Teresa Strasser is an Emmy-winning writer (Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money (1997)and Emmy-nominated television host (TLC's While You Were Out (2002)). Radio and podcast audiences know her as the longtime co-host of The Adam Carolla Show.Her first book, Exploiting My Baby, was published by Penguin Publishing and became a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. The book was optioned by Sony Pictures Television and developed into a pilot for ABC written by Teresa with Jamie Tarses' Fanfare Productions. As a journalist, Strasser has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and The Los Angeles Jewish Journal where her first-person essays have garnered three Los Angeles Press Club Awards, including Columnist of the Year.