How Bea Dixon and Bacterial Vaginosis Make Her Honey Pot Dream Come True!

"I had a dream of my grandmother because I was having bacterial vaginosis."

In this episode of the Beauty Of The Nile Podcast, host Jasmine Mobley sits down with Entrepreneur Bea Dixon, founder of the Honey Pot company.

 

From Bea Dixon we learn:

 

• How the Honey Pot came to be
• Her best advice to aspiring founders
• Her journey to finding balance as an entrepreneur
• The ways in which feminine care and beauty are intertwined
• Her most challenging days as a founder
• Where she sees the Honey Pot in the next 5-10 years
• Her biggest learnings from her entrepreneurial journey
• Her biggest skin care concerns and how she remedies them
• What Being a part of the Beauty Of The Nile community means to her
• …And more!

Automatically generated transcript of the podcast conversation follows below. The speakers in this episode of the Beauty Of The Nile podcast are podcast host Jasmine Mobley and Honey Pot founder Bea Dixon. Each speaker utterance has a timestamp, so that you can easily find when a phrase was said.  Please note that due to the current state of imperfections in automatically generated transcripts, you may encounter errors in translation, spelling, and attribution. Please bear with us as the technology evolves. Thank you.

Bea Dixon on the Beauty Of The Nile podcast with host Jasmine Mobley

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Hello beauties! You are listening to The Beauty Of The Nile Podcast.

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I'm Jasmine Mobley.

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Today I'm here with Bea Dixon. Bea is founder and CEO of the Honeypot.

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When she was younger, Bea suffered with bacterial vaginosis.

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One night an ancestor gave her the ingredients to heal herself in a dream.

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From that insightful dream, she created the formula for a healthy, clean,

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feminine wash. In 2014, Dixon launched the Honey Pot Company,

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a plant-based feminine hygiene line created with a goal to provide women with

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and sulfates. The rest is history. With experience in pharmaceuticals, retail,

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and natural foods,

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Dixon has the insight and expertise to bring this innovative concept of a

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plant-based feminine care system to the marketplace.

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The Honeypot company currently offers feminine washes, wipes, tampons, pads,

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ma to be products,

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and soon to be additional offerings in both the feminine hygiene and feminine

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Multimillion Dollar New Voices Fund was one of the first 40 women-of-color to

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raise 1 million in venture capital,

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and has been featured in t Payne's School of Business,

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the New York Times Entrepreneur magazine, l Essence, and Forbes.

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Most recently,

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she was named one of Entrepreneurs' Top 100 groundbreaking women entrepreneurs

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of 2019. Her company won a 2020 Essence best in Black Beauty Award,

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and she received a c e w Indie 65 award in 2019,

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experience.

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Dixon continues to make a mark in the world of natural health and beauty and

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retail with a truly revolutionary approach to feminine health and sexual

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wellness. Be welcome to the Beauty of the Nile Podcast,

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Be how did you decide to take the leap in launching the Honey Pot?

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Like what led you to kind of make that step?

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Um,

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I had a dream of my grandmother cuz I was having bacterial vaginosis

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recurring like every single month. Mm-hmm. Month, um, for almost a year.

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And she told me what to do to fix it. My grandmother is dead, by the way. Uhhuh,

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she's been dead since my mother was eight. Okay. So, um, you know,

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so I just wanna make that clear. Um, but I had,

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I had a very vivid dream with her and she told me what to do and I,

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she gave me a piece of paper in the dream and told me to remember what was on

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the paper. Mm-hmm.

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And I did that and I wrote it down and I made it and it worked. And,

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um, you know, immediately I was like, wow,

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this could work for me. This could probably work for other people. Mm-hmm.

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And um, you know,

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I was just driven to kind of be a change in the world that I wanted to live in

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and offer, um,

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offer a product that could potentially make a,

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a human with vaginas a human with a vagina's life easier.

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Yeah. You know? Yeah. Um, and so, you know, I just aimed for that.

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Yeah. Yeah. And

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My brother and some of my friends came along with me on the journey and here we

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are.

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That's awesome. And it's great that you get to do it with your,

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with your friends. It seems like you have a lot of fun with it.

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Yeah. Yeah. You got, I, I, that's like,

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I wanna do dope s**t with my friends, you know what I mean? Like, I wanna, like,

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I wanna live really well. Mm-hmm. Um,

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and I want to live really well with people that I care about.

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Um, and I want to do dope things, um,

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for and with people, you know, cuz I, I just love humanity. Yeah. You know?

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I love, yeah.

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Yeah. That's awesome. And so, okay, so your grandmother gave you, you know,

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the idea and basically all the things you would need to make this product,

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but then, you know, from the idea to actually making it happen, like,

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did you just say, okay, I have this idea so I have to go do it?

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Or was it a process of, you know, evaluating it and thinking about it more?

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Absolutely. A process. Mm-hmm. 1000% of process.

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Um, you know, I made it,

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it worked for me for like a year and a half. Um, I tried it,

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I, I gave it away mm-hmm. To anybody who would take it. This was our washes.

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I gave it away to anybody that would take it. Mm-hmm.

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And then a lot of those women were loving it most actually,

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like eight out of 10 of those women were loving it. And,

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um, you know, that indicated that we had something and then we, um,

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and then we went to the Bronner Brothers hair show. Mm-hmm. And,

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uh, we tested it at that show. We, you know, our, our thought process was if,

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if we do well at the show, then that says that we have something.

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And so that's what we did. We did well at the show,

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and then we just kept trying s**t and it just kept working. You know,

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there's things that we tried that didn't work, uh, that can,

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that even happens today.

