Outmaneuver constraints. Engineer possibilities.
Recognize what you have to work with. Change the conditions. Make a deliberate move toward the life you want.
The Art of Stratagems
About Stratagems
The Art of Stratagems is the science and art of outmaneuvering constraints and engineering possibilities.
It asks how you can move within—and change—the conditions shaping your life. You examine what stands in the way, recognize resources you may have overlooked, and choose a deliberate move toward what you want.
The aim is to make the impossible possible: create conditions that give your desired life a real path forward.
Stratagems are embedded across Infamous Mothers coaching, workshops, retreats, corporate offerings, and everyday life. You can experience the practice within our existing offerings and study it in a dedicated workshop.
The Art of Stratagems workshop · Coming Soon. The standalone format and launch date are still being developed.
Progress Across Infamous Mothers
These are reported outcomes from our broader programs and coaching, not results from the upcoming Art of Stratagems workshop. Women who have participated in our programs and coaching have accomplished in less than a year things they’ve been dreaming about for over a decade. These include…
Increasing income by up 2-3x for professionals
Increasing income by up 10x for entrepreneurs
Our entrepreneurs raising $1+ million in capital while they retain 100% ownership of their company
Purchasing their dream home
Buying income properties
Improved sleep
Reclaiming their time
Losing 40+ pounds
Completing their master’s degree
Leaving their traditional jobs to run their businesses full-time
Writing that book they’ve been sitting on for years
Earning their PhDs
Explore our programs and experiences to find support for your next move.
What Is a Stratagem?
A stratagem is a deliberate move that uses available resources, changes conditions, or improves your position toward a specific outcome.
It begins with a real situation and a desired outcome. You consider what constrains you, what resources are available, and what could change.
A maneuver is the action you take. A stratagem connects the action to the leverage or conditions involved and the advantage you intend to create.
The Art of Stratagems teaches the science and art of outmaneuvering constraints and engineering possibilities—so the life you want has a clearer path forward.
Stratagems in Workshops & Retreats
Stratagems can be featured as you explore vulnerability with money and body, and practice becoming more comfortable with both.
BODY, MONEY + VULNERABILITY
Name a bigger vision, examine what feels impossible, and recognize the leverage for your next move. December 12, 2026 · Online.
VISION, LEVERAGE + POSSIBILITY
INTIMACY, AMBITION + SACRIFICE
Stratagems can be featured as you make room for love and ambition, and build a shared future with intention.
Why the Art of Stratagems?
As a child, I read stories about Anansi the spider and Br’er Rabbit—small tricksters who outwitted the mighty. Later, in my research and my life, I recognized something familiar: women using wit, creativity, and what they had to work through what stood in their way.
I wanted language that honored that intelligence. The layers of our lives—mothering, money, identity, relationships, ambition—hold knowledge we can put to work.
The Art of Stratagems makes that practice visible and teachable. We examine the situation, recognize leverage, and choose a move with an intended advantage. Then we learn from what happens.
The Art in Practice
What would become possible if you could change the conditions around your next move?
Stratagems begin with the situation you are in: what you want, what constrains you, and what you have to work with.
You learn to recognize available resources, question assumptions, identify leverage, and consider how conditions can change. Then you choose a deliberate move toward a specific outcome.
Want time to write? Negotiate a shared care schedule. Need more income? Consider how an existing skill could serve a new audience. Want room for rest? Revisit an agreement that keeps your time permanently spoken for. Read the situation, identify what can change, and choose a deliberate move.
Our dedicated The Art of Stratagems workshop is coming soon. Format, curriculum, dates, and enrollment details will be announced when finalized.
From the Wheel to Your Next Move
The I.N.F.A.M³.O.U.S. Method℠ provides the framework for our coaching. Its Wheel helps you reflect on what needs attention and how discipline and sustainability work together.
Stratagems help you consider a deliberate response to a real situation. A maneuver is the action you take; a stratagem connects that move to the resources, conditions, and outcome involved.
Locate what needs attention. Read the situation. Recognize your leverage. Choose and practice a deliberate maneuver. Reflect on what changed—and whether the progress is sustainable.
A move may serve more than one area of your life. In coaching, we use reflection, practice, and conversation to explore what fits your situation.
The Art of Stratagems is also taught through workshops, retreats, and organizational work. Our dedicated workshop will offer a place to study the practice itself; details are coming soon.
Transformation Pathways
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Coaching
The Guidance
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Workshops
The Practice
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Stratagems
The Playbook
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Retreats
The Active Rest
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Organizations
The Team
Bring Infamous Mothers into your everyday life.
A book can help you see a possibility. The Covet Journal gives your desires a place to land. The Books, Bullets & Babies deck opens a conversation. Carry reflection and deliberate choices into your ordinary days.
Featured In
We cherish not only the big achievements but also the small, weekly shifts that deeply resonate with the women we coach. These moments are pivotal; they reassure our clients that they're on track to reach their goals. More importantly, they encourage living in the present, fostering trust in themselves and their futures. Here are some of the weekly testimonials provided by the women we coach and the benefits they gain from our sessions:
Skill
“She facilitated the hell out of that session.”
Processes
“I took steps forward in my processes around my goals and felt seen and heard.”
Accountability
“I realize that up until now, I've been neglecting the work to be successful.”
Sisterhood
"Me and the women in my cohort are friends for life."
Dr. Sagashus Levingston, A Pot to P*ss In
“I needed to show what it looks like to take a wound and turn it into a weapon.”
Why Dr. Sagashus?
Dr. Sagashus brings lived experience, literary research, and years of work with women into the same room. Raising six children, earning a Ph.D., writing books, and building Infamous Mothers have required more than a plan. They have required deliberate moves within real constraints.
Her teaching helps you examine the story you are telling about the situation, recognize resources you may have overlooked, and consider a different way forward.
The goal is a sharper reading of your own life—and a move you can explain, practice, and evaluate. Your expertise stays at the center of the work.
FAQs
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A stratagem is a deliberate move that uses available resources, changes conditions, or improves your position toward a specific outcome. The Art of Stratagems is the science and art of outmaneuvering constraints and engineering possibilities. Its aim is to make the impossible possible.
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Stratagems are embedded in what we teach. Selected workshops and retreats feature this practice within their own themes, and coaching and corporate work apply it to real situations. The Art of Stratagems is also a dedicated workshop that studies the methodology itself. Details are coming soon.
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The dedicated workshop will explore the science and art of outmaneuvering constraints and engineering possibilities. The focus is recognizing what you have to work with, shaping conditions, and making deliberate moves toward a desired outcome. The detailed curriculum, format, and launch date are still being developed and will be announced when finalized.
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For women who are stuck in the spin — dreaming but doubting, starting but not finishing, circling brilliance without breaking through. If you want quick, doable shifts that honor your complexity and move you forward, Stratagems are for you.
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The dedicated workshop is coming soon. Dates, format, and pricing have not been announced. Join the interest list for updates, or explore our workshops and retreats to see where stratagems can be featured within other experiences.
The Art of Stratagems
DEDICATED WORKSHOP · COMING SOON
Explore the science and art of outmaneuvering constraints and engineering possibilities. Learn to recognize resources, shape conditions, and make deliberate moves toward a specific outcome.
Format, curriculum, launch date, and enrollment details are still being developed. Join the interest list for updates.
“Your story can cut through the coldness of numbers and logic.”
— Dr. Sagashus Levingston, A Pot to P*ss In