I have huge news.
I’m making a documentary.
And I want you to join me as an Associate Producer.
If you’ve ever wanted to be part of a film or see your name in the credits, this is your chance.
If you’ve ever wanted to do something concrete to change the story for mothers in this country, this is how you can.
But before I tell you how to sign up, we need to talk honestly about where mothers in America are right now, and why I’m making this film.
Here’s the truth: Motherhood has become an impossible math problem.
Every choice a mother makes — to work or stay home, breastfeed or bottle-feed, take the job or take the day off — is up for public judgment. Child care costs more than rent in most states. Families are drowning. And yet we are still told these are personal problems that can be fixed through planning, priorities, or effort.
And that is a lie. We are not the problem.
At Moms First, we hear from mothers every day who are doing everything right and still feel like they’re failing. Teachers working double shifts. Women pumping in their cars. Parents paying more for child care than their mortgage.
The details change, but the core experience does not. It cuts across race, class, and politics.
Motherhood has been devalued and dismissed, yet mothers are still expected to hold up the economy with no structural support to stand on.
And instead of fixing a broken system, we’ve been encouraged to blame one another.
Tradwife vs. girlboss.
Stay-at-home mom vs. working mom.
“Good” mother vs. “selfish” mother.
None of it is real.
These labels were designed to keep us fighting each other instead of fighting for change. So after years of hearing these stories, and having lived many of them myself, I knew that talking about the problem wasn’t enough. We needed to show it.
That’s why we’re making a documentary.
Together with Culture House Media and French Tuck Media, we’re telling the full story of motherhood in America — how we got here, who benefits from the current system, and what it will take to build something better.
No one has ever made a film like this. Not one that traces the arc from postwar propaganda to today’s culture wars. Not one that uncovers the policies and power structures that have kept mothers overwhelmed and invisible. Not one that asks what could happen if mothers finally came together and demanded more.
This film does all of that.
And now, as we prepare to release it in 2026, here’s my ask: Become an Associate Producer.
We are inviting thousands of mothers and allies to join the project. Your name will appear in the credits of the film. Together, we’re aiming to break the Guinness World Record for the most producers ever listed on a film.
If you want to be part of this groundbreaking project, visit momsfirst.us/doc to learn more, and sign on as an Associate Producer.
Your name deserves to be on it.
Because the story we’ve been sold about motherhood isn’t the story we need to keep living.
This film is for every mother doing everything right and still feeling like she’s failing, not because she is, but because the system is failing her.
It’s for you.
It’s for all of us.
And it’s for our children, so they don’t inherit the same broken playbook we’ve been handed.
Let’s tell the truth.
And let’s do it together.
I hope you’ll say yes.
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We’ve been carrying this story for generations. Now we get to tell it together. I hope you’ll stand with me in this moment — and step into it as an Associate Producer.
Let’s get our story out there,
Reshma Saujani