Meet the Season 47 Cast | Survivor 47

I've been developing my social game in life since I was about this big I grew up dressing like a boy wanted no attention for it so had to distract them from having questions about me that's really taught me how to just befriend any type of personality in college I was surrounded by people in sororities and working in the technology industry it is alpha male sales bro personalities I know how to get along with anybody and even people that I don't like so much like I know how to make them like [Music] me the energy that I'll bring forth is a pickpocket from the Oliver Twist universe stealing their trust their hearts their spot in the final three and before they know it they voted for me and I won give was like 15c narration of a challenge going on all right so we've got two teams right two squads they're both going out wait let me re let restart this cuz I got to think of a challenge what I do in Esports is what Jeff does on Survivor Jeff does all the shot calling and that's exactly what I do in the video games I've been traveling all around the world I've been all the way to Saudi Arabia casting $2 million fortnite tournaments when I'm watching Survivor the second of challenge starts I'll mute it and then I'll start commentating over the challenge and then I'll rewind it and then listen to how Jeff does it and see like where I can improve because I mean Jeff is the goat of it so you know you got to learn from the best I feel like People's First Impressions of me are going to be man this guy is loud I don't know if this guy's got a lot going on upstairs but guess what I I like to think that I'm smart I took an IQ test it was like 135 I don't know how accurate is but hey I'll take it I got a lot of things up my sleeve that a lot of these players aren't going to be able to see just from looking at me and so I'm going to be a very very scary player I truly believe I'm by far one of the biggest threats out here to win this game I am exuberant curious and calculated calculated being my favorite [Laughter] word on dating apps one of my prompts is I'm convinced that I can win Survivor and I've been collecting all the different responses of all these different men you're not going to win if I'm on the show or you really think you're going to win if you doubt my skill set red flag if you're mentioning players like parvy and Boston Rob to me green flag I'm a manager of finance and operations it's a very strategic role I gather all of the data points I analyze them knowing how to move the business forward if we are doing good or bad same thing in Survivor I'm going to have to continuously update my gameplay based on how things go because I did grow up in a predominantly white area I did change things about myself in order to fit in it took me some time to fully Embrace who I am instead of trying to run away or hide from it and I think it's the perfect timing for me to go into a game meeting people as who anuka is even now I just sit here and I see like ants and bugs crawling I'm just like what the hell is going on so when I was 14 I was diagnosed with fsgs it's a pretty rare kidney disease I had 50% kidney failure by the time I found out anything was even wrong with me and I was told by three different doctors that I wasn't going to make it nothing's going to be as bad as dying right so I mean at the end of the day like I don't really care what adversity I face I'm just excited to be in all of this and just experience it all been wanting to play football my whole life my sickness and illness I couldn't play anymore so I just told myself if I can't play in the NFL I'm going to work for the NFL in some type of capacity I'm in athlete marketing I essentially play a middleman between partners and players you're dealing with all types of people in my line of work you got people who's from a country town all the way in Middle Tennessee somewhere and then you have a guy who's from urban New York I have to treat him the same and I have to work with him the same so I think that'll help me here as well [Music] when you hear Hawaii you think Vibe go with the flow but in reality I'm going to be cutting throats so I'm hoping they think I'm just here for a fun little ride but they have no idea what's lurking under the surface I'm constantly seeing where I can grow and evolve as a human being I was a division one college athlete got my masters in educational leadership in policy and and I am a flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines but I do want to become a pilot winning that million dollars is going to help a lot with pilot school I was an ulate for season 45 I was obviously pissed however looking back on it I'm so grateful that Hannah stuck it out for those two extra days and I know that things are going to work out the way they're meant to work out we will be deting shortly AKA Jeff snuffing your torch as you proceed out of the aircraft go ahead and shock up back to us because it was not personal we we still love you anyway I love people I love games I love like challenging myself I love money so like what is there not to love about [Laughter] [Music] Survivor I designed user interfaces when you're using an app you don't necessarily notice the color like the buttons or the typ photography that's being used all of those things should feel really seamless that's how I want to integrate myself in this game no one's really like actually paying attention to the fact that I'm there all the time I'm weird and I'm like quirky and just like a little neurotic and a little too much at times and I think my husband Dereck is the absolute foil to my personality you just like really balance each other out I hope that I can find somebody out here that has similar characteristics