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Right. But,

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Um, but yeah, we, we just did it. We just, we just went for

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It. Right, right, right. Okay. Well that's a pretty good solution.

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Good way to get there. Yeah.

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And yeah, the only way to get there is to do it

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Right, right. Yeah. To

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Get the car and drive.

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Exactly. And so you,

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I know you had experience in like in pharma and retail and in natural foods.

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How did those experiences help you maybe when you were like developing the

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product or even along the way and, and now

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Everything that I did helped me. Mm-hmm. It was like, it was like,

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it was like this was just in the stars for me. Mm-hmm. You know, um,

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because me being in pharmacy helped me because when my

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grandmother gave me the recipe, she didn't give me like a recipe.

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She just said ingredients. Right, right. And then, um,

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and then I needed to take those ingredients and like actually make a formula

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outta them. Right. But all of my years and pharmacy taught me how to do that.

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Mm-hmm. Right. Cause I worked in all types of pharmacy.

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I didn't just work in one.

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And then, um, and then, you know, from there,

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um, I left Pharmacy after doing it for like 10 years. Mm-hmm.

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And then I went to work for Whole Foods. Mm-hmm. Right.

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And then that taught me how to talk with how to com. I mean, I was,

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I did a lot of customer service in pharmacy too, don't make me wrong. Right.

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Cause I was serving, I was still serving people. Um,

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but at Whole Foods, I worked in whole body,

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so it was like whole Foods version of a pharmacy. Right,

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Um, and that taught me how to talk to customers that taught me, you know,

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then Whole Foods like really invested a lot of money into their employees.

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Mm-hmm. You know, um, like we got sent on health emergence, um, you know, like,

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wow. I went to the Dr. McDougall's, um, I call it Fat camp,

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but wasn't fat Camp. Like that's, that's not, that sounds wrong to say,

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but I went to, I went to Dr. McDougall's, um,

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like a health immersion for like a week. I mean, that thing was expensive and,

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and like Whole Foods paid for that. Right. Wow. Um, you know, uh,

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they would send us to like the Gaia Farms, which is in North Carolina.

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And this is,

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Gaia is like one of my favorite herb herbal companies.

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So they make some of the best herbal, like, you know,

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oregano oil. Mm-hmm. Olive leaf, you know,

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think of all the herbs that you can go to the store and buy. Yeah. Um,

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Gaia just does it beautifully. Hence the name.

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Obviously it would be weird with that name if you didn't do

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Well. Yeah.

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Right. Um, you know, but they just did stuff like that. Like you got like,

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like your discount card for when you, when you bought,

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when you bought anything from them,

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you would get a higher discount if you were healthier.

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Oh, wow. Wow.

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I mean, it was just dope, you know? Yeah. And so I learned a lot there.

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I learned a lot about my health, I learned about a lot about my body.

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I learned a lot about herbs. I, you know, I just learned a lot cuz I had really,

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really inundated myself in the, in the pharmaceutical world, like the,

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the western medicine world. Mm-hmm.

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But to come to come to this other side was really beautiful. Yeah. Um,

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it taught me how to sell. It taught me how to sell products, you know,

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cuz I had to sell people's products. I was a salesperson at Whole Foods. Right,

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right. Um, and then I left there and I became a food broker. Mm.

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Mm-hmm.

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So now what that did, my last two jobs,

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I was a broker and an area sales manager. Okay.

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But the things that those two jobs did is they taught me how to talk to buyers

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from retailers.

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Okay. So,

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Being a sales manager and a, and a broker instead of, if,

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if when I worked for Whole Foods, you would've been my customer. Right.

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When I transitioned to be a broker in a, in an area sales manager,

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whole Foods became my customer.

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Yeah. Ok. So you gotta kinda see full sides.

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Yeah. I got to understand, um,

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reading sales data and how do you pitch to a buyer and how do you get a product

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on the shelf and what happens once it's on the shelf? How do you move it? What,

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how do you market it? How do you do promote, you know, all that kind of stuff.

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Um, and, and really from 2012,

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so from Whole Foods on, I still worked. Mm-hmm. And I,

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and we were doing Honey Pie. Mm-hmm.

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Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. And so, okay.

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So that is something that is super interesting to me.

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I remember hearing you speak previously and you talked about working a full-time

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job and doing the honeypot. Like what was that like? And was it super helpful?

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Was it just exhausting? And, you know, how do you think it benefit just both,

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everything?

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Yeah. It was, it was, it was helpful and exhausting. Mm-hmm. Um,

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I've always been a person who's had probably two or three jobs or one job and a

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couple hustles. Um, just because I'm,

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I'm very independent and I've, I,

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I don't ever want to have to depend on anybody else from my basic needs.

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Okay. I gotta eat, I gotta f*****g sleep, I gotta drive. Right. I gotta buy gas.

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I got, you know what I mean? I gotta pay for these, for these,

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for the water and the gas and that. You know, so I've always been a hustler.

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Um, so I think it helped really, um,

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work that muscle of hustle.

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Right.

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Um, I think that, uh, it helped to prepare me because when you're,

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when you're working a job, I was working a job when,

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when Simon and I were raising money mm-hmm.

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I was working a job that required me to travel three to four weeks outta the

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month.

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Um, we were raising money, I was, I was driving on the road,

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traveling, having to like go do investor pitches, leave those,

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get back on the, I mean, it was crazy. Yeah. Like, um,

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you know, and,

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and still run a company and still make sure we're ordering enough product and

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still make sure that like, we didn't have hardly any employees then, but, but,

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but who we did have, you know,

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had to make sure that she was aligned and she was okay. And, you know. Right.

