episode 30
“Surviving Survivor”
with Caroline Courtis
Caroline Courtis (Runner-up on ‘Australian Survivor – Titans vs Rebels’)
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Australian Survivor, a long running incredibly loved TV Series. Loved for its heart thumping challenges, unbelievable (and at times seemingly unbearable) living circumstances for its players, and the endless unfolding drama from alliances and the double crosses of those trying to win at tribal council.
In this season of Titan’s Vs Rebels, Caroline Courtis entered the game - A 55yr old woman, mum of 3 and midwife, who was finally in a place in her life where she was ready to do something truly for her and test herself in the ultimate way.
47 days stranded in Samoa with 24 contestants, split into two tribes - ‘Titans’, a tribe made up of career leaders, and ‘Rebels’ a tribe made up of the free spirited who forged new paths, were lead to compete, then ultimately merge for the win, as the two tribes dwindled after each tribal council and Caroline made it to the final 2 and the final Tribal Council.
The question begs - who would want to push themselves like this? And what were the driving factors in the life before Survivor that pushed them to do so? Caroline was in a place where she had every right to sit back a little and smell the roses, but she didn’t, she chose to put the very so often benched middle aged women on our TV screens in one of the worlds hardest TV challenge games and push herself to her limits. Although being questioned by a fellow tribe member for ‘what she actually brought to the game’, Caroline managed to show the world the years of raising a family, being at the forefront of thousands of births and in a dedicated career care role, brought a strength, tenacity and resilience that only a wife, mum and woman in her 50’s could.
“I wanted a challenge that would completely kick my ass.”
MORE ABOUT CAROLINE:
WATCH CLIPS AND AN INTERVIEW OF CAROLINE ON SURVIVOR:
Best Clips from Caroline’s Survivor Experience
The Nullified Take Youtube Interview with Caroline Courtis
LISTEN:
Caroline’s Favourite Survivor Podcasts:
Drop Your Buffs – A Survivor Podcast with Sean Ross and Evan Ross Katz
International Survivor RHAPup with Shannon Gaitz and Nick Iadanza
Caroline’s Favourite Women’s Podcasts (Outside Of Ours Ha!)
Big Small Talk with Hannah Ferguson and Sarah-Jane Adams
CAROLINE’S FAVOURITE FEMALE READS:
‘Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart: A Midwife’s Saga’ by Carol Leonard
The saga of Ms. Leonard's fated journey as a young midwife. Her story intertwines three her dedication to the mothers and babies she was groomed to attend; the growing renaissance, despite formidable opposition, of the profession of midwifery in New Hampshire and then in the United States; and finally, a powerful, tragic love story.
‘Great Circle ‘ by Maggie Shipstead
A breathtakingly powerful epic that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the rebel-hearted Hollywood millennial who plays her on screen.
‘A Little Life’ by Hanya Yanagihara
Winner of the Kirkus Prize 2015
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.
‘The Great Alone’ by Kristin Hannah
A Story of Love, Heartbreak and Survival, From the Bestselling Author of The Nightingale
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate until she was nine years old.
At sixteen, to escape her father's radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home. What followed was a struggle for self-invention, a journey that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.