Founding membership
What’s included
at the table.
This is not a waiting room. From the moment you join as a founding member, La Mesa is working for you – and with you. Here's what that looks like.
Founding price – locked in indefinitely
Price increases after August 2026 for new sign ups
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La Mesa Meets –
Group Table Sessions.
Facilitated conversations where the La Mesa collective come together around what's real – career strategy, visibility, identity, resilience, and navigating what's next. Not a webinar. Not a lecture. A table.
Led by coaches and experts who understand where you are. The kind of conversation that changes things.
What to expect
Real talk, not a lecture
Every session is a conversation — not a presentation. You bring what's real, and we work through it together.
Led by coaches who get it
Our coaches understand this season — career transition, identity, visibility, what's next. No generic advice. No hustle culture.
Strategy you can actually use
Every session ends with something concrete — a reframe, a next step, a decision made. You leave different than you arrived.
Meet your coaches below
More coaches to be announced. Worth the wait.
Meet two of your coaches
Sonya Perez-Lauterbach
Meris Stone, ICF ACC
More coaches to be announced.
"Someone who checks in. Someone who shows up. Someone who gets it."
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Your
Amigas.
Every founding member gets placed in a small group of Your Amigas – women in the collective who understand this season and show up for each other.
Not a mentor. Not a coach. Peers who show up for you – and you for them. That's how the collective works.
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Short-Term
Contracts.
Your expertise didn't disappear. The market just isn't moving fast enough. La Mesa connects founding members with short-term contract work at social impact organizations — real work, real pay, on your terms.
These aren't volunteer opportunities. Organizations come to La Mesa because they need skilled, experienced women — and they pay for that access.
More income. More confidence. More network. La Mesa gets you there.
How it works
A social impact org posts a project
They have an urgent need — strategy, communications, operations, research. They come to La Mesa for trusted, skilled talent.
La Mesa matches the right woman
We connect based on expertise, availability, and fit. Both sides are vetted. The trust is already built.
She does the work. Gets paid.
Real income. Fresh portfolio work. A new entry in her network. The gap starts to close.
She moves forward
More income, more confidence, more network. That's how La Mesa works.
Launching in the first phase of La Mesa.
04
Snack Sessions
Co-Working
Writing cover letters. Browsing job descriptions. Working on your resume. Updating your LinkedIn. The unglamorous, necessary work of finding what's next.
You don't need to do that alone.
La Mesa co-working sessions are 1 hour, twice a week – Weeks go by. The rejection emails start coming. Or worse — nothing comes at all. And what started as possibility starts to quietly drain you. It's isolating in a way that's hard to explain to people who aren't in it.
Every session opens with 10 minutes of real talk — what's working, what's not, what someone tried this week. Then everyone opens their laptops and gets to work. Come and go as you please. Twice a week.
Sometimes just knowing someone else is there makes all the difference.
What a session looks like
- →1 hour – come and go as you please
- →Twice a week – flexibility built in
- →Work on whatever you need – cover letters, job searching, resume, LinkedIn
- →No agenda, no pressure – just intentional time
- →Women working alongside you, in real time
Twice a week. Virtual — wherever you are.
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Party In The Pit.
Sometimes it feels like you're in a pit. The rejection just landed. The silence is deafening. The savings are disappearing. And you don't need advice – you need a place to feel it. And if you're not the only one in the pit, all of a sudden the pit is a party.
That's what a Party In The Pit is.
No fixing. No silver linings. Just the table – and every woman at it is seen and heard.
And then we get back up. Together.
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"You don't have to perform okay here."
Regular sessions for founding members.
Private. Safe. Ours.
"You are exactly where you are meant to be."
"Your gap is not
your story."
"You didn't fall behind.
You were somewhere important."
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Daily
Affirmations.
Job searching is relentless. Some days the silence is deafening. Some days the rejection lands hard. Some days you just need someone to remind you who you actually are.
Every day, La Mesa sends a founding member an affirmation. Not generic. Not girlboss. Real words for the real experience of being in transition.
We call them Unhinged Kindness.
Because sometimes that's exactly what you need.
Inside La Mesa, this is what support looks like.
$11.50 a week.
Attend it all or choose what works for you.
Mon
Open to all members. Show up, open your laptop, work alongside women doing the same.
Tue
Group coaching call, open to all members. Real talk, real strategy.
Wed
Open to all members. A second hour of intentional, shared focus.
Thu
Group session, open to all members. Feel it. Say it. Be witnessed.
Fri
Your curated small group — handpicked, just for you. Your people show up.
Sat
Because weekends are hard too.
Sun
Every single day. No exceptions.
PLUS Access to the Short-Term Contract Job Board and Collective Library.
