Have you prided yourself on being productive? Have you valued yourself for being a giver? Have you felt worthy by sacrificing yourself for other people?

If so, I would suggest that you, much like me, have been a “worker bee”. That is, a highly attuned, empathic, and competent individual who has worked hard to uphold current systems in the world, albeit unknowingly. There is nothing inherently wrong with being productive, generous, and in service of others; however, for many of us on this path of awakening we’ve come to a point where we recognize that the energy behind these actions comes from a place of deep wounding, fear, or lack. This plays out like the daughter who harmonizes a broken household, the wife who “keeps the peace” among a dysfunctional family, sacrificing her own well-being to do so, or the woman who moves up the corporate ladder as a worker bee, feeling more performative and less heart-centered by the day.

Many of us worker bees have been working for the hive and specifically to uphold systems of lack and fear. Because we are so good at reading the room, knowing what is needed, and competently getting work done, we have often been manipulated by people in power, whether that person is a family member, boss, political group, or power. For me personally, this has looked like allowing myself to serve narcissists time and time again (until I realized what was really going on at a deeper, energetic level). I so deeply wanted to be seen and valued by narcissists (bosses or business coaches) at an unconscious level, looking to receive the validation or witnessing, rather, that had eluded me as a child.

The Inspired Honeybee

In the world of the divine feminine archetypes, the Honeybee archetype is the masterful creator: “A Honeybee creates from pure energy with evolutionary mastery. She works in service to a higher purpose by cultivating her gifts with the intention of becoming a contribution to humanity.” (True Calling, page 184). When I made the decision to no longer use my gifts to serve the existing structures in the world (for me that looked like working in certain corporate environments), I took a bold step to transmute the worker bee into the honeybee. The honeybee is all about co-creation with the divine, and that is exactly what happened when I heeded the call to create Soul Excellence, my expression of leadership and my invitation for people to co-create a new earth marked by a deeper appreciation for our shared humanity. The honeybee within me is the one that took the time to engage deeply with the practice of The Artist’s Way and use the morning pages to listen to what was going on within me. The honeybee in me is the one who came up with book titles like Leading Through the Pandemic: Unconventional Wisdom from Heartfelt Leaders, Significant Women: Leaders Reveal What Matters Most, The X-Factor: The Spiritual Secrets Behind Successful Executives & Entrepreneurs; The Great LeadHERship Awakening, The Diversity in Humanity, and this very book The Queen Bee: Embody Your Truth and Live Fully Expressed. 

Each book represents me putting out a vision for the new world and inviting people who feel the same to share their stories that weave this new vision together from our unique experiences and perspectives. I host a weekly podcast called The Future is Human, which is my honeybee transmitting an invitation out to the entire world to upgrade our human operating system by fine-tuning our emotional, psychic, spiritual, mental, and physical gifts. Thanks to Feminine Mastery and its founder, Cyndie, specifically, my honeybee has been fully alive and flitting about the world in intrigue and wonder and invitation!