Off the Clock with Business Growth Coach, Jereshia Hawk

Weve often heard from founders that running a business can be a 24-hour experience. Still, recently, many of us are denouncing hustle culture for a balance of our own. As women who wear multiple hats, how we spend each moment of the day matters.

Meet Jereshia Hawk, Business Growth Coach, San Diego, 31

The former engineer turned her marketing savvy into specializing in high ticket sales, permission-based sales and premium priced offers. Now her coaching business has reached $1.4 million in revenue, and as her business grows, so do the responsibilities she has. Im stepping into becoming the leader that my company needs me to be beyond the solopreneur Ive always been, Hawk said. Now my shift is going into how I coach my team to support the clients and that leadership transition. She now has three program coaches who were former clients and her program participants. Hawk spoke with us about this new season of leveling up and hiring employees while maintaining her off-the-clock routine.

Clearing her energy to start the day.

One thing that helps Hawk get her day started is focusing on her energy, and she does that by finding ways to clear it. Hawk started paying attention to her energy and when it felt high and low by keeping track of it using a calendar. I started to notice patterns that normally about three weeks into the month, my energy started dropping, and I needed some level of recovery, Hawk said.

She plans her time off for the entire year.

Check-in with herself as a business owner is important

I will have a weekly meeting with myself the same way a manager might have a weekly meeting with their individual contributor, she said. She uses these self-check-ins as her me time as a business owner to review her own performance. She learned this technique from Ray Dalios Principles book series from an American investor. Hawk started documenting her thoughts around the following questions:

What is a lesson that Im learning?

What is an insight that Im having?

What is a fear that Im overcoming?

What is something that Im struggling with?

I think it is really important to how I pour back into myself, she explained.

Wellness retreats are her favorite getaways.

Hawk loves to travel with her girlfriends, husband, and herself, and she is a fan of weekend getaways and quick trips. However, she has an affinity for week- long experiences at wellness resorts. I like really bougie high-end wellness resorts because I dont have to make any decisions. You just go, and they take care of you, Hawk explained. Mii Amo, a destination spa in Sedona, Arizona, is her favorite place to retreat. Still, she is looking forward to her upcoming retreat to the Golden Door Resort & Spa in California.

She believes in unplugging.

As someone who spends a lot of time creating social media content and engaging on pages during the weekday, it might be a surprise to know that Hawk logs off on the weekends. On the weekends, I do social media cleanses where I will allow my phone to die on Friday, and I dont even charge it, she said. Hawk goes entirely off the grid and spends her time on the couch catching up with shows or exploring San Diego with her husband. She puts her work phone away during the weekday and switches to her personal phone in the evening to separate her worlds.

Why is being off the clock important?

I need to separate my identity from the work that I do in the world and who I am in the world, Hawk said. With the help of therapy, Hawk has learned the value of just being and that its not always about what she is doing. Working on this has helped her prioritize rest and recovery. I feel like Im discovering myself for the first time after unlearning a lot of conditioning that has been placed upon me or that Ive unintentionally placed upon myself, she shared. She calls this stage in her life dating and is enjoying the time that she is dedicating to pouring into herself outside of her work. Im at a season where Im giving myself the childhood that I wish I had growing up. Its one of the best gifts Ive ever been able to give to myself, she emotionally shared.

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