I didn’t lose my job because I wasn’t good at it. I lost it because I became a mother.
After returning from maternity leave, I gave everything I had—waking up at dawn, juggling feedings with Zoom calls, meeting deadlines while running on fumes. I never missed a project. Never dropped the ball.
But one day, my manager called me into a “quick check-in.” His words still ring in my ears:
“We just think we need someone who won’t be so… distracted.”
That was it. No warning. No concern. Just a quiet suggestion that motherhood made me less valuable.
I was devastated—but I wasn’t done.
That night, after putting my baby to sleep, I recorded a video. I shared the truth: I didn’t lose my job because I was failing—I lost it because I refused to fail my child.
I posted the video online and went to bed with a pit in my stomach. By morning, it had blown up. Thousands of women reached out.
They’d been pushed out. Passed over. Penalized for becoming mothers.
One comment stood out:
“If you ever start something, I’m in.”
So I did.
I launched The Naptime Agency—a creative agency built by moms, for moms. We worked during nap time, brainstormed between diaper changes, and pitched million-dollar campaigns while bouncing babies on our laps.
We weren’t “distracted.” We were determined.
One year later, we’re a powerhouse team of 30—designers, developers, marketers, writers, strategists. We’ve helped nonprofits grow their missions, startups scale their dreams, and moms rediscover their strength.
They called me a liability. But I was never the weak link.
I was the beginning of something unstoppable.
And I wasn’t alone.