Stay-at-Home Mom or Bread-Winner? How To Be Both in 2025.

Before my first son was born in the fall of 2021 I largely defined myself and my success by my career. I’d followed the path. I graduated high school with honors, got a partial scholarship to college, graduated with my bachelor’s in less than 4 years and was in a management program with a billion dollar company before I was 25 years old.

I got married, we bought a house, and started thinking about starting a family…

I thought “This is It! I’m living the American Dream and our future is SET!” 

Then when our first son was born in 2021 something in me changed. And changed in a BIG way. For the first time in my life I understood why anyone would want to be a stay-at-home Mom. Those first couple months of being home with my precious baby could not have gone slow enough for me. I wanted to stay in the space of being home with my baby forever. However as the end of my leave drew closer and reality of going back to work sunk in, I faced facts that we lived a life that required both mine and my husband’s income to maintain. So back to my corporate job I went. 

I was lucky that I was able to work from home a lot of the time (thanks to COVID) but that almost gave me a taste of what it might be like to be home with my baby full time and not be working. I day-dreamed about sitting on the back patio with my kiddo when the weather was nice and just letting the afternoon go by while I took in every one of his developmental milestones. Instead, I worked from my home office and just heard bits and pieces of my son’s day as he played and napped and grew with various nannies in another room. 

Then towards the end of 2023 we got pregnant with our 2nd baby. This time, that BIG change I’d felt with my first son exploded into a deep desperation for something different. I had several issues with the way things were: 

  • A nanny was incredibly expensive and not something we could afford for 2 kids
  • The raises (if you could even call them that) I’d gotten over the last few years were not close to keeping up with the rising cost of living 
  • We finally got our older son into a preschool we loved part time, but part time hours meant pick-up in the middle of the work day
  • I was constantly living in fear that my in office days would continue to increase to the point where my husband couldn’t cover the days anymore 
  • I genuinely did not enjoy what I was doing for work

So in the few months leading up to my due date I stumbled across an idea. I’d been seeing ridiculous videos on social media about Moms making $20k/month working 1-2 hours a day from their phones, and while I secretly wished this to be true and that it was that easy, deep down I knew it wasn’t. If it was, everyone would be doing it. But what I came across was an opportunity to truly learn a new skill.

Enter Authority marketing. Now- hear me out. Yes, it was another offer to learn digital marketing but this one felt different. 

And it is! 

I signed up with just my email, sped through the free intro videos, and quickly made my initial (very small- like less than $50) investment to start learning before my baby was born with the plan to really dive in head first while I was on maternity leave in the summer of 2024.

You may be thinking I was crazy to plan to “work” on maternity leave when I’d been so desperate to not work at all, but this time, I was working for something real. The chance to make more money than I ever would with my current 9-5 job and the chance to have this income rolling in passively- so like while I was dropping my now toddler at school and rocking my new baby to sleep. 

Could you imagine making more money than you do at a corporate job and working way less hours doing it? The thought that this even might be possible was enough for me to give it my all. What if this could be my reality? 

So after my 2nd baby was born (another boy!) I spent the first 4 weeks just recovering and living every second to be with him and my toddler as he was out of school for the summer. But by the 5th week of leave I was already starting to dread the idea of going back to work and knew that if I didn’t start making changes now, nothing would actually change for our future. 

So I dove in. 

The company I found teaches how to start your own online business through 3 phases: prepare, launch, and grow using a technique they coined “Authority Marketing”. What makes this opportunity so different than all of the social media claims to make you money with affiliate marketing etc is the level of training, community, and support you have access to. 

There are different levels of support and resources depending how much you want to put into your education so I will be honest, it’s not free. Yes, you could probably learn pretty much everything about affiliate marketing, e-commerce, drop shipping etc online through YouTube and various articles, but the difference would be like learning how to become a race car driver by watching videos and playing Mario Kart (one of my all time favorites btw) vs getting to spend time on a track, in a real race car, with a professional sitting in the passenger seat guiding you in real time, and then being handed your own car to go out and start competing with. And, you’d still get to meet with your driving coach after each race for feedback. This analogy may seem ridiculous but that really is what it’s like in this community.  

To me, that difference was worth the investment in myself as I was serious about really changing my life. Nobody ever became a famous motivational speaker, NFL player, or college professor without investing in coaches, education, and the best training camps and equipment money could buy. Why would building an online business that’s actually successful be any different? 

So throughout the rest of my maternity leave (another 8-9 weeks or so), I spent 4-7 hours/day working through the course material, attending coaching sessions and webinars, and building out my business, all with my newborn close by. This was the first taste I had at “working” and truly being able to be there for my kids. Baby being fussy and I needed to take a break and walk him around? No problem! It’s not like I had a boss to report to. Summer school half day means a 12pm pickup? I didn’t have to think twice about pausing what I was working on to go get my older son in the middle of the day.

I knew I wasn’t going to be making millions of dollars by the time my leave was over. I knew I’d have to go back to work, at least through the end of 2024, but my goal was to have everything set up, and ready to start earning income by the time I did go back so that over the coming months I could adjust and grow the business.

The reality for many families is that life is too expensive for both parents to not work and life is too short to not spend it doing something you love and with those you love. 

For me, the chance to truly break the cycle of living for the weekend, corporate burnout, and only seeing your kids for a couple hours before bed time was the motivation I needed. 

Having kids changed my priorities. I deeply resonate with Moms who give it all up to stay home with their babies, but I’ve also climbed the corporate ladder and have a drive to constantly be bettering our circumstances. It seems society wants us to choose between being home to raise our kids, or in the workforce bringing home the bacon. Well I’m not choosing one, I choose both. And Authority Marketing is the key to that reality in 2025.

5 thoughts on “Stay-at-Home Mom or Bread-Winner? How To Be Both in 2025.”

    1. I understand exactly how you feel! Not too long ago I was in your shoes. I knew I wanted to try affiliate marketing but I didn’t know how to start. Then I found this program and company that, once you sign up, gives you the blue print and step by step guide to building an online business. The first step I took was to get the intro videos sent to me and from there I was guided to the next step.
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  1. Matandire Previous

    My aspiration lies on affiliate marketing, can someone kindly assist me on how it should be done in a good way . This will make me someone else , l believe 🙏.

    1. Hello! I understand how you feel! I knew affiliate marketing could change my life but I didn’t know where to start. What I discovered is that it does matter how you go about marketing and I needed help and support. And I found it! Take the first steps to getting the help and support YOU need by starting with this free intro series 🙂 Consider this your guide!
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