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So it was, it was hard, but it was really good practice.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I recommend anybody who wants to have their own business,

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I recommend that you do that because it teaches you how to

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f*****g be a monster.

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Mm-hmm.

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You know what I mean? Right.

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Yeah.

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It te it teaches you how to hustle.

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It teaches you how to drive it teaches you how to f*****g com compartmentalize

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stress and anxiety cuz you gotta f**k work. Right. Like,

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I gotta pay these bills.

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I still gotta run this company even though this company isn't paying me any

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money. Right.

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Right.

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Mm-hmm. I still have to, you know, we still gotta raise this money.

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We still gotta like manage each other in our stress together. Yeah. It was,

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it was a lot.

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Mm-hmm. Sounds like great experience though, like in the end now.

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It, it was, and I honestly, I wouldn't do it any different.

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Because Yeah. Because you need that. Because when your business takes off,

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if you really, if you want your business to grow,

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like I want my business to grow mm-hmm. The,

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the amount of f*****g work that has to be done is remarkable.

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Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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And you, and, and,

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and you need the practice of having to do a lot of work and still manage your

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life.

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Right, right. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. And how did you decide,

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like it was time to leave your job and go work on Honey Pop

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full time? Like, you know,

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did you wait a certain number of years or did you just decide, okay,

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I can't do both anymore, or

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I had to be desperate? Mm-hmm. It had to be like, um, like I,

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it got to the place where I literally just could not do it anymore.

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I was living a double life. Mm-hmm. I couldn't, I couldn't,

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it honeypot was taking over my life so much that I had to like,

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stop working in order to do the things we were well into Target when I quit my

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Job. Oh wow. Okay.

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Mm-hmm. Um, you know, and, and also the company had to be able to pay me

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Really, really more than what I was making at the time.

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Mm-hmm. Okay.

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Um, because I, because I can't be in a situation where,

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where I'm desperate and living and I'm not gonna live on Robin Noodles.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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That's not, that's not healthy. That's not healthy. That's not,

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So for, for me, there was just no other f*****g option.

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Right. You know? Right. That's where you're,

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that's where you drew the line at Ramen for every meal.

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Yeah. That's impossible. I I I'm not living like that.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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How can you, how can you, don't make me wrong.

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There have been a lot of businesses that are huge. I mean, look at like,

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Airbnb like that are f*****g lost of businesses. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And,

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and those founders, um, you know, may have,

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may have gone through their periods of struggle. Mm-hmm. Um, I just,

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I didn't have a, you know, I, I was the f*****g,

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um, I was the head of the household financially. Mm-hmm. Right?

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Mm-hmm. I didn't have anybody else to like,

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sort me out or pay my f*****g bills or Right. You know, I had to do that so.

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Right. You know, so for me it had to be able to do that mm-hmm.

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Indefinitely in order for me to leave.

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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a really good, good metric. Okay. So mm-hmm.

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I love to ask, you know, how do you feel that,

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and you've talked a lot about wellness and all of these things and I think a lot

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of these things are intertwined, but how do you feel that feminine care,

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which is your business and beauty and wellness are are all connected?

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Cause they're, they are.

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Yeah.

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Um, you know, I make beauty care, beauty care products for the vagina. Yeah.

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And, and I make, um,

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really clean products that are non-toxic and all, you know, and all that jazz.

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Um, you know, but they all go hand in hand. Mm-hmm. Right. You,

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you have to be, um,

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your body needs to be well in order for your vagina to be well. Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah. That's it. Yeah.

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It, it's, it's not a, um, none of this s**t is separate. Right. Right.

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Like, you,

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like you need to make sure that all of your faculties are working mm-hmm.

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That you're eating well, that you're using good,

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the best skincare that you can buy. Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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Even if that means you're spending a little bit more money. But if you,

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if you spend more money to eat well and to take care of your skin mm-hmm.

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And to take care of the inside of your body,

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guess what you won't be spending your money on. Most likely,

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unless something happens, you're not necessarily gonna be in the doctor

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Right.

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Every other month and you're not, you know,

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you're not gonna be dealing with a bunch of health issues. So for me, um,

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all of this goes hand in hand. Yeah. It's not, it's not separate at all.

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Yeah. I agree a hundred percent. Um, okay. Awesome.

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And y you talked a little bit about, you know,

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just ch challenging moments in building Honey pot.

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Is there one day that you can remember that was just like,

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the most challenging moment, um, of building this business?

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Yep. I was, I was leaving

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Wildfire Sales, which was the brokerage I worked for.

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Okay.

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And I was training my replacement, which is like my sister,

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she's like one of my best friends in the world. Um,

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and we were, we were on a road trip from Nashville.

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I think it was Nashville. I think it was Nashville.

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Cause I was a traveling sales rep, so I, you know,

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and most of my travel was in the southeast, so most of my travel was in the car.

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Ok.

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And Simon and I were also raising money to get into Target. Mm-hmm.

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And an investor had gotten back to us and said that they

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didn't want to invest because they didn't understand our business model. Mm.

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Meanwhile, um,

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we had to pay a bill to the contract cuz we had,

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we had been told by Target at this time that we were approved. Mm-hmm.

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And we were going in. Right. The only thing was,

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is we didn't have any purchase orders or anything like that. Okay.

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Cause that's just not how this s**t works. Right.

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We don't get a purchase order from a retailer until six to eight weeks before

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you're going in. Right,

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Right. Yeah.

