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"Every time I introduce someone and they find their tribe, that feeds my soul."

– Rebecca Luther aka Queenie Be

Rebecca Luther—who goes by Queenie Be—went from feeling isolated after a divorce to building some of the biggest community networks in Northwest Arkansas. In this episode, she talks about how one Facebook post changed everything.

Rebecca founded The Hive Network, a support group for single moms, a thriving singles community, and now one of our region's largest business networking groups—all without any background in event planning or running nonprofits. She just saw people who needed connection and decided to do something about it.

We talk about loneliness, why being honest matters more than being perfect, and how showing up authentically can change your life. If you're a business owner looking for community, a single parent feeling stretched thin, new to Northwest Arkansas, or just feeling like you don't quite fit in—this conversation is for you.

Sometimes the best things we build come from our hardest seasons. Rebecca's story proves it.

Key Takeaways:

1. Turning Pain into Purpose: Rebecca’s story shows how personal struggles can ignite leadership and help others in similar situations.
2. Finding Your Community: The Hive Network, Singles Group, and Single Mom Sisterhood are places where everyone is welcome, connected, and supported.
3. Local Business Support: Virtual and in-person networking, like “Follow Me Fridays,” help small businesses grow their audiences and connect with new customers—for free!
4. Authenticity Matters: Vulnerability, transparency, and showing your real self are key to building lasting relationships.
5. Supporting Mental Health: Both men and women need connection—breaking the myth that only women need support and recognizing the importance of friendships for all.

All this and more on this episode of the I Am Northwest Arkansas® podcast.

Important Links and Mentions on the Show*

1. Instagram: Queenie B NWA - @queenieBnwa
2. Facebook: QueenieBNWA page and Hive Networking NWA Group
3. LinkedIn: Rebecca Luther (aka Queenie Be)
4. Website: HiveNetworkingNWA.com
5. Upcoming Events: Watch for announcements about Gownsational, Queenie Connects singles events, and Hive business networking gatherings at local venues like The Grove and George’s Majestic Lounge
6. Featured Nonprofit: Hearts of The Father
7. Special thanks to The Grove Nightclub, Bass Pro Shop, Dillard’s, and many other local sponsors supporting Gownsational and Hive events.
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What if your biggest heartbreak became the spark for your greatest

impact? On today's episode, we meet Becky, known

to thousands across northwest Arkansas as Queenie B.

What started as a Facebook group for single moms grew

into a formalware nonprofit, a singles group with

secret leadership, and now one of the fastest

growing business communities in the region. She didn't set out to

become a leader. She just wanted connection. But what

happened next? That's a story you've got to hear.

It's time for another episode of I Am Northwest

Arkansas, the podcast covering the intersection of

business, culture, entrepreneurship, and life in general

here in the Ozarks. Whether you are considering a moved to

this area or trying to learn more about the place you call home,

we've got something special for you. Here's our host,

Randy Wilbur. Hey, folks. And welcome back to

another episode of I Am Northwest Arkansas. I am sitting here

with Rebecca Luther, but you might not know who she is.

She actually goes by the name Queenie B.

I'm going to call her Queenie Bee for the rest of this podcast. But

Rebecca is somebody that I connected with online. I didn't

know her before. I just saw the work that she was doing

in our local northwest Arkansas community, building bridges and

connecting small businesses. And I said, I have to meet this woman

for a variety of reasons. And then I went out and spent

time at her networking event, which took place

up in Lowell, the Grove nightclub in

Lowell. Shout out to them. They did a great job. And

that's where we got to really connect. And I met her in person, and we.

We had already. Even before I went to that event, I had said, hey, I

want to have you on the podcast. Because as all of you that listen to

this know that I'm about relationships. I'm about building relationships, and I'm about

promoting what makes Northwest Arkansas special. And I believe

that Rebecca Luther, AKA Queenie B,

is someone that makes northwest Arkansas really special. So without further

ado, Queenie B, how are you doing? Well, right now,

I'm feeling incredibly humbled. I remember when you reached out and

I was driving in the car. My. My boyfriend Michael's driving,

and I got a message and I'm like, oh, my God, this is. Randy

Wilburn is reaching out to me from the I Am North. I was so

excited. Then you come to my event, and then you have these beautiful things to

say about me. So right now, I'm feeling special. Honored.

Yeah, absolutely honored. Well, I'm. I appreciate that. And like I

said, you know, game recognizes game. And I really, I like the

way that you kind of put yourself out there, kind of vulnerable.

I have been. And totally transparent. Right. Which I think

in this day and age, I think more than any other time, people

want authenticity. Yeah. And you have brought a very

authentic flavor to the networking space in

northwest Arkansas. And again, your page,

the networking page that you've created, the hive is just like, just

grown exponentially. Literally. I mean, we're talking.

It has only been around for. At the time of recording this for a couple

of weeks. Nine weeks. Nine weeks. Nine weeks. Yeah. It's crazy. So,

I mean, somebody might be listening to this a year from now, and it could

be multiple thousands of people, but you've got over 9,000 plus

people. Oh, my God. You know, it has just been. People have just

embraced it. And we have 9.5 thousand members

as of this morning, I believe for nine weeks. Pretty good. But here's

the thing. Last I checked, 1.8

million views. Wow. In. These are

almost exclusively northwest Arkansas residents. That's huge.

Yeah. Because there's not 1.8 million people in northwest Arkansas. No. So what that

tells us is people are going back to view it time and

again because they find it to be of value. They find the posts

that are. The intro posts particularly, are valuable, and

so they're going back over and over again and they're making their own. We've actually.

It's a public group, so you can see the posts even if you're not in

the group. So a lot of people see the posts that their friends have commented,

and then they end up joining. So, yeah, I mean, it's great.

And we're going to get into the networking event and all that. But I kind

of want to. I want to back up, though, because I love kind of telling

the superhero origin story, all of our guests and

my teenagers that. Yes, yes. Well, yes, their mom is a superhero.

You are, but. So you put a lengthy post out

on Facebook just about a week ago, maybe just being really

transparent and sharing it. And I read that. I had to pause. I had to

read it a couple of times. And, you know, you. You described

your post divorce years as incredibly lonely. What

was the turning point for you specifically that led you

to take the first brave step toward building community?

Yeah. So in a long marriage for

a really long time to a great man, just not

a great for me. And I'm actually going to back up a little bit

more. And I didn't put this in the post, but I just want

to bring this up. So I've also been recently more Open.

