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Kathy Waggoner

Kathy Waggoner

Dr. Kathryn "Kathy" Waggoner, DO is a pediatrician in Murphy, North Carolina and founder of Lazarus Way, who competed on season 2 of Fox's game show 99 to Beat.

Sep 26, 2026

4:56
Kathy, what about you? How did you hear about this?
5:01
I hate, okay, so I have this dream, right? I want to, I live in Western North Carolina, and I got all these kids born into poverty, drug addiction, broken homes, and I want to fix it.
5:11
You know, I'm a pediatrician, I've been doing this for like 30 years, and it's like, what difference have I made, right? So how can I make a difference? I got this dream for this farm to help these kids, teach them love, accountability, responsibility, teach their parents parenting skills how to get a job how to keep a job all this stuff to kind of break the mold um when i moved here 30 years ago there was like textile right lee levi was here they moved to mexico and these people have no jobs no nothing no purpose no nothing right so it's like okay so honestly so i've had this dream for like 20 years well all i need is a million bucks so I'm thinking that's 20 years ago.
5:49
That was Survivor.
5:51
And I swear I was made for Survivor.
5:54
And I'm like, I'm the Survivor super fan.
5:56
I've applied at least 20 times, Rollins, to Survivor.

11 MINS LATER

16:50
For me, I'm going to be like, I was on 99 to beat season two and they're gonna have to like get through an episode and they'd be like, why are you sure? You know? Kathy, specifically, I want to ask you, how do you feel about your legacy on the show? And now that it's been stamped, and this is what people are going to see, do you feel like it was worth your time? I guess that's a good way of asking.

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