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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Bachelor Happy Hour and

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Speaker 1: we are drum roll, officially one week away from the

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Speaker 1: heavily anticipated premiere of The Bachelorette and I cannot wait.

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Speaker 1: We are so excited. And as you know, last week,

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Speaker 1: we took a little break from our Bachelorette series to

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Speaker 1: introduce all of the men that you will be seen

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Speaker 1: heading into Clare's season, and we have so much fun

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Speaker 1: doing that. But we have to get back to our

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Speaker 1: girls because we have not only one of our favorites,

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Speaker 1: but also one of the most requested guests on our podcast. Today,

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Speaker 1: we are having missus Jojoe Fletcher on and she's always

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Speaker 1: a great time. I always just love chatting with her.

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Speaker 1: She's so inspiring. So we're super pumped to have her

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Speaker 1: before the premiere because she has some pretty exciting news

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Speaker 1: to share with everyone. Yeah, I'm really happy to have

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Speaker 1: Joejoe come on because, you know, I feel like there's

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Speaker 1: so much more to her that people like. People know

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Speaker 1: that she does the home stuff, you know, she's got

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Speaker 1: her foot in that, they know that she's got this

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Speaker 1: great relationship with Jordan, but there's a lot of depth

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Speaker 1: to Jojo that I feel like We're privy too that

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Speaker 1: other people don't get to see from her because she's

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Speaker 1: pretty private. You know, she doesn't really do podcast, so

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Speaker 1: we're very lucky to have her on. She doesn't really

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Speaker 1: have her toe in Bachelor World, but will come in

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Speaker 1: as a guest from time to time. But she really

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Speaker 1: does her own thing in her personal life. So if

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Speaker 1: you do follow Jojo, you know this girl is always busy.

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Speaker 1: We love to see a girl booked and busy, and

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Speaker 1: that is Jojo. Just so many incredible projects, but we

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Speaker 1: know that her bread and butters in the homespace. I

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Speaker 1: heard her fiance are the King and Queen of flipping houses,

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Speaker 1: and on the subject of houses and moving and designing, Becca,

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Speaker 1: I thought it would be great if, you know, we

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Speaker 1: could give our listeners a little update on our lives,

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Speaker 1: as you guys may or may not know. And I

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Speaker 1: know you know because I see you in our DMS.

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Speaker 1: I see our DMS, I see them in my DM,

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Speaker 1: so I know they're in yours. Rebecca, we see you

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Speaker 1: guys in our comments. You know, we've made it no

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Speaker 1: secret that we both recently moved to la and we're

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of questions about it, and so rather

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Speaker 1: than let you create your own narrative, We're going to

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Speaker 1: tell you how it is, because one thing Becca and

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Speaker 1: is honesty, even when it's really difficult, and so we're

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Speaker 1: going to start that right now with our La experience.

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Speaker 1: So Becca, why did you decide to move to La? Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you for asking. Rachel, Contrary to what people like

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Speaker 1: to say that I just went to LA for fame,

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Speaker 1: because that is so far from it for me personally,

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Speaker 1: it was a very last minute decision. I obviously was

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Speaker 1: going through a breakup. I was back in Minnesota spending

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Speaker 1: time with my friends and family, and there was a

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Speaker 1: hot second in there where you know, it was comfortable,

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Speaker 1: it felt normal. I grew up there. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: was still this like underlying thing that I still wanted California.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to spend another winter in Minnesota. I

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Speaker 1: still wanted to be in the sunshine. So it actually

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Speaker 1: happened because I was facetiming with a friend and she

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Speaker 1: it's calling your name. You know, you're you don't have

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Speaker 1: anything holding you back right now. And so that night

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Speaker 1: I got off the phone with her, I looked, I

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Speaker 1: went on like Redfin or Zillo or whatever app I

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Speaker 1: because I will say this, I the first time I

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Speaker 1: And it's the best decision I think I've ever made.

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Speaker 1: Besides getting Mino, it's the second best decision. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: getting Mariah Carey butterfly vibes. Hearing Utah, fetch your wings

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Speaker 1: butterfly vibes. They are good for you, girl, I mean,

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Speaker 1: very similar to you. I had the I came to

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Speaker 1: I was like, gosh, I can't describe the feeling that

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Speaker 1: Well then bats are happened and all of that, and

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Speaker 1: it's something Brian and I have talked about. We actually

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Speaker 1: But an opportunity came about where it afforded me the

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Speaker 1: a plan out for ourselves. So yes, you guys, we

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Speaker 1: have a plan, we have goals, and it's not anybody

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Speaker 1: it is difficult to change that up. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: But I think what's important for people to understand is

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Speaker 1: You really have to learn some new things. And you know,

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Speaker 1: because we will keep answering your questions. But right now

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Speaker 1: So if there's anyone who's going to have some sound

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Speaker 1: and Bachelotte Royalty Joe Joe. But welcome Jojo. This is

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Speaker 1: at doing something, I sent him a text. I was like,