It's been hard for me to kind of say this out loud, but I'm getting

more used to it with time. So I was actually raised in a situation

that some now are calling, well, occult.

Okay. I was raised in a very restricted

religious environment. I was homeschooled. Very minimal

interactions with those that were not church members.

And so there was always this sort of sense of loneliness.

I'm a consummate extrovert. I get energized by people. But being

homeschooled, living in the country, not having a lot of interactions with others,

there was just always sort of an empty spot. Like, I just needed

the interactions with others. And I sort of disentangled myself

from that upbringing in my 30s, ultimately found myself

divorced. Yeah. And then, you know, divorce itself

is difficult, as many will be able to tell you, because

you change so much when you become divorced because, you

know, your priorities change, you where you spend your time. So many things change when

you become divorced. And, you know, you have friends, and a lot of them, you

lose, you know, and it's not necessarily that they're bad people, and they're like, oh,

I don't agree with you. I'm taking his side. And that's happened for somebody. Some

of it is just that I changed. I was no longer, you know, his wife

anymore. I was no longer a wife anymore. Things change. And so you lose

people along the way. And I think that's definitely the case in life, but it

just is really in sharp relief post divorce. And so I found

myself very alone. Did you meet him as part

of growing up in this church environment? Yes. He was a

member of the church that I was raised. So, yeah. Which is interesting. I know

we've all heard stories like that. Right. Of people that have

kind of gotten out of a situation like that. And so, you know, you're in

this reinvention phase, if you will. The one cool thing about

it is that you're a mom. And so you did get something

amazing out of that whole thing. You know, people ask about

regrets, and I don't regret a single step of it because it gave

me my babies. And, you know, there's a lot to be said for.

And I say this, and people don't always. Don't always agree, but the things that

we've gone through, like you, Randy, I know you've gone through some really hard things,

and in the moment, you would just do anything to get rid of

it. But don't you find that a lot of those things when you look back

in time you actually end up being grateful for it because of what it taught

you, because of the wisdom that it gave you, but also because of the

empathy that it grew in you. Because sympathy is wonderful.

The ability to look at someone and say, I'm sorry for their circumstances is wonderful.

But to be able to say, I've been there, I know how you're feeling,

and I promise you, there's light on the other side of this

that is incredibly powerful. You know, I think,

and it's funny, you are welling up in me all these emotions

about messages and stories that I got from my grandparents. I was

raised by a single mom. I mean, my father was around, but my parents got

divorced really early, and so we ended up going and living with. I was in

a multi generational household because my grandparents wanted my mom to save money to

buy a house. And so they owned a house. And so I live with grandma

and grandpa and my mom. And you know, my grandmother and grandfather were just

had. They exuded sagely wisdom and advice. But I always

remember my grandmother saying something to me, and she said it within

the context of encouraging a young man who was a

pastor in her church who was at the ripe old age

of 23, found himself in the hospital deathly ill. And she

sent him a note. And in that note she wrote, don't waste your pain.

And when she. When I said that, I was like, don't waste your pain. What

does that mean? But that resonates so hard with me right

now. But it is my grandmother, you know, she shared with him some Bible

verses, but she said, more importantly, you know, in life,

you are gonna have ups and downs. You know the word

the book says, trouble, you will have with you all the days of your life.

And so I'm not gonna preach to anybody, but I will say that I don't

care who you are, what book you read, what book you believe. We all

go through ups and downs. Absolutely. But the mark of the man

or woman that deals with those challenges of life is

how you interact with it. Yeah. You know? Yes. You know, when you

said that about don't waste your pain, I actually saw a video. There's a. I'm

so sorry, I can't remember her name. I would love to be able to send

you to her. There's an influencer that has alopecia. She's lost

all the hair, and she sort of made a name for herself by

being willing to go out there and not wear a wig.

She does now a fashion show with girls

that have alopecia. They walk the Runway, and then when they get

to the end, they take off their wig and they throw it away to

show that we don't need this. We're proud of who we are. And I think,

man, you know, when she had that alopecia when she was, you know,

a teenager, I bet she cried so many tears. But look at what she

has done. Look at how she's used that to be something

incredibly beneficial to so many others. And, you know, if I'm able

to do a little part of that through, you know, the trials that I've

experienced as a single mom or, you know, someone

that's divorced or as someone who was raised in a really

restricted environment, sheltered environment, I've had a lot of people that have reached

out and say, you know, I was just like. I was raised like you. You

weren't the only one. So, yeah, so it was. Yeah, in this area, it was.

Yeah. It's not that it's prevalent, but I mean, we've heard the

stories, right? And you hear about how people are able to come out of

situations where I would say their ability

to be who they're called to be is really

suppressed. Oh, my gosh. So much. And then there

becomes this awakening, if you will, where they're able to get out of their

shell and realize that, oh, my gosh, there's this big world out there. Everything that

I was told for X number of years is maybe either

not accurate or I was told a level of half

truths. And so once you start to get that truth for yourself and you

find that out, it just. Yes. It creates a whole different ball game for

you. Yeah. I was told very expressly

women aren't to lead. That is not their job. As a woman, you are

to follow. And this was preached to me.

So for me to have stepped into this role in the last couple of years,

where I am most definitely a leader, is.

Yeah. Finding the role, like you said, when you

finally put in a place where you're natural. Look, we can do

a lot of things that we're good at, but when you find

something that just speaks to your passions, speaks to your

natural talents and abilities, it's just so fulfilling. And

I think that that's what I found here, and it's something that I didn't

have for a lot of years. Okay, well, let's look at the arc of

your story in terms of just building community, because

you've actually. You've actually built community on a couple of different levels.

Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. But I mean, what was the impetus behind

that, Was it just you saying, I gotta get out and connect with some other

people? Yeah, exactly. Or did you see a need and say, I want to fulfill

that? Yeah. Well, I became a single mom and I'm like, we need some

support. I want to hang out with other single moms. My friends are all still

married and they're wonderful people, but they don't. They're not single moms.

They don't get it in the same way. Yeah. And so I said, well, I'm

going to try to start a single moms Facebook group. I did a single mom

sisterhood of NWA it became successful very quickly

and we would do some in person meetups and such and

that became a pretty, pretty big group quickly.

But it led to. We had a post in the group page and it was

single mom who was crying in her post and

she was like, I'm just, I'm brokenhearted and I just want to share it with

other women who will understand. Because my daughter is a senior and I can't

afford to get her a prom dress. And I just feel like the worst mom

on earth because I don't even know how I'm going to pay the electric bill.

