What YeYoon Kim has said about Addiction and recovery

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 9, 2026

YeYoon Kim, Former kindergarten teacher and nonprofit volunteer manager, has been quoted on Addiction and recovery once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Kim describes herself in retrospect as a high-functioning alcoholic whose blackouts should have signaled a need for help.

    “Now I know that I was a very high-functioning alcoholic. a sign that should have told me you should seek help was that I would often have blackouts”

    TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 39:47

Episodes

  • The shocking power of tiny things

    TED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.

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