SURVIVOR MODE | A Conversation with Katurah Topps: Cults, Corporate Law to Civil Rights & Survivor

a candid interview with @katurahtopps, contestant on the 45th season of Survivor (and also one of my first best friends in Big Law!) about growing up in a cult, navigating her legal career from corporate attorney to civil rights lawyer, and lessons learned while surviving in a society not built for her to survive in 📥 essays, podcast & bonus videos on substack ➪ https://cecexie.substack.com/ ✍️ ask me a question ➪ https://cecexie.com/ask-cece 0:00 how we met 1:34 growing up in a cult 4:33 big law memory lane 10:49 big law survival tips 12:06 transitioning into civil rights law 14:56 when your dream job is no longer the dream 17:40 plans after Survivor FOLLOW KATURAH ON YOUTUBE ➪ https://www.youtube.com/@katurahtopps EVERYTHING ELSE KATURAH ➪ https://linktr.ee/katurahtopps 💞 f o l l o w m e 💞 @cecexie everywhere instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cecexie/ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cecexie twitter: https://twitter.com/cecexie website: https://www.cecexie.com 🎶 all music courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com 🖲️ co-edited with https://www.youtube.com/@AftonLin ❓ F A Q s ❓ how old are you? 32 ('91 baby) which schools did you go to? yale (undergrad) and harvard (law school) what did you major in? economics what was your gpa and lsat score? 3.86/176 what sign/MBTI/enneagram are you? aries, ENFJ, 3w4 are you sure you're not a virgo? no part of my star chart is virgo or an earth sign, i swear