Keeping Yourself While Keeping Them
How to care for someone you love without disappearing yourself. The talk that ties straight to the "Keeping Jaylen" story.
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Keynote Speaker · Consultant · Founder of Magenta Momz
Your people hold everyone together. Who holds them?
I am Maria Manning. I help employers, hospitals, and institutions support the caregivers in their ranks, before burnout quietly costs them their best people.
Emmy-recognized 11 Alive feature
Founder & CEO, Magenta Momz
Atlanta · travels + virtual
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Emmy-recognized 11 Alive story, "Keeping Jaylen"
Lived experience. A real playbook.
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11Alive · Emmy-recognized
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Atlanta News First
Founder, Magenta Momz 501(c)(3)
The hidden cost
The most dependable person on your team is running on empty.
Right now, someone on your payroll is raising a child with special needs, caring for an aging parent, or both.
They do not bring it to work. They just absorb it. They cancel their own doctor's appointments. They answer the 2 a.m. calls. They sit in the parking lot and cry, dry their face, and walk back in.
Caregiver burnout never shows up on a dashboard. It shows up later, as turnover, absence, and quiet quitting. As the best person you had, gone before you understood why.
I know that person. For years, I was that person. And I have spent the time since learning exactly what helps, and what employers can do about it.
1 in 36
children is now diagnosed with autism
That number has roughly tripled in 20 years. Behind each child is a caregiver, usually a mother, running without a safety net.
[SOURCE: CDC autism prevalence — confirm latest figure before publishing]
1 in 5
working adults is a caregiver
Most never tell their employer. The support they need is small. The cost of losing them is not.
[SOURCE NEEDED — verify caregiving-workforce stat before publishing]
Why it matters
A restaurant cannot run without a kitchen. The dining room can be beautiful and the menu extraordinary. But if the kitchen shuts down, nothing gets served. Your caregivers are the kitchen.
When you support them, you are not being charitable. You are making a structural repair to your organization.
On the stage
Three talks that change the room
Part lived experience, part proven playbook. Audiences leave seen, and leaders leave with something to do on Monday.
The Caregiver in the Cubicle
The hidden workforce of working caregivers, what burnout is costing you, and what leaders can do Monday morning.
See the talkFrom Surviving to Leading
Turning the hardest season of your life into your strongest voice. Resilience that is practical, not pretend.
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Ways to work together
One topic. Four ways to bring it in.
Speaking
Keynotes and virtual talks that move a room and give it direction.
From $2,500 virtual · $5,000 in person
Book a talkWorkshops
Hands-on sessions that change how a team actually works, not just how it feels.
From $2,500
Run a workshopConsulting
Help building real caregiver support: benefits, ERGs, and program design.
From $750 session
Get advisoryGroup Program
"The Resilient Caregiver," an 8-week guided cohort with a community that gets it.
From $750 / seat
Join a cohort
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The story the whole city felt
11 Alive's Emmy-recognized feature "Keeping Jaylen" followed Maria and her son. It is the moment that turned one mother's hardest season into a mission, and a movement.
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