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Josh Wilder & Alex Phillips Leave No Crumbs! (Survivor, 100 Cooks) | Pod Friends

This week on Pod Friends, Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) sits down with Josh Wilder (@lets_get_wilder) and Alex Phillips (@aphill44) for a heartfelt conversation about love, resilience, reality TV, and building a joyful life together.

Josh reflects on his experiences as a Survivor 44 castaway, physician, kidney transplant recipient, and cancer survivor, while Alex shares his journey from the operating room to Food Network’s newest competition series, 100 Cooks. Together, they open up about meeting at work, navigating life’s challenges as a couple, finding community, embracing queer joy, and supporting one another through every twist and turn.

Along the way, Matt, Josh, and Alex talk food, fitness, medicine, Pride, reality TV, and what it means to choose joy even when life doesn’t go according to plan.
If you’ve ever wondered how to build a beautiful life through adversity, love deeply, and keep moving forward, this episode is for you.

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