My Transition To Entrepreneurship With Dr. Jessica Daigle.

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Hello.

Hello, Hello. Hey, it's Dr. Tamara Beckford and I'm the host of the EBS show. That's right, EBS. What are you saying? Well, EBS is the Entremd Business School, which is the premier business school for entrepreneurs, especially physician entrepreneurs.

Right?

That's right. So today I am going to introduce you to one of my fabulous classmates. So this is Dr. Jessica Daigle. She's a pediatrician, and she's the CEO and founder of Mommy. She helps ease the transition from home to birth to home, actually, for all their moms and their new babies. So if you are a new mom and you're uncertain, you're unsure about what's going on, well, mom and me is here to help ease that transition for you.

Right?

So kind of get that anxiety level down now. We're going to find out from Dr. Daigle. We're going to call her Dr. Jessica. Like, where was this mom and me before she started ontream D? Like, how has this thing changed? Is she the same person? Like, is there a difference? Is there a reason why you should join this or join us in the ongemd business school? Let's dig in.

Right.

So, Dr. Jessica, thank you for taking this time out to be with us.

Thank you.

All righty. So now, you know, I'm here talking about mom and me. You're doing this wonderful thing where you're helping moms of newborn babies, and they're just like, who helped bring that anxiety level down? You give them all this great info, right? But you are this confident entrepreneur. Right now, where you're going out there, you're talking, you're, you know, you're doing interviews all over the place. Is this the same Jessica before she entered entremdee, or is this a new Jessica? A new. An upgraded Jessica 2.0?

Tell me. Yes. Yes. So this is definitely Jessica 2.0. The assertiveness has always been inside of me, but it was more channeling it in an entrepreneurial way. I've always kind of when I envisioned being a doctor, I've always wanted to work with moms and babies. So that part of me is still the same that's becoming 2.02. But I always was of the mind frame. I'm just going to go to work, see my patients, take care of my patients, and go home. And my husband is an entrepreneur, and he's always been on me about working for yourself. You're always working for the man. That's what he was saying, you know, and he's like. And, you know, the harder you work and the better you work, they're just gonna give you more stuff to do, but it's still not gonna be your own thing, you know? And so I used to still just kind of be like, well, that's fine. You know, everybody can't. I used to say, everybody can't own a business, you know, and it's so interesting. Like, the mind shifts and frames the mindsets that you have and have to tackle. And so I think, like, probably most of our classmates, we're all undergoing this transition of knowing that there's more. And I remember thinking that, like, you know, coming home from work, and sometimes I would sit in my car and, like, cry, and I would have to, like, dive through, like, that feeling. Okay, break it down. Like, what is it? That is really distressing me. Okay, well, I figured out it wasn't the work I was doing. I still love that. Taking care of my moms and the families. I work in the NICU and the nursery for those, for context. So that part I love, like, that gives me life. But it was the politics around the hospital and the corporate medicine and that I felt like things that I wanted to change, that I just really couldn't do, that I was restricted. That I realized, well, if I did work for myself, like my husband said, I would be able to say, hey, I've assessed this in my organization, and this needs to be improved. Let me make that change. And also, the other biggest thing was coming up with my. Why is. Well, I have kids now, and before, when I was just going to work and coming home, it was just me that I was dealing with. And so that was easy. You know, I didn't. I'm not really, like, a busy person, so eating a good meal and watching a good movie is the highlight of the day for me sometimes, you know, but with having my kids, I want to be able to go to the soccer games and the dance recitals and the things. And if I had my own business, I could modulate my schedule as I need to. And so that became more of an appeal for me, too. And this sense of, I'm not really letting go of an old dream. I'm expanding a new one. And that was a big part, mentally, that I had to tackle because I never like to feel like I'm giving up on anything. And I, you know, I'm like, well, what about, you know, people who might need me to be over here, you know, or, you know, and have access to me there? But I had to realize that even when I'm working at the hospital, I'm not there all the time anyway, still. Like, I work two weeks on and off, and so those two weeks that I'm off, people are still not accessing me. And so there's no way anybody can 100% do it. And so joining EBS for me was a pivotal point, because I realized, like, what made me thrive in med school was you had a framework, okay? You knew what you had to do. You had community and some accountability and you need all of that. You need framework, community and accountability in order to make it in anything real. Especially like big things like this, like business and jobs and careers and stuff like that. And that's not exclusive to just entrepreneurship. That's anything. And so I'm definitely a different person than I was before joining the ebs. And so I'm so grateful that I did.

