Menopause should become a neutral career event

Balancia began with a personal question: what do you do when the brain you built your career on stops working the way it used to?

Founder Charmaine Brown was leading a demanding, high-stakes job when the cognitive changes of perimenopause began showing up in real ways: the missing word in a meeting, the forgotten thread from minutes before, the familiar task that suddenly required far more effort.

Medical treatment helped, but it did not resolve every workplace challenge. Charmaine still had to learn how to manage lapses in focus and word retrieval, organize complex work, and decide whether to share her menopause experience or ask for support. That gap led her to complete 95 hours of professional coach training and begin building Balancia.

A cognitive-first point of view

Most menopause support is organized around symptoms and clinical care. Balancia starts with the work itself: attention, memory, preparation, recovery, confidence, decision-making, and the hidden effort required to maintain performance.

What we are building toward

Today, Balancia offers coaching and is recruiting for an early product beta. Over time, the goal is a complete workplace support system.