My Fav Innerpreneurs: Maegan Melissa Honeybee

Innerpreneurship is a tribal thing for me. Nothing to keep me going than other people working their lives from the inside out. In this section I introduce you to the innerpreneurs that inspire me.

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There are different types of innerpreneurs – like there are different types of people. Some of them are goal oriented and work focused towards manifesting that goal. Others meander their way there. Their goal is less defined externally. They sweat out their goals rather than pursuing them. In fact, it’s this sweating out their lives, this expressing that ís the goal of this type of innerpreneur. It’s the archetypical artist.

My friend Maegan Melissa belongs to this latter category of innerpreneurs. As do I, by the way. Which is probably why we hit it off immediately after meeting more than ten years ago at our local yoga studio. I was working shifts behind the front desk and Maegan Melissa offered massages. Brought up in what she describes as ‘a very loving, fun and dysFUNctional middle-of-the-road type of midwestern family in the U.S., she married a Dutch man, and moved to the Netherlands in her early twenties.

The years after we met I spend countless hours in their apartment. Which was a womb of purple colors, patchouli, clothing exchange parties, pulsating music, good food and even better company. She fed me books, new ideas and cornbread at Thanksgiving. She gave me permission to unplug and enjoy ‘unapologetically!’ when I fell in love. She could- and still can- make a children’s’ sweater from the eighties look rock ‘n’ roll on me. Her Dutch-English hybrid became a language and world on its own.

Maegan Melissa is one of those people whose entire being is a collage of expression. She can do any job and make it beautiful. She worked jobs she liked and jobs she needs. They interchanged. Over the years I’ve seen her behind counters in coffee bars, lunch rooms, in kitchens, DJ-ing, offering Dolphin massages and workshops.  She has had to reinvent herself several times -first moving to Holland and learning the language (which she did impressively) and a couple of years ago again, when she moved to Berlin, got divorced and found herself starting from scratch in yet another country and language.

She Phoenixed magnificently through all of it. Including the burning to the ground part.

One love remained lasted through it all: music. She calls it the backbone of her life. We briefly toured Holland with Yoga Clubbing Tours, where Maegan Melissa accompanied a  yoga class with music, after which we’d finish with an afterparty. We both loved house music and dancing and clubs, ánd we loved yoga, the inner life. We both refused to see them as separate. Maegan Melissa deepened her connection to Gabrielle Roth’s five rhythms and shamanistic rituals (recently: cacao).

Always while staying in firm contact with the real world, working real jobs, stumbling and getting up again in one of the most genuine and at times heartbreaking ways I’ve seen anyone do that dance called life.

My connection to Maegan Melissa feels tribal. The mere thought of her causes a tidal wave kinda love.

She is one of those people who makes the world bigger with her mere presence. There’s more of everything when I’m around  her. More inspiration. More ideas. More laughter. More colors. More food. More possibilities. More freedom.

She has the rare gift of making me feel more like myself somehow. She is my entrance to the magic of life -and luckily her gifts are spiraling out more and more.

In her most recent incarnation, Messy Magic (Life is messy, Life is magical…enjoy your magical mess) she started offering weekend workshops with her friend and teacher (and fellow innerpreneurista) Ruby May. I attended one of the Tuned In & Turned On weekends that they offer around Europe and was blown away by it. Anyone who pulls off wearing a neon pink wig holding a fairy magic wand while connecting a group of women to their truest selves deserved my deep respect – which she already had. She continues to bring seemingly separate worlds together. Which in my book, is the ultimate way of the innerpreneur.

Maegan Melissa Honeybee is the embodiment of what happens if you embrace the good, the bad and the ugly -and make magic out of it.

Bless yourself and sign up for her newsletter to catch her doing a workshop around your hometown. And meanwhile you can follow her magic musical offerings on Mixcloud.

Now, I’m curious; who are YOUR favorite innerpreneurs? Talk to me in the comments below.

To use some Maegan Melissa closing words:

‘Booty slaps and love,’

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