[4][5] The duo received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as executive producers on the limited television series Mrs. America (2020).

[16] Fleck attended Diablo Valley College, focusing on theater, acting, writing and directing, before moving to New York to study film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

and Young Rebels before they wrote and directed the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, a sample feature aiming to attract potential financiers to their undeveloped script, Half Nelson.

[20] The film did not receive adequate financing for years, with Boden and Fleck often returning to script revisions in-between other projects such as safe-sex shorts for the CDC.

"[14] In spite of the effort in making the script "as good as we could" prior to filming, Fleck encouraged Half Nelson's actors to ad lib and improvise, although he and lead actor Ryan Gosling compromised many scenes in the rehearsal process as Fleck thought that Gosling's ideas were too different from the script in some cases.

The two wrote the screenplay after researching about many Dominican immigrants who arrive in America to play in minor league towns, saying: "The stories we heard were so fascinating that it became what we were writing before we'd even decided it was our next project".

By this point in their career, Boden and Fleck had fully committed to each other, "In the early days of our partnership we had to navigate a lot of issues concerning trust and ego.

In May 2019, it was revealed they would direct the first two episodes and produce the television show Mrs. America starring Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly.

[30] Boden and Fleck formerly dated,[31][15] however, contrary to popular belief they are not a married couple (though multiple sources[32][33] continue to erroneously report it).