ANCHORED
A mentorship and support pathway for mothers building livelihoods in mother-care - with guidance, community, and real-world context
A steady place to think, orient, and grow your work
This is a 12-month pathway designed to support you as you grow, build, and steady your mother-care work.
ANCHORED exists for mothers who are doing meaningful, values-led work - and who are navigating the realities of earning, visibility, capacity, care, and change alongside it.
Rather than offering strategies to ‘fix’ your business or push you toward constant expansion, this pathway offers ongoing mentorship, perspective, and support so you can make decisions that are sustainable for you, in the conditions you’re actually living in.
ANCHORED is a mentorship space focused on how you practise, earn, and stay connected to your values as your work and life evolve.
Who this is for
ANCHORED is for you if:
You are a mother building a livelihood in mother-care (in practice, education, support, advocacy, or adjacent work)
You care deeply about social context, ethics, and doing this work well
You’re tired of advice that ignores capacity, care, and real life
You want guidance and perspective without being told what to do
You value learning through reflection, shared language, and proximity
You want to feel steadier, clearer, and less alone as you grow your work
You don’t need to be at a particular “stage.” Some people arrive early in their work, some established, some in transition.
“Whatever you have to say, leave
The roots on, let them
Dangle
And the dirt
Just to make clear
Where they come from.”
- Charles Olson
ANCHORED is designed as a long-term, relational support pathway. You’re not here to keep up, optimise, or perform - you’re here to stay connected, oriented, and supported over time in your mother-care work.
What’s included
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You’ll be invited to live monthly community calls where we gather for shared reflection, guidance, and conversation.
Calls run at 2x different times to accommodate different timezones.
Replays are always available.
These calls are a place to:
explore common tensions and questions across the group
hear perspective on real-world decisions and dilemmas
learn through others’ experiences
stay connected and oriented
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Once per month, you’ll have the opportunity to submit a short voice message (up to one minute) naming a question or challenge you’re navigating.
I respond to these with reflective audio replies in a shared space, so you can hear:
my response to your question
how similar themes are being held and navigated across the group
This is a bounded, intentional way to receive direct mentorship without the expectation of ongoing access or constant messaging.
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You’ll receive immediate access to a private podcast feed containing a growing archive of long-form mentorship audio recorded over time.
These episodes explore themes such as:
pricing, sustainability, and ethical growth
creativity, focus, and multi-passionate work
comparison, visibility, and feeling activated by others’ offers
depth vs breadth — when to expand and when to refine
outsourcing, systems, and support
leadership, values, and building ecosystems rather than empires
launching offerings in grounded, non-performative ways
These are not generic business trainings. They are reflective, experience-based mentorship episodes designed to support your thinking - pieces you’ll return to at different moments in your work.
This is not content to “get through.”
It’s a living resource you can draw on as different questions arise. -
Each month, I’ll highlight one anchor episode from the archive (or add a new one), and share context about why it matters now.
You’ll receive:
a short written summary of key themes
optional reflection prompts
guidance on how this episode might support your current season
This offers orientation without pressure - you’re invited to engage in a way that fits your capacity.
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Alongside structured support, ANCHORED includes something less formal but deeply valuable: proximity to my thinking as I navigate my own work and business in real time.
Across calls, audio episodes, and responses, I’ll share reflections from inside my own practice - how I’m thinking about pace, support, sustainability, decision-making, and change. Not as a blueprint to follow, but as a way of modelling how values-led work is navigated over time.
Many people find this form of mentorship - learning through proximity rather than instruction - as impactful as formal teaching.
You might find yourself here if…
You’re building a livelihood in mother-care and trying to do so in a way that actually works with your energy, health, and capacity - not against it.
You’re navigating how to create rhythms and structures in your work that offer steadiness and predictability, while still leaving room for creativity, flexibility, and change.
You care deeply about social context and want to integrate the realities of motherhood into your work and how you communicate it, without feeling unsure or exposed.
You may be considering growth, transition, or moving aspects of your work online - and you want to do this in a way that feels values-led and sustainable.
You’re resistant to shame-based or manipulative marketing, and want to sell and speak about your work in ways that feel honest, relational, and aligned.
And you want the support of a mentor who understands the social context shaping this work - someone who is also a mother, and who has lived experience navigating the complexities of building a mother-centred business over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No specific stage is required.
ANCHORED is designed to support mothers at different points in their work - from early stages through to more established practice.
