Brooke Averick and J.J. Johnson
June 23, 2026

S11 E26: Brooke Averick and J.J. Johnson

By This Is the Author

In this episode, meet internet personality and podcaster Brooke Averick, author of Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It, and youth counselor turned young adult novelist J.J. Johnson, author of Believarexic . Tune in to hear Brooke Averick on what it meant to her to write a book for anxious girls, and J.J. Johnson on the touching promise that led to her writing Believarexic.

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