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Speaker 1: this is not that easy, like you totally like down

427
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 1: plate it, and it's just like it's because he's perfected

428
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: that are and he's so good at He's just good man,

429
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,399
Speaker 1: and it is it's such a simple thing, but there's

430
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 1: an art to delivering things and getting messages across and

431
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 1: so yeah, but I've playing off of what Rachel said

432
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: of bringing in a woman. You are just you have

433
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 1: the spirit about you that I think you're gonna make

434
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,919
Speaker 1: it your own, even though yes, you are filling in

435
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 1: for him for a bit as the host. But it's

436
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch and I think it'll be

437
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 1: fun for viewers to have a little break in the middle,

438
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 1: switch things up a little bit. I have to know, though,

439
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 1: because when I think of Chris throughout like my time,

440
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: you know, while I was on the Bachelor, one of many,

441
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: and then as the lead. He does such a good

442
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 1: job of not only formatting the show and laying things

443
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 1: out and delivering message, but he's also there as a

444
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: confidant and sometimes a therapist when you needed. Did you

445
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 1: have to play that role for the Batstoat and any

446
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 1: of the men. I did get to do that with

447
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: who was still on the show, and that was probably

448
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 1: my most favorite thing, you know, because it was a

449
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,959
Speaker 1: way that I could relate because I've been in that

450
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,680
Speaker 1: sort of scenario and I had you know, I've gone

451
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: through that experience. So that was my most favorite thing

452
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: about the whole thing. In that part I wasn't stressed

453
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,239
Speaker 1: about at all, which is amazing. Yeah, because you are

454
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 1: just can just be you. I'm sure you were experienced

455
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: with them. I think that's cool that you guys do that.

456
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: So Jojo, Like the world has been going through a lot,

457
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 1: obviously in so many different ways. There's so much sadness

458
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: and sickness and suffering going on for various reasons. But like,

459
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 1: the world is going through things, but personally people have

460
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: been going through them as well, and so for you, unfortunately,

461
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: I know you had to push back your wedding date.

462
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's that been like for you,

463
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 1: because I feel like there are a lot of our

464
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 1: listeners or even maybe they know someone who's struggling with

465
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: that same thing. Totally. Yeah, I mean to be honest,

466
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: we when the whole COVID thing started, I'll be honest.

467
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 1: When I first heard about it, I was like, no way,

468
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: it's going to make it to hear, No way we're

469
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: going to be actually affected by it. Then when it

470
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: came here and we were seeing people getting affected by it,

471
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,439
Speaker 1: I thought, no way, it'll last a song, you know,

472
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,959
Speaker 1: no way, we'll have to postpone our wedding. So we

473
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: actually waited till, you know, as long as we could,

474
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: until we realize, okay, no, this isn't going anywhere. This

475
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: is a real thing, and we had to make the

476
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: difficult decision to either postpone or just have a really

477
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 1: small intimate wedding just him and I and close family,

478
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: because at that point, you know, our family was very concerned.

479
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 1: We weren't even spending time with our moms and our dads,

480
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: and so it was one of those things we talked

481
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: about and to us and for me, like this is

482
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: a moment. I we both have waited for for so long,

483
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: and every person that's on our guest list is so

484
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: special to us and so important to us that it

485
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the same to me do not have them there.

486
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: And so I think both Joy and I agreed on that,

487
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: and we said, listen, we've waited four years already, waiting

488
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: another year is not going to kill us. It's okay,

489
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: we'd rather wait, and everyone feels safe and comfortable and

490
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: confident to travel and not be worried or weird. And

491
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: so it was a no brainer decision for us, and

492
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: I bumped. Of course I'd be married right now and

493
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: life would probably be you know, a little different. Actually

494
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: I don't know it could be different. I mean it

495
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: doesn't who knows. I'm telling you. It's it's great because

496
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: you're like, it's official and you're married. Yeah, like some

497
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: more jewelry on your hand, but it's real. You feel

498
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: exactly the same, Like you're a little bit more giddy,

499
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: you know. But it's honestly, you're right. When you stay

500
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: so long together, you've lived together exactly. That was our

501
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: thing too. It's like not much probably will change. So yes,

502
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: we were bummed, but it was the right decision, and

503
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: I know it was so hard for so many other

504
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: people that had to make that decision. We got super

505
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: lucky and the fact that, like, our vendors have been

506
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: amazing and we we haven't had any really bad scenarios

507
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: where we are out a bunch of money or this

508
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: didn't have our this and work week, our venue can't

509
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: take this at this time. So we've gotten really lucky

510
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: with that. But now we're just waiting another year, so

511
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: it'll actually this is funny. So um, oh wait, maybe

512
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say this because then it'll give away. We

513
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: haven't said the exact date that we're getting married yet

514
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: for next year. Um, but it is not way'll ruin it,

515
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: no mind, Texas after I'm intriguing. After It's really not

516
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: that big. We are getting married May of next year, though,

517
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: so it'll be right around our five year anniversary, which

518
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: is which is crazy. Yeah, I can't believe it's been

519
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: five years. That is crazy to me. It is crazy

520
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: to think about because I remember watching your season and

521
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: I feel like it was just a couple of years ago,

522
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: like that, time flies. I need to ask this, and

523
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone else is probably wondering because I like

524
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 1: your style, your setec, the way you vision things is

525
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: so beautiful, and so have you Did you go into

526
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: the initial wedding planning process with a vision in mind?

