Beatrice Dixon Is Putting Every Vagina First

The gift that my grandmother gave me, I really wanted to share that with the world. I want to be the change in the world that I live in. And I want The Honey Pot to be the change in the world that it lives in, because Honey Pot isn’t just about products. It’s about community, it’s about love, it’s about humility, it’s about loving yourself. It’s about accepting yourself. It’s about dying to the trauma, dying to the lack of respect, dying to all the things that have been, all the poison and all the hate. It’s about liberation.

And I’d say it’»s about education. It’s really important for you to be educated. Brands, especially in a space like this, should have a lot of love and humility and kindness, because that’s the energy that we have as a company. It’s a culture that we’re putting into everything that we do. We just so happen to make really beautiful, efficacious, clinically tested, plant-derived, empowered vaginal products.

How do you typically deal with rejection when it comes to working in this industry?

It’s full of rejection. You raise money, but you’re going to get a thousand nos and maybe two yeses. You go to present to a retailer, and they can take it or they can not. In the beginning rejection was harder. Now it is what it is. I’ve been in the world of natural foods for a long time. I used to be a salesperson. I worked in stores. I was a broker. I was a sales manager. So I’m used to hearing no, because I had a whole profession of doing this. Hearing no is not weird to me. It’s just a part of it, especially in business. You just have to get used to it.

What part of the job do you love so much that you get carried away doing it?

Innovation and connection to the people that we serve.

Tell me about a moment where you realized you were successful with this.

The moment that I said that this is what I wanted to do, I knew that we would be absurdly successful. I always knew that The Honey Pot would be successful. Success to me isn’t about money. Success to me is about making a decision. I’m going to put my focus on that decision, and I’m unrelenting. I’m not a person who celebrates—not that I don’t respect my achievements; I’m grateful for them. But I have to keep my eye on the ball.

What is the best piece of money advice you’ve ever received?

The best piece of money advice is try to live off of 40% of what you make and put away the rest.

If you weren’t in this career, what would you be doing?

I’d probably still be working in the natural foods industry. I’d probably be somebody’s president of sales, or something like that.

What’s the last great book you read?

I haven’t read a book in a minute. The Four Agreements, I reread that a lot. I read The Secret of Secrets by Osho a lot too. But I haven’t had time to read recently.