A woman who was "exhausted" from working 70-hours a week has swapped her "rushed" corporate life for an "intuitive" and "mindful" lifestyle.
Jodie Rogers, 27, climbed the corporate ladder in marketing roles since graduating from the University of Chester in 2016.
She said working as a paid media lead in marketing agencies for seven years left her with "every symptom of burnout" including exhaustion, brain fog, and a lack of concentration.
Her schedule intensified when she took on her side-hustle in January 2022 of online content creation, freelance marketing consultancy and yoga teaching training alongside her full-time marketing job - which led to Jodie working for 70 hours a week.
Jodie, from Norwich, Nottingham, was so busy she would wake up at half five in the morning and wouldn't eat proper meals.
Now she has quit her full-time job and works from 9-5 teaching yoga, freelancing and developing her social media platforms.
Jodie, a yoga teacher and marketing consultant, said: “I had every symptom of burnout.
"Everything became about work - I was just not interested in anything I was before.
"I couldn’t find any enjoyment outside of work.
“I would actually be on my phone all the time.
"I couldn’t concentrate so I used it as a distraction. I couldn’t focus on anything.
“On the outside it would look like I was doing well, but it was really hard.”
Jodie said she struggled to fit everything into her daily routine, despite waking up at 5.30am to start working.
She said: “I would wake up and be straight on my phone and email at half five in the morning.
“Then I was literally running around the house to make sure I could get things done.
“After work I was so exhausted I wouldn’t eat proper meals.
“I was working on the weekends and through my lunch breaks.”
Jodie would work at her full-time marketing job from 9-5.30pm, and then used the evenings to develop her freelance marketing consultancy and social media accounts until 8pm.
In October 2021 she also started a teacher training course in yoga on top of her full-time work and freelance work, qualifying in July 2022.
Eventually Jodie realised something had to change, when her husband Jordan, 29 telling her she had to alter her working hours.
She went part-time in her marketing job in April 2022 and reduced the amount of time she spent on her freelance work.
Jodie said “At one point I was considering leaving my job, but I was nervous about the reality of giving up a full-time job.
“I was lucky because they were very supportive of me going part-time as well as running another business. It offered me a sense of security, but it was also difficult to manage all the different jobs at once.
“It was total hustle culture, it was a nightmare. It’s this idea that you need to have another job on top of your full-time job.
"I put too much weight on financial gain to begin with without thinking about my mental health and well-being."