527
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: And is that still the same or has it changed

528
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: now that you have more time to kind of replan

529
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: everything revamp it. A good question. I feel like I

530
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: get that question a lot, but I hadn't really like

531
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: I think I always had like some answer for it,

532
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: But when I really think about it, I don't think.

533
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: I think I had this idea of what I wanted

534
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: it to feel like, and not necessarily know what it

535
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 1: looked like. It was when we were looking at our venues,

536
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: like there was one venue that was one way and

537
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: there was a venue that was another way, and I

538
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: saw two different, completely different weddings at each one of

539
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: those venues. So I think when it came down to

540
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: what venue we ended up loving, my whole esthetic sort

541
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: of just came to life and the idea started flowing.

542
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: And so I had this somewhat idea. But for me,

543
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: most importantly, I just want my wedding and that weekend

544
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to be so filled with love and I

545
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: want people to I want people to have an experience

546
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: for themselves. I want them to walk away from that

547
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: and obviously be excited that they got to see us Mary,

548
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: but be like, wow, that was a really incredible weekend

549
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: and I won't forget that for the rest of my life.

550
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: As we really want to make sure it's something that

551
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: our guests who are taking their time and their money

552
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: and you know, all this to come to our wedding,

553
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: we wanted to be memorable for them. So I have

554
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: no clue what that is all going to come together

555
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: and look like a year from now. I thought I did,

556
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: and I think they we're gonna stick to it, but

557
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: things can change. I don't know what new things I'm

558
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: gonna see or new dresses I'm gonna see, and I

559
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna change. So we'll see. Do you

560
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: have a dress picked out? Yes? Okay, you guys, this

561
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: is the part, and Rachel maybe you can speak to this.

562
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: But you have to choose your dress months and months

563
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: in advance anyway, because it takes a long time to

564
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: get it altered and whatnot. So when I chose my dress,

565
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: it was like nine months before when the wedding, or

566
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: ten months before when the wedding was supposed to be

567
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: this year. Now I'm fast forward. Well, it's basically a

568
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: year and a half from when I chose this dress.

569
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: Like I'm telling I keep seeing new things and I'm like,

570
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you're screwed. You gotta start looking. I'm well,

571
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: I can't help it. Instagram so good at targeting me,

572
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: just targeting it knows that I'm thinking about it as

573
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: I always see new things. I'm like, I've really followed

574
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: so many different bridal accounts for this reason, and they

575
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: still find me. Just do the grand, Just do the

576
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: grand outfit change. I already have two dressing doing that,

577
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: a weekend wedding seeker, all of them. So I have

578
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: to ask, because you have a thousand and million and

579
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: one thing's going on you obviously filled in for Chris Harrison.

580
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: You are planning a wedding and maybe getting a potentially

581
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: a third wedding dress, who knows. But if you are

582
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: a busy girl, So what are some other projects that

583
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: you have going on right now? Um? Well, you know,

584
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,959
Speaker 1: obviously my real estate staff is that I continue to do.

585
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: So we are working on a new build project in

586
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: Dallas right now. At the same time, we just bought

587
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: this remodeling here in Puerto Rico. So I'm still working

588
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: on all of my remodels and my renovations because that's

589
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: something that I will do for the rest of my

590
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: life and I love. But I recently actually just launched

591
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: this is so big for me. Just launched my own

592
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: home decor line with Etsy as a collaboration, and it

593
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: was just like the coolest thing ever to be able

594
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: to do something that I'm so passionate about and with

595
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: the Etsy team and the Etsy makers, It's it's really cool.

596
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: And so that just launched. I'm super excited because I

597
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: get to do a fall collection with them too. So

598
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: that's been keep emmy busy. That and my dogs and

599
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: Jorgan and life and everything's really good. That's a lot.

