# Andi Johnson

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2. The Validation Pattern: Why Being the Strong One Is Quietly Burning You Out

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, loyalt…

5. The Validation Pattern: From Censoring to Unmuting

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 nin…

EP 153: A Community of Hope: Sera's Journey to a Life-Saving Kidney Transplant

Episode Title: A Community of Hope: Sera's Journey to a Life-Saving Kidney Transplant Episode Description:  In this inspiring episode of This Thing Called Life, host Andi Johnson sits down with Hali and Sera Davis to share their family's remarkable journey from uncertainty to hope. They reflect o…

6. The Validation Pattern: The One Who Takes Care of Everyone

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 people's weddings under a brand she called Cheerleader For Love, then coordinati…

This Thing Called Life: Summer Hiatus Announcement

This Thing Called Life podcast host, Andi Johnson, announces that the podcast is taking a summer hiatus to recharge and prepare for the upcoming season. Reflecting on Past Seasons: Andi highlights the diverse stories shared in the library of episodes, which include: Donor families finding purpo…

7. The Validation Pattern: When Competence Becomes a Shield

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 carriers in the country. She married him at 24, straight out of college. Twenty-…

8. The Validation Pattern: Hiding Inside the Rules

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 promoted and who got sidelined for being emotional, and she drew the correct co…

EP 154: Remembering Reco Gunnels: A Legacy of Purpose, Service & Community

Episode Title: Remembering Reco Gunnels: Turning Legacy Into Lifesaving Action   Episode Description:  In this powerful episode of THIS THING CALLED Life, host Andi Johnson welcomes Kelly Gunnels, Ashley Smith of Hoxworth Blood Center, and Officer Johnson with the Cincinnati Police Department Co…

9. The Validation Pattern: The Seat You Keep Earning

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 months pregnant. She wanted to prove she belonged there, and she meant to do it…

EP 127 Replay: "Legacy in Life and Loss: Adria Johnson on Her Son’s Gift of Hope"

Title: "Legacy in Life and Loss: Adria Johnson on Her Son’s Gift of Hope" 🎙️ Episode Summary In this powerful and emotional episode of This Thing Called Life, we sit down with Adria Johnson, President and CEO of Metro United Way in Louisville, Kentucky, as she shares the deeply personal story of …