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So we were, we were raising money to pay bills. Mm-hmm.

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And the bills were f*****g due. They were overdue.

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And the investor that seemed like they were gonna be a, a, a,

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a decent one, I mean they were, they were,

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they would've put in like six figures at least. Mm-hmm.

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Okay.

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Um, had just called and said, Hey, can't do it.

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And um, and we needed that money. Yeah. Like,

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like the desperation was so real. Mm-hmm. Like, we need,

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we desperately needed that money. Like,

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there were so many times that that s**t almost didn't work. Like Yeah.

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It was like, it was like already at the, this ain't gonna work out.

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But then, uh, but then it would, but then something would happen.

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A rabbit would be pulled out the hat and then the s**t would work out. But, um,

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thank God to all of our investors that we had. Mm-hmm. And my, my brother,

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cuz he ended up putting his own money in too, but mm-hmm. Um,

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but that was a rough day because, you know,

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I was also working for some immigration stuff for,

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for a relationship that I was in. Mm-hmm. Um, so I was managing that.

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I was managing training her. I'm in a car. Yeah.

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Hearing from an investor who said that they can't put money in needing to pay

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a f*****g a hundred thousand dollars bill.

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Yeah.

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Um, all at the same time.

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Yeah. A lot. It's a lot.

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And the, the desperation, um,

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it was just the realest desperation that I've ever felt in my life. Yeah.

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Cuz I just want, I just needed, I needed it to work.

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Yeah. And

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How, and it was like

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Yeah. And it just wasn't working. How did you get yourself through that? Like,

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just mentally or emotionally? You know, I just, just like, I just

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F*****g, f*****g cried a lot. Mm-hmm.

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And I was extremely anxious.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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And it was not, uh, my shining hour.

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Um, but, but, um,

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it was necessary though because I'm here now. Yeah.

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You know? Yeah. It's all worth it. Um, okay. Awesome.

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And so where do you see yourself and,

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and honeypot in the next like five to 10 years? What,

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what's your vision for this?

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Hopefully I don't own it anymore.

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Yeah, that's true. It's been in it

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Now. Hopefully I'm on a f*****g island and Zzi bar.

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I hope so too. For

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You with a really,

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what A really pretty girl next to me drinking out of a coconut. Like, that's,

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that's where I wanna be. You know what I mean?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good, that's a good answer.

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And, and somebody is f*****g bringing me food and,

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and I have finished my coconut drink and somehow it's already picked up when I

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look over, you know what I mean? Like everything is clean. Yeah. Um, yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a very vivid, vivid image. That's a really good one.

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And, and the house is like right there. And then the ocean is like right there.

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Right. Obviously, like you could just walk right out into it. Of

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Course. And, and like at least three acres of this is mine. Mm-hmm. So,

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you know, I can just be out here. Right. You know, you have a space sunning,

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my sun tanning my vagina if I wanted. You understand what

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I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. You don't want, you don't want neighbors like that.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I, I wouldn't care even if I had 'em. Right. This is my space. Yeah.

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Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. That's, that's where I hope I am 10 years from now.

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That's

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A real, that sounds like a really good place.

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F*****g retired

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Then. It would all be all be worth it for you. That's awesome. Okay. Cool.

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And what is the impact that you hope to leave on the world?

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And this doesn't have to be just with honeypot, it can be you b dixon.

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Yeah. The impact. It, it's bigger than honeypot. Um,

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just to be an example of self-love and,

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uh, and, um,

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literally like the, the example that,

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um, that stress is made up. Mm-hmm.

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And anxiety is made up and ego is made up and

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neurosis is made up and Yeah. Um,

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and that these are just principles and words that we've believed.

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Mm-hmm.

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And, um, yeah. I, I, that's,

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that's my ultimate goal in life. Yeah. To not, to not to not believe that s**t.

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Yeah. Right.

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And to,

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and to just live in this moment completely awake and

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completely fine with whatever's here. Yeah.

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Completely fine.

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Whether I got a f*****g dollar in my pocket or zillions mm-hmm.

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I'm completely fine. I see the world the same way. In one way. I gotta live,

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I gotta live how I gotta live the other way I can live however the f**k I wanna

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live. Right. But either way,

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fundamentally at the basics,

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as long as I'm well and happy and here. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's great. Happiness and wellness are the goal.

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I think it's really good that you said that because I think so many people are

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so focused on doing, doing, doing and getting to the, to the mountaintop that,

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you know, they lose sight of what you just said, the important stuff.

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Cause you could have all the money in the world and all the success in the

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world, like you said, and just be, be unhappy and

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Yeah. The, the mount the mountaintop for me, the,

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the Himalayas for me is complete, f*****g, complete,

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completely cool. No matter what,

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just fine. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Yeah.

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I do like complete f*****g nirvana.

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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a good, that's a good one. I I love that. Yeah.

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Ha having nirvana and being able to just stay

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Yeah.

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Right here. Right,

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Right. Yeah. And be at peace. Yeah. I think that's great. Um, okay.

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You talked about this part a little bit, but how important has, you know,

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loving yourself, been to this journey? And it can be like, you know,

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as a founder, as a woman, as a person of color,

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how important has self-love been for you?

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It all, it, it's, it's the most important.

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It's the most important I,

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I have put in and do and will continue to put

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in tremendous amounts of work, um,

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to, to live well. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah.

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I have,

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I have fought through so much f*****g repression and so much

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judgment and so much self-judgment and so much f*****g,

446
00:25:35.310 --> 00:25:39.370
um, uh, conditioning mm-hmm.

