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Alison Teal had a wild idea. Actually, she had multiple ideas that would serve a major purpose. So she set out to travel the world, thrive on Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid, and make movies that get people to pay attention to plastic pollution and protecting our environment.
There’s a reason Oprah Magazine called Alison Teal the “Oprah of Adventures” and Time called her the “Female Indiana Jones.” While you and I were going to regular school, she was riding camels and climbing in Nepal with her adventurous parents. After studying film at USC, she was invited to participate on the Discovery Channel show, Naked and Afraid. She not only survived 21 days with a guy in the wilderness–completely naked (and then made a grass skirt and coconut bikini)–but she used her fame from earning such high ratings in season one of the show to promote that driving purpose: protecting our planet. Alison does it all with a ton of passion, a bikini, and a pink surfboard.
In this episode of the Wild Ideas Worth Living podcast, Alison tells her story. From the moment she was born on the floor of a cabin in Colorado, to how she met Disney’s Aladdin in real life, to all the profound and amazing places she’s traveled to throughout her life and how using her newfound fame has helped champion a message of reducing plastic pollution.
Editor’s Note: You can listen to the entire episode here, as well as subscribing to the Wild Ideas Worth Living podcast on iTunes now.