600
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: That's definitely a lot. So maybe this is a selfish

601
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: question that I'm going to ask, but I feel like

602
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: our listeners are going to appreciate this as well, So

603
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: I appreciate this as well. But what is some advice

604
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: that you have for first time home buyers? Because I

605
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: still rent, but like now we're in first of all,

606
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: Brian and are just trying to figure out where are

607
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: we going to plant roots. Yeah, you know, and that's

608
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: been the biggest deal for us. And then we're like, Okay,

609
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: we can actually buy a home there, so we would

610
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: be first time home buyers. And I'm sure there are

611
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: a lot of other people who are trying to figure

612
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: that out now. So what's some great advice. Oh well,

613
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: I remember the first home that I ever bought on

614
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: my own, and it was the first home that I

615
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: was ever going to renovate, and I actually it wasn't

616
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: a success story. I actually lost money on it and

617
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: it didn't end up going well for me for a

618
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: few reasons. Other than a few reasons, and it was

619
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: the most The biggest one I would say is I

620
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: didn't do my like due diligence. I didn't know enough

621
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: about the location, which I would say, location is like

622
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: the biggest thing when I go to buy a home,

623
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: whether it's for an investment over myself personally, because you

624
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: want your properties to appreciate and you want to know

625
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: that if you do sell it, you're not going to

626
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: lose money. So I would always just help perscent homebuyers

627
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: look at really good locations, look at the area, look

628
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: at the compt and pick a place that you know

629
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: you're not going to lose money. And what it means

630
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: it's growing and you see more new bills happening. But

631
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: just be smart with your money. Really know about your

632
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: finances too. Don't just jump into something. Really know your

633
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: numbers and break it down and look at your worst

634
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: case scenario. I do this when it comes to renovations.

635
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: If I feel one hundred percent comfortable about my worst

636
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: case scenario, if everything was to go to shit and

637
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: I have my little like security bank of money that

638
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use, if I'm okay comfortable with that all

639
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: going to hell, then it was a good purchase. I

640
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: love that I might need to have you help me

641
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: because I've been dabbling with the idea of buying out

642
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: in La so I might need to have you come

643
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: out here and help up. It's like it's kind of

644
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: scary when you buy your first home because it's a

645
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: lot of money. Like that's a lot of money. That's

646
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: a huge purchase. I think it's so smart. I think

647
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: if you're able to do it, that's such a great

648
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: way to park your money and it's your own home

649
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: and you're not wasting money on rent um. But I

650
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: get white people rent you know what I mean. So

651
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: it just has to fit within your lifestyle, on your means,

652
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: and you have to just feel really comfortable with it.

653
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: I think it's scary too, because I don't know. I

654
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: don't know if you feel this, Becca, But like for

655
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: the first time, I'm like, but do I do I

656
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 1: have enough money? Like does it? Does it make like

657
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: I don't do that. I don't think money to think

658
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: that I was okay to buy a home. I was

659
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: literally having this conversation with someone the other day. Is

660
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: it better do you think to like start from the

661
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: ground up? Because like okay for Becca and iron La

662
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,239
Speaker 1: for example, So the land is more worth more than

663
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: is it better to like flip? Is it better to

664
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: just buy something that's already there? And I don't I

665
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: don't know, Yeah, honestly, you know, you know, it just

666
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: depends because sometimes a lot of people think that a

667
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: remodel or renovation is going to be less expensive, but

668
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: that's not always the case because sometimes you get into

669
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: these scenarios where they create more problems than just starting

670
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: from scratch. And so it really and that's what I

671
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: go back to. You really need to do your homework

672
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 1: and you're studying your due deal just before you buy

673
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: any property, because if you're gonna go in and you

674
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: think you're gonna renovate this house, I'm like, Oh, I

675
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: just need to fix the floors and put it in,

676
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: you know, some fresh paints. There could be way bigger issues.

677
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: It could be plumbing, electrical, foundation, and those out of

678
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: so quickly. So I think it was just like it

679
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: depends if you can find a steal of a lot

680
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: that's like a really good deal and you find a

681
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: good contractor that might be the best route. I just

682
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: love renovations, though I don't know what. And Jordan's more

683
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: of the new build guy. We're doing a new build

684
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: project right now and it's our first one that's not

685
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: for us personally, so I'm actually kind of excited to

686
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: see how that plays out because that's gonna be our

687
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: first sort of development that's not a remodel. Was Jordan

688
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: always into it or like once he got with you,

689
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, babe, I kind of like this.

690
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: So Jordan, no, I mean, like in the real estate

691
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: development world, is never or something he ever thought he

692
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: would do. However, he was always really interested in like

693
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: tinkering with things. He liked to build little things in

694
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: his back door. With his brother, they would go to

695
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: the wood shop. So he's always tinkering. And so when

696
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: we got together, I actually had purchased a house right

697
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: before I went on to the bachelorette and I didn't

698
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: have time to work on it. So right after we

699
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: got together, we came back home and it was literally

700
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: I think three days after we got home. I said,

701
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 1: I have a project. You're coming with me, brought him

702
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: in and he just went to town. It was amazing.

703
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: He just like soaked it all in and started ripping

704
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: stuff off the wall. He was like the best free

705
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: labor ever. And now I just takeing with me everywhere

706
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: every time I go. You don't what, Joe, Joe. I

707
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: need to put myself up because I want to learn

708
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: certain tricks of this trade to know how to do

709
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: it on my own. And so I might just hop

710
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: along whenever you guys need help put me to work.

711
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: I don't have big muscles, but I'll try my damn this.

712
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: I honestly I didn't. I didn't go to school for this.

