The Mom Strategist

The Mom Strategist is a private advisory service for mothers navigating the teenage years at elite schools. We give every mom a dedicated advisor they can reach by text or voice memo anytime they need guidance. Whether it's a 10 p.m. panic about her child's grades, a question about college positioning, or a moment where she just needs someone calm and knowledgeable to tell her she's doing fine, her advisor is her person.

Our founder has spent 25 years as a private family advisor at Harvard-Westlake, Brentwood, Crossroads, Choate, Andover, and top schools across the country. He has developed a proprietary methodology for handling the crisis patterns that come up in virtually every family. We train our advisors on this system so they can deliver the same quality of insight and emotional support that built his reputation.

You are the dedicated advisor for a caseload of families. You handle the complex, emotionally sensitive interactions, as well as the day-to-day questions that come up from moms. These could include answering questions about class selection, providing suggestions on how they can motivate their child, and helping figure out what colleges best fit. In other words, you will handle challenges concerning their child's school, their social challenges, and their college process, while also supporting moms so that they feel they are doing a good job as a parent and are getting tools to help bring out the best in their teen.

Who you are: You're the person your friends call when things go wrong. You're warm, unflappable, and genuinely curious about people. You don't need clinical credentials or a background in education. You need emotional intelligence, good judgment, and the ability to make someone feel heard in five minutes.

Training: Paid training working directly with the founder. You'll learn the crisis response frameworks, school-specific intelligence, college admissions strategy, and the communication style that defines the service, followed by ongoing mentorship as you build your caseload.

Compensation: $90,000–$110,000 base (full-time) plus performance bonuses tied to client retention. Prorated for part-time caseloads.

All communication with families is asynchronous via text and voice memo. There are no set office hours and no required in-person presence. You respond thoughtfully, on your own schedule, within a few-hour window. Here's what the workload looks like at different levels:

Starting out (10–15 families): You'll receive roughly 3–5 exchanges per day. Most are texts or short voice memos that take 10–15 minutes each to listen to and respond. That's about an hour to an hour and a half of actual work per day, spread across the day whenever it fits your schedule. This is ideal for someone doing this part-time alongside other commitments.

Full caseload (40–60 families): You'll handle 15–20 exchanges per day. That's roughly 4–5 hours of focused work, but because it's asynchronous, you can spread it across the entire day. Some advisors work in two blocks — morning and evening — with the middle of their day free. There are no back-to-back calls and no fixed schedule. You choose when and where you work.

This is not therapy, not coaching, and not customer service. It's a new kind of role. You're part strategist, part confidant, part expert. You build real relationships with families who stay for years. And you're doing work that genuinely changes how a mother experiences the hardest period of parenting. Both full-time and part-time roles are available. If you have 15 great hours a week instead of 40, we want to talk to you.