Like, how on earth can I spend hundreds on a prom gown? But I, I

couldn't afford it last year either. She's a senior. It's her last chance. And I

was like, duh. On my watch. And I said,

this just can't be. This just can't happen. And so I called some friends,

many and Becca and April who were moderators in the group with me. And

I said, you know, can we do a dress drive? Yeah. And oh my gosh,

Randy. We decided that. I remember distinctly, it was January 24th

of 2024. 2024.

This was only two years ago. Okay. Yeah. And okay, so we decided that on,

on January 24th. And I will preface this by saying I don't

do well doing things halfway. I find that I can either

do it 100 miles an hour or I'm not going to spend my time. So

in from January 24 till March 8, which is the day that we

had our gown stational formals drive where we got prom

gowns from donors closets, because so many of us have

a gown in our closet and it's just gathering dust and it's going to go

out of style. Yeah. So I get that prom gown from your closet

into the deserving teens, underprivileged

teens, arms. Like, how do I get. Okay, so in. What was

that, five or six weeks. We got nearly 700 prom gowns.

700. Nearly 700. Seven or 77. We worked with over

80 local businesses that worked for sponsors

because it was entirely sponsor run. There was no monetary

exchange exchange. It was all like donating door prizes,

donating a photo booth, donating a balloon arch, donating racks, donating

gowns. We worked with dry cleaners that were donating,

like, okay, yes, we can get six gowns cleaned before we got

seamstresses donating their time. Dillard donated bags. So when these

girls walked out, they walked out with a nice bag on a velvet

hanger. So we wanted to feel luxurious, Right. Not like, here's a gown, take it

and be grateful. We want it to feel like a luxury experience with the photo

wall and all that stuff. Yeah, we did, I think something. I did my very

first news interview, and I think we ended up doing 12 or

14 in that five weeks to the point where it was picked up by Bobby

Bones. Okay. It was reported in Seattle, Philadelphia, sort of.

It just struck a chord. Single moms banding together to help, you know,

teens in need. So we're doing it again this year, I'm proud to say. Okay,

so it will come out. We'll make the official announcement about the date and

the location in the end of this month. So December

2025. And I'm excited. Well, I'll be sure to get

all of that information from you, and hopefully we can post all of that in

the show notes. Anything that anybody hears about Queenie Bee, about

her networking event, or any of the programs that she's attached to, we'll make

sure we put that in the show notes and you'll be able to get that

all@im northwest arkansas.com. So, you know,

I don't even. Did I end up answering your question? Yeah, you did. Gownsational. I

started with a single answer that bled into galuntational, which turned into the

next. The next thing, which we're gonna talk about. So there is

this evolution here, and I appreciate that because actually, gownsational was my

next question. But you already answered that for me, which I really appreciate.

Here's the thing, though, you know, as I look at you, and then I. I

got to watch you last week as you were on stage

inviting all of the sponsors up and having people come up, and people were

really having a good time, and you had tables set up for so many local

businesses. Because I'm all. All about local, and we have to support

local businesses 100%. And I think it's important for us to

recycle as many dollars as possible in our local community.

Amen. And in a lot of communities, our money is spent and it goes right

out. And so that's why it's important. That's actually one of the benefits

of actually having Walmart right here in our backyard.

Right? Because, I mean, you know, yes, Walmart is a big company, but, you know,

Amazon's not here in our backyard. Walmart is. And so even

supporting Walmart, I sometimes feel like, well, my money's being recycled right

back up to Bentonville, you know, and it's okay, because Walmart

touches so many different aspects of the community. Walmart

has done so much good.

Look, there's things, right, we know, but they've done a lot of

good. They really have in our area. Whether it's shining a light, you know,

this new medical school where they're shining a light on this holistic medicine,

whether it's, you know, just building community with the momentary. I'm actually doing an

event with the Momentary next week that I'm really, really proud of.

Okay. Whether it is the art that they've brought to the area,

you know, the bicycle Pat, they've done a lot of good.

They really have. And so, you know, I gotta say,

I'm proud. Right? And even when you. Everything that you just

described is the result of

Walmart, right? Because Walmart. Walmart didn't open Crystal Bridges. Walmart

didn't open the. But. Because of wall. Well, wall 10.

No, no, no, But. No, but you're right, though. They wouldn't be they.

Without Walmart, right. And without what their dad did. Sam Walton. And

something that I tell people all the time. Before you move to northwest Arkansas, you

should really read his autobiography. You should learn about Sam Walton, because.

Really interesting figure, good man. So, yeah,

so many. He touched the lives of so many people. And because of

his thinking, you know, he really thought about what

northwest Arkansas could be, not what it was, what it could

be. And so because he saw that J.B. hunt, Don

Tyson, and so many others that are local here, they really

invested in this community, and we're actually reaping the benefits of it. We are.

We are. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. So. And I get it. I mean, there's

always going to be, you know, people who sometimes give me a hard time because

you're like, oh, you talk too much about this or that. And I'm like, yeah,

but, you know, you need to understand how our community has

grown. And it's. It's the same issue tremendously. And you know, with the

university, because a lot of times people are like, oh, the university, they're taking up

all this space. But, you know, the university's growing. When I moved here, they

didn't have 34,000 students. Now they have 34,000 students.

I look at it as opportunities, not problems, for us to continue to grow

and expand. So, yeah. And, you know, if you think about it like

this, the Waltons are choosing to invest all of this money,

all of their time and their efforts and what they're able to help. They're choosing

to invest that in northwest Arkansas. Absolutely. You know, they don't have to be in

northwest Arkansas. Right. They didn't have to keep themselves here,

necessarily, but they're choosing to do that and invest in this. And I

gotta say, there was a time perhaps that I didn't appreciate

northwest Arkansas as much as I do now and what it offers, and that we

still have that sort of small community feel, even though we're really not a

tiny community anymore like we were when I came here in the early 90s when

my dad was hired by Sam Walton himself. Wow. And so,

yeah, yeah, it's. I'm proud. Yeah, I'm proud. Hey, I'm happy,

too. And people always ask me, why. Why are you in northwest Arkansas? And

I'm like, listen, you got to just come here and see for yourself. You got

to. I mean, we're in this fabulous library right now. I mean, it's like, who

has class? World class. World class. Like, let's, like,

legitimately. So it is really, really nice. So,

listen, you. You had no formal event planning

or nonprofit experience, yet you pulled off something remarkable

with the gowns. Gownsational. And. And all of the things that you've done

previously. What did that teach you about

resourcefulness and leadership? I'll tell you what.

