Ep. 633: Survivor Winner - Ethan Zohn
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ethan knows what it takes to survive. He’s faced cancer twice, lost his father at the age of 14, had teammates die of AIDS while playing professional soccer in Africa, and has won the reality show Survivor: Africa.
Today Ethan is joining Without Compromise to talk about what it means to survive difficult situations and ultimately use those tragedies for good in a principle he calls “never letting a crisis go to waste”. For example, when he won the $1 million prize for Survivor: Africa he decided to use the money to start Grassroot Soccer, an adolescent health organization that uses the popularity of soccer to educate at-risk youth all over the world. To date, they’ve educated over 2 million young people through their program.
Ethan was most recently on Survivor Season 40: Winners at War
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| 0:00.0 | So for me, when I come to these challenges in the role, these crisis moments in my life, I try to live without compromise by turning that around and using this negative thing in my life to do something positive with it. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:24.0 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:28.3 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Good morning folks. |
| 0:45.8 | Hope you're having a good week. |
| 0:47.1 | Hope you're doing all right through all of this. |
| 0:49.8 | You know, crazy times, of course, but we're going to press on and give you some inspirational stories, cool interviews, and here's one from my other show without compromise. You know, with Thursdays, we typically do a revisited episode, but sometimes with my other show without compromise, we might have a good interview. Last week was also an interview from that show. And so this one's really cool. |
| 1:13.1 | If you ever watched the show Survivor, the reality show, you'll know that it's pretty intense. |
| 1:21.6 | It was the very first show that my family really got into. It was pretty early on in reality TV. |
| 1:26.8 | And I believe the second or third |
| 1:28.0 | season was Africa, Survivor Africa. And the winner of Survivor Africa was Ethan's own here |
| 1:34.1 | that we have on the podcast today. And his story is just so much more than that show. He has |
| 1:40.7 | survived cancer twice, and he ended up winning Survivor Africa, winning a million dollars. |
| 1:46.3 | His father passed away from cancer early on in life. |
| 1:49.6 | And because he was a professional soccer player in Africa right before being on Survivor Africa, |
| 1:55.8 | he got to see the effect of AIDS firsthand. |
| 1:59.3 | Some of his teammates were sick and actually one of them |
| 2:01.4 | died, passed away as you'll hear. And so when he won survivor, and it was a lot I just shared, |
| 2:06.4 | once he one survivor, he decided to start a nonprofit around educating young at-risk people who |
| 2:13.9 | were fans of soccer about health and taking care of themselves and living healthy lives. |
| 2:20.4 | And they are a company, another company, their organization, grassroots soccer, has now |
| 2:25.1 | educated more than two million kids around the world through the sport of soccer and soccer |
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