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Ep 115: How This Corporate Dropout Went From Engineering to Launching A 6-Figure Coaching Business w/Jereshia Hawk

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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Jereshia Hawk. Jereshia is an Income Strategist and recent Corporate Dropout who helps content creators, coaches, and consultants 4X their revenue through online positioning and sales strategy.

Before starting her own business, Jereshia was a Civil Engineer on the leadership track to become the next generation of leadership at her company. She was the lead engineer on a $400M pipeline project. She had no plans to leave her corporate job to become an entrepreneur.

But as she learned to package her corporate training into lessons that could help other entrepreneurs sell their service based business, she shifted her career plans.

Today, she teaches others her PROVEN process to build a 5-Figure business selling your services online.

On today’s episode we get into:

  • How to develop your signature service
    How to determine how to price your services
  • Why she continued to side hustle after booking her first $60,000 in sales
  • And so much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The thing that I see people go wrong is individuals who are only focused on building a business for their personal gain

0:09.0

Because a business only exists to solve someone else's problem.

0:13.3

Not just to solve your problem.

0:14.8

Your clients and potential clients are not personal ATM machines to you.

0:18.8

Because your business, it may be your baby now,

0:20.9

but the goal is for it to grow and evolve beyond you and it can't do

0:24.5

that if you're really only operating out of a space of ego and what will this do

0:27.9

for me. You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your Side

0:35.8

Hustle from Passion Project to profitable business.

0:39.4

And I'm your host, Nikala Matthew Zakome.

0:42.3

So let's get started.

0:45.0

Hey, hey guys, so since you are listening to this episode,

0:50.0

I'm going to guess that maybe you are interested in quitting your job and starting your own six-figure consulting business one day.

0:58.5

In fact, I even have some of my MBA friends who listen, shout out to you guys for listening, who you tell me that you are frustrated in your jobs and you've said things to me like I can just do this, this meaning whatever your current job is on my own I really just want to leave and start my own consulting company

1:19.2

well today's guest has made it her business to teach side hustlers how to do this.

1:25.6

Today in the guest chair we have Jerisha Huck.

1:28.4

Jerisha is an income strategist recent corporate dropout who helps content creators, coaches, strategic Now I'm going to share a big epiphany I had this year and give you some context about this episode and why I felt it was so important.

1:48.0

What I've learned this year is that it does not matter how good you are at what you do.

1:54.8

You cannot, cannot, cannot start a consulting business on your own

1:58.6

unless you are ready to sell your services.

2:01.4

That is a major key. So first, you have to get into the mindset. You have to get into that

2:06.8

mindset that you're going to put yourself out there and let people know that you have

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