We’re looking forward to introducing you to Lyssa Forbes. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Lyssa, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What battle are you avoiding?
It seems I keep avoiding the fact that in order to grow, sometimes we have to release things and individuals that aren’t meant for that journey of our life. I get so caught up in those that I love, that I forget that growth only happens with change. I always want to share my life and my abundance with others and I’ve started to learn that not everyone deserves your energy.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello! My names is Bee(AKA Lyssa) I am the Founder/CEO of Bees’ Tavern of Oddities! We cater to the spiritual aspect of people! But I also enjoy certain hobbies! Digital art has been a huge creative outlet for me since I was in middle school, so that will always have my heart! But, I have been writing a Poetry book for a little over a year now, so that’s exciting! I love doing Photography, especially of nature/wildlife! I am a stay at home mom of 3 cats and 1 pup! My goal with my Poetry and my Business, is to encourage and show others that it is okay to be yourself, and to enjoy your life, along with the things you enjoy because they are what make you who you are.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a child I was always more of the “black sheep/loner”. I was so much more different than the rest of my siblings and family, parents included. I felt very monopolized and confused growing up, because I had to push down who I really was in order to become a tolerable person for others to be around it felt like. My family would introduce me as “the disabled child” and then my brother would get introduced as the “musician, he writes his own music, he taught himself to play the guitar, great grades in school”. But I always was “this is Lyssa she’s under the federal disabled act so her schooling is free because she is ADHD and has scoliosis( two 14 inch rods and 18 screws in my back in 2010) “she gets help in school because she has a learning block”. I could go on and on about all the introductions but we would be here for years. So moral of the story I was always labeled “disabled and helpless”. And growing up I took that trauma with me and it only got worse, as I got older I started learning who I was more and pushing it down more due to my families religious beliefs. Finally I stopped in 2023 and said no more. I came out and told everyone who I am, what I believed, and what I wanted for my life. So I started going after my goals, and all of the sudden everyone that showed me growing up that I wouldn’t amount to anything because “shes’ disabled”, showed me even more negativity. Thats when I realized I wasn’t supported no matter if I was who they wanted me to be or not, so I stopped caring and fully became who I am. Not a lot agree, not a lot support, but I only need my positivity and my support to make my dreams turn to reality. So I no longer believe that I am who they said I was. I am who I made myself to be.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
That if you fail, get up and try again until you succeed and then keep going. You’re already down, you can’t go lower. There’s only one way up from down. So either give up and stay in that low vibration, or make the change worth risking. Everything comes with risks, it just boils down to how will you handle it. Value is only learned through trial and error of your own mistakes. Your life is what you make it.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes. Authenticity is very crucial to me now as growing up I was forced to be in a box and put on the shelf. So the version of me you see, is the version of me you get, because I refuse to diffuse myself for anyone or anything ever again.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
I would stop listening/taking advice from those who really don’t have my best interest at heart. Not everyone that’s in your circle, is in your corner. “Sometimes vultures just circle waiting for decay.” Sometimes people can be just energy vampires, nothing more, nothing less. You have to use your discernment and choose to walk away from things and individuals that don’t align with you.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://bees-tavern-of-oddities.myshopify.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beestavernofoddities?igsh=cjd1dWdpbWZzeHRm&utm_source=qr
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyssa-forbes-489b42311?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
- Twitter: https://x.com/beestavern?s=11
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/17wrUNrW5k/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@beestavernofoddities?si=1LfFPNd-hvGzLvkN
- Other: https://linktr.ee/beestavernofoddities
Image Credits
All credits are mine, I do my own photography. Some are AI generated!