447
00:25:39.790 --> 00:25:42.090
And so much, um,

448
00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:47.660
living how I should live and believing that I wasn't okay.

449
00:25:48.080 --> 00:25:49.310
And, um,

450
00:25:49.340 --> 00:25:53.870
that somebody was in my life that told me constantly that I needed to change.

451
00:25:54.090 --> 00:25:56.550
And what I liked was the wrong things to like,

452
00:25:56.730 --> 00:26:00.390
and who I was was wrong and mm-hmm. Um, you, I,

453
00:26:00.490 --> 00:26:05.310
and I believed all that b******t. Mm-hmm. Right. When, look,

454
00:26:06.010 --> 00:26:09.150
by the time I'm f*****g done, man, I'm probably covered in tattoos.

455
00:26:09.250 --> 00:26:12.110
You understand what I'm saying? Yeah. Because I like that s**t.

456
00:26:12.340 --> 00:26:15.590
That does something for me. I like that. Right, right,

457
00:26:15.590 --> 00:26:16.170
Right.

458
00:26:16.170 --> 00:26:20.470
Um, you know, uh, you know,

459
00:26:20.630 --> 00:26:25.390
I like to smoke a joint every now and again. I like that s**t. Right. Yeah.

460
00:26:25.770 --> 00:26:30.470
Um, you know, I don't care if I got $10 in my pocket,

461
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:34.500
if I wanna go somewhere, I'm gonna f*****g go. Yeah. Right.

462
00:26:34.600 --> 00:26:38.180
I'm gonna just figure out how to do it on that, on that amount of money. Mm-hmm.

463
00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:41.970
Um, how I see myself and what I believe,

464
00:26:43.520 --> 00:26:47.890
you know, um, is the most important thing.

465
00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:49.650
Right. Right. Right. Right.

466
00:26:50.030 --> 00:26:54.370
If, if, if, you know, when I believed all the things that, that,

467
00:26:54.370 --> 00:26:58.060
that that human told me, that was, he didn't do that s**t to me.

468
00:26:58.140 --> 00:27:02.260
I did that to me. Mm-hmm. I believed it. Mm-hmm. Right. I allowed that.

469
00:27:02.320 --> 00:27:05.420
He didn't, he didn't make me do s**t. Right. You understand what I'm saying?

470
00:27:05.470 --> 00:27:06.700
Right. I made me do.

471
00:27:07.110 --> 00:27:07.800
Right.

472
00:27:07.800 --> 00:27:11.600
And so, you know, so girl,

473
00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:13.960
that is the most important s**t to me in the whole wide world.

474
00:27:14.350 --> 00:27:14.910
Yeah.

475
00:27:14.910 --> 00:27:19.760
Yeah. It's, it's more when I, it's more important than, than my mama,

476
00:27:21.310 --> 00:27:24.520
than than f*****g honey pot than money.

477
00:27:25.350 --> 00:27:28.360
It's more important than f*****g food and water.

478
00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:31.080
It is more important than air. Mm-hmm.

479
00:27:31.950 --> 00:27:35.430
Yeah. To, to take ownership of,

480
00:27:35.530 --> 00:27:40.350
of your own self image and make sure that that is, that's number one

481
00:27:41.340 --> 00:27:42.910
F**k my image to, to take,

482
00:27:42.970 --> 00:27:47.110
to take ownership in what I can control for myself. Mm.

483
00:27:47.210 --> 00:27:47.730
Mm-hmm.

484
00:27:47.730 --> 00:27:50.070
Mm-hmm. Cause there's so much that I can't. Right,

485
00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:51.010
Right, right, right.

486
00:27:51.010 --> 00:27:55.870
So, and to, and to take responsibility for my s**t, for my projections Yeah.

487
00:27:55.890 --> 00:28:00.110
For my, um, for my ego when it comes Mm. Right.

488
00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:03.310
Even though I wanna die to it so badly. Mm-hmm. You know,

489
00:28:03.310 --> 00:28:06.710
even though I don't even wanna believe that it exists. Mm. You know what I mean?

490
00:28:07.060 --> 00:28:11.980
Yeah. Yeah. Um, but, you know, um, yeah. I,

491
00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:15.380
you know, not, not wanting to, um,

492
00:28:18.590 --> 00:28:19.960
take liberties from people

493
00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:21.213
Mm.

494
00:28:21.350 --> 00:28:25.440
Okay. From their time. Yeah. Or, or their, or or anything.

495
00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:26.920
Yeah. Right. Mm-hmm.

496
00:28:27.580 --> 00:28:31.760
So, you know, like I'm, and, and, and,

497
00:28:31.780 --> 00:28:34.240
and on top of that to really f*****g believe in myself.

498
00:28:34.590 --> 00:28:37.960
Yeah. That's a really important one. Yeah.

499
00:28:38.840 --> 00:28:42.600
I think that's great. That's a good answer. Yeah. Um, okay.

500
00:28:42.820 --> 00:28:46.320
So what have been some of, and I know everybody's is different,

501
00:28:46.320 --> 00:28:49.080
but you talked about wellness and holistic, taking care of yourself.

502
00:28:49.430 --> 00:28:52.000
What have been some of your own, like skincare struggles,

503
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.740
things that have troubled you with your skin?

504
00:28:58.170 --> 00:29:01.890
I, um, cheese is f*****g delicious.

505
00:29:02.570 --> 00:29:03.530
It is really good.

