A woman who was "exhausted" from working 70-hours a week has swapped her "rushed" corporate life for an "intuitive" and "mindful" lifestyle.<br /><br />Jodie Rogers, 27, climbed the corporate ladder in marketing roles since graduating from the University of Chester in 2016. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Jodie, from Norwich, Nottingham, was so busy she would wake up at half five in the morning and wouldn't eat proper meals.<br /><br />Now she has quit her full-time job and works from 9-5 teaching yoga, freelancing and developing her social media platforms.<br /><br />Jodie, a yoga teacher and marketing consultant, said: “I had every symptom of burnout. <br /><br />"Everything became about work - I was just not interested in anything I was before. <br /><br />"I couldn’t find any enjoyment outside of work.<br /><br />“I would actually be on my phone all the time. <br /><br />"I couldn’t concentrate so I used it as a distraction. I couldn’t focus on anything.<br /><br />“On the outside it would look like I was doing well, but it was really hard.” <br /><br />Jodie said she struggled to fit everything into her daily routine, despite waking up at 5.30am to start working.<br /><br />She said: “I would wake up and be straight on my phone and email at half five in the morning.<br /><br />“Then I was literally running around the house to make sure I could get things done.<br /><br />“After work I was so exhausted I wouldn’t eat proper meals.<br /><br />“I was working on the weekends and through my lunch breaks.” <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Eventually Jodie realised something had to change, when her husband Jordan, 29 telling her she had to alter her working hours. <br /><br />She went part-time in her marketing job in April 2022 and reduced the amount of time she spent on her freelance work. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />“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. <br /><br />“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. <br /><br />"I put too much weight on financial gain to begin with without thinking about my mental health and well-being."