713
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: I was a biology major. I was premed. I would

714
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: I think the MCAG got yeah, like I was going

715
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: to medical school, got in and it wasn't until right

716
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: before that I decided this is not for me, M

717
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: my whole family. I'm a family fool of nurses and doctors.

718
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 1: And that's just what I always thought I was supposed

719
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: to do. Um And I just knew that unless I

720
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: was super passionate about it, that I would burn out

721
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,280
Speaker 1: so quickly and I wouldn't even make it through medical school.

722
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: I think I lost that smart girl, but then it

723
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: left me with a biology degree and nowhere to go

724
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: with that, you know what I mean. There's not really

725
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: much you can do with the biology there unless I

726
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: wanted to go be a teacher. But I didn't like biology,

727
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: Like that was my problem. I studied it, but I

728
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: didn't like it. Um. So I just told myself, listen,

729
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: I like the idea of real estate. I don't have

730
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: my real estate life and either. I just kind of

731
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: bought my first property, check out a loan and found

732
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: a builder and just started working on fans And that's

733
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: that's how I started. And so I started in wake

734
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: up on Baylor's campus because I was living there at

735
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: the time. It was my senior year. That you got

736
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: property for a good price too, oh girl, and wake up.

737
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: It was so cheap. But now Chip and Joanna Gates

738
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: have loaned it up. But I'm going back to what

739
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: you're saying. I didn't know anything about it, you know

740
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: what I mean. I just started doing it, and then

741
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: anytime I had a question, I would just YouTube it

742
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 1: or I would look it up, or I'd buy books.

743
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: And then I found a contractor that I just didn't

744
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: know who he was. I sent him an email, I said,

745
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: can I follow you? Can I just go to your

746
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: projects with you and just watch and see how you

747
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: talk to your crew and see how you do these things.

748
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of how I learned. And I

749
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: still don't know all the ins and outs of construction,

750
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: but I know what I like, I know what I

751
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: need to look out for, and I have a vision

752
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: I think for thing. But it's like, you just teach

753
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: yourself like anyone can do it, you don't even have

754
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: to do it. You got to give yourself more credit

755
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: than that, because that's Jo, that's super inspiring. I didn't

756
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 1: know you. You need to hear this, Jojo, I was saying,

757
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: this is so inspiring, Like this, you need to give

758
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: yourself more credit. Not everybody can do this that's a

759
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: really inspiring story to hear how you started literally like grassroots,

760
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: ground up, like you know what I mean, like shadowing

761
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: other people. You really need to write a how to

762
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: book or even tell your story. Put the put the no.

763
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: I'm I'm dead serious, Like that's hella inspiring and I

764
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: never know about you. Thank you, thank you, And I

765
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: still have a lot to learn too, which there's nobody

766
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: a thing now, you know what I mean, But the

767
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: fact that you you would take it upon yourself to research,

768
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: to reach out to a contractor to say, Hi, can

769
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: I just follow you in job? Shadow you? I don't think.

770
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there are people out there that

771
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: have that mentality, fits something that they really want to

772
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: go for, but a lot of people to just try

773
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: to take the easy route. So and especially as what

774
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: you were a senior in college, Well at that point

775
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: I had graduated, and so I was like right out

776
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: of college and trying to figure out, like, first off,

777
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: how I'm going to make money. So while I was

778
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: doing this, I got into medical sales because I at

779
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: least know I had a medical background, and so I

780
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: did medical sales for a while, and that's how I

781
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: was able to like pay my bills and do all that.

782
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: But then I just tried to keep learning. And then

783
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: at the point of when I went on to The Bachelor,

784
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: that's when I quit the medical sales job and I

785
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: just said, when I come back, I'm going to be

786
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: full real estate because it's something that i'd been doing

787
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: and I was way more passionate about it and loved it.

788
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 1: How many homes out total have you built or flipped

789
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: and worked on? Oh, I'd like one too, Oh my gosh,

790
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: eight nine. I think we're like right around sixteen. Yeah,

791
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. How many has you done before you

792
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 1: went on the show, before I went on to The Bachelor. Yeah, Oh,

793
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: I'd only done too. That's only like a full You

794
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: have an empire now, you like a full team, like

795
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 1: your go to I wish I had a team, which

796
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: is I'm still I'm still the landlord for my college

797
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: Baylor Waco property, which is really funny. Now, by the way,

798
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: I totally forgot about this, Jojo. I was on a flight.

799
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: It was two years ago. It was right after I

800
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: got off of the show, and there was a man

801
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: on my flight who I think you flipped one of

802
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: his rental properties. Somewhere in Texas. I do not remember

803
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: it was for your show. Um oh gosh, I'm totally

804
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: real in Texas. It was in Texas. It was, and

805
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: it was a smaller home. It wasn't a big, big

806
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: job he made it, at least from what he made

807
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 1: it seem like. But he recognized because I literally just

808
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: like my season finished airing and Garrett and I were

809
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: on a fight together and he's like, wait, how do

810
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: I know you guys? Are you on a show? He's like,

811
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: do you know Joe Joe? And I was like, yes,

812
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yeah, small world, but but yeah, it was.

