Kids moved out? Turn your free time and life skills into a part-time care business

The kids have grown up. Now it's your turn to build something.

If that's you, here it is straight: what the work actually involves, what it pays, what it costs to set up, and how to start — from someone running the same business, part-time, in regional Tasmania.

1. Redefine the next twenty years

Build something where your experience creates someone else's independence.

2. A realistic income

Around 23 hours a week at funded rates is a substantial business — these are gross figures, and the costs of running a business come out first.

3. Choose the work you like

Cooking, shopping, gardening, driving, company.

4. No corporate politics

Local clients, your own hours, none of the meetings.

5. The actual formula

The three steps used to launch a working regional care business.

Where to go next

Being straight with you. The hourly figures on this page are the billing rates from the official NDIS Pricing Schedule — the most that can be charged for that support. They're gross revenue, not take-home. Insurance, tax, super, travel and your own time all come out of it. And the income examples are Cathy's real numbers, not a promise about yours.

The free training is below — the honest version of how this works, in plain language. It's free, and it stays free.