IAM1346 – Entrepreneur, Inventor & Award Winner Distributes Her Nausea Remedy Products Globally

Dr. Jacqueline Darna, also known as Dr. PukeNoMo of Pregnancy Pukeology Podcast, is the CEO and medical inventor of award-winning NoMo Bands. Dr. Darna made the life-altering change from medical professional to entrepreneur four years ago, and her products are now distributed in 12 different countries and sold in stores like CVS, Bed Bath and Beyond, buybuy Baby, and Walmart.com.

• CEO Story: Out of necessity, the invention came to be for Dr. Jacqueline when she was sick after delivering her baby. She applied what she remembered in her medical school they talked about eastern medical principles where you can apply acupressure to certain points in the body. And it really worked for her. Smelling the leaves of the peppermint relieves her from puking. And that was the beginning of her journey with NoMo bands.
• Business Service: Smelling the band has aromatherapy. Transdermal, cooling sensation. Acupressure is applied to the physique’s point.
• Secret Sauce: Continually push by disrupting the industry.
• CEO Hack: Google and Google Calendar / Google Assistant / Dropbox & Buffer
• CEO Nugget: Look to your right and left and make sure you pitch yourself
• CEO Defined: Chief Entrepreneurial Officer – Pushes the boundaries and pushes past the uncomfortable

Website: www.nomonausea.com
LinkedIn: @jacqueline-darna
Twitter: nomonausea
Facebook: nomonausea
Instagram:  nomonausea
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-oWVRTquJ_tcbSQpJU9nsg

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00:02 – Intro

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00:27 – Gresham Harkless

Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast and I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Dr. Jacqueline Dharna of Puke No More. Jacqueline, it's awesome to have you on the show.

00:38 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it, Gresham.

00:40 – Gresham Harkless:

No problem. I appreciate you for being able to take out time to kind of tell us a little bit more about your business and everything awesome that you've been able to accomplish. So what I wanted to do was read a little bit about Dr. Jacqueline so you can learn a little bit more about all the awesome things that she's been able to do. Dr. Jacqueline Darna, also known as Dr. Puke No Mo of Pukeology Podcast is the CEO and medical inventor of award-winning No Mo Brands. Dr. Dharna made the life-altering change from medical professional to entrepreneur 4 years ago. Her products are now distributed in 12 different countries and sold in stores like CVS, Bed Bath & Beyond, Bye Bye Baby, and walmart.com. Dr. Jacqueline, are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?

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01:20 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Absolutely.

01:22 – Gresham Harkless

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Well, the first question I had was for you to kind of delve a little bit deeper into your CEO story and tell us a little bit about what led you to start your business.

01:30 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Absolutely. So they say that invention is honestly bred by necessity. And that's kind of what happened to me. I mean, I knew every medication possible, but I got really sick. So I ended up getting sick for 3 days straight. And I puked my guts out after my beautiful daughter was born. One thing that happened kind of changed my entire outlook. There was nothing that could be done. They asked me if I wanted to go into a medically induced coma. They were crazy, right? So the only thing that I remembered from medical school was we talked about Eastern medical principles of acupressure.

And acupressure is basically just a little pressure upon certain acupressure points in the body. So I applied it to what's called the P6 point, which is right there, like on the wrist. From that point, basically, My stepmom walked in at the exact same time and she was holding a peppermint plant. She goes, I read this on Google. Jacqueline, you've been puking for 3 days straight. Try it. Well, believe it or not, smelling the leaves really worked. The problem is I never had the leaves when I needed them. I looked like an Egyptian princess.

I had leaves scoured throughout my entire hospital stay. So I asked for a piece of tape and I taped them together. So the no-mo nausea ban was actually born out of that concept of essential oils or the leaves peppermint leaves and acupressure. I put them both together. I didn't reinvent the wheel. I just basically made it better. And so now I can proudly say we are clinically approved and we can stop 80% of people from vomiting in just 30 seconds using this natural bracelet.

02:57 – Gresham Harkless

That's awesome. That's awesome. And it's great to kind of hear how that came about. And he created a better mousetrap, so to speak, it sounds like. So I wanted to delve a little bit deeper into that mousetrap. Can you tell us a little bit more about exactly how it functions and what exactly the band actually does?

03:12 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Yeah. So the band works for a variety of different items. So if you think about morning sickness and pregnancy, motion sickness by land, by sea, by air, I know that there's lots of cruising here in Miami for example, all the way through to just upset stomach after surgery or chemotherapy and cancer. And the way it works is it's a 3 principle. The first is the fast-acting peppermint aromatherapy. You actually smell the band and that smell actually traverses into your brain the fastest way through your nose.

The second aspect is going to be the transdermal. So you actually get the cooling sensation of the essential oils going into your skin and believe it or not it makes you forget. That's why I call it distraction technology. And then the third is acupressure. Acupressure applied at P6 point will actually increase it. It irritates the nerve that's underneath it and it increases the amount of antinodular hormones that you make. So you can actually stop getting sick before you go on the boat, a plane, a train, a car, things like that.

04:07 – Gresham Harkless

Yeah, that's huge. And I know that a lot of people deal with a lot of obviously motion sickness and things like that. So being able to kind of do something so simple, it sounds like to be able to counteract that is probably a huge opportunity for people.