Gownsational. It was like in a video game. New skill

unlocked. Because you're right, I hadn't done it before. You know, I'd done the single

moms group. We had a couple of small. I had never done anything to this

scale. I had never done, well, anything even close. And so it was

like, new skill unlocked. And I was like, oh, wow, I am good

at this, and I like it. And I

have many downfalls and weaknesses, more

than most, as we all do. As we all do. But I'm good at

connecting people, and I am good at impressing

my passion for a cause onto others. I've discovered this about

myself. And so I was like, we got to do this prom gown. And it

happened and then during gownsational, as I'm like,

okay, I am scratching something I didn't even know was

itching here. Like, this is good. I like this. And so then I had

this idea because I was running a single moms group and

I'm proud of that. But you know, single fathers

really get overlooked. Yeah, that's true, they do. And I'm going to take that a

step farther and I'm going to say men in general are often overlooked

and it's not always the most popular thing to say, but we got to look

at the data and the data tells us the person most likely

to decide to end it all is a single middle

aged male. Yeah. Like not just by a little bit either. By a

lot, far and away. And so I said, okay, I'm connecting all of these single

moms, but like, there's a lot of single dude guys out

there. And so while I was doing gownsational and discovering, you know, this is

something that I'm good at doing, and then I had this idea to start

a not a single moms group, a singles group. Right. And so that we're going

to try to, you know, create a sense of community and connection

and encouragement for men and women that are single.

And so I started that right after gounsational was

sort of over done for the year. So you figured, hey, well, I've already got

these skills. Yeah. I've just, I've discovered I'm good at this. As Liam Beeson says,

I have a particular set of skills. Yeah, there you go. You've got a set

of skills that you're like, you know, I could deploy that in a number of

different ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I'm going to start a singles

group. And then I kind of had this feeling, like I kind

of had a feeling it was going to get big. I don't know how I

knew this, but I had done a couple of things that got really big, really

fast. I think it's kind of going to be big, but I don't really know

if I want to be the leader. Does Rebecca want to be the leader of

the singles group? Sure. Like maybe she just wants to be a member of

it. And so I launched a singles group at the time I called, and

you're going to cringe here. So please. I called it NWA Desirable

Singles. I know, I just. That's funny. Anyway, so I called it

NWA Desirable Singles and I launched this singles group and I did it under the

pseudonym, I created a pseudonym called Queenie Bee.

Just so that no one would know that Becky was the leader.

It would be Queenie Bee. But I also didn't think anyone would care about Queenie

Bee. Like, you know, we take advantage of so many

Facebook groups and brands. We have no idea who the creator is. We don't care.

So I didn't think anyone care who Queenie Bee was. Right. Turns out they did.

Yeah. What was that like, you know, living

this double life. Becky by day, Queenie Bee by night. Oh, my God.

Right? It was crazy. So I would go to these events and Queenie would,

would like talk about. Oh, you should. In the single moms group, for instance. Oh,

you should join my, you know, singles group. I'm a friends with Becky, you know,

and I would log in as Becky and I'd be like, oh, Queenie, I'm glad

you're. And it was complicated. I didn't love doing it. And then I would go

to events and people would be like, oh, we heard, you know, Queenie, tell us

about her. And I'd be like, oh, she's, you know, she's kind of annoying,

actually. Talks too much. Yes. And I feel bad. So

I'm trying not to tell falsehoods. Sure. But at the same time, I was

really protective of. I didn't want.

I just wanted to be one of the members of the group and not

be the leader of the group, I guess, and not get the attention

of it. And I think because that ended up being sort of a mystery

and because when I started the group, it became so big, so

blindingly fast that

now Queenie's this mystery. Who is this woman that's creating this thing that's

growing so rapidly within two weeks of starting the group.

Okay, so two weeks after I started the singles group, which is now called Queenie

connects, we had 400 members. I did my first in person meetup

on April 12th of 2024. We then proceeded to do at

least one and up to four in person meetups every

single day, man. Every single day. So

now I'm curating this because everyone loves it because they're loving the

connection and they're coming out and they're connecting with other singles. Mainly single parents.

I was a 40 something, you know, and mainly single parents. And they're

loving it. And so who is this woman? That's the puppeteer that, you know.

And I'm like, oh, she's just, you know, she's just nice. She just, she's shy.

She doesn't like to come back. She's shy. And so I remember a Day. A

couple months, I think two months after the group started, sitting at a restaurant with

my family, with my kids, and hearing the people at the table next to us,

like, trying to figure out who Queenie is. Wow. Trying to guess who Queenie was.

And I was like, is this happening? Yeah, it's like. It's kind of surreal,

right? Yeah. When you think of it. But the singles group worked. Yeah.

We have had, I think, eight marriages. I was gonna ask you about

that. Eight marriages. Okay. And countless relationships.

And. And yeah. But just as importantly is

friendships. So friendships, groups form. You come to these events, you come to a few

events, you find your tribe. Sure. And you. Now you have the people that you

want to go to concerts with and the people that you're taking, you know, girls

trips with or the guys that are going to the game together. Yeah. And sort

of fostering that possibility for friendships. That type of community is,

even on a small scale, is important. I know. My wife is part of. I

always call it her sister social circle. It's a bunch of women, they.

Their common denominators that they all met at a church that my wife and I

used to go to. Yes. Yes. And they all are still very close, and

they have special bond. You know, they get together

several times a year where they stay up late. It's kind of like a pajama

party for adult women. And it just reconnected like it's

been no time at all. Right. Exactly. Whenever they come together, it's as

if time has stood still for them, which is huge. Right. And I

think we all, like, all of us, men and women, we need that

type of connection. Yes. I think. And men have been told for too long that

they're not supposed to. Yeah. And I hate that. And that's one of the things

that's. A bill of goods that people are selling. That's really not. Not a good

thing. It's a hard situation. You know, it's not good for any of us when

our men are lonely or women are lonely. Yeah. Isolation is not cool. And

people, a lot of times what happens is you get that narrative that, yeah, you

should be that lone, you know, that lone wolf. And that's not a

good thing. No, it is not. You don't have to be. And some actually thrive

in that environment. For those. That's fantastic. But so many have just been told, well,

you're just supposed to do it all. And you. No one can. You can't do

it all and be so strong and never have emotion and be just a Pillar

of solid marble strength all the time, male or female, it's

impossible. But that's sort of the. What has been impressed upon us

and what is reinforced, you know, oftentimes in the media

and stuff. And so I do a lot of posts on my Queenie

Bee page or my profile. I'm sorry, you'll. There's quite a few

posts sort of drawing attention to. Let's let men be

breakable too. Yeah, absolutely. Let's let men have weaknesses too,

and not attack them for those, you know. Well. And you know, when you say

breakable, you use that when people think of something breaking, like I. I think of

like a vase breaking. Right. But the Japanese have this term,

it's called ikigai, where, like you break something and then you put it back together

again. And sometimes what you put back together is even stronger

than what it was in its original form. And I think all of us can.

