"Losing My Leg Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me": Meet Noelle Lambert, Paralympian & Survivor 43 Contestant

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Paralympian and founder of the Born to Run Foundation, Noelle Lambert, made history on Season 43 of Survivor, quickly becoming an audience favorite before being blindsided in tribal council. Now she's joining Victoria to share her journey of going from hopeful Division I lacrosse player to suddenly losing her left leg in a tragic accident. Noelle details what it was like to process becoming an amputee, how she accepted her body and body-image post accident, finding love in her new body, plus her experience on Survivor and what it is REALLY like out there when the cameras shut off! Follow Noelle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noellelambert/

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.5	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host Victoria Garrick and this is the podcast where we hold nothing
0:09.1	back. Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I've really cried for 12 days straight. Why do I want to be
0:15.1	perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. Every week I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:20.2	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:25.9	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my god, am I going to cry? Let me just
0:30.2	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday leave those filters at the door because it's time
0:37.3	to get real.
0:41.3	Happy 2023 everyone. I hope you are feeling amazing. The new year has been. I've been excited about
0:59.1	it. I definitely am someone who kind of buys into the whole January one. I can restart my entire
1:04.6	life. I'm trying to be less dramatic this year and also I had a bit of a cold and it's been
1:09.9	raining in LA. That hasn't been quite the like vibes, but we did some resolutions. We did some
1:18.0	reorganizing when I got back from holiday travel and I'm feeling really good. I, in taking the
1:25.4	start of the year seriously and with lots of excitement, wanted the most perfect fun, inspiring,
1:32.8	amazing guest to kick us off for 2023 of real pod. There was no doubt in my mind that it had to be
1:40.3	the one and only Noelle Lambert. Now I first found Noelle watching this past season of survivor Max
1:47.2	and I are huge survivor fans. She was a contestant. I won't spoil it in case you want to go back and
1:52.8	watch Noelle's season, but she does incredibly well. If you don't watch survivor and you're like
1:58.4	Vic, I love you. I'm sure I'll love Noelle. I don't think I'm going to watch an entire season of a show. I've
2:02.2	never seen that's fine. I get it, but please do yourself the courtesy of googling Noelle Lambert
2:09.0	survivor challenge win because she wins this one challenge and survivor and this will give you
2:15.8	chills and make you cry. It was so freaking good. Noelle is a para athlete and the founder of the
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