506
00:29:05.790 --> 00:29:10.690
All the cheese, the vegan cheese, the f*****g regular cheese. Um,

507
00:29:10.870 --> 00:29:15.530
but it is like the devil to me. Mm-hmm. Um, if I'm going to eat cheese,

508
00:29:15.970 --> 00:29:20.650
I have to like, what? And any kind of cheese. Mm-hmm. Even if it's like diet,

509
00:29:21.050 --> 00:29:24.290
I have to like charcoal probiotics,

510
00:29:24.520 --> 00:29:27.130
like a s**t ton of water. Right? Yeah.

511
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:28.250
Yeah.

512
00:29:28.250 --> 00:29:29.770
I need to do a scrub, you know,

513
00:29:33.550 --> 00:29:37.930
eating, really eating fried food. Mm-hmm. Um,

514
00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:41.340
when I was younger, I used to have acne,

515
00:29:41.340 --> 00:29:43.860
but I didn't know how to take care of my skin. That's normal. Mm-hmm.

516
00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:48.780
Cause you're going through so much. Yeah. Um, you know, but, and I have, like,

517
00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:52.880
I don't use, um, I don't use,

518
00:29:53.520 --> 00:29:56.560
I don't use anything but like non-toxic stuff on my skin.

519
00:29:56.930 --> 00:29:57.763
Right.

520
00:29:57.980 --> 00:30:01.720
So my skin is because of that, it's like baby skin.

521
00:30:02.600 --> 00:30:03.433
Okay. Yeah.

522
00:30:03.580 --> 00:30:06.960
So like, if something touches me that's not right. Like,

523
00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:09.000
I'm gonna get a bump there. Right. You know what I mean?

524
00:30:09.230 --> 00:30:09.800
Yeah, me

525
00:30:09.800 --> 00:30:13.720
Too. So I have to be like, yes, I like take two or three showers a day,

526
00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:18.400
doesn't matter what season it is. Mm-hmm. Um, I have to use,

527
00:30:18.510 --> 00:30:22.400
like, normally I make my own shea butter and stuff like

528
00:30:22.470 --> 00:30:22.990
That. Oh,

529
00:30:22.990 --> 00:30:26.680
Nice. I still, and I even make my own feminine wash still. That's awesome.

530
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.960
Like my feminine wash that I use at home is the one my grandmother told me.

531
00:30:30.460 --> 00:30:34.440
Not that the one that's on the market isn't at the, at the base of it. It is,

532
00:30:35.020 --> 00:30:39.520
but the one that I use is like original hardcore strong ass recipe.

533
00:30:40.150 --> 00:30:41.080
Like in your kitchen.

534
00:30:42.380 --> 00:30:47.160
Yes. Um, uh, you know,

535
00:30:47.540 --> 00:30:48.373
and, but,

536
00:30:48.540 --> 00:30:53.040
or which this isn't necessarily the most non-toxic thing in the world,

537
00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:58.400
but the only lotion that I can use on my skin, like if I haven't made my,

538
00:30:58.580 --> 00:31:03.080
my stuff is like Aveeno and I use like the lavender one. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

539
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.620
You know? Right. Um, so yeah.

540
00:31:05.620 --> 00:31:10.060
I have to be like really conscientious about my skin and

541
00:31:10.130 --> 00:31:11.300
Yeah. Yeah.

542
00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:13.940
And I try to be conscientious about my gut. Mm-hmm.

543
00:31:14.020 --> 00:31:18.860
Cause if I'm eating some b******t, it's gonna show up, you know what I mean?

544
00:31:19.250 --> 00:31:20.083
Yeah. I know.

545
00:31:20.360 --> 00:31:25.000
So I've be, I've become very, I've,

546
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:28.520
I, I don't even wanna say I've be, I mean yeah.

547
00:31:28.520 --> 00:31:31.800
I've become like very diligent about what I eat.

548
00:31:32.020 --> 00:31:36.560
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think I was before quarantine started,

549
00:31:36.560 --> 00:31:40.240
and then I've been eating a lot of ice cream and cheese and all those things,

550
00:31:40.900 --> 00:31:42.760
and then I'll be like, what's wrong with my skin?

551
00:31:43.530 --> 00:31:46.320
Right. That's why. Right, right.

552
00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:48.280
I know the answer, I just don't wanna know the answer.

553
00:31:49.210 --> 00:31:50.280
Right. Exactly.

554
00:31:50.830 --> 00:31:53.920
Yeah. That's really funny. Okay. Awesome. Um,

555
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:57.160
and I love how you said keep it non-toxic and just keep it, you know,

556
00:31:57.220 --> 00:31:59.880
to the basics, kind of what you said, like the original,

557
00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:03.360
you're making your own chili butter, like, I think that's great. Mm-hmm.

558
00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:06.600
Yeah. I try to live real, real,

559
00:32:07.990 --> 00:32:12.840
real minimal mm-hmm. And really simple. Mm-hmm. Beautiful. At the same time.

560
00:32:13.070 --> 00:32:15.880
Yeah. But really, really, really simple. Yeah. You know,

561
00:32:16.020 --> 00:32:18.040
it takes me 30 minutes to get dressed.

562
00:32:18.550 --> 00:32:21.480
Yeah. I like to keep it simple too. Yeah, I agree.

563
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:23.760
Everything that like streamlines it and makes it,

564
00:32:23.760 --> 00:32:27.840
makes you feel better and not a whole lot of fuss, so I totally agree. Right.

565
00:32:28.390 --> 00:32:32.960
Okay. Um, what have been your, your biggest accomplishments and why?

