MotherLode HQ —
You Should Never Have To Choose.
Two People. One Answer.
For The Mother At Home
Your Career Didn't End. It Moved Home.
Say what you're brilliant at. Businesses find you, book you, and pay you properly — in the hours that are actually yours. Every dollar of the work itself is yours.
Create Your PortraitFor The Business
The Skill You Need, By Tuesday.
Real expertise — strategy, design, finance, admin, the lot — from people doing genuinely skilled work. Search by what you need, book directly, pay safely. Held until the work's done, released the moment it is.
Find Exceptional HelpThe Atelier
Your Whole Career, In Your Own Words.
Imagine saying out loud, for the first time in years, exactly what you are brilliant at, and reading it back.
The Atelier is where your Portrait is drawn. A handful of honest questions, one at a time: what you are brilliant at, what you charge, the hours that are actually yours, where you work from.
What comes out is your Portrait, the page a business reads first. You choose what they see. Change any of it whenever you like.
Step into the Atelier- 01What are you brilliant at?
- 02Name your rate.
- 03The hours that are actually yours are…
- 04Where are you working from?
- →Your Portrait, ready to be found.
For The Business
Eight Experts. One Business. Yours.
Imagine where you could take your business with these people around it.
The best of the best, by the hour. Led from here.
And Education, Health, HR & People, Project Management and Home.
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Hers First
She's Carrying A Lode.
Imagine the two hours after drop-off being paid at what you're actually worth.
Too many mothers have felt they had to choose between a career and being the one who's there. This is the answer to that feeling — money that's genuinely yours, earned in the hours you actually have, on terms nobody else set for you.
For some, it stays two hours a day, and that's enough. For others, it's the first thread of something that becomes entirely your own — a business, a name, a life you built yourself.
Say What You're Brilliant AtAnd The Fathers At Home
He's Carrying A Lode Too.
Everything here says mother. We mean you too — and we are not going to pretend the name doesn't.
“It is an intentional choice to include men on MotherLode. We want to encourage and support men who have decided to take care of children.”
He's often the only father in the pick-up line, and somebody has usually assumed he's minding his own children for the afternoon. He isn't. He's raising them, full stop, the same as she is — and the men who stay home are helping change the world too.
Whatever he built before — the trade, the spreadsheet, the design work, the ten years he's actually good at — doesn't stop mattering because he's the one home now. It needs exactly what hers does: hours that fit around nap time and school pick-up, paid properly, never treated as a favour.
Not only welcome here. Encouraged.
Offer Your Expertise
Purpose·Passion·Potential·Possibility
Meraki·Entelechy·Inochi·Kagayaki
To do something with MERAKI is to do it with soul, creativity, and love — to leave a piece of yourself in everything you do. It is your essence made visible.
What It Costs
One Price. Every Dollar Of The Work Is Yours.
For You
$29 a month
Your first month is free, to get yourself set up. No commission on the work, ever. Stop whenever you like.
Create your PortraitFor A Business
Their rate
You pay for the work at the rate they set, with the card fee added when you pay. MotherLode HQ takes no commission on it.
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