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Hosted by Andi Johnson · education · EN-US
Most high achievers have two stories. The one that built the career, the business, the relationship, the room. And the one underneath it — about what they needed from all of that to feel like enough. This podcast is about the second one. Many high achievers have inadvertently built their lives around being chosen. They will tell you they wanted the relationship or the promotion. That is not what they wanted. They wanted what getting it would prove about them. That is validation dependency — the quiet engine underneath high achievement that keeps capable people performing for approval they have already earned the right to stop needing. Boys & Boardrooms is the show about that engine, told through the stories of people who lived inside it. The unflattering version. The honest one. Because pattern is hard to see in the abstract. It is much easier to see in someone else's life, told well. If you ha
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Signup to Generate a PitchMost high achievers have two stories. The one that built the career, the business, the relationship, the room. And the one underneath it, about what they needed from all of that to feel like enough. This podcast is about the second one. Many high achievers have inadvertently built their lives around being chosen.
Boys & Boardrooms is hosted by Andi Johnson. The show has published 9 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "9. The Validation Pattern: The Seat You Keep Earning" (29 September 2026, 63 minutes), "8. The Validation Pattern: Hiding Inside the Rules" (7 September 2026, 30 minutes), and "7. The Validation Pattern: When Competence Becomes a Shield" (24 August 2026, 29 minutes).
Boys & Boardrooms publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 9 episodes.
Booking probability for Boys & Boardrooms is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Boys & Boardrooms requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Boys & Boardrooms's contact route on record: verified email.
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Andi Johnson hosts Boys & Boardrooms, an education podcast with 9 episodes published.
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Episode #9
Jessica Lattif came into tech without the background everyone around her seemed to have. She had no engineering degree and no business degree. She started at a startup in her early 30s, surrounded by 25-year-olds, four...
Episode #8
Cassie Crosby learned the rules by watching what happened to the people who broke them. Take the hard job, whether you want it or not. Never let them see you cry. Nobody said either one out loud, but she watched who got...
Episode #7
Courtney Harkness was the one who held everything together. She co-founded a wireless infrastructure company with her husband and ran it as COO, scaling it past $50 million and sitting across the table from the biggest...
Episode #6
Jenny Dreizen was the one who took care of everyone. In sixth grade that meant making dinner for her younger brother and getting him to bed while her parents split custody fifty-fifty. Later it meant officiating other...
Episode #5
Erin Snow spent years listening to people nobody else would hear. Domestic violence survivors, in a legal aid office in New Hampshire. Clients who told her the same thing over and over: I'm telling my story, and nobody...
Episode #4
Stefanie O'Connell is an award-winning journalist, researcher and author of The Ambition Penalty . She spent years documenting what happens when women do everything right — follow the advice, ask for more, negotiate...
Episode #4
<p>Stefanie O'Connell is an award-winning journalist, researcher and author of The Ambition Penalty. She spent years documenting what happens when women do everything right — follow the advice, ask for more, negotiate...
Episode #3
<p> <b>Melissa Pavone watched her mother hold a family together — and then watched it come apart with no one in her corner.</b></p><p>Stay-at-home mother, then part-time work, present for everything. The glue. When the...
Episode #1
<p>Welcome to Boys & Boardrooms. This is where it begins.</p><p>For most of my life I was running on a pattern I couldn't see. Being chosen — by the right partner, for the right role, in the right room — was the metric...
Episode #2
<p>If Episode 1 was about being chosen, this one is about being needed. Same engine. Different costume.</p><p>For years I was the person people came to — the colleague who could carry, the friend who could hold space...
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