Going back to that empathy we were talking about earlier. Exactly, exactly. All of

us can benefit from that. Yeah, absolutely. So you.

And because you've mentioned this publicly, I wanted to ask you about it. You

said that you were blackmailed and you chose to go public about it.

Obviously, that took immense courage. How did that moment

kind of change the way that you, Queenie Bee, saw yourself

as a leader? Yeah, I, unfortunately, would have to make

difficult decisions at times to remove people from the singles group for

typically, almost always for reasons of safety. Well, when you're

removing someone who's been determined to be unsafe. Right. Which we

had an entire board that would choose, it wasn't me. Right.

Because we worked really hard to be as objective as possible. So it

wasn't like I'm just kicking people out. I don't. Like, it would be like we

would vote and we would be objective. And anyway. And so when you remove

someone who's unstable and unsafe, well, sometimes they turn around

and they want to backlash. And so someone had discovered who I was and they

said, look, if you don't let me back in your group, I'm going to tell

everyone who you are and you won't be able to hide anymore. And it actually

had happened a couple of times. And finally I was like, you know what?

I'm just not going to hide any more, period. And so I'm just going to

come out with who I am at this point. I'm the leader of this group.

And most of the group, a lot of the group knew, but it had. But

they had been kind and not been telling people publicly because they knew I was

trying to be. And so then I was. So you were really only being blackmailed

with the Persona of Queenie Be. Yes. Yes. So it was big. Well,

there was a lot of other stuff, but this particular one was, I'm going to

tell everyone who Queenie Bee is, and you won't be able to hide it anymore.

Right. And so that's. And I. You know what? I'm going to take

that ability away from you and anyone in the future by just telling everyone who

I am. And that way you can try to blackmail me and I'll be like,

everyone already knows. Right. So I did a video. Oh, my God, I'm so nervous.

I went live, which I don't know if I'd ever gone live maybe once before

in the group. I went live at a Christmas party and I was

so nervous. But that video, the very first one showing

my face, I guess everyone's like, that's who it. You know, we got like 15,000

views. I was shocked. Yeah. Crazy. Well. And I applaud

you for your strength and resilience in doing that. And

so obviously, when you decided that you were not gonna hide

behind the moniker, even though you're using the moniker on a regular

basis, that took a lot of courage. Yeah. I mean, I would

say for me, it was accepting that

all of this trying to avoid the spotlight, which

is what I was trying to do, like, I didn't want to the spotlight. I

had no aspirations to be an influencer. I had no aspirations. And then

I had to make that very conscious decision by

releasing this video because I had decided a day or two ahead by releasing

this video. What I'm saying is I'm willing to accept

what's going to come after. Yeah. And, you

know, I just made the decision to, you know, I don't want people to hold

it over me anymore. But once when you're given this

blessing, which it is, Queenie Bee is absolutely a blessing,

even if it's not somewhere you saw yourself, you go with

the turns in the road and you run with it. And that's sort of what

I've done. Yeah, well, listen, I mean,

that speaks volumes of who you are as a person and why

I think people should kind of care about the work that you're doing out there

in our community because you really are making a difference. You've

launched multiple initiatives. Single moms, singles

now business owners. Now business owners. Yes. Yeah. So I'd be

curious to know from your perspective, Queenie B. What is the what

through line connects all of these communities

for you because some of them are different, but there's some similar

patterns. But I'd be curious to know what is the through line for you. So

I would say that the one thing that is in

person meetups where everyone, where people are welcome

and you are welcome and you know, I tell people, whether it's at the networking

events or at the Queenie Connection Next events or you know, when we did the

Single Moms events, walk into any party that Queenie

throws. And I want you to think to yourself, right before you walk into a

crowded room, I want you to think to yourself, everyone here came here to meet

me. Yeah. Because that's what it is. This isn't a part. My parties

aren't ones where you go to and you just talk to the two or three

guys. Or a networking event where you talk to the two or three guys you

already know. No, this is a place where I'm literally going to grab you. And

I probably did this too, that I will literally grab your hand or, or you

know, pull, pull your elbow and be like, let me introduce you to new people

you don't know and just expand your circle. And every time I do

that, the little part of me, and I've said this before, the

little 12 year old girl, so lonely and

she's helping someone else, she's also helping herself. That

little girl, you know, is that cheesy and like it helps me

every time I see that I'm. That I introduce you to someone and then you,

you, the next day you're like, I'm so glad because actually we're going to end

up, we're getting caught. You know, I love that. That feeds

my soul. Yeah, I actually, I think we're kindred

spirits in that sense because I have enjoyed

leveraging this platform that I have been blessed to create with the I Am Northwest

Arkansas podcast by using it to introduce different people,

different parties that didn't know each other. And so I constantly get

emails and calls saying, hey, I heard this person on your podcast. I'd

love to meet them. Absolutely. It's always yes and right.

So it's like it's never no, I don't want to do that. My whole thing,

purpose in doing this podcast, really, it was selfish originally for

me, but what I realized was I inadvertently

created a platform that people really enjoy

and it also created an opportunity for me to make connections to

people. Yes, it's wonderful just growing my circle and

you know, looking back on that, you know, the Becky, what I call,

you know, the dark times and just the Loneliness, just the

all encompassing loneliness I was feeling. And

every new person that I meet and every new connection that I make for

myself or others, it soothes that girl. And I did a post a

while back, I did a post to Dear Becky or dear

of a few years ago and it was a post just saying

it's not going to be like this forever. And I want you to accept

this pain that you're feeling right now because in the future you're going to use

it. You're going to use it to create a lot of good and help erase

that pain in some others. I love that. And that's my goal because in my

dark place, there wasn't anyone that even really cared that

I was in a dark place. And so I want to say, look, I want

to try to help if you're feeling lonely and isolated, I've got places that you

can come find your tribe, you know? Well, and I think that's important because a

lot of folks feel lonely and in a dark place, but

what happens is they think they are the only

ones and that's not the case. I remember as

Queenie, I want to say it was like in May of

2024. Now keep in mind, don't call me brave for this because

keep in mind I was hiding behind the name Queenie B. And no one knew

who I was at the time, but I actually did a post and I said

on this post, I said publicly that I had

been really lonely. And you know, that was hard to say.

