Honey Pot’s Message: Self-Care Begins With Community

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in 2014, has emerged as a beacon, offering innovative products and spearheading educational initiatives that redefine Black health.For Honey Pot, which was honored as part of , reclaiming wellness is about fostering an internal connection—nurturing mind, body, and soul through transformative self-care.

This movement’s roots run deep within our community, tracing back to Black-led organizations in the 1970s that advocated for prioritizing health and well-being alongside the liberation struggle.

Thus, self-care has always stood as a cornerstone of community empowerment.The full-day event, produced by , started with an intimate master class featuring Dixon and Melissa Butler, who is founder and CEO of The Lip Bar and Thread Beauty.

These two entrepreneurial powerhouses, longtime friends, shared their transformative journeys to the helm of their brands with members of Howard’s Black Girl’s House chapter and students from diverse fields, all eager to forge their own paths.In this candid session, Dixon and Butler addressed the tough realities of entrepreneurship: the importance of rest for fostering creativity, the challenges of fundraising and inevitable rejections, and the harsh truths of scaling a business.