Inspiring Conversations with Jessica Dalby of Jessica Dalby Brand Media

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jessica Dalby.

Hi Jessica, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
As a Hispanic woman with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a veteran of the United States Army, I made the conscious choice to venture into the world of entrepreneurship in August 2020.

The LLC started off as Diggie The Progression Of Hip-Hop LLC, but quickly took a life of its own. Two years later it has now manifested into Jessica Dalby Brand Media LLC. A collaboration of brands that offer a wide variety of initiatives, in music, mental health, and more.

Under Jessica Dalby Brand Media LLC you have Diggie A-2 The Progression of Hip-Hop video/audio podcast, P.U.S.H. Entertainment, Plan D With Jessica Dalby video/audio podcast, and Unified Goals Published.

What started out as a vision and idea became more. In business, I’ve endured wins and losses, but losses are not losses they are lessons learned. I have wanted to quit multiple times. I have been knocked down, not seen as an equal professionally, underestimated, and devalued, but I am still here. Starting off with Diggie A-2 The Progression of Hip-Hop video/audio podcast provided a platform to show unity and inclusivity as we discussed eras in hip-hop and the culture.

It provided a platform to keep the memories alive of those we have lost to social injustice. It also opened the door for P.U.S.H. Entertainment to be a full-service-based entertainment agency and business consulting service providing quality over quantity with affordability. Plan D With Jessica Dalby’s video/audio podcast was established as a passion I have for mental health.

I embarked on a journey to allow the world in my life and discuss mental health and the power of music. Providing the world, a glimpse into the life of Jessica Dalby. To break down barriers and have conversations with people, let them share their stories, and remove the taboo on mental health. Throughout this entire journey, Unified Goals Published was born.

A digital online magazine highlighting the best and brightest in the creative industry via different cities. Highlighting them at no cost to the selectees with the utmost professionalism. In addition, it provides ad space at affordable rates and combined with social media marketing.

Leading to the present where the first issue launches in August 2022 highlighting Kansas City. As well as providing a celebratory event for the selectees, Quincy Rose my designer and right-hand woman, those that worked with me to put this together, but most of all Kansas City on August 20th, 2022.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It absolutely has not been a smooth road. I have come face to face with personal, professional, financial, physical, and mental challenges. I do not run away from any of them. I embrace it and own my truth. It is what has built me to who I am today and who I continue to evolve into.

When speaking of obstacles and struggles I say personal, physical, financial, and mental because I have faced them all. They all are a part of your professional career. We speak of work-life balance. However, we have one life, and it incorporates everything. I have had to tackle family problems, personal health issues, and depression, ensuring I am maintaining business overhead with no grants, small business loans, investors, etc., and continue to function as a business.

Taking a leap of faith as an entrepreneur is hard. It is scarier when you go all in financially. I have done everything with passion and purpose first. I am a firm believer in passion before profit. If you have the passion, the work ethic, and put in the time now only will the profit come but you will also be recognized because you remained true to who you are and excelled against all odds.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Jessica Dalby Brand Media LLC?
Jessica Dalby Brand Media LLC is the mothership that runs all the subsidiary brands beneath it. You can view Jessica Dalby Brand Media LLC as a Venn diagram.

Fusing hip-hop music, culture, social injustice awareness, a service-based entertainment company, artist development, business consulting, public relations, mental health, and the power of music, and highlighting the best and the brightest via different cities to receive the shine they so deserve.

Diggie A-2 The Progression of Hip-Hop video/audio podcast can be seen from the lens as each season is a semester of college in hip-hop culture, paying homage to artists that have paved the way via time frames, showing the progression of the hip-hop culture, continuing to keep the lives alive we have lost to social injustice and a platform that provides the service of professional interviews for independent artists of all genres. In addition, all guests shine too as we market them too.

P.U.S.H. Entertainment is an all-encompassing service based on artist development, business development, consulting, public relations, media relations, press releases, interview booking, media tours, writing services, music business, and business 101. Starting off your music career and your business on a solid foundation that you can only prosper and elevate from, rather than moving in your respective career or business and one year later go backward.

P.U.S.H. Entertainment is here to facilitate from A to Z, wherever you are in your journey. When it comes to new artists and new businesses, public relations is great because it builds buzz organically and spreads awareness through unbiased, credible journalists and news outlets.

Consumers may not know your brand yet, so you need to create trust and allow them to read honest consumer depictions of your brand. Building a connection with your potential clients and audience is the secret sauce to creating a well-rounded online presence. We assist and direct media campaigns and promote through powerful brand-identity pitches and press releases.

Plan D With Jessica Dalby is a one-of-a-kind video/audio conversational podcast fusing mental health and music. Mental health is a topic we may want to talk about as much. With Plan D it is a platform where you will receive the real authentic and genuine Jessica Dalby and understand outside of business, I am still a human being and a person like everyone else.

As the host CEO and founder I open myself up to the world and my struggles with mental health, but if I came from nothing to something so can you. This platform was established to have conversations on mental health and how music was an influential aspect of my life and each guest’s life. For people to share their stories with the world. Providing inspired action that my belief will lead to change.

Unified Goals Published is the first digital magazine to celebrate each city’s best and brightest in the creative industry and many other industries. It was established to provide shine to those that are out there working and may feel they are not seen or heard or recognized. It is grounded on the core principles to see all succeed. It is a quarterly magazine that will be focused on a different city in each issue. All selectees are vetted, then selected, and if they accept it is at no cost to them.

In addition, I wanted to also provide ad space, not for the sole monetary premise, but to provide shine to businesses/brands/coaches/etc. and give them more than ad space. So, by providing ad space in conjunction with social media marketing too. I wanted to do something that gave back and was of quality, professionalism, affordability, and shining light on everyone.

The first issue launches in August 2022 and is in Kansas City which will be followed by a small launch event on August 20th in Kansas City celebrating the selectees, those who purchased ads, and everyone who had a hand in this. It is bigger than Jessica Dalby! It is my vision “We can all shine together!”

You will always find professionalism, transparency, integrity, and affordability with all that comes with Jessica Dalby Brand Media LLC! We pride ourselves on diversity. Hablamos Espanol. We speak English and Spanish fluently.

Service information is available upon request, including business coaching, artist development, artist management, and more!

Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
I want to be the most authentic and genuine person that I am and will answer this accordingly. My favorite childhood memory is not quite how I would phrase my answer.

What I will say is that I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in the Marlboro Projects, and then moved to San Antonio at the age of 18 years old. I then later had my children and enlisted in the United States Army. I want to provide this information as it leads to my answer and hopefully, readers may understand. I did not have the best of childhoods, but I do not run away from it.

Everything I have been through has made me the survivor and fighter I am today. Therefore, regarding childhood memories, I will say that raising myself, coming from a home with an absent mother, and enduring trauma have made me the resilient woman I am today in life and business.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.jessicadalby.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unifiedgoalspublished/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnifiedGoalsPublished/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicaydalby
• Other: www.unifiedgoalspublished.com

Image Credits
Thistlebee Imagery and Cristina Popovic Photography