Her Story
About Hailey
Hailey Hasek serves as project manager and design specialist at Machinos, a family-owned hearth business in Springfield, Missouri, specializing in fireplaces, patios, and BBQs. She joined the company six years ago initially as her mother's assistant before transitioning into sales and then, a year and a half ago, formalizing her role to better reflect her project management and design work. Hailey graduated from the University of Missouri in 2019 with a degree in hospitality management with an emphasis in luxury event coordination and a minor in business. Prior to joining Machinos, she worked as a rooms coordinator for events at the Omni hotel in downtown Nashville and directed weddings ranging from 75 to 500 guests for a luxury event firm. She is an active member of the Hearth Patio Barbecue Association and draws on her background in events to support community involvement, including donations and local fundraisers. Hailey attributes her success to maintaining strong work-life balance, building systems that allow her to be present both at work and in her personal life, and finding fulfillment in helping clients while upholding her core values of honesty, respect, transparency, and attention to detail.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Hailey
01What do you attribute your success to?
I want to be the best but I don't want to kill myself to be the best. I want to have a really good work-life balance. The harder that I work and I get systems into place that allow me a little bit more free time and a little bit more free brain space allows me to be more present after work and more present with the people around me. My version of success is not being at the top, not making an obscene amount of money, it's being in a job that's fulfilling where I get to help people but also saving enough of myself that I still get to be present and really love the life that I live around my job.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Get comfortable with your to-do list never being done. Don't let the hard days get you down. There's always something on it, and the faster that you're okay with that, you're gonna be okay in a real world.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Don't be afraid to ask questions, even the ones you think are dumb questions. Don't be afraid to be authentically you, whether that's really excited and chipper and covered in pink and whatever whoever you are, and don't be afraid to ask questions.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Turning over to the new generation and trusting that the new generation can learn everything that we need to know about the industry and take over and run these businesses. Personally with ADHD, juggling the workload on a retail sales floor while handling appointments and customers coming in. Getting women into the industry as it's extremely male-dominated.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Honesty, respect, transparency, and attention to detail. Those are my four big ones.
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