128. Leah Melby Clinton and Hannah Weil McKinley Founders of In Kind Magazine Share How To Juggle Friendships with Business & How They Are Filling a Void in the Market Through Intentional Writing

Today's guests, Leah Melby Clinton, and Hannah Weil McKinley are the ladies behind In Kind Magazine. In Kind is an independent, biannual magazine focused on capturing the conversations modern women are having as they navigate motherhood, career, and personal style. It's slow, conscious content dedicated to exploring the good life.

When they couldn't find the content they wanted to read as they advanced in their careers, started families, and began wondering how to balance all of it, Leah and Hannah decided to create it themselves. The women they know live insanely multi-faceted lives, equal parts mother and friend and partner and careerist. She is passionate and curious, driven by a fierce ambition in all aspects of her life, and unwilling to give up the pursuits that make her who she is as an individual. 

Leah Melby Clinton, Editor and Founder is a writer, an editor, a wife, a sister, a friend—and a mother. Her entire career has been spent in media (and she still works in fashion today), yet through all of her reporting and interviewing and musing, she began to feel like something was missing as she settled into her 30s, had her first child, and started to yearn for something slower; more traditional, yet not traditional. Suspicious that there were others out there like her—women who were pulled in different directions by wanting to focus on themselves and their families simultaneously— she decided to formalize the conversations she'd been having with people, collecting them in a place that would arrive, physically, in your mailbox. 

Hannah Weil McKinley, Founding Editor is a storyteller who's always been innately interested in style. That’s where her day job has taken her for over a decade in fashion media. But after the birth of her first daughter in 2018, she found she was compelled to share more candidly—about motherhood, about womanhood, and about the things that go along with it. 

It’s that connection that makes In Kind so special, a curation of creatives and their stories that bring us all a little closer while acknowledging the many complicated, beautiful parts of being a woman navigating motherhood and the life she wants with it.