Advancing the Future of Working Motherhood.
Mothered Media is a global research, media, and advocacy platform exploring how motherhood transforms leadership, work, identity, and culture.
Through reports, storytelling, campaigns, and community-driven initiatives, we are helping shape a more sustainable and human future for working mothers everywhere.
The 2026 maternal strengths report
What if we measured what motherhood develops, instead of the cost? What if we measured how much motherhood impacts your leadership skills? Read the full report now
Motherhood develops resilience, adaptability, emotional intelligence, negotiation, prioritization, and the ability to lead through complexity, often while navigating systems that fail to recognize those strengths.
Mothered Media exists to elevate these realities through research, storytelling, advocacy, and cultural conversation.
We are a global platform that documents, studies, and advances the future of working motherhood; not just as a workplace issue, but as one of the defining leadership and societal conversations of our time.
We believe motherhood is a leadership experience.
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Mothered Media was founded to shift the way the world sees, values, and designs work for mothers. Too often we talk about working motherhood in terms of loss, penalty, and burnout. We see something else entirely.
We’re building research, movement, and tools that quantify what’s gained — leadership strengths, resilience, strategic clarity — and asking the hard question: why aren’t systems recognizing it?
This is where narrative meets data.
This is where culture meets accountability.
This is where working motherhood becomes influence, not an afterthought.
what we do
research & reports
We publish data that reframes motherhood and leadership; like the Maternal Strengths Report and The Future of Working Motherhood 2026.
advocacy campaigns
National awareness campaigns, advocacy initiatives, documentaries, and storytelling projects designed to elevate the realities and strengths of working mothers. Including: National Working Motherhood Week 2026
The magazine
The only global magazine exploring motherhood, ambition, leadership, identity, caregiving, and the working moms who are building businesses and leading teams while mothering.
About the founder
Alexa Starks is the founder of Mothered Media and Editor-in-Chief of Mothered Magazine. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, identity, and working motherhood — challenging the systems that shape women’s careers after becoming mothers.
After a decade+ in advertising and navigating her own career rupture and reinvention, Alexa began supporting women through maternity leave and reentry transitions. That work revealed something deeper: the issue wasn’t just leave policies — it was how modern work defines power, leadership, and value.
Today, Alexa leads global research initiatives including The Future of Working Motherhood 2026 and the upcoming Maternal Strengths Report, speaks globally on working motherhood and systems redesign, and builds platforms that amplify the voices and strengths of working mothers.
She is committed to reshaping how organizations recognize leadership, redefining power beyond dominance, and ensuring that caregiving and ambition are not positioned in opposition.
She is also a mother of two and is building the world she wants her children to inherit.
