Road to Reality | Leading with Love with Wendell Holland
RHAP: We Know Survivor
Survivor Know-It-All, Rob Cesternino
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Road to Reality is a limited edition series hosted by Kellyn Bechtold (@theKellynB) from Survivor Ghost Island. Listen in while she interviews former Survivor contestants about their real life and how being on reality television has had a major impact on their life trajectories. Every reality contestant has been on a story-worthy journey to land on television and yet the edit turns them into a hero or a villain or maybe something in between, but it is always just one dimension. Tune in to hear a 360 degree perspective from some of your favorite contestants.
Episode 8 features Wendell Holland, contestant from Winners at War and Winner of Survivor Ghost Island. Wendell takes us through a 10 year journey starting in 2013 when he sent in his first Survivor audition tape way back in 2013. We talk through Wendell’s casting attempts, about winning Survivor, his very different experience on WaW in 2020 and the backlash that came with it. We discuss the CBS Diversity Initiative, doing cool stuff with Brice + Wen Present, and recently becoming a parent.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Road to Reality, a limited series where I, Kellen Bechteld, go on a conversational |
| 0:13.7 | journey with fellow survivor contestants about their real lives. |
| 0:17.8 | In this 10-part series, we invite you to listen in on unscripted conversations that, crazy |
| 0:22.1 | enough, aren't really about playing Survivor, but about being a person who was on Survivor. |
| 0:28.1 | These are deep dive conversations, not into post-game strategy, but into the lives of contestants |
| 0:33.2 | before and after survivor, and the experiences that shaped them into who they are today. |
| 0:38.6 | So sit back, relax, and join me as we take a ride down the road to reality. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Road to Reality, episode 8. |
| 0:48.6 | Today I am talking with my friend, Wendell Holland, winner of Survivor Ghost Island season |
| 0:54.6 | 36, and contestant on season 40 winners at war at a great time catching up with Wendell. |
| 1:01.7 | Our relationship goes clear back to casting the same week that Dom and I talk a lot about |
| 1:08.2 | in episode 2 of Road to Reality, where Wendell and I were on the shuttle bus together as |
| 1:15.4 | well, at some point, and I remember being on the same dinner schedule at some time, so |
| 1:20.6 | I would see him in the hotel lobby having his dinner and in my notes at casting, saying, |
| 1:28.9 | I love him, I really want to work with him and work with him I did until he didn't need |
| 1:34.9 | me anymore. |
| 1:35.9 | Anyway, we had a lovely time catching up, talking with Wendell all the way back to his first |
| 1:43.1 | audition tape in 2013. |
| 1:45.1 | It was a full 10 year buildup between that and our conversation this week. |
| 1:50.5 | He sent in five videos, multiple casting attempts, he goes on to talk about what it's |
| 1:55.6 | like to win Survivor and the emotions of playing winners at war in 2020 and all the backlash |
| 2:02.0 | he received at that time. |
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