813
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 1: I saw it on your show and it was awesome.

814
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: I just don't remember his name, so sorry. Well, then't

815
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: often in Dallas, do you know? I think it was Dallas.

816
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: We did two in Dallas, one and Grand Brain. We

817
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: did a ware house in Dallas, but that was a

818
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: big project. Yeah, it wasn't a ware house anyways, we'll

819
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,479
Speaker 1: figure it out, okay. Yeah, but that's how like you're

820
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: all over the place. It's crazy that sixteen houses. I mean,

821
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: I texted you when I was looking a few months ago,

822
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: and I picked your brain asking should we should we

823
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: flip a house and you know, print and put more

824
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: into it. But but then I was like, I don't

825
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: know what the hell I'm doing, So I got way

826
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: too nervous for that idea. Yeah, no, I get that.

827
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 1: I know exactly who I'm coming to. Get ready, Rachel

828
00:40:58,280 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: and I are going to get you out here. Jo

829
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: you help you guys. It would be a dream to

830
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: be able to do something in La. It is so expensive.

831
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: You're talking to Minnesota here, like that's why it's harder

832
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: to buy there. That's the thing, you know what I mean.

833
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: It's like and Rachel, you know, like Dallas prices versus

834
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: La prices are night and day. But it's like in Florida.

835
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: I mean, are you where are you? Are you still

836
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: in Florida? Rage too? No, Well, mainly here now because

837
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 1: is here like throughout the week, so back and forth

838
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: when I can, but COVID it's like I have to

839
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: quarantine if I get on a plane. So Brian has

840
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: to make the trips back and forth here. Okay, I

841
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: have questioned, how has that been? Love? So I've been

842
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: here three weeks now and I'm not gonna lie. It's

843
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: it's it's similar to what you were saying when you

844
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: came back on the show, and you know when you

845
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: were so out of touch when you had to do

846
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: the itms, Because before we were just like machines. So

847
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: before COVID, I was traveling so much. I was never

848
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: at home, so I was like really accustomed to being

849
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: on the road and being separated. Going to spending almost

850
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: six months every day together. I would have thought that

851
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: would drive me crazy, to be home that much. I

852
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: loved every single moment. So it's been really like, honestly,

853
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: it's been really really hard to be separated. He comes

854
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: next week and I'm really gonna be like, we gotta

855
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: like we said we have a timeline, but now I'm

856
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: like about that timeline because I'm really struggling honestly being

857
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 1: in La Yeah, Brian out here him to make the move.

858
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: I know. I'm very grateful that he's supportive of me,

859
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: like going after something that's been a dream of mine,

860
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: and like he's still doing this practice in Florida and

861
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: so it's like he's doing his thing, I'm doing mine,

862
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: and like we have our we have our goals, but

863
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: there's nothing better than that than a man. Oh, because

864
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: before I did not have I've never had that never Yeah, yeah,

865
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: that's really cool. Pages and chapters in the book here,

866
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Jojo. I like, seriously, I apologize for

867
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: everybody who's listening to this podcast because I feel like

868
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: Becca and I have selfishly hijacked the conversation for our

869
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: own needs. But I do feel like it's gonna be

870
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: talking to you. I don't think any of my friends.

871
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: It's like it's crazy, it's it's it's wonderful, and like

872
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: our sisterhood is great, our Bachelor Bachelorette group chat is fire.

873
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: We're speaking up. I feel like it's been silent for

874
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: like a hot second. I'm gonna text everyone right now

875
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: and just kid it going again. Well clip the season

876
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: starts in two weeks. It's gonna be. I mean it's

877
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be, like Claire, what the hell, guys,

878
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: we still have to post that video. We knew, I

879
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 1: know all the people don't know. The people don't know

880
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: there's a video. You guys, there's a video out there.

881
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: Do you think it's gonna happen? We should actually ask listeners,

882
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: do you want this to happen? Yes? Right into us.

883
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: We lost the good timing the time anymore but at

884
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,720
Speaker 1: least will be funny and like, I think it's so cute.

885
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: This is really good publicity. Thank you Jojo for saying that,

886
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 1: because okay, you guys, full disclosure moment here, we're letting

887
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: you into our bachelorette group group chat. We created a

888
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: video in May, right May. But then, as you know,

889
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: a lot has happened. Well really, we started in eight

890
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 1: eight I think it was after my birthday, but so

891
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: much right when everyone was so bored and quarantine. It

892
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: was so and this was like something that was going around,

893
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: so it was very timely at the moment. But then

894
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: as you you guys know, a lot has happened in

895
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: the world. There's a lot going on, and so we

896
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: wanted to be sensitive to everything that was happening, so

897
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: we just kept pushing it back. Now I feel like

898
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: we can so bachelor happy our listeners. If you think

899
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 1: we should release the video, you know we'll. We'll put

900
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: up something on our page and just flood our dms too,

901
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: and then we hype it up that much. I don't

902
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: even know for real. Let me, people are going to

903
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: see it and be like, this is what they were

904
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:07,240
Speaker 1: raving about, And like you said, I mean Clare season

905
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: starts in two weeks. It's gonna be two weeks. I mean,

906
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: I think we can do it. They're gonna be like,

907
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: who are these old maids trying to be trying to

908
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: lease yecial media hip? Oh my god, are all news? Well,

909
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: if you if, if you guys want to see it,

910
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: let us know it is out there. It is good content.

