Everyone has a story.
Robert Voets/CBS (3)
No twoSurvivorplayers are the same.
But you get what we’re trying to say!
Mitch Guerra, Bianca Roses, and Kevin Leung on ‘Survivor 48’.Credit:Robert Voets/CBS (3)
Everyone has their own special secret sauce that makes them different from everyone else.
Here’s what they told us.
So that’s something that makes me unique.
Mitch Guerra on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I’ve had a 100-pound weight loss, and I’ve kept that off for many, many years.
David Kinne
I’ve got an interesting history that makes me quite unique.
Currently, I work as a stunt performer for Disney and Feld Entertainment.
Charity Nelms on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
And then I also decided: You know what?
I want to step away from stunts and I want a family life one day.
And so I decided to get my commercial pilot’s license.
David Kinne on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
That’s my end goal right now and I’m kind of making that transition right now.
I’m the only woman on an all-men’s hockey team.
I’m getting my Ph.D. in engineering and fluids and thermal sciences at Brown.
Eva Erickson on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I’m also a high-level hockey official.
I ref college games as well as national tournaments throughout the country.
My crazy aunt is up front, whom I love dearly.
Justin Pioppi on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
So that’s a unique experience that not everyone has.
Growing up, I just thought it was normal.
Their parents came in, now their grandkids come in.
Kamilla Karthigesu on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
It’s just generations of family that they’ve been feeding for so long.
I lost my sister to domestic violence.
I lost my father shortly after that.
Joe Hunter on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
So my secret sauce is perseverance, overcoming some great loss and really allowing myself to be me again.
Get my light back.
I’ve been through some hell and back.
Bianca Roses on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
Bianca Roses
My secret sauce is the way that I connect with people.
I actually work in public relations.
Kevin Leung
I was really skinny growing up and I just said, “You know what?
Kevin Leung on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I’m sick of being skinny.
I’m sick of not being chosen to play football or basketball.”
And I wanted to change how I looked.
Mary Zheng on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I didn’t want to be the smart guy anymore.
So I worked out really hard.
And I was like, “I work a normal job.”
Kyle Fraser on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
And he was like, “Do you want to work at Abercrombie?”
To anybody else, it’s probably just like a, “Who cares?
It’s a throwaway job.”
Sai Hughley on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
But for me, it meant so much.
I was like, “Oh wow.
I actually have become something.”
Thomas Krottinger on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
and to sell clothes, you had to just charm your way to anything.
And I was like, “Okay, this can prep me well forSurvivor.”
I am extremely thoughtful.
Stephanie Berger on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I’ve kept a diary and written it every day since I was 17.
I make daily to-do lists and a handwritten agenda that I am religious about.
But ramp that up 100 percent, and that’s me.
Shauhin Davari on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I’m an incredibly social person.
I love being around people.
I could be around somebody 100 percent of the day.
Star Toomey on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I don’t need to recharge.
So I would say that my willingness to be around people and meet people, that’s me.
To be honest, I had the best of both worlds.
Cedrek McFadden on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
I also had to learn how to listen to understand rather than to respond.
And I’m kind of a shapeshifter in that way.
I become all things to all people, but that’s because of what my grandma used to do.
Chrissy Sarnowsky on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
She was the listener.
And I show up in the same way.
All of those things set me apart from everyone else here.
I’ve worked at a few different big corporations and I’ve been very fortunate in my career.
I am go-getter, the person who wants to go up the subway steps two at a time.
And I was like, “I need to get my copies done.
I am in a hustle.
I’m running late.”
You don’t even just give her a simple ‘good morning.'"
Shauhin Davari
People will underestimate my level of understanding.
I definitely come across a little more intimidating than I ever actually am.
My superpower is that I definitely understand other sides of view.
1 characteristic that you add to your video game character that’s coming out here to playSurvivor.
“What is going on in the other person’s head?
What is going to be best for their game?”
And then I can act accordingly.
That all fits into being who I am.
Everybody comes from different places that makes them who they are.
We’re not all from the same place, we’re not all the same people.
So I feel like my background and personality makes me different from everybody else.
We don’t talk to all these people, I understand that.
But everyone has a story, and I’m always interested in hearing that story from people.
Chrissy Sarnowsky
I would say what I do for a living.
I’m a Chicago firefighter and just made lieutenant paramedic.
I’m also a nurse, so I would think that would make me different from everybody else.