566
00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:35.640
I'm sure you have a lot from,

567
00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:40.340
You know, honestly eating well

568
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:41.610
Mm-hmm.

569
00:32:41.610 --> 00:32:45.380
Working out every day, or at least like,

570
00:32:46.280 --> 00:32:48.820
th sometimes it's five days a week,

571
00:32:48.850 --> 00:32:52.860
sometimes it might be three if I'm traveling or something like that. Right.

572
00:32:52.860 --> 00:32:56.140
But I'll still like, get a walk in or something, you know, I'll still move.

573
00:32:56.390 --> 00:32:57.223
Right.

574
00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:58.553
Um,

575
00:32:59.510 --> 00:33:04.330
self-awareness and my belief in myself and my love for myself

576
00:33:04.470 --> 00:33:06.690
mm-hmm. And my grace for myself.

577
00:33:07.040 --> 00:33:10.290
That to me that those have been huge accomplishments for

578
00:33:10.290 --> 00:33:12.090
Me. Yeah. Those are big ones.

579
00:33:12.760 --> 00:33:17.070
Yeah. Um, loving how I want to be loved.

580
00:33:17.790 --> 00:33:18.623
Hmm.

581
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.190
Um, uh,

582
00:33:22.490 --> 00:33:25.230
my relationship to my mom and my brothers.

583
00:33:25.330 --> 00:33:26.163
Mm-hmm.

584
00:33:26.570 --> 00:33:26.790
You

585
00:33:26.790 --> 00:33:27.623
Know? Yeah.

586
00:33:27.930 --> 00:33:31.030
Um, that, those are huge accomplishments for me.

587
00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:32.990
Yeah. Um, those are good ones.

588
00:33:34.250 --> 00:33:36.070
And being okay with myself.

589
00:33:36.290 --> 00:33:37.123
Mm-hmm.

590
00:33:38.010 --> 00:33:42.270
You know, honeypot is, honeypot is an accomplishment. Don't make me wrong. Yeah.

591
00:33:42.610 --> 00:33:45.790
But it's, it's, it's, um, it's a huge accomplishment,

592
00:33:45.850 --> 00:33:48.710
but it's not my personal biggest accomplishment.

593
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:51.120
Right, right. You know,

594
00:33:51.460 --> 00:33:54.360
it seems like a theme that I'm hearing with you is like,

595
00:33:54.940 --> 00:33:58.160
all the stuff on the inside and all the things that you do to take care of

596
00:33:58.320 --> 00:34:03.120
yourself are, are paramount to the other things that you'll do. And I, I,

597
00:34:03.190 --> 00:34:06.080
they're p totally agree. Yeah. Okay. Paramount

598
00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:06.490
To

599
00:34:06.490 --> 00:34:10.120
Everything. So two more, two more questions for you, I think. Okay. Um,

600
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:10.960
whatever you

601
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:11.120
Need,

602
00:34:11.120 --> 00:34:15.920
Honey. Okay. Awesome. What are some, some words of wisdom that you live by?

603
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.160
Like maybe just during a tough time that propelled you through?

604
00:34:19.160 --> 00:34:22.800
Or even just on a daily basis, things that keep you, keep you going

605
00:34:27.230 --> 00:34:30.460
Every night? Mostly every night. Um,

606
00:34:32.370 --> 00:34:36.110
I listen to Pema Children's, uh,

607
00:34:36.590 --> 00:34:40.750
learning to stay present. It's the 27 minutes audio book.

608
00:34:40.750 --> 00:34:45.510
That's not even a real book. Yeah. Um, you good? Mm-hmm. Ok.

609
00:34:46.650 --> 00:34:47.990
And, um,

610
00:34:49.390 --> 00:34:53.990
it literally just focuses on the art of being present. Mm-hmm.

611
00:34:54.140 --> 00:34:54.990
Just being here.

612
00:34:55.290 --> 00:34:56.123
Mm-hmm.

613
00:34:56.760 --> 00:35:00.420
So being present is big. Um,

614
00:35:01.700 --> 00:35:06.490
learn how to Die is like some real s**t. Like,

615
00:35:06.490 --> 00:35:08.840
that's like tatted on my

616
00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:12.960
Oh, wow. Yeah. Really? That's pretty actually it was really pretty. Thank

617
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.150
You. Yeah. Um, and you know,

618
00:35:16.650 --> 00:35:20.390
for me that's like understanding that if I'm, if I'm learning how to do that,

619
00:35:20.490 --> 00:35:24.450
cuz every day we're doing that right. Like we're,

620
00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:29.450
that is finite. That shit's gonna happen. Mm-hmm. Right? Mm-hmm.

621
00:35:29.630 --> 00:35:32.330
You're gonna leave this planet in from this body.

622
00:35:33.140 --> 00:35:33.973
Right.

623
00:35:34.190 --> 00:35:38.590
Um, and so I lived, I, I like live, like

624
00:35:40.490 --> 00:35:42.790
I'm here for it. What are we doing? Yeah.

625
00:35:44.010 --> 00:35:48.520
Wanna go to f*****g, uh, Japan next week, let's go.

626
00:35:48.870 --> 00:35:51.320
Yeah. You know what I mean? Like Yeah. Um,

627
00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:56.040
So is learn how to die like a philosophy around living your life while you're,

628
00:35:56.050 --> 00:35:59.120
while you're here on Earth. Is that the Yep. Okay. Yep.

629
00:35:59.350 --> 00:36:02.440
Okay. Awesome. And, um, and, uh,

630
00:36:02.540 --> 00:36:07.230
the stoic the stoic practice of only focusing on what you can

631
00:36:07.230 --> 00:36:08.063
control.

