Ashlan Gorse Cousteau on Conservation and a Virtual ‘Drop in the Ocean’

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My guest this week is no stranger to the red carpet. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau was a red carpet reporter for “Entertainment Tonight” and E! Network before leaving it all behind to pursue her passion for conservation and story telling. If her last name sounds familiar it’s because she’s married to Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famous explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. Together they have formed a passionate partnership around using the power of entertainment to raise awareness of conservation issues.

Species renderings from ‘Drop in the Ocean’

Ashlan and her husband Philippe are producers and narrators of a new Virtual Reality ocean exploration experience “Drop in the Ocean” that premiered at Tribeca Immersive in 2019.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau and her husband Philippe Cousteau hosting “Caribbean Pirate Treasure” on Travel Channel.

Recently, she was also the co-star of Travel Channel’s award-winning series, “Caribbean Pirate Treasure” for three seasons.  Her documentary, “Nuclear Sharks”, for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2016 premiered as the #1 rated show across all cable programming.

She also traveled to Antarctica to be a headlining speaker at Ted xScottBase.  She has served as host for the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and was selected by former Vice-President Al Gore to be the opening anchor for 24Hours of Reality. She is a voice for environmental issues on Capitol Hill through events, and briefings and serves on the National Council of WWF, and the advisory boards of Ocean Unite and the Environmental Media Association.

And she also a new mom to her “Baby Fish” who is already being groomed for world travel. She and her husband hope to take their daughter with them when they go on adventures around the world, truly incorporating motherhood into her world. If you’d like to see where she’s headed next, when the current health crisis is over, follower her on Instagram. I have no doubt you will also see her pop up on red carpets again, sharing her own stories rather than interviewing other people about theirs.