and is able to keep me in check I've been thinking about this goldilock complex not too smart but not unstr not too physical but not too weak just being right in that like middle spot that's key to [Music] winning if I were introducing myself I would say this is John LoveIt he is a former presidential speech writer and TV writer he is now a podcast host and he's best in small [Music] doses being a speech wrer is about figuring out the best way to convince a bunch of people to either come along with you or agree with you or support you I think that's a lot of what survivor is final tribal it's a political campaign it's an election and it is very fun to think about but I know that if I'm thinking about that I'm not thinking about what I have to do to get there when P of America listeners and love it or leave it listeners discover that the reason I was gone for 5 weeks is to be on Survivor they're going to think that that is bananas but there was something really exciting about putting that aside to focus on this game where everybody starts at zero and and it'll be okay once I get Talking you'll see it's it's worse for me than it is for you I'm just an odd [Music] person but the problem is I'm a terrible liar so I don't know I'm going to be really really grateful if I'm here on like day [Music] four I am a corporate lawyer which means my phone is going off all the time so life is busy and chaotic and complicated and stressful but I love it it's not that I have a passion for the law I really don't but I have a passion for problem solving and for people and so that's going to help me out here I will absolutely not be telling people that I a lawyer post 45 hell no three out of the final six were lawyers there's no way that I can tell people I'm a lawyer or they'll be like K nice to meet you bye I got to be really careful about who I show the inner workings of my mind to I'm going to win and win but like unanimously with no one ever voting for me throughout the whole game and anything less than that will be a complete failure it used to be a cliche and now it's not anymore I I want to make this a cliche again I'm not here to make friends growing up I had two older brothers so I constantly had to watch them do things that I couldn't do just because I wasn't old enough I had to figure out ways around those rules it's kind of how I learn to operate within the world you can cut Corners lie cheat and steal to get ahead and get little advantages that Stack Up throughout life so I think being a talk show host is one of the perfect jobs to have coming into Survivor knowing when it's your time to be the guy and take up all the air in the room and when it's time to recoil and let something else take up that Spotlight it's all about working people I don't care about these people they don't mean anything to me before this game and if they don't mean anything to me after this game it's not going to change my life at all I'm here to build a legacy in the game that I love and walk away with a million dollars that's it I swall a [Music] bug so I like to do this thing called the bump and run derby there's lefts and rights there's humps and bumps and the main goal of the game is to cross the finish line and if that means putting somebody into the wall along the way so be it it's been preparing me for Survivor because there's a bunch of different strategies that you could take but there's only one of us that are going to cross that line I grew up kind of rough lived in a house that didn't have electricity it was just a little bit of a fumble but I met my fiance coming out of high school she like really inspired me to want to do more with myself so the home where I did a lot of my growing up I've demolished that home and decided to build our own home there she just feeled a growth inside of me that's it's been remarkable oh my moose that's my girl moose is my daughter given the fact that I grew up so rough I've just wanted to create like a really solid foundation for her even more reason to bring home that money right yo you know it that's I I'm bringing it home liar the adjectives that I used to describe myself or other people used to describe me I'm just going to say adorable I don't know [Applause] yeah part of being our doctor is strategizing and prioritizing and triaging and just having that chaos at all times today's gunshot room to stab just like that emotional Whiplash and like the ER trains me for that you never know what's coming at you but you still have to be in control of it you have to know the strategy of what to do next exactly what survivor is I was very strategic about when I came out my parents they would view this as a distraction that's why I had to be so patient and once I had achieved becoming a doctor I could live my life I wanted to prove that I can achieve anything I want to be and that's irregardless of my sexual orientation some of my extended family still don't know that I'm gay and so they were like maybe you could just pretend you're not hell to the no I'm here to play and share everything about me and here I am now everybody wants to find an but Idols are like curses now so individual immunity works just fine for me that one I don't have to overthink my first memory is me and my brother sitting cross-legged as Jeff is reading the votes in Survivor Cook Islands we're just chanting azy azy azy as Jeff reveals the last vote youu tears we are like distraught you would have thought our dog died Sports and Survivor were like two of my things growing up and I hit the age where you kind of realize okay not going to be a professional athlete for a living how else can I get involved Sports reporting gave me an outlet I think in sports reporting you have to know how to stroke an ego how to ask the