You’ve optimized your career. You’ve built the income. You have a wonderful family you love, a home you worked hard for – and a completely unmanageable workload that leaves you with zero time, energy, or mental bandwidth.

Sound familiar? For most dual-income households, there’s a second full-time job hiding in plain sight outside of a demanding work career that eats up at least 25 hours per week beyond the time you spend in the office.

Between all the grocery runs, meal prep, Amazon returns, laundry, school pickups, the random appointment you forgot to reschedule – oh, and coordinating the logistics of all of this day in and day out! – it’s a lot.

And it could be causing you to wear thin, not just eroding your free time but also your relationships and peace of mind.

Thankfully, there’s a solution.

In this episode of Money For Life, Eric talks with Kelly Hubbell, founder of Sage Haus, about a solution most high-earning families don’t even know exists: the house manager. This is a versatile, systems-driven person who takes the operational load of your household off your plate so you can actually show up — for your career, your kids, and yourself.

Kelly breaks down what a house manager actually does, why the “I can’t afford it” objection is the wrong question to ask, how to set up home systems before you hire so the partnership with your house manager actually works, and why this support is far more accessible than most people think.

If you’ve ever said “I just need more hours in the day” — this episode is for you.

Take the Sage Haus quiz to see if your family could outsource some of the load to a house manager. And if you’re ready to get support for your own family and learn more about how Kelly can help, she welcomes you to book an informational call with Sage Haus here.

You can also find Kelly and Sage Haus on Instagram @mysagehouse or LinkedIn.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

There’s a real cost to the invisible labor that mostly falls on women (even in dual-income households with two working spouses).
Most dual-income households are spending 25+ hours per week managing household operations on top of full-time careers. Naming it, and measuring it, is the first step toward finding a solution so that both partners in the relationship get the support they need and find effective ways to better manage the full-time job of housekeeping and household logistic management.

A house manager fills in the gaps between house cleaning teams and childcare solutions.
Where a nanny focuses on childcare and a cleaner handles one specific task, a house manager takes a holistic, systems-level approach to the operational running of your home. They can handle everything from grocery shopping and meal prep to scheduling vendors and managing the unexpected popups in between.

If outsourcing your household management sounds crazy… you’re probably already doing it! (Just not as effectively as you could be.)
If you’re using grocery delivery, DoorDash, a dog walker, and a laundry service, you’re already spending on household support. Consolidating that into one trusted person can reduce both the cost and the mental load of managing five separate platforms and people.

You need both a clear home system and someone to manage it – build the system first.
Bringing someone into your home without defined systems is like onboarding an employee without a job description. Documenting your household’s preferences, routines, and standards (what Kelly calls you your “home operating manual”) is what makes the relationship work.

Instead of asking “Can I afford this,” ask “What is my time actually worth?”
Starting at 8–12 hours per week, house manager support can cost $300–$500/week. The more useful question is: what would you do with an extra 10 to 15 hours? A promotion you’ve been putting off? Time with your kids before they leave for college? The math is personal, but this is a better way to make the decision to outsource (and how much) than simply looking at how much it would cost to hire.

You don’t have to choose between your career and your family.
One of the most powerful insights from this episode: many working parents, especially moms, believe they have to choose one or the other. Access to consistent household support can make both sustainable at the same time.

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