911
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: At least it was five six months ago. We are

912
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: so different, probably two Oh my gosh, crazy. Who knows

913
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: what kind of wig I was wearing back in a

914
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: right which, By the way, your hair right now is

915
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: all thanks good is my favorite. Thank you. I've been

916
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: getting compliments on it. I love it. I love it,

917
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: I love it. I want it. Put it on me.

918
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: Last question we ask, we ask everyone who comes through

919
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: this about what's the best and the worst thing that

920
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: has happen from being on the show. We call it

921
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: the rose and the thorn. So, Joejoe, what is your

922
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: rose from being affiliated with the franchise Bachelor Bachelorette And

923
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 1: what's your thorn? Oh my gosh, I feel like there's

924
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: been so many amazing things that has happened from the show.

925
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, first getting to meet Jordan, and I

926
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: have so many stories about boyfriends before him, and so

927
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: obviously seeing him and meeting him and it changing my

928
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: whole perspective on men and relationships in general. But also

929
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: like it and you guys know, it gives you such

930
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: an incredible platform to be able to do some of

931
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: the things you love and share those things with people,

932
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: and like, I just feel like, no matter what, and

933
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: I tell people this, and people always ask, would you

934
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: recommend going on the show? Whether you get sent home

935
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: night one, whether you last for the whole time, whether

936
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: you become the bachelorette, no matter what, it is such

937
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: an incredible growing and learning experience, just taking the leap

938
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: of face to put yourself out there to go want

939
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: to show like this. For me, I was super stressed out.

940
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm nervous and anxious and didn't know at that time

941
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: I wasn't I didn't have that much confidence. I was

942
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: coming out of a bad relationship that it kind of

943
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: knocked me down a little bit. So it was a

944
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: big step to just take that leap and do it.

945
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: So it has been a huge growing experience, learning experience.

946
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: So many amazing things has come out of it. So

947
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to pick one. I said, I

948
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: pick want to be Jordan and then thorn. I think

949
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: with that, obviously you have a lot more eyes on you,

950
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: and I feel like this probably began answer for a

951
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: lot of people. But it's just the pressure of not

952
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: letting people down, I think, And I think I've done

953
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: a good job to not really care that much about

954
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: negative things that people say, but I always do feel

955
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 1: like I've been given this awesome platform and people enjoy

956
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: following me that I feel like I need to make

957
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: sure I don't let them down. And so that's just

958
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: a little inner pressure that I think that I sometimes

959
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: think about. But that's like the smallest thorn of all times,

960
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: Like I don't this has been the greatest thing ever.

961
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, Chad, but well

962
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: that's a different time. I was like, who, who's that?

963
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 1: That's well, Joe, Joe, it was so good to talk

964
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: with you. I'm actually going to text you after this.

965
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: Well we'll continue, we'll continue the Batary group chat. But

966
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: it was so good to see you. Thank you for

967
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: making it with us. I'm sorry you had to leave

968
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: your nephew early. Oh no, I love you guys. So

969
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: good to see you. I'm glad that I got didn't

970
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: do it. I didn't. Yeah, you're good at it at

971
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I love you. I love you, thank you

972
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: so much, thank you you will Bye bye, guys. She's

973
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 1: so cute. I can't believe she's worked on that many house.

974
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was about to say. I'm like,

975
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: my gosh. When she kept going, she was like one

976
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: two three. I thought she was five. She's like one

977
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: two wow. And I mean, I gotta say, what's been

978
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: so great about having past bachelorettes come on? It's like

979
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: we even think we know them, and we don't, like,

980
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: there's so much that you don't know. And just to

981
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: hear Jojo say, because I speak about this like when

982
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: I go to colleges, I talk about whose life are

983
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: you living? And I wasn't bold enough to say, actually,

984
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: that's not what I really want to do. I'm starting

985
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: to have other interests and passions, and I just continued

986
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: on a path that you know, I was into, but

987
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: my heart wasn't fully into it. So I'm always impressed

988
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: when people are like, no, I'm going to follow my passion.

989
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: And then she was like, this is what I love

990
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: and I'm going to figure it out and do it myself.

