MotherLode HQ

For The Mother At Home

Your Career Didn’t End. It Moved Home.

Imagine the two hours after drop-off being paid at what you’re actually worth.

Every year you were good at something is still yours. Say what it is, and the people who need exactly that find you — in the hours that are actually yours.

The Real Word For It

Fractional. And It’s Being Led From Here.

Imagine a business two suburbs over needing a CFO’s eye on its numbers before Thursday’s board meeting. Not a CFO. An hour of one.

That is fractional work, and the most senior people in the country are choosing it on purpose. The business gets exactly the expertise it needs. You get paid like the professional you already are.

The 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
  1. 01What are you brilliant at?
  2. 02Name your rate.
  3. 03The hours that are actually yours are…
  4. 04Where are you working from?
  5. →Your Portrait, ready to be found.

Three Honest Answers

Before You Give Us A Single Detail.

  1. 01

    What Do You Keep?

    Every dollar a client pays you for the work. MotherLode HQ takes no commission on what you earn — $29 a month, and your first month is free, to get yourself set up.

  2. 02

    Who Chases The Money?

    Nobody, including you. A client pays when they book, it is held until the work is done, and it reaches you the moment it is.

  3. 03

    How Much Of Yourself?

    Exactly as much as you choose. Two hours while she naps. Every afternoon once he’s at school. Full days, if that is what this becomes.

How It Works

Three Steps. Then The Work.

  1. 01

    You Create Your Portrait, Your Way

    A few honest questions about what you’re brilliant at — never a form, never a résumé upload.

  2. 02

    The Right Person Finds You

    Businesses and households search by what they need and where they are, then book you directly.

  3. 03

    The Work Happens. Your Career Keeps Going.

    Paid properly, held safely until the job’s done, released the moment it is.

And 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.

Not only welcome here. Encouraged.

Your Portrait

Everything That Makes You, You.

A handful of honest questions that draw the real shape of what you do out into the open. Ten minutes.