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Speaker 1: Welcome to PM mood with your girl, Danielle Moody. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for subscribing and continuing to listen in

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Speaker 1: from the safety of your own home during this incredibly

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Speaker 1: trying time as we practice self quarantining and social distancing,

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Speaker 1: I have been conducting interviews over the phone from the

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Speaker 1: safety of my homebunk or on Long Island. So in

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Speaker 1: the coming weeks you'll be hearing more remote interviews as

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Speaker 1: we all do our best to stay home, to stay safe,

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Speaker 1: and to stay healthy. And now I am so excited

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Speaker 1: to welcome to PM mood today Beatrice Dixon, who is

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Speaker 1: the founder, CEO and badass lead in charge of the

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Speaker 1: Honey Pot Company, a feminine care company for humans with vaginas,

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Speaker 1: something that we never actually ever talk about. It's fascinating

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Speaker 1: to me. Over fifty percent of the population is women.

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Speaker 1: There are people of all different stripes and ways that

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Speaker 1: So Beatrice, thank you so much for joining PAM mood.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the Honeypot, which, by the way, my

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Speaker 1: mother and I love the name, love it, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure people tell you that all the time. It's it's

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Speaker 1: so beautiful. It's a beautiful name. So tell us about

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Speaker 1: the Honeypot and why you founded it back in twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: So the Honeypot is a plant based feminine hygiene system. Right,

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Speaker 1: we teeter between like product line systems because it really

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Speaker 1: you know, we really looked at the vaginal wellness space

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Speaker 1: and we decided as a company that we kind of

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Speaker 1: that do what we do kind of pick a lane.

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Speaker 1: You know, they'll stick within the minstrual lane, or they'll

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Speaker 1: go into the cleansing way. We looked at it and said,

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Speaker 1: let's just do everything. So we are a plant based

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Speaker 1: feminine well this company that really focuses on everything that

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Speaker 1: a woman needs for her daily and monthly health of

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Speaker 1: her vagina. First of all, anything that is made by women,

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Speaker 1: but especially black women, I want to support and get behind.

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Speaker 1: So when I'm allowed to go back into stores, I will,

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Speaker 1: But you know what, no you have online, so I will,

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Speaker 1: I will load up. It's so incredible to me because

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Speaker 1: I think that we don't talk about vaginas, Like why

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Speaker 1: is that? I One of the things that I love

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Speaker 1: about the Honeypot Dot CEO. Your website is your blog.

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Speaker 1: I really think that conversation. Obviously I host multiple shows,

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Speaker 1: but I think that conversation is so important, and yet

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Speaker 1: the thing that is essential right in our body, in

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Speaker 1: our life, we never discussed why. Yes, it's weird. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why. I talked about vaginas all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's literally like one of my favorite things in the

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's changing. I think that we're

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Speaker 1: entering into this age of like where it's not so taboo.

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Speaker 1: The millennials of today are like, they really changed a

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Speaker 1: lot about how how we talk about things, how we

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Speaker 1: you know. So I think that that's changing because I'm

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Speaker 1: think conditioning, I think marketing, I think music. I think

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Speaker 1: from all humans, from women and men, religion. I think

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Speaker 1: I am a Jamaican American woman, and I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that growing up, there were so many different names.

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Speaker 1: late grandmother, used to refer to it as your tussi money.

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Speaker 1: you choose, right, right, right, right, But I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's our responsibility, right for so long, at the fault

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Speaker 1: it's our responsibility in this day and age, while it's

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Speaker 1: becoming less and less taboo, to make it more of

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Speaker 1: at at these issues. You know. But we're getting somewhere.

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Speaker 1: But but you're right, there is so much further togo.

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Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that I think obviously

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Speaker 1: powered by herbs, and most feminine products. I would I'm

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Speaker 1: legend say are chemically produced and are made by men. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the process of creating things that are healthy for our

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Speaker 1: our bodies are organic, right, Like when we think about

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Speaker 1: your body understands herbs because that's really you know, we're

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Speaker 1: You know, it knows how to kill bacteria, but without

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Speaker 1: So that's why earths have been so important in our

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Speaker 1: How do we get in the PM mood to change

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Speaker 1: the world? I think you used the gifts that you

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Speaker 1: tacked in enough to really want to understand what it

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Speaker 1: is that you bring into the world, I think you

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Speaker 1: level up and you look at what that social responds

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Speaker 1: stability is and you actually do it. You know, you

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Speaker 1: actually like little things can be the change in the

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Speaker 1: world that you want to live in. It could be

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Speaker 1: as little as like recycling or helping somebody on the street,

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Speaker 1: or you know, giving somebody some money, or saying something

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Speaker 1: nice to somebody, or just giving a fuck you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean like, it doesn't mean that you got

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Speaker 1: to be out here tearing cancer and hugging babies and

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Speaker 1: shit like. Being a good human I think is really

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Speaker 1: taking responsibility for being a change in the world that

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Speaker 1: you want to live in, because being a good human

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Speaker 1: touches so many different places. Well, Beatristic some CEO and

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Speaker 1: founder of honey Pot, thank you so much, Thank you

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