Boardrooms vs Therapy Rooms: What I Couldn’t Say in Each
A live conversation about the two rooms founders carry the most stories into — and what gets left unsaid in both.
About this event
Founders often live between two very different rooms.
In one, you’re expected to be sharp, clear, and in control — defending metrics, framing risk, and keeping a straight narrative for investors and your board. In the other, you’re invited to take the mask off and talk about what all of that pressure is actually doing to you.
Most people don’t see how much these two rooms influence each other.
What you don’t feel safe saying in the boardroom becomes weight you carry alone. What you don’t feel safe saying in the therapy or coaching room means the support you’re getting can’t fully touch the reality you’re operating in.
Yannick is joined by a special guest — a founder, coach, therapist, or operator who has seen both boardrooms and therapy/coaching rooms up close and is willing to talk honestly about what usually stays on each side. Guest details will be confirmed shortly.
We’ll cover:
The stories founders tell in boardrooms and the ones they only tell in private
How “performing control” for investors affects how you actually feel and decide
How to use coaching, therapy, or trusted rooms in a way that genuinely supports how you operate — not just helps you vent
A more integrated way of showing up so you’re not two different people in each room
Then we open the floor. You can just listen, or ask questions if you want to explore how this plays out in your own situation.
Format: 25‑min conversation + 15‑min live Q&A
Who this is for: Founders, CEOs, operators, and investors who live in both kinds of rooms and want to feel a bit less split between them.
Your host
Yannick Kpodar is a 2x VP/CMO turned General Partner at Aventra Capital and founder of Full Stack CEO™. He’s spent 15+ years in boardrooms as an operator and now as a GP, helping B2B SaaS teams raise $396M+, hit unicorn valuation, and scale from single‑digit ARR to $45M+ — and he’s also sat in enough therapy and coaching rooms to know what doesn’t get said on each side. That mix is why he now treats GTM, metrics, capital, leadership, and nervous system as one operating system, not separate parts of the story.
About Full Stack CEO™
Full Stack CEO™ is the operating system for B2B SaaS and AI founders from first revenue to $25M ARR — integrating GTM, metrics, capital, leadership, and nervous system in one coherent system for the age of AI. It exists for founders who want to operate at a high level without splitting their life into “performance” and “recovery” in ways that quietly cost them.
Inside, founders get a private room of serious peers, weekly working sessions with Yannick, and live conversations with operators, startup mentors, exited founders, and VCs — plus space to talk about what it actually feels like to carry those rooms.