# From magazine editor to founder, via Boston

> A journalist left New York to freelance, then motherhood and loss reshaped her entire career path.
- Title: From magazine editor to founder, via Boston · Business Insider
- Summary: A journalist left New York to freelance, then motherhood and loss reshaped her entire career path. A former magazine editor built a freelance career, moved…
- Keywords: career change, freelance writing, motherhood, miscarriage, entrepreneurship, new york, boston, magazine publishing, business, technology, magazine, editor
- Source: Business Insider — https://businessinsider.com/moved-from-nyc-boston-had-kids-while-building-career-2026-9
- Author: Jenn Sinrich
- Published: 2026-09-20T12:07:01.315+00:00
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: career change, freelance writing, motherhood, miscarriage, entrepreneurship, new york, boston, magazine publishing, business, technology
## Drawn to women's stories
As a teenager, the author read glossy magazines fascinated by empowering stories about women. She studied journalism at Northeastern University and moved to New York City in 2012 to work in publishing.
## Magazine work, then restlessness
She interned at Ladies' Home Journal and Self, then worked at parenting publications including What To Expect, American Baby, and Fit Pregnancy. She loved editing but felt restless putting herself into stories published under others' names.
## Taking the leap to freelance
Her boss Mindy warned that freelancing would be hard. The author quit anyway while planning a wedding and thinking about starting a family. Her husband Dan supported the risk, though neither knew if she could sustain it.
## Freelancing pays off quickly
Within months, she had more assignments than expected. By her second year freelancing, she was writing for around twenty magazines and websites, earning nearly four times her previous roughly thirty thousand dollar salary as an editorial assistant.
## Husband's job loss forces a move
In two thousand eighteen, about a year after she began freelancing, her husband lost his job. They lost health insurance coverage and their lease was ending. They decided to move to her hometown north of Boston to start a family.
## Motherhood and miscarriage
She became a mom in April two thousand nineteen. COVID disrupted her working life. While trying to grow her family, she suffered two miscarriages, which changed how she understood pregnancy, loss, and the motherhood journey entirely.
## Building platforms from lived experience
Inspired by her experiences, she co-founded Miscarriage Movement to make pregnancy loss feel less isolating, and The Mother Chapter to discuss motherhood, identity, mental health, and ambition. Neither platform was part of a careful business plan.
## A career unrecognizable from childhood dreams
Her career today looks nothing like the one she imagined as a teenager. She misses parts of New York and magazine office energy, but gets to write, edit, and build something that belongs to her while staying close to her parents.

> My career today looks nothing like the one I imagined as a teenager.
## Key takeaway

A former magazine editor built a freelance career, moved to Boston after her husband lost his job, and founded platforms addressing pregnancy loss and motherhood after experiencing miscarriages.