mentorship for mother-supporters
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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.
GROUP
mentorship
March -
November
WHAT’S INCLUDED
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Monthly Overview + SCHEDULE
Timezone is based on Sydney, Australia.
All calls are recorded & accessed via New Zenler mentorship hub
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Monday 4th March Introductory call 8pm AEDT
Monday 11th March - Prompts + Insights from Sophie 12pm
Monday 18th - Activity + Workshop - 8pm AEDT
Before we move into a space of creation of anew, we need to make visible what we are letting go of, and the shape of the foundation that we’re building from and on. This first month in the mentorship will be focused on getting to know each other as a group, understanding how patriarchal motherhood shows up in not only our mothering but also our businesses – unpacking the ‘good entrepreneurial mother’ and reframing our experiences of ‘imposter syndrome’. We will then move into workshopping your desires, dreams and intentions for the rest of the year.
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Monday 1st April - Training and Scaffold Provision from Sophie 8pm AEDT
Monday 8th April - Discussion & Dialogue Call - 10am AEST
Monday 22nd - Workshop 8pm AEST
Too much fluidity and lack of structure can leave us feeling stagnant and with a fractured focus. However, if there is too much rigidity in our structure and weekly or monthly plans, then any unexpected challenge can feel like it derails us. This month we’ll map out an overview of our business operations and offerings, and make any tweaks or adjustments to individually scaffold our ‘business ecosystem’.
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Monday 6th - Insights from Sophie + Q&A Space 8pm AEST
Monday 13th - Coworking Batching Session 10am AEST
Monday 20th - Discussion & Dialogue Call 8pm AEST
This month you’ll get insight into my own process for generating content. We’ll also talk about boundaries and strengthening your muscle for identifying generalisations, discussing responsibilities as content creators, space holders and leaders. This month you’ll be guided to create from a space of nuance, learning how to share your message without completely watering it down, and practise a process for drafting and editing your work.
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Monday 3rd - Workshop + Q&A Space 10am AEST
Monday 17th - Co-working 8pm AEST
Monday 24th - Nervous System Support 12pm AEST
We’ll be exploring different structuring of offerings, programs and services and workshopping both new ideas and streamlining existing offerings. We’ll also talk money, charging and pricing. You’ll be prompted to unpack what ‘scaling’ means to you, the benefits and drawbacks of scaling, maintaining, and downsizing and which intentions match the season you’re in. This involves noticing and nurturing our capacity in what we’re willing to ‘hold’ alongside our growth, and ‘zooming out’ to look at your businesses holistically in the context of your mothering and other life commitments.
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Monday 1st - Insights from Sophie + Q&A Space - 12pm AEST
Monday 22nd - Workshop - build your plan 8pm AEST
Monday 29th - Coworking Batching Block 10am AEST
When is it time to bring in paid business support, what can that look like? What do you outsource, delegate or continue doing yourself? When do you look at growing your team? We’ll cover all of these questions, and more. I will share with you lessons I’ve learned in the process of building my own support networks – not just in business but also support systems in mothering, household and personal health and wellbeing.
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Monday 5th - Insights from Sophie + Q&A Space 8pm AEST
Monday 12th - Embodiment Integration
Monday 19th - Workshop 10am AEST
When you’re trained in multiple modalities, have engaged in a range of professional development education and have a varied skillset, it can feel like you’re split in many directions and may find it hard to feel a sense of integration of your offerings, messaging and approach. Here you’ll have the opportunity to identify and bring forward any ‘conflicts’ you’ve experienced between different trainings, teachings and approaches, and we’ll explore what a reconciliation of this could look like. We’ll also explore this in the context of your varied ‘subject positions’ you inhabit in your life, including your mothering, and what an integration of your mothering and your business can, does and could look like.
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Monday 2nd - Group Call Think Tank - 8pm AEST
Monday 9th - Break Out Room Planning 10am AEDT
Monday 16th - Independent or Group Follow-Through on Cross-pollination
Just as we were never meant to mother alone, we were also never meant to work in motherhood-support alone. This collaboration month is designed to support you to actively cross over your networks and expand your reach. I will draw on my networks within the motherhood-support space to connect you to opportunities wherever possible. This is your time to be supported to take action and enact or secure plans to ‘cross-pollinate’ and increase your visibility.
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Monday 7th - Insights from Sophie + Q&A Call 8pm AEDT
Monday 14th - Workshop 12pm AEDT
Monday 21st - Coworking/Creativity Prompts 8pm AEDT
This month we’ll explore our relationship with creativity through the lens of understanding our energetic capacity. We’ll talk about the ways we can get ‘caught in the cog’ of business production and hustle, and how this kills our creativity. While we work to establish rhythms to support our creative nourishment (through how we ‘feed’ ourselves), we’ll also talk about the importance of ‘spending time in the fog’. I’ll openly share my experiences of navigating these phases, and the useful distinctions to make between our businesses, our client work, our creativity, our mothering and our Selves.
