The Power of Trusting Your Gut

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bea Dixon built a $380M brand from a dream — literally. This week on SUPERWOMEN, I’m joined by Bea Dixon, co-founder and CEO of The Honey Pot. After receiving a vision from her late grandmother, she created a plant-based solution that would transform feminine care. From handing out samples in parking lots to attending trade shows, Bea and her lean team scaled the company into a nationally loved brand and ultimately sold it for millions. But that success came with hard choices. Behind the headlines is a story of staying grounded, walking away from the wrong money, and trusting your gut every step of the way. Episode Guide: (00:00) Meet Bea Dixon, co-founder and CEO of The Honey Pot (05:14) The offer she turned down on purpose (06:57) The dream that sparked a product (10:59) Conducting “hood clinical trials” (14:05) Guerrilla marketing and big retailers (17:29) Getting into Target before they were ready (21:18) Life after Honey Pot’s acquisition (24:35) Vaginal wellness and the chemicals in most products (27:24) The deal that almost ended Honey Pot (33:08) What you learn after cashing out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It could all leave tomorrow. You have to know that shit and you have to be able to be okay.
0:05.2	You have to know how to live your life. And money does not make me happy. Life makes me happy.
0:10.0	My family makes me happy. I make me happy. We are with Beatrice Dixon, the co-CEO and founder of Honeypot.
0:16.5	The process to getting to growth, taking the time to understand your customer, to understand
0:21.9	your products, to understand operations, all these things is very important.
0:27.1	What is it like when you put it out there, you said, I'm selling this business, and then you
0:31.4	did?
0:31.8	I knew that once we took venture capital money, once we took private equity money, that meant
0:35.9	that we were selling it.
0:36.9	Has your perspective changed?
0:38.6	I knew that the cure to getting into growing your business was definitely not just throwing it
0:44.3	on a shelf, right?
0:45.4	That's actually the easy part.
0:47.6	The hard part is staying there.
0:49.7	Honeypot wasn't making any money then.
0:51.5	It was a dream.
0:52.4	It was something that worked for me.
0:53.8	And I was just doing a version of a hood clinical trial.
0:58.4	People were telling me things that were happening with their sex.
1:00.6	I mean, all kinds of things.
1:02.1	It was affecting so many other parts of their lives.
1:14.9	I'm Rebecca Minkoff, and this is Superwomen.
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