
Calling it a "double life" is honest, but it undersells the operational reality. A double life implies two lanes running in parallel. What Teyana is actually managing is closer to a small holding company — a facility business, a culinary venture in development, and an entertainment career — each with its own revenue model, its own timeline, and its own definition of a good week.
She built the empire. Here's her essential Baddie Stack 💅🏾📱⌨️
The Questions I Would Ask Teyana
1️⃣ Homegirl, on a week when you're on a film set, in culinary school, and someone else is shooting on your lot, who actually knows what's happening across all three — or is that person currently you, on three hours of sleep?
2️⃣ If the studio double-booked two productions on the same day, would you find out before it happened or after someone showed up?
3️⃣ How much of the restaurant's timeline currently depends on you personally remembering to move it forward?
⌨️ Here's Her Essential Baddie Stack 💅🏾📱⌨️
🏢 Facility booking and revenue system — automated scheduling and invoicing for a five-acre production lot serving outside clients, so studio revenue doesn't depend on someone manually tracking who's booked what.
🍽️ Culinary venture pipeline — a structured system tracking the path from culinary school to restaurant concept to opening, so a genuine long-term ambition doesn't stay a someday idea for lack of a plan someone's actually tracking.
🎬 Cross-venture calendar — one integrated calendar across music, acting, production company, and culinary school, so the "double life" has one source of truth instead of living in her head.
👥 Team delegation layer — clear systems for what The Aunties' staff owns outright versus what needs Teyana's direct sign-off, so the studio can run on the days she's on a film set or in a kitchen.
The Digital Systems Scan Finds the Gap
Running a production company and building toward a restaurant while maintaining a full entertainment career isn't overextension — it's a multi-venture portfolio that happens to be run by one person. That person deserves the infrastructure a portfolio gets.
The Digital Systems Scan finds the gap. The build closes it. The retainer makes sure it never opens again.
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