Andrea L. Johnston scaled a company past 150 million in revenue, exited to private equity twice, and then burned out in the way a vacation does not fix. Season 2 of Fuel for Female Founders opens with her own record and with the reason she started the show: almost none of the women she worked beside had a story that matched the public version of a woman leader.

This season she recorded in person, one on one, 30 minutes at a time, with women running Nasdaq listed companies, women writing the next check after an exit, and women changing systems from inside institutions. Her case is that women's leadership is structural and durable, not a one-off success story.

In This Episode, Listeners Will Hear

• What burning out cost after two exits
• What the girl boss snapshot leaves out
• Why the operators who never founded belong in the conversation
• Why the show is no longer Women I Want You to Know

Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(0:25) Scaled to 150M, then burnout

(1:51) DuPont Merck to a 10 figure sale

(2:52) What the snapshot skips

(3:30) Beyond the podcast

(3:54) Why the name changed

(5:07) Upcoming Guests on Season 2

Episode Resources

Fuel for Female Founders: https://www.fuelforfemalefounders.com/

Andrea Johnston on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrealjohnston

Fuel for Female Founders on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuel-for-female-founders

Women I Want You to Know, the former LinkedIn feature series: https://www.fuelforfemalefounders.com/linkedin/

Produced by UNFLTR