And again, I was doing it as Queenie Bee. So but it's hard

to say loneliness because when you admit loneliness, you're

almost kind of saying like, well, why is she lonely? People must not like her.

Right? And so then you're saying, well, I'm not very likable. There's a reason I'm

alone if I was popular. And so it was hard for me to say that,

that I had experienced a lot of loneliness in my life and that now

I say it with ease and I say it publicly as Rebecca. But at the

time it was big for me to say to be authentic like that. But the

response, yeah, that that post got was

by far the biggest I'd ever had on a post. And I thought I'm not

the only. Wait a second, there was so many people that just identified with. I

was in this dark place too at one point or I would. And so yeah,

that really the encouragement I got from others, the positive response. And there

were, you know, there were naysayers, but the positive response I got from others is

what, like, really encouraged me and bolstered me to feel

comfortable doing it again. And then I opened up other things, you know, with the

marriage or other things. Lonely. Loneliness as a small business

owner is one thing I've talked about, and it. Is

lonely being a small business owner. I mean, it is, you know,

people. I always call it entrepreneurship porn because

everybody likes the idea of looking at being an entrepreneur,

but it's the actual work that goes behind it, which is

difficult. No one tell me that I was going to be.

I was going to be, you know, a bookkeeper. I was going to be a

social media expert, a website builder, a, you know,

copywriter. I mean, you gotta do it all. You have to do it all. And

you're doing it alone. You're grinding day

after day after day, hoping that you have a fantastic idea that

people are gonna take and run with it and bolster you. You're

hoping and. But then you don't. And so that's what Hive Networking was about. It

actually wasn't about sales. It was about saying,

hey, guys, we're all doing this alone in our little

section, our little piece of the. The earth.

Let's, like, just lean on each other and sympathize and empathize with

each other and bolster each other in ways that are free to all

of us. Right. And support each other. And support each other. Perspective. Yeah,

absolutely. So. And you bring me right to my. My

next point, which is simply because Hive Network really has. Has

exploded at the point of recording this in just weeks. Literally weeks.

It's not like you've been around for years. Yeah. What gap in

Northwest Arkansas do you think specifically HIVE

is filling? And really, how are you helping these

local businesses thrive? You've had a couple of events. You had one

at topgolf, you had one at the Grove just recently. There'll

be others coming up in 26. So I'm curious

to know, how do you feel specifically, like you're

helping small businesses thrive? I mean, so

a couple things. So I'll try not to wax poetic here, because I

could talk about this forever. So I think, firstly,

a lot of networking events are, you know, at 7, 8,

9 o' clock in the morning. Yeah. I mean, if you're grinding to take

off and leave and go to this event,

or if you're, you know, single mom and you. Or single dad, you got to

get the kids to school. You know, the networking event starts before work starts, but

then you're taking the kids to. So firstly, it's in the evening. So

that's one thing which is just, you know, is all of our events are in

the evenings. But the other thing is we do

two things. Okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna limit myself so that I don't talk your

ear off. You're such a good listener, I could talk forever. So one,

Virtual networking. Right. So a lot of the

networking that you see is in person. You meet

someone, you shake their hand, you look in their eyes,

you exchange business cards. And that's wonderful. Don't get me wrong. That is

fantastic. But what we do a lot in the group is virtual

networking. So what is virtual networking? So you're a small business.

You've got a hundred followers on your Facebook page. You make

posts and no one sees them, no one's commenting on them, no one's liking

them, no one's following your page. You can't afford to spend

hundreds of dollars a month on marketing. So how can I boost your

business page for free? Right. Well, so one

thing that we do in the group is we have follow me Fridays. Sure.

So on Friday, I post a thread and I say you drop your name

below. Where do you need followers? Instagram? Do you need followers? TikTok? LinkedIn? Where do

you need followers? I want you to drop that link below and I want you

to ask for followers. But here's what I also want you to do. If you

ask for followers, here's what I need you to do. I need you to give

follows. Sure. So don't just drop your name. This isn't a one way exchange. This

is a two way exchange. So you drop your name and say, I need followers

here. You know, follow I am Northwest. You need some

follows. You need to give some followers and then go farther than that. Don't just

follow their page. Go make a couple comments on their post. What Facebook

loves more than anything else is a post that's been up for a hot minute

and now it's getting more attention, that boosts it. So that post they made

is being seen all over again. It's free, it takes five minutes. And I

get messages all the time from small businesses. You have

doubled the number of follows on my social media

accounts in such a short time. So the virtual networking

posting, intro posts, you know, we don't really have a yellow pages anymore.

So by the time this comes out, I hope to be making

the announcement that we're going to have a hive directory of small businesses.

So a lot of virtual networking, I think that's a huge thing. And you

know, we do the following me Friday post. We do a post where you

share something you're proud of. I did something. And as other

small businesses, you understand what a big deal it is that this, what some might

seem like a small thing to an entrepreneur is huge. So post

your point of pride for the week or post another small business.

We have that as well. Post another business that you've worked with that did something

really great. And this is essentially you can just so quickly. And all of

these are ways to virtually network that are free but have been

so beneficial to a lot of our members. Man. Yeah,

that really, I really like hearing that. And I

really have enjoyed looking at the post where people will talk

about themselves and what they do. And I keep saying, oh, I need to post

something, I need to post something. I just haven't had a chance to. But you

know, I've gotten to connect with or at least learn about some new

businesses that I wasn't aware of. You didn't even know because they can't afford. And

so they can't afford to have a billboard on 49. And so. Yeah, I mean,

well, I'll be honest, some of those intro posts have gotten

massive. Yeah. Massive traction. So Andrew from

Hearts of the Father, which is a local nonprofit that does something

unbelievable where he takes children, boys from

troubled situations, works, you know, with dhs, takes boys

from troubles, he takes them camping, teaches them how to fish.

