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amplify your impact, gain confidence, hone your leadership skills, embody your vision, bring forth your power and potential, cultivate relationships and community.

Paving paths in business and motherhood

For mother-supporting entrepreneurs who have a desire to nurture and expand their business and vision, but want to do so in alignment with their values and with consideration of their own mothering-needs.

Over 9 months, this small-group mentorship, with only 10-15 spots, will bring together a community of other mothers who work in mother-support and who are on a similar mission of revolutionising motherhood.

The mentorship is for those who are excited about the idea of stepping into a leadership role and would like guidance on their positioning, messaging, marketing, business direction and creating new offers or streamlining existing ones.

My guidance throughout this mentorship will help those who want to integrate more societal context into their work, grow confidence in sharing their message, build momentum in their work without compromising their values, and connect with their creative potential.

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WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • Intro one on one consultation

    In the early stages of the program, book in a time to see Sophie 1:1 for 30mins where she will review your current offerings, positioning, and key challenges. You’ll share with Sophie your key goals for the mentorship, or receive support in development of these goals and intentions.

  • Mid-Way One on One consultation

    In the middle of the year book your next 1:1 session with Sophie for 1 hour where you will review your key challenges, brainstorm pivots, plan out the remainder of your year and discuss anything you’d like to in this private space.

  • Closing One on One Consultation

    In this final 1:1 session, spend 30mins with Sophie reviewing your mentorship experience, taking away key lessons, planning for the next stages of your life and work, and solidifying your key messages and takeaways from the mentorship.

  • Co-Working Sessions

    Schedule into your calendar co-working sessions where you can receive drop-in support from Sophie at the opening or close of the call. These sessions are designed to offer you structure and accountability to content batch, complete admin, and ‘eat the frog’ to lighten your mental load.

  • Workshops

    Whether it be workshopping space to create a new offering, map out your launch plan, tease out an idea you’re wrestling with, or create your ‘ecosystem of business & life’, be guided and supported to not just work in your business, but work on business development and expansion of your ideas.

  • Trainings

    You’ll be offered trainings that are both responsive to the collective needs of the mentorship, and on subjects such as building your support team in motherhood & business, streamlining your offerings and integrating your professional passions, and key principles of leadership drawing from Motherhood Studies oriented perspectives.

  • Fostering of Collaborative Opportunities

    Just as we were never designed to mother alone, we weren’t designed to work in motherhood-support alone. A collaboration month towards the end of the mentorship is designed to support you to cross over your networks and expand your reach. Sophie will draw on her networks within the Motherhood-support space to connect you to opportunities wherever possible.

  • Discussion & Dialogue Calls

    These calls provide you space to bring whatever it is that is currently present for you in your work and life, to be heard by the group, and to ask Sophie for any feedback, support, and advice.

  • community hub

    You can access a community hub space via New Zenler to be able to post, share, and reflect with other mentorship participants. This can be accessed via your computer or the ‘Zenler’ app on your phone. You can register and add to your calendar all mentorship calls via New Zenler, and this will also be where trainings and workshop recordings are kept.

The Mentorship is for you if:

  • you already have a business and a sense of your messaging but may need help clarifying it

  • you want to build momentum in your work without compromising your values

  • you're feeling challenged by the care-career-conundrum and are looking for insights, guidance, and support in navigating it

  • you want to either streamline your offerings, or expand/diversify them

  • you want to feel supported through and in community

  • you want my 'eyes on your business' and a space to be able to seek guidance, feedback and support with your ideas, offerings, and client work

  • you're looking to pursue collaborations, opportunities, and to open yourself up to stepping into new experiences in expanding and/or refining your work

moving towards a version of Motherhood where mothers are respected, resourced, supported and valued.

Sophie is experienced in offering mentorship to those who work within various fields of motherhood-support, including but not limited to social work, psychology, academia, midwifery, nursing, lactation, doulas, counselling, coaching, occupational therapy, and more.

