In this way, I was able to convince myself that the dread was good for me. It was the biggest driver of my ferocious work ethic. Because of the dread, in 2014, I got my dream job at This American Life—the biggest storytelling radio show out there, the one with several million loyal listeners and walls full of Peabodys and Emmys, so popular it had parodies on Saturday Night Live and Portlandia. It took just four years to go from Get Me On This American Life to actually working at This American Life. When I got the job, I screamed and threw a big party and then moved to New York to become a
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