Fantastic stuff. I mean, just incredible what he does. And so very

quickly after the group was made, I think his post that he did was shared

several hundred times and ended up going sort of like

NWA viral. Yeah. So we did a fundraiser, just

like a last minute fundraiser. We raised like over a thousand dollars because

he needed some gear for his next trip that he was doing in November. We

took him to Bass Pro Shop, who we had worked with to give us a

deal. We took him to Bass Pro Shop and like bought him a bunch of

gear, like heaters because it was in November, sleeping bags,

you know, all these things for him to take. Man, that just gives a whole

new meaning to community. Right. In terms of just kind of meeting a need where

it is and helping somebody out in their time of need. And that's the thing

that I've always liked about Northwest Arkansas. And I've always said this and people probably

get tired of hearing me say it on this podcast. This being Northwest Arkansas

is one of the most giving places that I've ever lived in. Okay, well

don't we have like the most non profits or something? We have A lot I've

read. It's like, we have a huge amount of nonprofits. Quote me, I may be

wrong, but I think we have them because we are such a giving

area. Like, we're filled with people who want to boost, and I love that.

Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, the group has the intro posts. I mean, I've

had people that have messaged me, they said, queenie, all I did was post an

intro in your page. That's all I did. It took me two minutes. It was

free. You've doubled my business for the month. Yeah, I love that. Yeah.

Like, I've heard this time and time again, you've doubled my followers. One girl posted

the other day. You've increased how many views I got on Instagram by

17,000 this month. Yeah. So, yeah, just. And it's

all totally free to tiny businesses. Well, I like that. I actually

got a couple of ideas. I'll have to talk with you offline, but you're kind

of. You're making me think about some things. Oh, yay. I love ideas. I think

that it's important to give people the platform,

both the physical platform, like you're doing with these

networking events, but then also that virtual platform, what you're doing. But

the only challenge that I always have with that is that a lot of

it is on somebody else's platform, I. E.

Instagram or Facebook. So it's the idea that, how can you

package up all of that goodness and have it in a place where

you have a certain amount of control? Because we all know that, you know, Mark

Zuckerberg tomorrow could change the algorithm, and then that changes everything.

Yeah. Yeah. And that is one of the challenges that anybody has

when they create something on a platform like a Facebook or

Instagram. Like, we're at his mercy. So, for instance, you know, like, when I had

my singles group, Queenie Connects Chats, there was chats you could

join incredibly active. Our chats were so

active. And then they decided to take away chats just like that. That was the

most popular part. It's hard. And so what I ended up doing is with

Queenie Connects is I opened a circle. It's called Circle.

And basically, you create your own little social media platform, and you can

add or subtract all these different things. It was fantastic. The problem is

it requires you to download another app, and then people would have to log into

Circle just to see Queenie Connect's stuff as opposed to with

Facebook. When you're scrolling, you see the hive networking stuff as well

as all the Other stuff that's coming across your feed. And so there are other

platforms, but. So maybe one day. But we're

not quite there yet. Okay. Yeah, we're not quite there yet. It's coming. It's definitely

coming. Oh, my God. The ideas, Randy, that I have,

they're limited only by the hours in the day and

how much these fingers can touch. Yeah, yeah. No, I love that. I love that.

So, and that brings me to this next question that I have for you. With

so many projects, how do you, Queenie Bee, keep

your mission clear and avoid burnout? Yeah. Oh, you

know, I actually met with someone yesterday. Oh, what was her name? She

runs. Oh, gosh, I have to know her name. And

basically what she does is she helps with this very

thing. She helps with small business entrepreneurs. Okay. I'm gonna give her. And you're

gonna have to completely forgive me if I totally say this name.

Shaheen. Okay. And she works. Yes, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me the name of her. I don't know

the name of her. I know her. So she helps with small business. She's already

reached out to me and she said, queenie, you are running 90 miles, but you

are going to burn yourself out. Let me connect you with some. So, like, I'm

doing an event that I'm super excited about. I'm already. I'm go ahead and tell

you because we. We haven't announced it yet, but we will have by the time

this comes out at George's Majestic Lounge. I mean, I could die, but I am

having an event at George's. Okay. I'm so excited by this.

I totally the same thing at the Grove. When I met Bill at the Grove,

I fangirled. I mean, I legit. I kind of did the same thing when I

went to George's the other day, that they would want me to have a networking

event at George's Majestic Lounge. Sure. I'm beyond honored. But, like,

they're going to get me in touch with the Small Business Council in

Fayetteville. No, Small Business Coalition. Coalition.

Small Business Coalition, I believe it's called. And because I'm going to try

to pull a lot of the downtown Fayetteville

businesses together to do this event at George's with me and try to,

like, boost them because it'll be in January, which is a really slow time, of

course, for a lot of service businesses. So anyway, so.

Yes. How do I avoid burn? Well, that's the question. You know, I

lie awake at night thinking, what if this is a flash in the pan? Oh,

yeah. And, you know, like, what if I'm. A one hit, one person? All the

small businesses go away tomorrow. I don't think that that's the case. I think it's

just, you are the shiny new toy

in the toy box. Right. The idea is, how do you

make yourself viable, relevant,

and with the level of staying power that will

serve both needs today and into the future. Yeah,

a hundred percent. Yeah. So how can I keep connecting

people that we don't get, you know? Yeah, yeah, that's the

question. And I have a bazillion ideas. Yeah. I think one of the things,

and I'm just kind of adding to your plate of ideas, but one

of the things is focusing on helping people be more

relational and not transactional. Because it's a

mindset, right? It's a mindset shift that everybody has to have.

And it's either you're coming from a place of fullness

or a place of lack. And a lot of times when you start a business,

you. Your whole thing is, well, I'm either competing against somebody else

or I've got to get, you know, business from this person or that person or

whatever. Because, you know, I don't want to. I want to be the best at

what I do, which is fine. But I think the reality is, is that, like

I always tell people, because, you know, there's a bunch of other podcasts here in

northwest Arkansas, and, you know, my thing is my competition is not

other podcasts. My competition is me. And so and each and

every business owner that was at your hive event there at the Grove, their

competition is themselves, first and foremost. And

the minute that you lean into who you are as a small business

owner and really what you want to represent to the local community

that you serve, the better off you'll be in the long run. Because

that creates a much more relational mindset than a

transactional one. Oh, transactions are come and go.