Wow.

So, you know, you're there, you're working, and it's not as if you're there working and you're not giving your all. You're giving your all day to day.

Right.

And you are coming home, but you're still not feeling fulfilled to the point that you're in your car and you're crying and you're trying to sift through the different portions of your emotions, like, why am I not feeling fulfilled? I know I'm giving my all, but there's a part of you said that there is more. And then you said there's this mindset shift that has to occur.

Right.

So where are you going to get the time? You're already doing all of this and then you start looking and you said, wait, I work two weeks on and I have the other time off. So the accessibility and time, if I really think about it and change my mindset, I can really start to put this together.

Yes.

And the step is like, well, where can I find the framework, the community and the accountability?

Yes. Yep. And so I don't even remember how I came across Dr. Una. To it. I credit one of my friends because I was never on social media even before this year. Like, I'm 37 years old and I've never been on anything like Facebook or anything. And so I was. When I was just thinking about my business, this idea and what I wanted to do, I thought that it might be more of a direct primary care model I was trying to explore. Well, and then one of my friends, I saw, he's doing that back home. I'm from Louisiana. So I reached out to him and he was like, hey, join this community. So I had to make a Facebook account so I could actually access the community on Facebook. And then it just expounded from there. I joined the fourth trimester community, which the fourth trimester is those first 12 weeks after a mom has her baby. And that is the space that I want to help families in. And so let me just expound. I think maybe it was like an ad or just something that came across and then I was like, I attended the live and I fell in love. I was like, this lady gets me. And I love Dr. Una's energy. And I saw the testimonies of the other students in the school, and it was like a palpable transformation that came across even through zoom, which is interesting because you would think, like, virtual, you wouldn't be able to feel, like, an energy. But I did. I didn't plan. And I was like, you know what? I need to invest in this, in myself, and go to the next level. Wow.

So before you joined the business school, Mommy and Me was a thought. It was something that was inside you that you knew you had to get out?

Yes.

So what has happened since you joined the business school? Where did Mommy and me go? Where is it right now?

So right now it's actually, like, registered as an llc. This is ein. All of the things that's necessary for it to be an actual business. A framework of a package of what it is that I need to offer my families. Like, the whole idea of even going on to social media and doing videos and posting that is all new for me, but I don't feel like it's new now. It's like, okay, this is just what I do now. And it is. It's coming to fruition to the point where now I'm building into looking at the legal aspect for my job and letting my job know that this is reality and that I'm all in. You know, I'm getting this done. I set a date for February, for lunch, February 2022. And I had this dream where it's interesting. So one of the other physicians who's doing this in this space was in Colorado. She was in my dream, telling me, the people need you. You need to start now. And it was so clear as day. I'm keeping the February lunch date in the back of my mind, but. And that might be, like, where I do, like, a big party type thing, but I'm really starting now. And as Dr. Una says, it's the business before the business. And so really a big part of that is the mind frame, getting that back part done so you can legally do it. But really just seeing yourself doing that work. And I've already kind of been helping some moms that people have been just referring to me and just kind of working out what that looks like and how I should help them and start taking on paid clients. But it's real for me. It's not like I don't not think of myself as an entrepreneur anymore. I am that I'm just walking out the steps of it and the scaling of that whole mindset.

Wow. So how long have you been in the business school?

I came in the June, I think June was the live. So July.

So July.

So all going on almost six months. Yeah.

So we're at. We're actually at five months right now.

July. Thinking, like, yeah, that's true. Like, yeah, actually.

Actually, when we really. So you started in July and at this recording. We are. You're on four months.

Yes, we are.

So when you think about the changes.

That have occurred, that is, like, mind blowing.

Really think about it. Absorb.

Crazy. Even my husband has noticed, like, I'm coming from the business school, telling him stuff. And, you know, he's been entrepreneur his whole life because he's not ever want to work for anybody, he said. But he's like, wow, I, like, see this difference in you. And I'm giving him, like, tips and advice, and he's thinking about maybe I need to get me a social account and everything. And so it's so good, too, to be able to be in this space with him, too. Like, we can kind of like recognize kindred souls of entrepreneurs, you know, and too.

