Meet Mura Circle Founders Harleen and Aneesha Laroia

Mura Circle was built by a mother and daughter who didn't just study generational patterns. They lived them together, from opposite sides of the same relationship, and chose to look at them honestly.

That choice changed everything between them, and birthed this work.

Co-Founder

Harleen Laroia

Harleen Laroia grew up in India in a home shaped by two very different ways of moving through the world. Her mother was a homemaker, deeply rooted in tradition and the quiet sacrifices it demanded. Her father was an entrepreneur—strong, visionary, and deeply present. As a child, Harleen was drawn to her father's way of being. She admired his leadership and the way he carried both strength and care at the same time.

Harleen was 18 years old when he passed away at age 48. His absence left grief, as well as responsibility, and a deeper understanding of life's fragility that most people don't encounter that young. She grew up quickly, and she grew up paying attention.

In the years that followed, she built multiple companies and founded Montessori schools that served thousands of children and families. It was inside that work, across varying cultures, backgrounds, and circumstances, that she began to recognize that the same emotional dynamics kept surfacing in different homes. Different families, same patterns underneath. And she was living it herself at the same time, raising her own children while quietly navigating the patterns she had inherited.

She is honest that her children didn't grow up with one consistent version of her. There was the surviving mother, carrying the weight of providing and caregiving within an unfulfilling marriage. There was the becoming mother who chose herself, left, and stood in the uncertainty of not yet knowing who she was. And eventually, the thriving mother, who understood what she wanted and how she wanted to show up for her children.

That two-decade journey is the foundation of Mura Circle.

She built Mura Circle because she needed it and didn't have it. She spent years figuring things out alone—how to respond differently, how to hold boundaries, how to stop falling back into what felt familiar but wrong. She always wished there was something she could turn to that would aid this process. Something that didn't just tell her what to do, but helped her understand what was happening underneath.

Mura Circle is the village she didn't have. She built it so no parent has to do this work alone.

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Aneesha Laroia

Aneesha Laroia grew up in a home where love was real, but stability wasn't. Her parents had a difficult marriage where arguments were common. Their eventual divorce was messy and disruptive for everyone in the family.

At the same time, she was growing up around alcoholism, which meant learning early to read moods, anticipate reactions, and adjust her own behavior to keep things calm. She became perceptive out of necessity.

That early environment didn't leave her when she grew up. It sharpened into something she could use. She spent years working and volunteering with teenagers through foundations across multiple countries.

Like Harleen, she also kept seeing the same dynamic: kids from completely different backgrounds, cultures, and family structures, all showing the same emotional patterns. Children absorb their parents' anxiety, anger, or emotional distance and expressing it in their own behavior. Parents reacting from fear or pressure they had never examined, passing it forward without ever intending to.

She also did that work on herself. She examined her own reactions, traced them back to where they started, and learned what it actually takes to change them. That process happened in large part through her relationship with her mother. The two of them looked honestly at the dynamics between them—what had been painful, what had been repeated, what needed to change—and their relationship transformed as a result. Mura Circle grew directly out of that process.

At Mura Circle, Aneesha serves as Creative Director. She takes the lead on how the work is expressed, turning complex emotional dynamics into language that people can actually recognize themselves in.

Her writing, the journal, and the voice of the brand are all shaped by her core belief: that people don't change because they're told what to do. They change because they finally see themselves clearly enough that continuing the same way stops feeling like an option.