Yeah, 100%. You know, I can tell you we work and

we get some complaints because we don't allow in the group page,

we don't allow straight up ads. So if you just post, here's my business, hire

me, we're gonna deny it because, you know, and I've

mentioned this before, Dan Klaus from Natural State Brewery, we were talking one day and

we looked up the statistic. We are subjected as Americans

to something in the area of like 5,000 ads a day. It's crazy. We

are that we're blind to ads. And so when people,

we. People don't want ads like, they don't want to do. What they want to

know is, if there's 10,000 realtors to choose from,

why should I choose you? Yeah. Why are you the one and not perfectly curated?

Because none of us are. Right. No, not perfectly curated, but

why should I? You know, and that's what we really push in the group page

is don't post ads. We'll decline it. They don't get seen because no one.

We're all inundated with ads. But post, that's just, like, about you.

And not a perfect headshot with the arms crossed and turning towards the camera. And

the lighting is just so. But post the other stuff, because that's the

stuff that resonates. And you'll see if you look at Queenie, you know, look at

Queenie's post. I very much am not just keeping it real.

I posted a headshot, and I was wearing jeans, and I had missed a belt

loop. And someone said, you know, you missed a belt loop on your jeans. And

I said, that sounds like me. Yeah. And they said, well, here, I can edit

it out. And I said, that's okay. No, it's all good. This is what I

look like. And I walked around all day with my belt, you know, and that's

what it is. It's really reality. I love that. And I think that people need

to hear. They need to have permission to just be themselves. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, and not try to put on airs or be something

that you're not, because it's so much harder when you're not trying to be

yourself. So. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, there. I think. I mean,

you're on. Well. And, you know, that kind of touches on a circle back around

again. You know, men and women being told, you have to be perfect

physically. Right. You're not allowed to have wrinkles. You can have sunspots. You can't. And

then men being told, well, you have to be perfectly strong. You've got to be

perfectly strong. You can't show cracks. You can't show. Yeah, so.

And it's not possible. It isn't. It isn't.

Last question. Oh, we're done already? Well,

we've almost run for 55 minutes, Randy. We

could talk forever. We could. And we're gonna continue this. So this is. I will

tell everybody listening to this. This is a comma, not a period.

So we will keep. Have I already. I've made it to round two. You will

definitely have made it to round two. Cause, I mean, I think this is a

lot of what you're talking about are things that people need to hear. And I

want to end on this particular idea so I know that

there's someone listening who's feeling isolated, like you once did.

What's your message to them? I mean, you've kind of shared some stuff. I want

you to distill it down. And how can they take the first

step back into connection? And I'll say this. I said

it a lot with Queenie Connects. There are thousands

of people in northwest Arkansas that feel the

exact same way you do. They feel isolated. They feel like

no one cares, that no one knows about them or wants to know

about them. They feel the exact same way you do. You are not alone.

And the answer I have for you and them is we do want to meet

you. We want to connect with you. We want to, you

know, grow our circles just like you want to grow yours. And so

find one of my platforms. Whether it's joining as a volunteer for

gownsational, whether it's joining, you know, Hive Networking, which, you know,

it's a small business networking group, but there are people that come and they're like,

I don't have a small business. I just want to hang out with people. Absolutely.

Bring yourself out. And then, you know, in the singles group as well.

So you're not the only one that feels that way. And we've

got connection for you. Yeah. And when you come to a Queenie party, you come

to a Queenie event, you will meet, I promise you, so many people.

I will make sure of it, because I personally will introduce you. Yeah, well, and

there were a lot. 375 + folks were at

the last event that I. Hive event networking event that I went to. And,

you know, I really would encourage you as you get out there on Facebook and

you see this, and we'll put a link to the Hive networking

page on the show Notes for this. And, you know, we want to really

promote all of the amazing work that Queenie B is doing, because I think

it's important for folks to hear that. But this. This has been

nothing short of amazing. Thank you so much for taking time out of your

schedule. No, no, I don't. I. But. But I really

appreciate it, and I'm very judicious about who I bring on

the podcast. Right. Because I. I think storytelling is important, and we've

been doing it since we were painting on the side of caves. Yeah. So. Yeah.

Oh, yes. So. So. I mean, it's. It's just something that you need, but people

need to hear your story because in hearing your story, they

may see a little bit of themselves in it, and it may free them up

to step out of their comfort zone and do something

that might require them to make some connections that they didn't have before.

That's awesome. Thank you.

I'm honored because that means a lot. I have a lot of respect for you

and what you've grown, and so that means a lot to me. Thank you. Thank

you. Well, she is Rebecca Luther, AKA

Queenie B. Thank you so much for joining us

on this podcast today. And we really appreciate it. If people want to connect

with you, what's the best way for them to do that? Okay, so I am

on Instagram as queeniebnwa and it's Q

U E E N I E B E. So QueenieBNWA on

Instagram, you can find me QueenieBNWI on Facebook.

I'm on LinkedIn as Rebecca Luther, aka Queenie B. And then

I'm hopefully soon starting TikTok, which would also be

Queenie B. NWA. Are you kids helping you with that?

Are they into the videos? They don't have tick tock. It's YouTube. They'd be

impressed if I was on YouTube, which instantly I'm on YouTube. Is Queenie B. Yeah,

I think too. Okay, cool. Well, we'll make sure everybody has those links and they

know how to connect with you. Well, and then the high. The Hive Networking NWA.

I should say that. Yeah. So Hive Networking NWA is the group on Facebook.

Right. Also Hive Networking NWA.com is our website

and then on Instagram and LinkedIn as well. And we'll put all of that on

the show notes so people know how to connect. And if you do connect with

her in person or online, and you heard about it first here on I am

Northwest Arkansas, please let Queenie be know so she knows

that her time wasn't wasted coming down here to the Fayetteville park shoot. It wasn't.

You had me in tears. No, it's a good thing. It's all good. Well, thank

you again for joining us. Good tears. Yeah. Thank you. Of course. Absolutely.

Well, folks, from loneliness to leadership, Becky's journey

reminds us that connection isn't just a nice to have.

It's the heart of community. Whether she's helping a single mom find

hope, a small business owner find their people, or creating

safe spaces under the name Queenie B. One thing is clear.

Purpose doesn't always come with a plan.

Sometimes it just takes one bold step. Thank you,

Becky, for showing us how to turn pain into purpose

and for helping Northwest Arkansas. Shine a little brighter.

That's all we have for this week's episode of I Am Northwest Arkansas.

I'm Randy Wilburn, your host, and we'll see you back here next week

for another new episode. Peace.

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