Wow.

Wow.

Hey, you know when you really sit and think, you probably thought you'd been going through this process for going on, because you said six months.

Look, I was thinking until the end of the year, but you. Right, yeah.

No. At this point in time, you went from not being on social media, not wanting to be on social media to having a social media account. So now you're doing lives, you're doing. You're putting things out there on two platforms. You're doing interviews. You're doing interviews. Not only recorded interviews, you're doing podcast interviews, you're doing live interviews. You know, you found your purpose. Other people are seeing what you are putting out there, and they're referring people to you. And you plan on launching in three months, but you're still getting people referring clients to you right now.

Yeah.

So Jessica Daigle, prior to the business school, would she have been doing any of this?

No. And, you know, it's so funny because you still get that sense of the comfort of, like, okay, maybe I don't. Maybe I can just go back to just working my two weeks on and off, but I feel like I can't do it. Like. Like it's something in me that's resisting that whole thing. And I'm not against working in the hospital by any means. It's something that I want to do because I Enjoy NICU work. And you only can do that kind of work in the hospital. That's okay.

You're a mom, mom and me.

Okay, look, I was trying to see what she running over here.

And, you know, passion is still nicu.

The beauty of it is that. That's the beauty of medicine, which is something I've always believed, is that you can create your own path. You have to be willing to, like, go for it, you know, and, you know, obviously, every field has legal and laws and all that, so, you know, being an entrepreneur doesn't mean that you can just do whatever you want. Like, there's still laws and things, but you get. You get to live out the vision and help people that you know that you need to help in the way you need to help them. And I think that's a beautiful thing.

Wonderful. So now for someone who is thinking about joining the business school, what is your advice for that person?

I would say go all in. Invest. The me before, too, would have probably been like, what? How much I gotta pay to do this? But then I thought about, like. And at the time, I really didn't really know what I was gonna get out of it, to be honest. It was a step of faith. And so I really had to look at it like, I'm investing in myself and the dream that I have. And that's really it. It's no different to me than if you say, oh, I need this building. I'm going to invest in buying this building. I'm going to invest in taking this class over here, or even how we went to medical school and became doctors. That was an investment. That was a lot of money, but it didn't stop us from moving forward because the end result of what we had to gain was greater. And so that's what I would tell people to do. I do. I've always said, too, you're going to spend money on what you want, so that be it, but you're really going to get a community. Like, I really feel like I'm not by myself. And even when I had moments where I was frustrated because I was like, oh, well, am I really doing this? Like, I need to miss the challenge or I need to go back, and I still need to go back and do some things over. And really, that's the beauty of it, that I can. I just log into my kajabi and say, you know what? I think it's time for me to do another signature talk or something, you know, and I can have the right to do that. And. And for Anybody who would be like, well, I want to work one on one. Because that was my. One of my things too. Like, oh, well, I just need to be with somebody one on one. It's funny because I'm seeing the importance of the community. Absolutely.

The invaluable portion.

That helps to understand why even in my own business, I need to create that community for my clients that I will work with too. Because you don't need to do anything alone. You need community and everything that you're going to do, to be honest. Right.

There you go, there you go. For anyone who's thinking about it, she said, just go ahead and do it. Invest in yourself. And there are those who are thinking, well, I want the one on one. But the community is so invaluable. You're going to get that support. Even when you're feeling your highs and your lows, you get that support and then you are moving forward to the point that you're probably sitting thinking that you been there for six months. But when you look, you realize that you've made leaps and bounds in just four months, just like Dr. Daigle. So thank you, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Jessica, for stopping by and letting us know. Yes. About the invaluable, invaluable way that the entrepreneur business school has really impacted you. And for all of the moms out there that you're going to take excellent care of and help with the mom and me, we wish you all the best with your fantastic launch. And you know what? We support you as you support us.

So.

Because we know that those who are watching are saying, you know what? I think I want to be around those people. Let us be some of the first to tell them. Welcome to the class. So welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the new class. Thank you. And we'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.

Thank you so much for listening. I hope this inspires you to take even bigger steps as an entrepreneur. And if you're ready to go all in, come join us in the Entre MB business school. It is the only school of its kind created just for you. And I'll see you, my friend, on the next episode.