632
00:36:08.260 --> 00:36:09.093
Yeah.

633
00:36:09.660 --> 00:36:14.590
Even though I'm not good with that, with everything. Mm-hmm. But, you know,

634
00:36:14.890 --> 00:36:18.350
you're working I am really good with it with other things, you know? Yeah,

635
00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:19.220
Yeah,

636
00:36:19.220 --> 00:36:20.990
Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm working on it.

637
00:36:21.300 --> 00:36:25.390
Yeah. That's good. Okay. Awesome. Mm-hmm. Um, okay, so this one, what,

638
00:36:25.410 --> 00:36:27.470
what's one big thing, um,

639
00:36:27.470 --> 00:36:30.670
that you did not know before you started your entrepreneurial journey that you

640
00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.030
wish you'd known? Like before this all started,

641
00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:35.950
that would've been helpful to know?

642
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:47.130
Oh man, I'm so like,

643
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:48.313
unre. Regrettable.

644
00:36:49.160 --> 00:36:50.010
Yeah. Yeah.

645
00:36:51.160 --> 00:36:52.060
That's a hard one. Maybe

646
00:36:52.070 --> 00:36:53.140
Maybe put it this way, like,

647
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:55.900
if you were gonna pass on to someone who's listening,

648
00:36:55.990 --> 00:36:58.100
who's gonna start their entrepreneurial journey,

649
00:36:58.100 --> 00:37:01.420
like something that they don't tell you in a book or something like that, that

650
00:37:02.210 --> 00:37:05.800
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, look,

651
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:09.650
make a lot of f*****g mistakes.

652
00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:13.100
Learn from them.

653
00:37:15.630 --> 00:37:19.930
Be extremely kind to the people that you work with. Mm-hmm.

654
00:37:20.750 --> 00:37:24.410
And don't look at 'em like they work for you. Right. Yeah.

655
00:37:24.410 --> 00:37:28.490
They f*****g work with you. Mm-hmm. They could choose to work anywhere. Yeah.

656
00:37:28.490 --> 00:37:32.250
And they choose to be here on this journey with you. Mm-hmm. Um,

657
00:37:33.710 --> 00:37:38.280
you know, and, uh, you know,

658
00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:39.693
um, listen.

659
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:41.313
Mm-hmm.

660
00:37:42.260 --> 00:37:44.460
I, I could, I could have done that better.

661
00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:49.660
I can always do that better listening. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's a,

662
00:37:49.660 --> 00:37:53.020
that's one. Listen And, um,

663
00:37:54.710 --> 00:37:56.690
die to your ego man. Mm-hmm.

664
00:37:57.720 --> 00:37:58.553
Yeah.

665
00:37:58.600 --> 00:38:01.850
Real s**t. Yeah. Until you figure out that it don't exist,

666
00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:06.080
which takes a lot of f*****g work, die to it.

667
00:38:06.110 --> 00:38:10.720
Fall on your swords. Say you're sorry. Pay attention. Yeah. Um,

668
00:38:11.140 --> 00:38:13.690
and like really give a f**k. You know?

669
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.410
Yeah. That's a simple enough piece of advice. That's a

670
00:38:19.410 --> 00:38:20.243
Good one. Yeah.

671
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:23.450
Okay. That's powerful. Thank you for sharing that.

672
00:38:24.410 --> 00:38:25.243
No, no problem.

673
00:38:25.740 --> 00:38:28.670
Okay, my last question for you. Um,

674
00:38:29.090 --> 00:38:32.670
you're a part of the beauty of the Nile community now, which I'm so happy about.

675
00:38:33.170 --> 00:38:33.990
Um, that's

676
00:38:33.990 --> 00:38:35.660
Such a pretty name by the, the way. Thank

677
00:38:35.660 --> 00:38:38.700
You. Beauty of the Nile. Thank you. Thank you. Um,

678
00:38:39.130 --> 00:38:42.580
what does being a part of the beauty of the Nile community mean to you?

679
00:38:45.970 --> 00:38:49.240
Um, I guess the way,

680
00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:53.560
the way that it felt when you just said that mm-hmm. Is, uh,

681
00:38:54.030 --> 00:38:56.280
getting back to nature. Nature,

682
00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:57.113
Yeah.

683
00:38:57.770 --> 00:39:00.190
You know? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

684
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I think that's

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A great to, to the get getting back to like, cause like

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every living thing is naturally intelligent, you know? Mm-hmm.

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So when I hear that, that's, that's what I heard.

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Yeah. I like that. That's a really beautiful way to put it.

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Naturally intelligent, naturally beautiful. Yeah. I think that's great. Mm-hmm.

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Okay. Awesome.

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Well this has been awesome and those are all the questions I have for you.

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But thank you for being a part of this with me and sharing with me like this,

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It's, for me personally, it's like kind of a dream come true because I'm a real fan.

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Not just of like what you've built,

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but truly of the way you carry yourself and the energy that you put out.

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So I'm thankful, um, that you've chosen to be here with me today. So thank

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And I'm thankful that you chose to be here with me today. Thank you.

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I hope you all have had as much fun with this conversation as I have.

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I loved what Bea shared about her road to entrepreneurial success and what it's

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been like,

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and I really enjoyed her perspective on the ways in which feminine care and

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beauty are intertwined.

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I'm excited to continue to elevate our voices and highlight the knowledge of

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women-of-color.

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I know I learned a lot of great info today that I'll put into practice right

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away. I hope you will too.

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