About the speaker
I'm Oluwo Adedunmola, from Ogun state Nigeria and a family of four, two brothers and my mum. I'm a Christian, a Medical Doctor and Entrepreneur aka Doctorpreneur. I live in Hungary where I finished medical school at the University of Debrecen. My hobbies are traveling, creating and learning. Maybe I should include sleeping (ahaha I enjoy sleeping!)My number one dream was to be a Cardiac Surgeon but Medical School changed my mind on that specialty. I see myself living a bigger and better dream. I dream to be a major change agent in the Health Sector of Nigeria. If I can change a whole sector, my dream will become a reality but the dream is still bigger, to be a great example that one can do everything, successfully.
My businesses…
I have four businesses: Hair by Dedun (six years), Dedun's Cakes (four years), Dedun Cooks (six years) and Belle Artistry by Dedun (six months). I started all except Dedun Cooks by chance. I didn't have any passion for them prior, I didn't know how to bake or do makeup before leaving Nigeria. I already knew how to cook and weave hair but never planned to make the most out of them. Thankfully, people saw my potential and were willing to give me a try but not before I made the choice to learn those skills and improve on the ones I already had. After I started getting referrals and return clients, I started to see the potential everyone saw and from there, passion for business developed. From passion came the decision to stick to the businesses and in return birth discipline and commitment, I didn't learn business from anywhere, I had no idea what business was about but I chose to take risks and learn for myself. I did everything on my own but 2 months ago, I hired two ladies to work with me on Hair by Dedun.
Join me as I welcome doctor Dedun to the podium. You are welcome ma 🙌🙌🙌
Doctorprenuer speaks :
What does it mean to possess versatility?
It means to have the ability to adapt to any condition or function.
I know you all described me as a versatile woman because of the things I joggle but versatility is way beyond doing different things at the same time.
How do you become versatile?
By training and mind control.
You have to train yourself and your mind to avoid restricting yourself to only one condition.
We've all been conditioned to make money as a means to live.. but you need to live (be alive) to make money right? Do you get my drift? This is one condition we cannot live by.
If you can control your mind to be able to handle things as they are being thrown at you, you have become successful in your own right.
So let me put this straight... it all begins with the mindset.
I was thrown in a "go to school, get good grades and graduate" condition... in fact that's what most of us were told at the start of Uni right?
But I pulled myself out of that condition and created a whole new one I can be versatile in. The ones we've been placed in are strict and that is why most people are restricted and can't be productive at the best potential.
Everyone is brilliant but there's always that one person that is at the bottom of the class right? Why?
If we switch the conditions and permit that person to operate at their own will, believe you me that the story will be turned around. We don't function the same way and that is exactly why one condition doesn't fit all
So back to being versatile.. you can learn how to control your mind by reading books, subscribing to mentorships, getting good and motivational people around you as friends that have similar goals as you and of course, by taking notes of your highs and lows in life (this will let you know, explicitly well the condition you can function best in)
For my first two years in Uni, I was just going with the flow. Making friends, going to school and those boring stuff you know.. but one particular month, I put on my soul and mellow songs and just reflected on life.
I concluded that things were too boring. I was bored of the usual just go to school, make a client's hair (if there's one to make) and just regular stuff.
So I brought out a random book and turned it to my journal. I still have it with me as I type. I split a page into two and used these arrows ⬆ & ⬇ to indicate my good and bad sides.Turned out I had more good than bad sides 😂😂 who knew? 😉
From that day henceforth, I started working on my bad sides while making sure the good sides are being maintained too. After taking this time to adjust myself (that's the first condition you have to work on,YOU!), I now had to create the condition I could work best in.
That condition was "I can't have a boring life and I have to always be productive"
So I turned to Google and started watching videos (about hair and cake) to while away time. Instead of making new friends, I started making new client relationships. Became more free with the new students and just in general,mingled with anyone that could become potential client.
At the same time, I started to examine my friendships and took a long people with like minds with me as I knew I will need them for support since family is so far away.
Did anyone notice that the condition I created for myself gave me the versatility I wanted?
But also remember that I was still nicely dealing with the strict condition to finishing school?
This is why I said you can't restrict yourself to one condition.
Because think of it this way, what if all my plans for the "not boring" condition turned out on the wrong side? It means I've failed right? And I will have to start thinking of how to settle right back into the "graduate" condition..
So to summarise all I've written, in the process of growth, always take it one step at a time and create an environment you can thrive best in. Nobody else will create it for you.
If you want to stick to the graduate and get a day job plan, it works for some people so of course all you have to do again, is create a condition for yourself that will boost your productivity to the maximum.
The condition in that case will be to maximise your Uni time. Make lasting connections and don't just let the time pass and suddenly it's time to enter labour market and your clueless.
Be Be versatile with your mind
Anticipate for the question and answer segment....
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