Insider odcinek 1
Survivor Has Transformed Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdnnJ8XOOs
Preparing to be on Survivor has significantly impacted Dawn and her families' life.
"My name's Dawn. I live in South Jordan, Utah. I'm 40 years old. My husband Dave and I have 6 children; they're all adopted. They are ages 16 down to 7 years old."
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"You know, really, for the last year, I've prepared a lot, because I wanted to be on the show, and getting ready for auditioning and everything. So, 6 days a week, every morning, get up, and it's either swimming, or running, lifting weights. I've spent a lot of time - there'd be no way for me to train and prepare without them."
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"The game has honestly been a transformation for me, in my life. When I look at who I was 10 months ago, before I started preparing for the game, it's kind of emotional, but it's a different person. It really is. I think I was more of a people pleaser. I think I didn't make time for myself, that's the kick for a lot of people, but especially for moms. If you have 6 children, it's pretty easy to justify not doing yourself, just doing things that need to be done for other people. Once the game became an opportunity for me, I think it gave me validation to believe I was important enough to do something big. And I believed it. I believed it and acted on it, and every day, 6 days a week, for 10 months, I got up and worked out, and my kids were there with me, and they were part of it, and they have seen the changes in me. Sometimes I'm still - I don't know if my hardcoated personality is that different, but I'm so much stronger than I knew I was. I joke a lot but I can bench press 150 pounds now, and I couldn't lift a bench press when I started."
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"Part of me thinks, what is it that did this? Why Survivor? Why this show? I became a fan 10 years ago, my kids were really young. I did apply for the second season. My son was 6, and we've watched together as a family. I think it has something to do with that, our kids seeing people have to endure has meant something to me, just normal people like us endure things. As a family, we really have watched the show, and I don't know, I think that's what it is. I think it's something to do with that component of my kids watching it, and now being in the game."
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"I spent the first day really just thinking of all they did to help get me here. There isn't really any part of my life that hasn't been shaped by them, my husband and my kids, helping me get to the game. My husband would take time off early so I could go work out and he could be with the kids. If he couldn't do that, the kids would be with me at the gym playing basketball or swimming with me. We all rescued Timmy at our community pool, when we were all practicing, so I could hold my breath underwater as long as I could. They have those big CPR-like toddlers. They went through every part of it. It is as much their game as it is mine."
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"No question. No matter what happens, this was a win. Not just for me, but my kids get to see us try to achieve this big goal, and then attack it in all areas. Reading strategy books, talking about choices that you make. How do you treat a friend? Who's a friend? What's a friend? Does everybody deserve a million dollars? Does only one person deserve a million dollars? What are the merits? There are so many life lessons. I know to many people it's just a reality show, but I don't think it's been that for us. It really has created some opportunities for discussions and thought without the show."
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"I think for my kids, seeing it's OK to dream about something and go after it, and it might not be someone else's dream, fill in the blank, this is mine. I had all that support, and I'm here, and I'm gonna enjoy it no matter what the outcome. It's bigger too, because I really think I'm motivated to do good things, and that million dollars, I could do a lot of good things with it."
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"The whole concept of Redemption Island, I really love with Survivor. I do think life presents second chances, and I think it's great to see what happens with a decision that you made, seems like its final, you vote someone out, then you bring that back and see how it influences you when those people come back. I think that happens in life all the time. You think a door is shut, and it's not. I love that. The 2 returning players. I'm leery. I saw Rob play and I thought if I'd been on Rob's tribe I would have been glad I lasted the whole time. That was great. But another part of me said if I'm on that tribe, chances are I'm not going to be getting the million dollars, because he led the whole thing. I'm nervous abut how it will affect my game."
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"Am I too nice to play the game? I don't know. Can you be too nice? Is there enough kindness on the planet? I'm not really certain there is. I feel glad to play it and represent that. I'm not opposed to being called Pollyana. I'm so not. I feel like that's how you change things. Your perception, and how you treat people, is how you cause change. I think it's gonna be hard to eventually play, play, play, and outwit, and outlast, but I know that it's a game, and I think that's gonna benefit me."
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"I cannot believe the game's starting, and I'm in it, and that music's gonna play, and my face is gonna be in the game. It's incredible. I don't know that anyone in my family - we had that moment of saying goodbye at the airport - and it really was overwhelming. We did it. No matter what happens at the end. We did it. We got here. There's 18 people and I'm one of 'em. I'm here."
