How Craftsmanship and Nature Shaped My Holistic Leadership Approach
- Brainz Magazine
- Nov 24
- 5 min read
Written by Heather Beebe, Health and Wellness Coach
Heather Beebe is a health coach and founder of Rebolistic Wellness, curating transformative retreats that empower high performers to rebel against burnout culture through integrative nutrition, mindset work, and conscious movement.
Leadership doesn’t always begin in conferences or corner offices. Mine began in a workshop and barefoot in a garden, watching my father craft blades from red-hot steel and my mother teach quiet lessons from the earth. As a female leader in the wellness space, my approach was shaped long before I had the words for it through nature, craftsmanship, intuition, and the discipline of creating things that truly matter. Today, those same roots guide the personalized wellness retreats I design for people who are ready to reconnect with themselves, slow down, and rediscover the truth of who they are.
Built from dirt, fire, truth, and holistic leadership
I didn’t grow up with corporate handbooks or leadership seminars.
I grew up barefoot in the garden, wiping baby carrots on my shirt before biting in and picking gallons of wild blueberries in the woods. I grew up in a self-built workshop with sawdust in the air and red-hot steel on the forge. I grew up watching a man quietly model what it meant to build something that mattered and a mother who showed me the sacredness of a garden and the healing power of herbs crushed between curious fingers.
My dad ran a small business crafting handmade knives and woodworking tools. He wasn’t flashy. He wasn’t loud. But he was precise. Intentional. Focused. He’d work late into the night, fulfilling orders, building with his hands, but still made time to play guitar and sing us to sleep, only to return to the workshop once we were dreaming.
We knew to keep a safe distance from the fire as he banged out red-hot steel fresh from the forge, but we were never far from the magic.
As kids, we were handed tins of nails, scraps of wood, and the freedom to create. He taught us how to line up letters and pound our names into strips of leather with perfect spacing. Those nameplates, carved and crafted by him, hung on our bedroom walls like declarations, you belong here.
It’s where I learned craftsmanship. It’s where I learned presence. It’s where I learned that work could be a form of care. But not every part of me fits into the world as neatly.
I was the girl who had too much to say through her poems and stories, but not always the courage to speak it out loud. I learned early that honesty could be misinterpreted. That sensitivity could be mistaken for weakness. That boldness could be labeled as “too much.”
So I learned to write quietly. And I learned to read people. And I learned what it felt like to hold back. That tension between bold expression and quiet knowing became a central thread in my life. And eventually, it became the thread I used to weave Rebolistic Wellness, a name born from “rebel” and “holistic,” because I was never meant to follow the mold, and neither is the healing I guide people through.
This company wasn’t born from a business plan. It was born from a way of life. From fresh carrots pulled from the dirt. From late-night lullabies and afternoon daydreams written in a notebook. From bee stings soothed by crushed bergamot and burns cooled by aloe cut straight from the backyard.
From buffed knife handles (and fingernails), I learned to operate my dad’s workshop equipment in high school. This is also where I learned to pack a shipment of well-crafted knives with utmost care, right down to the neatness of the tape on the box, because quality mattered, and it was the hard work and talent of a craftsman inside. It’s where I learned the importance of delivering not just a product but a brand. A promise. An experience.
Beebe Knives was a well-known name, not because of a fancy facility with a billboard out front, but because the heart and soul of the man who made them lived in every blade that left that workshop. He had designed each model, and his hands had touched every single one.
From watching someone work, not to be busy, but to create something with meaning. These experiences laid the foundation for everything I now teach, coach, create, and protect. They are the root system of Rebolistic Wellness.
We are not a wellness brand that’s here to sell a shiny version of balance. We are here to help people return to themselves. To remember the value of craftsmanship in how we live. To reclaim our voice, our health, and our truth.
To lead our lives from wholeness, not ambition alone. So no, we don’t do cookie-cutter coaching.
We don’t do surface-level wellness or hand out quick fixes disguised as transformation. Because your healing deserves more than that, it deserves intention, presence, and experience.
We teach what it means to live anti-inflammatory, not just in your meals, but in your pace, your environment, your relationships, and the way you speak to yourself. We craft retreat experiences that feel like coming home to yourself. We create spaces where your voice returns, your breath deepens, and your nervous system finally exhales. We help people stop hiding from their own truth and step back into a life that feels honest, embodied, and alive.
This work is for the misfits. The sensitive ones. The high achievers with tired hearts. The ones who are ready to live differently, starting with the way they care for themselves.
Behind Rebolistic Wellness is a little girl grinning ear to ear because she’d just spent an entire day in her dad’s shop creating whatever the hell she wanted, as he patiently took time out from his work to show her how to use the vice grip mounted on the workbench.
This little girl walks up the stairs to bed and hears her dad say, “She’s going to take over the business one day.” She doesn’t take over the business. But she carries its values. She carries her integrity. She carries its truth.
Because she learned early that the impact of a brand stretches far and wide when the heart and soul of its founder is honest and sincere.
Those early days in the workshop taught me not just how to build things, but how to craft an experience, how to shape a moment with intention, how to create something that is felt as much as it is seen.
That’s the heart behind every retreat I design. If this story stirs something in you, you’re in the right place. If you’re craving an experience that feels real and rooted, not curated for perfection, but crafted for truth, I can build that with you. If you’re longing for a pause, a recalibration, or a retreat that feels like it was designed with you in mind, let’s talk.
And if you’re done performing and ready to return to your actual self, I’ll meet you there with the earth beneath your feet. With breath in your body. With space to hear your own becoming. This is the work. This is the rebellion. This is the return.
Ready to explore a handcrafted wellness retreat? Schedule a retreat consultation here.
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Heather Beebe, Health and Wellness Coach
Heather Beebe is a health coach and founder of Rebolistic Wellness, guiding high performers to reclaim their health through integrative nutrition, mindset, and movement. Her journey through burnout inspired her mission to disrupt the norms that keep people stuck in stress cycles. Through transformative retreats and corporate wellness experiences, she helps leaders live with authenticity and intention—inviting them to rebel gently, heal deeply, and return to themselves.