991
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: That's so And she's so doubsided. I'm like, that is

992
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: a big deal. I know it truly. It takes courage,

993
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's like, it's so easy to go

994
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: along this study route or routine, you know. And if

995
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: her entire family was in medicine and we're nurses and

996
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: doctors like to say, oh, that's not what's going to

997
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: feel me. I'm gonna get burnt out. To recognize what

998
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,720
Speaker 1: could burn you out at that young of an age,

999
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: I think is incredible. And yeah, she's just she's so

1000
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: inspiring everything, like everything she's working on, plus planning a wedding,

1001
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: you know, obviously filling in for Chris Harrison, she's not

1002
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: going on. So I am so happy we had her on.

1003
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:14,720
Speaker 1: It was hard to get her on. I remember texting

1004
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: her a couple weeks I'll be like, hey, when can

1005
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: we have you? Yeah, and she was so busy. So

1006
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: it's I'm really really grateful she was able to join

1007
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: us soon. I am too, man, And I think the

1008
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: moral of the story of our our bachelorette tour are

1009
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: going down Bachelorette memory Lane, is that bachelorettes are pretty

1010
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: freaking awesome, right, It's awesome. You know, they're just not

1011
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: here to feel and how different, Like think of all

1012
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: different all of the girls that we've had on, Like

1013
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: everyone is working on such different projects and at different

1014
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: life stages that it's but every one of them. I

1015
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: feel like we could just shot with them for like

1016
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: way longer than we're allotted for the podcast. Yeah, there

1017
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: should be a book of bachelorettes. Like, I know, we

1018
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: have our bible that we give to bachelorettes. You know

1019
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: that we started with you. But I think it's something,

1020
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,439
Speaker 1: honestly that we should tell our stories because people think

1021
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: they know us as just these bachelorettes and they're they're

1022
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: in this position to find love and pick men. But

1023
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: there's so much depth to who we are and what

1024
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: we were before the world knew us, and then what

1025
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: we've been able to do afterwards with our platforms. I'm

1026
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: telling you, franchise listen, n Zi King, Warner ABC, you're

1027
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: missing out here. There's something to be done. We could

1028
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: rule the world, guys, we already are. I actually had

1029
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: that conversation with my friend the other night. She's like,

1030
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: if they cut this out She's like, we don't need

1031
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: like women can rule the world. We can do Handmaid's Tale,

1032
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: but flip it and reverse it. We've seen this, We

1033
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: seen this, you saw wonder Woman. You saw what those

1034
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:55,280
Speaker 1: Amazon women were doing before before our men came messed

1035
00:51:55,320 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: it up. That world looks awesome. Awesome, Hey, daydreaman daydreaman

1036
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: over here. No, it was so fun to have Jojo

1037
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: on and you guys, thank you for hanging out with

1038
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: us today and tuning in. As we mentioned earlier, the

1039
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: premiere of The Bachelort is only one week oh way,

1040
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: so mark your calendars because Tuesday, October thirteenth is the premiere,

1041
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: and since the show will not be airing on Tuesdays,

1042
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: our podcast will be coming out a day later on Wednesdays,

1043
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: so also mark that on your calendars. So every Wednesday

1044
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: you'll hear from Rache and I end our fabulous guests

1045
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: that we have on each week. Keep tuning in because

1046
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: you know, we're the only Bachelor podcast to give you

1047
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: the exclusives and we have some incredible guests coming up

1048
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: for the next few weeks. Yes, Becca, you guys, we finally, finally,

1049
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: finally have a show back on air, so make sure

1050
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: you follow along with us on this journey because even

1051
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: though Becca, Jojo and I just revealed that we were

1052
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: a part of the Bachelorette this season, we don't know

1053
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: what goes down, We don't know what all happens. I'm

1054
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: tired of people asking me when I tell you we

1055
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: don't know everything. We only know what we were a

1056
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: part of. So yes, we're gonna be right there on

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Speaker 1: the journey with you. Sounds like a journey like no other.

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Speaker 1: I still can't get Chris Harrison's voice out of my head. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: you just blew up the Bachelorette. I'm like, what, I

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Speaker 1: never watched the show before. I'm definitely watching it now.

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Speaker 1: So you guys, get your wine ready, get your group ready,

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Speaker 1: whoever you're watching this with. We are on for a

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Speaker 1: ride and it sounds like it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: bumpy one. Also, don't forget to share your thoughts and

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Speaker 1: your opinions on our social pages. We want to hear

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Speaker 1: from you. We want to hear your take on everything

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Speaker 1: that's going down this season. You can hit us up

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Speaker 1: at Bachelor Happy Hour on Instagram and at Batch Happy

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Speaker 1: Hour on Facebook and Twitter. And last Binalis, don't forget

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Speaker 1: to subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the

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Speaker 1: Wondering App, or wherever you're listening to your podcast right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, and Rachel, one last thing, probably the most

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Speaker 1: important thing is we want everyone to vote. We are

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Speaker 1: weeks away from election time, so if you don't know

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Speaker 1: where to register, you can head to rock the Vote

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Speaker 1: org slash WarnerMedia to learn more. Use your voice, use

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Speaker 1: your power. Every voice will be heard, hopefully for the best.

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Speaker 1: But go out and register and vote.