Stephanie Foo will always have a special place in my heart because she produced one of my all-time favorite segments of This American Life (listen to it here). Here she looks back on how her remarkably traumatic childhood shaped both her personal and professional lives, and tries to figure out how to recover. Foo has a wry wit that is never far, but also a reporter’s appetite for new knowledge and investigating everything, including herself—even when it’s very, very hard. Informative, challenging, and inspiring.