right question to get information out of people I've kind of fine-tune those skills I've always been a little bit more than just the sports guy I did musical theater I did drama I I wrote poetry as soon as you've made a connection with me like the vulnerability comes flowing out so I'm not afraid to show a little waterw work sometimes I have the ability to charm and disarm is this a social game like that's really [Music] good I work in Computer Learning natural language it's the science of language Survivor it's a game of conversations and so I'm going to be especially a tuned to that social element of a game I was really really close with my cousin Ashley she named me The Godfather to her firstborn a year later we lost Ashley to domestic violence and they don't have parental figures I can be someone that they can look up to what better way of showing that than like following my dream I can come back home and look at Chas and say this is how you live life people are looking at me and thinking that I am another Austin solid Dependable but ultimately beatable if people see that in me I can capitalize on that and just play like a snake I want to be remembered as the oldest woman to ever win [Music] Survivor when I first got into the aviation industry I'd have such a push back from the men I felt like they almost laughed at me so I'm going to keep pushing forward and none of them mattered now I have a really successful flight school and everyone in the area knows who we are we need more women in the aviation industry only 6% is women my goal is to try to open this up to women they need to be empowered and I was totally underestimated coming here I feel it's going to be very similar these people look at the old person they think they're a weak person here between my work ethic and my level of competition they're going to soon realize that they're going to want me here and my grandson will always remember his grandma kicking butt on Survivor it's just as green and vibrant and wonderful as it is on TV I was thinking you guys had a little bit of a filter it wasn't get actually be this gorgeous it's stunning water polo is like a game of viciousness what you're not seeing under the water that's what the real war is kicking you underw and like trying to drag on your bathing suit people don't think I can fight I can fight and that is the mentality you have to have out here in Survivor where people are attacking you but you have to keep swimming the way I approached business school was I basically craft my own Survivor major classes like selling yourself in your ideas power in organizations this will help me in my professional life but this will really help me in Survivor I don't think I come across as smart as I appear I'm strategic I'm cunning I'm ruthless I'm willing to do what it takes to achieve and succeed I'm perfectly poised to be the wolf and sheep's clothing and that's why I'll be the Soul Survivor if we sit next to each other on a plane I will talk to your ear off and I literally have at least six or seven contacts in my phone of so and so's name [Music] airplane I always thought I'm going to be married by 23 I'm going to have kids by 25 and I am 32 and single what that has prepared me for is to be adaptable cuz I don't know what Jeff is going to throw at us all I know is that I have the ability to create strong relationships and that's what's going to carry me through the game if I see somebody that seem unapproachable they seem impossible to work with I'm going to want to make it happen because I'm going to feel that personal satisfaction that I was able to win them over because I saw people like maryan Shan coutur seeing someone like me and thinking wait if they could do it I could do it and so if I could do that for some other girl out there I think that's inspiring [Music] a lot of times when I'm around people are laughing I like to call myself a [Music] hoot I am actually a surgical nurse so I work for a plastic surgeon so I get to be that like surgical guide to walk all these patients throughout the process so really I end up being a lot of time the therapist and I really want to be somebody that my you know triades can turn to and be like hey I'm feeling down I feel like I can bring that to them people look at me and just a little tiara on my head there's so much more to Sierra than just pageant Sierra being like a Phillies ball girl playing softball my entire life being in the service industry for over 12 years to now being a registered nurse and I was born for the game of Survivor so I'm ready I'm out here to play for my dad he has gone through Hellen back the last two years with like chemo infusions blood transfusions his last like few words to me were just like go get un Bud like bring it home and you know come home a millionaire um and that's what I'm going to do God why am I crying so much right now I don't do this I don't like talking [Music] and I help people with uh neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's disease I'm just the rep a neurosurgeons implant electrodes in the part of the brain that affect your movement they're tremoring like crazy crazy and then all of a sudden in an instant those tremors are gone and it's it's a great feeling I've won over 200,000 playing poker tournaments when I make a move I'm not lying to you I'm bluffing you I can take that emotion out because in the end this is the game the best game ever obviously there aren't many Koreans in Oklahoma so I stood out right away it was rough I got picked on a lot but I also always stood up for myself it turned me to the man I am today in order to be the best you can be you're going to suffer and so I think if I embrace how difficult it's going to be here it's going to make it that much easier [Music]