  • Do you want to work with your energy and implement a work-life rhythm that prioritizes your health and well-being, while still moving towards your professional goals?

  • Do you want to build systems and structures into your life and work that support and nourish your energy in your business and mothering, giving you both a rhythm for predictability but leaving you room for creativity and flexibility?

  • Do you want to bring more of the social dimensions of motherhood into your work and develop confidence in how to integrate and communicate these dimensions through your offerings and marketing?

  • Do you value holistic and diverse trainings and want to bring together your diverse sets of skills, trainings and/or approaches into your mother-focused work?

  • Do you want to scale your business or transition it into the online space, while honing your positioning and developing your position as a leader in your field?

  • Do you reject standard marketing methods that involve shame-inducing strategies, and you instead want to sell in a way that feels in alignment with your values?

  • Do you want the support of a mentor in your corner who understands the social context and how it's shaping your experience (and your clients’ experiences), who is a mother and who has lived experience in building a mother-centred business?

Who am I and what do I bring to this mentorship?

I think relationship, authenticity and connection are the prerequisites for being able to provide powerful and effective mentoring support.

For this reason, how much you will get out of this mentorship depends both on your capacity to participate, and how aligned you feel with me. While I’ll share my qualifications and experience, my advice would be to make sure I feel like a ‘match’ for you.

My PhD is in Sociology from The University of Sydney, specialising in Motherhood Studies and I have spent 10 years researching Motherhood.

It was around 4 years ago that I began building my own Motherhood-support based business from scratch and was at 5 figure months within 12 months, scaling to 6 figures within 2 years.

I have created a broad range of services and offerings, including live and self-study courses, a certification, workshops, consultations, mentoring packages, an online membership for mothers, a business mastermind, and a podcast that has over 300,000 downloads.

I share some of these achievements not to create a pedestal, but to capture some of my journey and experience in this space. It has been really challenging building a business that is aligned with my values, trying hard to find my own mentors and support team, and create a rhythm to my life and work that meets my needs and desires and also allows me freedom and space.

A couple of years into my business, I found myself feeling overloaded, 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’.

Context always matters and my privilege has afforded me opportunities that have contributed to my success in business.

I’ve also been a single mother since shortly after my daughter was born and have needed to generate an income to support me in not only paying for our living expenses but my goals have included being able to afford additional healthcare support. I’ve had to untangle beliefs I’ve had about what it means to charge for my work and decondition from martyrdom-through-business, not just martyrdom-through-motherhood. I’ve come to a position where I’m able to invest in mine and my family’s future, as well as build into my business pro bono work and financial support for those who are experiencing financial hardship and marginalisation.

I’ve created my business while having full time care for my daughter and have lived the terrains of sleep deprivation, natural term breastfeeding, and know the lived realities of some of the intensities mothering can bring. I now have the option of occasional overnight support for my daughter at 6yo and have adapted my business and leisure goals with this in mind. Our work has to be able to flexibly adapt to our context and our changing needs and resources.

I have been fortunate to have close relationships with a network of strong women, including my Mum and Sister, who have been so supportive and encouraging of my growth. I didn’t do this alone, and we can’t expect ourselves to be able to. We’re working and living within the ‘tank’. There are no easy answers, fixes, and formulas that will guarantee our thriving.

But finding the right types of support, leadership, mentorship and guidance while on this journey, is invaluable.

I’m not coming to you as a business coach, as a guru, or as someone who is going to promise you that you’ll meet the markers of externalized success and achievement within this mentorship.

I’m coming to you having navigated the journey I’ve described above. I’m coming to you committed to my own ongoing learning, growth, and development. I’m coming to you guided by my own values of integrity, authenticity, and a passion for making the world a better place for mothers (and that includes us).

I’ll do what I can in this mentorship to help you walk a path that is your own, sharing my own experience and insights with a vision to help light the way for your journey in this space.

It is an honour and a joy to do this work, and I would love to support you in doing yours.