Rob Henderson
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Well, thanks, Dr. Drew.
Pleasure as always.
Well, so very briefly, my book Troubled covers my unusual trajectory into higher education.
So I was born into poverty in Los Angeles.
My mother suffered from addiction.
I never knew my father.
Bounced around seven different foster homes all over Los Angeles.
Eventually I was adopted by this family.
We settled in this working class town in Northern California called Red Bluff.
And from there, I witnessed a lot of family dysfunction, divorce, separation, family tragedies, financial catastrophes.
I fled as soon as I could.
I was 17.
I graduated from high school with a 2.2 GPA.
I was a very unfocused student.
Yeah.
I'm still proud of that.
And I enlisted in the US Air Force and with some hiccups and some setbacks along the way, eventually got to Yale where I studied psychology on the GI Bill.