What is The New Home Economist?

Long ago, a woman named Catharine Beecher wrote A Treatise on Domestic Economy. She felt strongly that housekeeping was a serious subject deserving systematic study and that women's domestic role carried moral and national importance.

But you’re not a housekeeper - not just a stay-at-home mom.

You’re a woman of multitudes, and you used to have a career.

A business. A portfolio of projects. And now? Now you have a family, a baby or a handful of them. But the thing that it feels like you’re not allowed to talk about is real. You’re allowed to feel proud of your work with your family, about making the sacrifices you make every day.

And you’re also allowed to long for and miss the days of your old life and work. And you’re allowed to set down the expectations from social constructs we’ve been fed.

That’s why we need a New Home Economics. Here, we make that together. Here, we untangle the threads tugging at us.

Here, we are New Home Economists.

Read The New Home Economist manifesto and be a part of a new way of mothering, working, and being.

What started for me as a thought between shutting down my startup and having my second child has evolved into something more.

Over years of talking with other mothers who “used to work” - better stated as worked outside the home - I came to realize that our society has done a huge disservice to us.

Mothers of every stripe are welcome here. But in particular, I built The New Home Economist for mothers who feel unseen in their multitudes of experience; mothers who draw from a well of incredible work lived before children, and who have also made the choice to be home with their children.

Our society has offered very little to all mothers, but I feel in particular, the former professional woman-now-SAHM gets quite a short stick.

Here in this space, I seek to offer new perspectives on living as a woman of multitudes, and welcome you to develop your perspective too. If you’re ready to being, join me in reimagining our roles.