Lead Your Fam,
Lead Your Biz
A free webinar for feminist mothers who are (maybe?) ready to bring their leadership
beyond their families and into their businesses, without fragmenting themselves in the process.
Wednesday, September 21st, 12-130PM CST
(Registration required- recording available to all who register.)
Here’s why “choosing between work and home” is total bullshit:
I believe that every skill you’ve cultivated as a mother can actually help you create a successful helping and healing business.
And that successful business can help lead a new culture of care.
And, most importantly, you don’t need to perform at either.
Just lead like a mother.
You’re a mother who is highly skilled in both the art of mothering and your chosen profession, and you want to build a business that highlights those skills and benefits you, your family, and the world.
But you aren’t sure if you have what it takes. You’re a solid therapist, coach, educator, birth worker (or any other kind of helping/healing professional), and you have a vision (maybe it’s a blurred vision, but that’s cool). But creating and leading a business, even one that you feel in your bones, seems…like a lot. And it is. But:
Here’s the truth: whether it’s leading your family, leading a small care-based business, or leading your own life, you are the magic ingredient.
You are the throughline.
You are the source of power.
You are the leader.
And as a mother, you know a thing or two about leading.
Beyond #Momboss
So often, mothers feel forced to pick between engaging in meaningful work, engaging in a meaningful family life, and engaging in a meaningful sense of self. To do one, it feels like you must fragment yourself and shut off all your other parts so that one can step up- and usually consume your whole identity.
The Mommy Complex tells us:
-Work outside the home can never be as important as raising your children
-Wanting to be home with your kids is anti-feminist and antiquated
-At your job, you should act like you don’t have kids and make sure to fall in line with your company’s patriarchal values, in order to get ahead
-Mothers should be the default parents, even when that interferes with work, dreams, and outside interests
-Mothers don’t have what it takes to be leaders
-Outsource your caregiving to someone else less privileged for as little money as possible
-You should work out of the goodness of your heart, not for money
-Whether you are at work, or at home, you should always be grinding, producing, and sacrificing in order to prove your worth.
Gross! And confusing!
It’s time to build a new set of expectations for motherhood and work:
Find what you give a shit about, and show up for it- in all your glory.
Your business is my business.
I’m Allison Staiger, and I’m a maternal leadership coach (and owner of two solo care-based businesses). I help parents who identify as mothers create and lead small helping and healing businesses like they lead their families- with fierce care, rebellious anger, pleasure as power, and a sense of autonomy. I’m sick of taking shit from the Mommy Complex and being told we have to choose between “work and home,” while still having “work-life balance,” “leaning in,” “being a mom-boss,” and never forgetting that mothering is “the most important job in the world.”
This is the kind of messaging that convinces mothers to stay small and stay in their lanes. Keep working at a job that doesn’t see you as a valuable team member. Keep buying into the systems that devalue care, caregivers, and care workers. Keep following patriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist ideals of what it means to be a boss or be successful, even when that’s a terrible fit for most people.
Keep your business to yourself.
In “Lead Your Fam, Lead Your Biz” you’ll join me in challenging not only the idea that you have to choose between working and parenting, but the belief that you’re not ready, or that you need something more or different before you turn your ideas into reality.
In our time together, we’ll cover:
How The Mommy Complex creates a false binary between mother-work and career-work
The reasons why mothers are often reluctant to pull the trigger on their brilliant, care-based small businesses (even when the world needs this the most)
And how motherhood is leadership, whether in your family or in your business, so you already have what it takes!
Part feminist analysis, part breathing space, part business boot camp. All moments allowed, all parts welcome. And if you stick around to the end, you can learn about my upcoming business coaching group, Makin (Business) Babies, registering now.
Register below to get the Zoom link. See you there, my future MBAs (Mom Business Ass-kickers)!