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Monday 4th - Insights from Sophie + Q&A 10am
Monday 11th - Workshop 8pm AEDT
Monday 18th - Closing and Visioning 10am AEDT
Monday 25th - Closing & Visioning 8pm AEDT
In this final month I will draw upon leadership literature to offer you a range of perspectives and orientations to what leadership can mean and how it can be modelled. We’ll workshop on the skills, orientation, practice, values, and parameters that support us in embodying aligned, integrated, bold, authentic and empathetic leadership, through connection with others and ourselves. We will finish strong as you practice drawing upon your own power, setting intentions and envisioning the continuation of your growth within your important roles of mothering and mother-supporting professional.
Think of the commitment to this mentorship as being an approximately 1-2 hours per week.
The mentorship is not designed to be jam packed with brand new content and things to add to your to do list. Instead, the inclusions are thoughtfully and intentionally designed to support you to be able to work on your business, as well as in your business, while prioritising your needs, desires and commitments as a woman and mother.
This is why I’ve designed this program to be time effective, manageable to build into your current work-load, but to offer a variety and diverse range of inclusions to meet the varying and shifting needs of those of us working in motherhood-support who are also mothers.
The mentorship will be a small and intimate group where we can build genuine, authentic and deep connection with each other and I can have a touchpoint on each of your businesses.
upgrade to additional access to sophie for the entirety of the mentorship
There are 5 2 spaces available for an upgrade to the mentorship to receive additional individualised 1:1 support from Sophie.
Upgrading provides you with:
Private access to Sophie via the voice-messaging app Voxer across the entire length of the mentorship (equivalent of approx 2hr session/month)
Personalised feedback & review from Sophie on the content and structure of one of your courses, offerings, or programs (up to 5 pages)
1 hour Zoom feedback and strategy session based on Sophie’s review of your material
Upgrading your mentorship to 1:1 Voxer support offers you a way to have individualised support from Sophie throughout the entirety of your mentorship experience. Think of it as equivalent to having Sophie in your back pocket to reach out to at any stage with your fears, concerns, challenges, ideas, or reflections.
The Voxer support included in this upgrade provides a private 1:1 space with Sophie for you to ask any questions as they arise during your week, gain personalised support during launch periods, receive listening space when you’re feeling stuck, and a place to bounce around your ideas and receive individual feedback and guidance.
You can send a Voxer message anytime, with a guideline of approximately 15min worth of messages/week and Sophie will reply within 24hours on Monday - Thursday.
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.
FAQs
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The mentorship begins in March 2024, with the initial introduction call taking place on Monday 4th March at 8pm AEDT.
The mentorship finishes at the end of November 2024.
The total length of the mentorship is 9 months.
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Yes, calls are scheduled at alternating times to suit timezones worldwide.
Calls will alternate between Aus daytime calls at 10am/12pm and Aus evening calls will be 8pm.
When we start the program in March, we’ll be on AEDT time. Daylight savings ends 7th April 2024 and the timezone will be AEDT.
Daylight savings begins October (AEDT) and ends April (AEST)
The majority of calls and events will be held on Mondays (Aus time).
You can see a schedule of call dates and times above on this webpage under the section ‘Monthly Overview’.
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This mentorship is for those who have businesses that are established, know who their audience/clients are, and have a sense of their contribution to the space.
We are always evolving and can be in different stages of development within different segments of our work, but this mentorship is not designed for those who are brand new to business or in the very early start-up phases.
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Approximately 1-2 hours per week.
The mentorship has been designed to support those who are managing competing demands and busy calendars.
The intention is to provide rhythm, structure, accountability and support, without overloading you with more to do and try and squeeze in.
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You need to have a level of familiarity and understanding of Sophie’s work within Motherhood Studies, including what the perfect mother myth/social construction of motherhood is. You will be equipped with this understanding if you have completed the Motherhood Studies Certification, any of Sophie’s self-study programs, are long-time social media/email connections, or if you are a regular podcast listener.
Listen to this episode if you feel you’d like a refresher: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/88-how-culture-creates-motherhood-and-why-it-matters/id1480149306?i=1000593065114
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As this isn’t a program to follow or course to complete, there is no ‘behind’.
If you have a look at the monthly schedule, there are break weeks for space and recalibration.
The mentorship is intended to be your space to support you in carrying your load, rather than adding to it.
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You’ll receive Sophie ‘in your pocket’ over the 9 months, gaining individualised one to one support throughout the mentorship.
You receive this support via Voxer voice-messaging access to Sophie, approximately 15mins of messages per week that you can message anytime and receive replies Monday-Thursday within 24 hours.
The upgrade also includes a program/offering/course review from Sophie (up to 5 pages) with an accompanying strategy feedback session of 1 hour.
By opting for the upgraded mentorship, in total your experience includes:
30 min one to one intro session
1 hour one to one consult mid-way through the year
1x 30min closing consult at the end part of the mentorship
Approx 3x group calls/events per month
Program/course/offering review from Sophie
1 hour Zoom offering program feedback
9 months Voxer access
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The mentorship is $4,990 AUD.
The upgrade is an additional $3,500 AUD.
A 12 month payment plan is available.
Mentorship - $425/month
Mentorship + Upgrade - $720/month
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.
JOIN THE MENTORSHIP
Mentorship Enrolment - $4990 AUD
(Available at $425/month on a 12 month payment plan)
Mentorship Enrolment + Individual Support Upgrade - $8490 AUD
(Available at $720/month on a 12 month payment plan)
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