What matters most is that you are already oriented to this way of thinking about mother-care work and are building (or actively moving toward building) a livelihood in this space.
If you are very early and looking for foundational business instruction on how to set up your business from the ground up, this may not be the right fit. If you’re unsure, you can reach out to me at info@drsophiebrock.com and I can guide you on if you might be a good fit.
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No.
While many people in ANCHORED work in practitioner roles, this space is also relevant for those working in education, advocacy, content creation, program development, and other forms of mother-care work. You don’t need to use the word “practitioner” to belong here.
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Once per month, you’ll be invited to submit a short voice message (up to one minute) in a Voxer group you’ll be part of. You can name a question or a challenge you’re navigating.
I respond to these questions with reflective audio replies in this shared space. This allows you to hear my response to your question, as well as how similar themes are being navigated across the group.
This is a bounded, intentional form of access - there is no ongoing or unlimited messaging outside this monthly structure.
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That’s completely okay if you aren’t able to make the call.
All community calls are recorded, and replays are made available. You’re welcome to attend live when you can, listen later, or engage only in ways that fit your capacity.
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ANCHORED is intentionally designed to be flexible and non-overwhelming.
Between attending 1 call, listening to 1 podcast, and submitting/listening to the monthly Q&A in the voice-messaging space, I envision you’d spend between 2–3 hours per month engaging with the material and calls.
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ANCHORED is best suited to people who already have some orientation to my work and the importance of social context in mother-care.
If you’re completely new, you may want to begin with one of my introductory or shorter offerings before joining this space. For example, see The Missing Piece in Mother-Care Work, or check out The Good Enough Mother podcast.
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ANCHORED is a 12-month pathway.
This length allows for continuity, integration, and meaningful support over time.
Payment plans are available to support this longer-term structure.
Please note that ANCHORED is not a month-to-month membership and cannot be paused or cancelled once joined.
About me, and how I approach mentorship
Relationship, trust, and alignment matter deeply to me in this work. Mentorship is not something that happens through expertise alone - it’s shaped by connection, shared language, and how well we resonate in our ways of thinking and working. For that reason, how much you receive from ANCHORED will depend not only on your participation, but on whether this way of approaching work feels like a fit for you.
My academic background is in Sociology, with a PhD from the University of Sydney specialising in Motherhood Studies, and I’ve spent more than a decade researching motherhood, care, identity, and social context. Alongside this, I’ve spent the past several years building a values-led, mother-centred business - creating and delivering a wide range of offerings including courses, a certification, mentoring, an in-person retreat, workshops, consultations, practitioner support spaces, and a long-running podcast.
I share this not to position myself as someone with all the answers, but to locate myself in the work - to name some of the paths I’ve walked and the experience I bring. Building a livelihood aligned with my values has been complex, iterative, and at times deeply challenging. I’ve had to actively seek mentorship and support, experiment with different structures, and learn how to adapt my work to changing seasons of capacity, care, and responsibility.
A couple of years into my business, I found myself overloaded and overwhelmed, and really lacking the all-elusive balance. I’m not going to say I discovered some hack that I magically implemented that has helped fix things. But I’ve spent a significant amount of time, energy, money, and experimentation, finding ways through and creating scaffolds based on my needs and values, rather than adopting frameworks built on dichotomies of ‘hustle hard and grow’ vs ‘take it slow and take your time’.
I’ve navigated this work as a single mother, generating a consistent six-figure income across the last 6 years while holding the realities of full-time caregiving, sleep deprivation, the embodied demands of early mothering, mothering a child with complex health needs, and more recently, working alongside experience of deep grief. As my context and resources have shifted, my work has needed to shift with them. This has shaped how I think about sustainability, pricing, support, and what it actually takes to build a livelihood that can hold real life.
What I offer is mentorship grounded in lived experience, sociological understanding, and ongoing reflection - sharing how I think, decide, and navigate this work as it unfolds.
My intention in ANCHORED is to walk alongside you as you find your own way — offering perspective, language, and guidance that can help you move forward with greater steadiness, integrity, and clarity.
I come to this work committed to my own ongoing learning and development, guided by values of integrity, authenticity, and a deep commitment to making the world more liveable for mothers - including ourselves.
It is an honour and a joy to do this work, and I would love to support you in doing yours.
$179/month
Option One
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
$379/month
Option two
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
