The problem we solve
You're struggling to build a business while working full time because you're following a playbook that wasn't built for you.
Every course, every coach, every membership was created by someone with full-time founder days. You don't have full founder days. You have a 9 AM meeting with your manager, a depleted Tuesday evening, and maybe thirty minutes before your brain gives out. The advice isn't wrong. There's just a disconnect between their reality and yours.
You don't have founder days. You have founder hours. And the difference between those two things is everything.
Who We are
Clocked Out Collective is the only membership built specifically for the 9-5 founder. The woman building a business that pays her while she's still on payroll..
this is for you if...
Still working a 9-to-5 while building a business
Done with generic advice that doesn't apply to her real life
Ready to build a profitable business that will help you leave the corporate hellscape
this isn’t for you if...
The woman who already has the luxury of full founder days
Anyone looking for a shortcut or a quick-cash promise
Anyone who wants a content library they'll never open
Calling your business a side hustle is a polite way of saying you don't actually believe it's going to work. If that's where you are, this isn't your room. If you're ready to build like you mean it, keep reading.
The shift
Framework
Five courses. One complete operating system. Delivered in a deliberate sequence, because the order is the strategy.
S
Shift
H
Hire
You're not short on ambition. You're short on structure. Nobody teaches you how to build a business in the margins of your life. This is where you find the hidden hours you didn't know you had, build systems that run without you managing them, and protect your energy like the asset it is. By the end, you know what to work on and when, even on the weeks your job takes everything you've got.
The Capacity Vault
Hiring wrong costs more than staying stuck. You don't need a team. You need the right one, starting with one person, on a lean budget that won't blow your runway before you've left the building. Who to bring in first, how to vet them, and how to hand things off without spending your whole lunch break managing someone else's work.
Lean Team Blueprint
I
INcome
F
Famous
Our salary is your biggest unfair advantage. Start using it. Your paycheck is the funding source for your exit. Learn to use that income strategically, fund your business without the financial anxiety, and stop treating your salary like it has nothing to do with what you're building.
Paycheck to Profit
Hiding your business from your employer is the reason you'll be at that job forever. There's a difference between hiding and being strategic. This teaches the employed founder how to show up, build an audience, and grow her presence without burning down the career she's still depending on. Visibility built for where you actually are.
Visibility Blueprint
t
Transition
A calculated move, not a leap of faith. Your resignation letter writes itself when the numbers are right. Get the financial benchmarks, the runway math, and the timing strategy to leave on purpose, not on panic. You'll know exactly when you're ready, what you need in the bank, and how to walk out with a plan behind you.
The Exit Plan
01
Start with the Founder Audit
When you join, you start with a Founder Audit. Five minutes. It tells you exactly what's holding you back right now, so you know exactly what to pay attention to as you move through the framework.
02
the curriculum, in sequence
You’ve got offers, a podcast, maybe even a course but behind the scenes? You’re winging it. No systems. No strategy. Just hustle. I help you streamline your business, clarify your message, and step into your next level — with structure, focus, and a plan that actually feels good to run.
This is not a course you sprint through in a weekend and shelve. It's built to run alongside your life.
03
the live experience
A framework alone doesn't build a business. Members also get a full live programming calendar throughout the month.
This is not a place where you disappear into a sea of people. It's a room where you're known.
Regular live Q&A where you bring your real roadblocks and you work through them together. Think of it as a co-CEO in your back pocket.
Office Hours with Ericka
Industry experts who charge thousands for a 1:1 session, brought directly into the Collective. The exact strategies the big businesses are already using.
VIP Expert Workshops
Co-work sessions, networking events, book club, and more. Engage with what you need. Table what you don't. The rest stays ready for when you do.
Community Touchpoints
- The full SHIFT Framework: all five courses, delivered in sequence
- The Founder Audit: your personalized starting point
- Office Hours with Ericka: regular live Q&A
- VIP Expert Workshops: hand-selected guest experts on business-critical topics
- Rotating live community touchpoints throughout the month
- A community of women who get both sides of your life
- New content and programming added on an ongoing basis
One membership. Everything inside. You join and you get ALL of it.
immediately connected with women who had already been through it
"I had a client ready to go and genuinely had no idea what to do. I joined the next day, and immediately connected with women who had already been through it: setting up an LLC, getting people on payroll, all of it. I didn't feel like I was going through it alone for the first time."
Ezra F.
Before I found this community, I was in a toxic corporate job, dreading every Monday
"Before I found this community, I was in a toxic corporate job, dreading every Monday, and had started taking anxiety medication just to cope. Having other women in the same position, who got both the corporate side and the business side, was everything. It's the support that actually got me through."
Wah-De D.
I walked away with a process I could actually use again.
"When I hired my first part-time contractor, I came to the Collective with the real questions. We talked through SOPs, systems, Loom, and I walked away with a process I could actually use again. That's the difference between a community and a content library."
Olivia S.
The Collective
$97 / month
Try it. See what changes.
Work through the SHIFT Framework, show up to Office Hours, get plugged into the community. If you don't feel the difference in how you're building, cancel. No questions asked.
Cancel anytime. No contracts. No pressure.
Cancel anytime.
14-day money-back guarantee. Show up, do the work, and if you still don't feel it was built for you, email us within 14 days and we'll refund every penny.
Ericka Nicole is the founder of SILKENN and the host of the Clocked Out podcast. She's a 9-to-5 founder, still clocked in, building a business that pays her while she's still on payroll. She is not talking to you from the other side. She is talking to you from the middle of it.
For 7+ years, Ericka worked as an executive assistant to CEOs and founders of $100M+ companies. She's been behind the curtain. She knows how big decisions get made, what it actually takes to build something that lasts, and where most founders go wrong before they even get started. She took everything she learned and poured it into one place so you don't have to figure it out the hard way.
Ericka identifies as an educator, not a coach. The Clocked Out Collective is a curriculum, not a conversation. The SHIFT Framework is a system, not a suggestion.
Your Teacher
Ericka Nicole
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