04:19 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

And I'm literally waterproof.

04:21 – Gresham Harkless

Go ahead.

04:22 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Oh, I just said I made it waterproof and stylish. That was really it. That's like, you know, because every girl, you don't want to wear an ugly 1980 sweatband whenever you're on a cruise. You want to look cute in your heels. So that's exactly it.

04:32 – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. And guys want to look cute in their suits as well. So we also can look stylish as well.

04:36 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

You know, they got to look good.

04:39 – Gresham Harkless

There you go. There you go. So I wanted to ask you a little bit more about your secret sauce, so to speak. Obviously, you created and have built something like you said, like we said, a bit, a better mousetrap, but I wanted to delve a little bit deeper to see if there's anything additional that you think makes you unique or your organization unique.

04:54 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Absolutely. We are honestly so thirsty. And I say that being an entrepreneur or being a leader of my team because it's not just me, there's a solid 21 of us. We are really just hungry and thirsty and we're always attacking everything as though it was the first day. So every day that I walk into the office and every day, I make sure to tell my employees how amazing they are. Thank them for what they've done for me, and more importantly, how are we going to make this next day better?

And what are those pathways? Because you can have a lot of determination and a lot of success. Yes, you should rejoice in your success but don't forget that the very next step is a step forward too. So you have to continuously push and really move the industry by kind of disrupting it altogether. And that's what I feel as though I brought to the table, I thought outside of the box and that's the most fun because hey, there's no limitations.

05:46 – Gresham Harkless

Exactly. And it's definitely needed in every industry and it's awesome that you've been able to kind of implement that yourself. So I wanted to switch gears a little bit and ask you for what I call a CEO hack. The CEO hack could be an app, or it could be a book, but the idea is something that you use or kind of turn to that makes you more effective and efficient as a CEO.

06:03 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Yep. Google, man. Google Calendar is like most amazing thing ever. I actually joke that Google assistant, I don't have an assistant because I already have one on my phone. I believe wholeheartedly, not just for email reminders or, you know, phone calls and conversations, but it allows me and my team to actually chat with each other also. I do have to quickly shout out a Dropbox because we all have to keep our files all together and everybody has the team working in synergy.

And then the last one is buffer. I'm obsessed. Again, I do a lot of things. I travel all over the world and I speak a lot and my marketing team has to be able to get all those pictures out, and make sure that my social media is on point. So again, at no monage is Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, all this other stuff. I can't even imagine my life if I would actually have to push and publish each and every one.

06:53 – Gresham Harkless

Exactly. With all the things that you're juggling and doing, I definitely would agree with that. So that's tremendous. And next, I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO nugget and this might be a word of wisdom or piece of advice that you might have for entrepreneurs and business owners.

07:05 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Absolutely. So I always say business is the business of people, not products or services. So always look to your right or left because you never know who you're sitting next to and pitch to them if they have a pulse. Because honestly, if you perfect your pitch people will go in in tribes to come help you and they'll push you and move you forward.

07:26 – Gresham Harkless

I love it. Yeah. Everybody has a pulse and they could be a customer or client or, like you said, an investor. So you never know. So you always try. So next question, which is my favorite question of this podcast is really the definition of what it means to be a CEO. So I wanted to ask you, obviously having a team of 21, what does it mean to you to be a CEO?

07:46 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Yeah, and actually Gresham, I do have to quickly throw in a quick story. With one of the other articles that you had done, you actually made me think about what the heck an entrepreneur actually is. And I use that in my slides and every single one. So remember, you never know what article you're writing because it could affect and change your life I actually quit my job as a physician in order to pursue my dream as an entrepreneur because of it So I will say CEO means chief entrepreneurial officer Entrepreneur actually comes from the Latin word meaning to push forward.

So being an entrepreneur, you get to push boundaries, extend far past initial possibilities, and you're not really pinholed by creation, by invention, or anything like that. So as a CEO, what a true CEO does is push the boundaries and push past that point when you're scared because you should be scared or else you're not dreaming big enough. And once you push past that almost uncomfortable feeling, there's nothing in the world that can stop you and lead your team in that same direction.

08:46 – Gresham Harkless

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Well, you know, I truly appreciate you obviously contributing on numerous occasions and I'm glad we played a small part in helping you to kind of do all the awesome things that you've been doing. And I love that definition, of chief entrepreneur officer. So Dr. Jacqueline, thank you so much again for taking some time out of your schedule. I truly appreciate you. I wanted to give you the mic so to speak to see if there's anything additional you want to let us know about you or your business and then how people can get ahold of you.

09:10 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Absolutely. Just remember, imagine a life with a comfortable pregnancy, an enjoyable day at sea, a family fun car trip, or just a headache-free day. That's what NoMoNajah can do for you. So remember, go visit us at nomonajah.com because nausea shouldn't ever hold you back from anything. Follow us trending, all that other good stuff, nomonajah.com. I'm Jacqueline D'Arna, thank you guys, I appreciate it.

09:33 – Gresham Harkless

Awesome, thank you, Dr. Jacqueline. Take care And I hope you have a great rest of the day.

09:37 – Dr. Jacqueline Darna

Thank you. You too.

09:38 – Outro

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