Boys & Boardrooms

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 is listening. She recognized it. She had carried her own story since she was nine, surrounded by people who wanted her to be okay but didn't know how to help her get there...

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, perform — and still face punishment for it. What she found wasn't a broken system. It was a functioning one, designed to reproduce the same structure of power even as the ru...

  Melissa Pavone watched her mother hold a family together — and then watched it come apart with no one in her corner. Stay-at-home mother, then part-time work, present for everything. The glue. When the divorce came, it came as a shock to everyone, including the daughter living in the house. Her mother relied on one attorney. No one guided her financially. No one guided her emotionally. In this e...

If Episode 1 was about being chosen, this one is about being needed. Same engine. Different costume. For years I was the person people came to — the colleague who could carry, the friend who could hold space, the partner who absorbed everyone else's emotional weather. I called it leadership, loyalty, or just being a good person. None of those names were accurate. In this episode of Boys &...

Welcome to Boys & Boardrooms . This is where it begins. 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 I kept reaching for. I called it ambition. I called it taste. I called it knowing what I wanted. None of those names were accurate.  In this opening episode of Boys & Boardroom...