Comotion’s Origin Story: Motherhood and Business Development
Our leadership didn’t set out to build a traditional consultancy: we set out to build something human. Something feminist. Something that made space for the full reality of our lives, not just the parts that fit neatly into a meeting agenda or Monday morning status update. From maternity leave fog to mental breakdowns to difficult clients, our story is one of embracing motherhood and doing things differently — and doing them together.
In many professional settings, motherhood, mental health, and personal struggles are things to be quietly managed — or hidden altogether. But in our world, they’re part of the foundation. Breastfeeding on Zoom calls, taking breaks for mental health, grieving, parenting, healing — it’s all real, and it all belongs. We’ve created a space where being a mom, a founder, a friend, and a person can coexist without apology. That’s not accidental. It’s feminist leadership in action: designing a workplace that doesn’t just tolerate life’s messiness, but actively makes room for it.
We joke about our “Menty Bs” (mental breakdowns), but the truth behind them is serious. Burnout, depression, and emotional exhaustion have touched all of us—and what we’ve learned is that support can’t be reactive. It has to be built into the culture. That means leaders recognizing when to step in and say, “Enough,” and making policies like four-day workweeks, mental health leave, and real flexibility a baseline. When one of us needs space, we don’t just encourage it—we normalize it. We know the work we do is important, but no deliverable is more urgent than someone’s well-being.
