Ep 208 | Katurah Topps | Civil Rights Lawyer, Motivational Speaker, and Fan Favorite on Survivor 45
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 208 features Katurah Topps, a NYC civil rights lawyer and motivational speaker, most recently known for her appearance on CBS' Hit Reality TV Show "SURVIVOR," season 45. While on Survivor, Katurah revealed that she spent her childhood raised in a religious cult, where she was ripped out of school at 10-years-old, forced into years of manual labor, and eventually became a child bride. In this powerful interview we discuss how Katurah overcame seemingly insurmountable hardships, escaped the cult, and became a Georgetown Law graduate—and what she is doing now to help others! We also discuss Katurah's motivational speaking and coaching sessions, where she travels across the country helping trauma survivors and people who feel stuck in their everyday lives, to reach their highest potential.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:16.7 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:25.7 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:42.8 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. |
| 0:55.0 | Today we welcome in Kutara Topps, civil rights attorney in Brooklyn, New York, activist and contestant on CBS Survivor, Season 45. Also, I should add that Qatar was a fan favorite. |
| 1:00.0 | How are you? |
| 1:02.0 | I am good. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, yeah, I'm so psyched to have you on The Lawyer Stories podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | You know, you have a great story, obviously, starting out, |
| 1:12.3 | and you told it on Survivor, we're going to get into it. And also, something I picked up was like, |
| 1:17.5 | your story, it's a true story of redemption and resilience. And I love that. I've seen you, |
| 1:24.4 | you know, I've seen that said. I don't want to take credit for all that, but that's, it's incredible. |
| 1:29.3 | So, you know, we're always excited and we're excited to welcome you in. |
| 1:34.3 | And by the way, congratulations on, you know, you were number four on Survivor. |
| 1:39.3 | And that's... |
| 1:40.3 | Great finalist. |
| 1:41.3 | Sorry if we're spoiling it for anybody who hasn't seen. |
| 1:43.3 | Oh, I'm sorry. Should I, should we cut that out? |
| 1:47.4 | No, no, no, no. I'm proud of that. I'm a finalist on Survivor. It's huge. |
| 1:51.8 | That's amazing. Yeah, that's amazing. So even if we did spoil it, they're going to want to go back and watch you because I sure did and it's definitely worth it um so you've recently gotten a lot of media attention after appearing on the cbs to hit |
| 2:06.9 | reality show survivor as we said um so what would lead a lawyer to apply for survivor i mean you had |
| 2:14.7 | a great job civil rights attorney one of the best firms in |
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