Monique Rodriguez

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Keep it Positive, Sweetie · Fearless Faith: A Candid Conversation w/ Mielle Organics Founder Monique Rodriguez · 11 May 2025 podcast

something has to give something has to stop and i also wanted to be an advocate for that and bring awareness to you know our health system right and to hopefully educate more black and brown young adults to go into the medical field and be our advocates because my doctor at the time was white he did not look like me yep and You know, it's always would have, should have, could have.

I wish I would have done this. But I had to learn, like, I can't blame myself.

But all I can do is be an advocate for, you know, more black and brown people to step up to go into the medical field so they can be a voice and an advocate and have the empathy and caring and compassion that our community needs. Right. Yes. Yes. Because even now, my dad, when he goes into the hospital, I have to always step in and advocate for him or ask questions.

And by the questions I ask, they're always like, are you a nurse? Or why does it matter? Do you not expect an educated Black person to ask these type of questions? So we have to be our own advocate. And so I hope that people gather that from reading my traumatic story of having my son.

And when I had my son and I had to go back into a career field, that number one, I didn't want to be in in the first place. And then number two, I was dealing with the loss of my son and having to now take care of patients. My head wasn't there. I can imagine. Like, no. I remember my boss pulling me in and she's like, you're not the same nurse that you were before.

And I'm like, well, you think like I just lost my son. I'm not going to be that person. No. So I had to go through this healing journey. And I and I knew that I did not want to go back into a field where I felt I was doing everything right. I knew everything that I should have known. And something still happened to me. I had I wanted to just cut ties with the medical round.

People ask me all the time. Would you want to go back? Absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. And, you know, but it paid its contribution to my journey and who I am today. But it's not who I am. And I just had to cut ties with it to avoid being depressed.

I wouldn't push women to stay away from the health care system. I still think that it's needed. But I think that as women, we should just educate ourselves on speaking up, educating ourselves on basically what you just said, like having a black doctor Or if your doctor is not black, maybe a minority doctor.

But having someone that is that hears your concerns, that listens to your concerns and does not just blow you off. If you have a doctor that comes in the room and they just want to like do a quick assessment, write you a quick prescription.

I stay away from doctors as quick with the pen and write a prescription without trying to understand and walk through like the assessment skills that they teach you in school of what is wrong. And then once they identify what is wrong, what is causing that? Are there natural things that you can do to reverse whatever it is? Like, don't be so quick to just put me on medication.

So I just like a doctor to be very thorough and to listen to me as a patient. And I just encourage, you know, our community to just find those type of doctors, because at the end of the day, we still do need, you know, doctors. If you are a C-section candidate, you can't have a home birth. You need to go to the hospital.

So in some ways you can't avoid it, but just make sure you have the right team around you that listens to you. And if they're not listening to you, just make sure that you're advocating, you speak up for yourself.

So my Yale was the first thing outside of being a nurse. So once I left my nursing career and I started my Yale, but during my nursing career is when I did try to like branch off and start getting into like different business ventures, such as a multi-level marketing. So I did like Avon, Mary Kay.

all of the direct sale business ventures that I tried to go off into because I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur. So I've always had that bug and that desire and it always pulls on you and keeps nagging until you fulfill that burning desire that you have. And I just felt that...

You know, God was just redirecting me and rerouting me because I did not go the path of entrepreneurship because I didn't see it growing up. You can't be what you don't see.

So I didn't see black women that were like running and operating beauty businesses or any business for that matter. I saw women that were on magazine covers or on the relaxer kit.

So that was my aspiration. I thought that was the only route that I can take to be into this beauty world. Right. And so. I felt that God put this vision in me. He put this passion as purpose, but I kept running from it because of fear, because of doubt and not believing in myself and not thinking that I can achieve it because I don't have a business degree, didn't have any business experience.

So, you know, the enemy gets into your head and says like, oh, you can't do this. How dare you? You have the audacity to dream this and you have the audacity to think that you can do it. Well, I'm going to remind you that you can't do that. Because if you don't have the education or you don't have X, Y and Z, like that enemy can be like something strong.

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