SHOW NOTES:
This week next level entrepreneur Dr. Nilong Vyas and I took the conversation to another level as we chatted about how she turned her passion for helping parents navigate sleep problems with their children into a thriving business.
Highlights from the conversation:
Dr. Nilong Vyas
● Owner of Sleepless in NOLA. General pediatrician.
● With a family to take care of, trying to achieve work-life balance proved difficult, so she started considering other options but maintaining patient interaction.
● She got interested specifically about sleep when her kids started having problems. Reaching out to specialists, friends, and even online, she realized there was a lot of confusion and contradictory information. After scientific research mixed with her pediatric formation and tests, she found some success in her methods. Sharing her experience with multiple patients influenced her decision to dedicate her career mainly to sleep.
From Physician to Entrepreneur
● Dr. Clairborne speaks on overcoming impostor syndrome: Every time she releases a new product or program, she acknowledges the impact and difference she makes with all she shares. She knows she is good at something, and little by little the fear of not being enough disappears.
● In order to achieve work-life balance it is important to establish both deadlines and limits. Fix a date and make sure you work in order to make it work. But beware! As entrepreneurs, we have the inner drive to always do more and achieve more. That’s now always good. It’s also great to know when it is enough, and not like “settling”, but to be OK of where you are in the process.
● Go step by step. First make sure you are stable and with everything determined, only after that you are ready to bring on a team member that can take on the things that you can do, but don’t have time to do anymore. After this, you will be able to produce more and more, and add more people to your team. This is called scaling.
Sleep
● With kids, it’s important to establish a pattern. Naps and sleep during night should be part of a routine. If parents give up, this can disrupt the child’s sleep cycle.
● A significant amount of sleep issues come from parents being the child's crutch. Anything that they do before the baby goes to sleep (rocking, bouncing, singing, etc.) can turn into dependency. It’s important to slowly work a way away from teaching the child to fall asleep only after a specific action.
● It’s important to establish times and have everyone informed and on board. Both parents, grandparents, kids, nannies, visits...
Catch up with Dr. Vyas by visiting her/him at www.sleeplessinnola.com
You can also follow them on social media at:
Facebook Page
www.facebook.com/sleeplessinnola
Instagram handle
www.instagram.com/sleeplessinnola
Twitter handle
www.twitter.com/seeplessnolamd
Your Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjB5QDx9SlTRpKVn02eJhlg
See you on the next one!
Hosted by: Dr. Maiysha Clairborne
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