Mecca Gamble
- Jereshia Hawk is the founder of Leverage, an online coaching business for women of color.
- She quit her engineering job to pursue coaching full time and started by identifying her clientele.
- To grow from there, she hired a support team and started shaping the business to run without her.
In July 2017, Jereshia Hawk quit her engineering job at Consumers Energy to grow her online coaching business, Leverage. Since then, Hawk has given hundreds of women of color working as entrepreneurs and coaches the tools to design, market, sell, and scale their own group-coaching programs.