Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Everyone?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Happy Hour. This is
Speaker 1: a special episode because we got none other than Hannah
Speaker 1: Brown here. Hannah, how are we doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How are y'all good?
Speaker 3: I'm here too. I'm also here, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm very chaotic and I show.
Speaker 4: I never know, Hannah, if Joe's going to introduce me
Speaker 4: or not. It's like hit or mess.
Speaker 3: Like sometimes it's like it's.
Speaker 4: Me, Joe and Serena, And sometimes he's like it's me
Speaker 4: Joe and I'm here with our guests.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, and me too.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know what. I like to always
Speaker 1: switch it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, keeps you on my toes.
Speaker 2: It's never a dull.
Speaker 3: Moment over here.
Speaker 1: Keep it fresh. So, Hannah, you got so much going on.
Speaker 1: You have your new podcast Better Tomorrow, you have a
Speaker 1: new book coming out, you are newly engaged, you moved
Speaker 1: to Nashville. So much going on, and you were just
Speaker 1: in this episode of Bachelor in Paradise. So, Hannah, you.
Speaker 3: Must be tired. That's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's been so good. I mean, I'm always tired, but
Speaker 2: I have to sleep disorders just because I can just
Speaker 2: fall asleep anywhere but no, it's been really fun. I'm
Speaker 2: excited for the season of life. I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: exactly where I'm supposed to be and I'm getting to
Speaker 2: do some fun projects. Then it was great to be
Speaker 2: able to go back and beyond Bachelor in Paradise because
Speaker 2: it's been a minute, so it was fun and everything
Speaker 2: going on, just like personally, it's just been a real blessing.
Speaker 2: It's a good place to be. So all all being
Speaker 2: tired is worth it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. We're actually going to get it. We
Speaker 1: want to get into all that, but let's get into
Speaker 1: paradise first. And like you said, it's been a minute
Speaker 1: since you've been back in Bachelor Nation? Why why why'd
Speaker 1: you do it? Why did you come back?
Speaker 3: Where have you been? Welcome back for happing to see you?
Speaker 3: What made you come back?
Speaker 2: I I've all look, I'm so thankful for a Rachelor Nation.
Speaker 2: That's the only reason I get to do everything that
Speaker 2: I've gotten to do. I think I did take some time,
Speaker 2: like for myself, anything really emotional or like big decisions
Speaker 2: of your life being captured in front for like the
Speaker 2: world to see. I think take some time to like
Speaker 2: process and I think in that. I think it was
Speaker 2: healthy for me to be able to just like focus
Speaker 2: on myself and some of the things that I wanted
Speaker 2: to do. But I will always think of Bachelor Nation
Speaker 2: as a part, like I'm a part of the family.
Speaker 2: So it was just the right time and the right
Speaker 2: place for me to be to be able to like
Speaker 2: truly be excited and present and want to be able
Speaker 2: to be a part of everything like that was important
Speaker 2: to me. I didn't want to have to like fake
Speaker 2: it and actually still just in my own shit. And
Speaker 2: so I think that's why, because I really truly am
Speaker 2: I do believe that this is a great franchise and
Speaker 2: has had a lot of success, and so I want
Speaker 2: to be able to root and rally for other people
Speaker 2: going on on this crazy journey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It is. It's very crazy. Was is
Speaker 1: there a part of you you think, after you know,
Speaker 1: you leave the Bachelor, you become the bachelorette, so you
Speaker 1: never get a chance to go to paradise. Was there
Speaker 1: ever a part of you that kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: see what that was all about?
Speaker 3: A little paradise fomo if you will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think paradise is a really good
Speaker 2: concept of how to actually meet somebody. Of course, I'm
Speaker 2: so excited Bachelorette. I mean that was like a dream.
Speaker 2: But I do think it is a lot more difficult
Speaker 2: to date that way, and Paradise just seems like more
Speaker 2: fun and relaxed and you actually get to like meet,
Speaker 2: you have more of a decision of who you date,
Speaker 2: I guess, instead of just like showing up for one
Speaker 2: person and like trying to make yourself all in love
Speaker 2: with them or you know, vice versa. Like you only
Speaker 2: get this amount of guys in you. You don't know
Speaker 2: if they actually want to date you or not. It's
Speaker 2: just you're the only options. Which I think what makes
Speaker 2: Bachelor and Paradise work so well is like you have decisions.
Speaker 2: You have like it's more like the real world, Like
Speaker 2: you get options. Yeah, if both people are attracted to
Speaker 2: each other and you're not just like stuck there.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're not like, oh, you just picked me because
Speaker 4: I was the only girl in a friend of you.
Speaker 3: You get me. There's a lot of girls and you
Speaker 3: like to be back, Like it feels a little more normal.
Speaker 3: You have a little more like control.
Speaker 2: And I think it's great, Like you're not like travel
Speaker 2: even though like The travel is so fun when you're
Speaker 2: on Bachelor and Bachelorett. I think it's easier to to
Speaker 2: form a relationship kind of being settled in one place,
Speaker 2: but also it's like you're in next which is great.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot to it that. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the party was fun, but it wasn't meant
Speaker 2: to be for me to be there, but it was
Speaker 2: great to be able to pop in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was meant for you to be there as
Speaker 4: a guest this season, which was so fun. I know
Speaker 4: the viewers were so excited to see you. Obviously, the
Speaker 4: men also seemed quite excited to see you. Because a
Speaker 4: woman a little nervous to see you. We had a
Speaker 4: mixed bag reaction for sure. Yeah, it was feeling like
Speaker 4: walking down those steps and having them all be like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, is that Hannah Brow?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is she dating?
Speaker 3: Is she here for a date?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Why she was so?
Speaker 2: What's so messed up? I loved it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have much drama in my life now, but somehow,
Speaker 2: whenever I get back in the Bachelor road, I'm like, like,
Speaker 2: I love that feeling of like kind of like fucking
Speaker 2: somebody for a second. Like I talk about it in
Speaker 2: therapy a lot. I'm like, why is drama free? So
Speaker 2: like hard? But when I got back there, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm back baby, Like let's.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, it's like with a few places of life,
Speaker 4: you have permission to create drama with like less percussions
Speaker 4: than in real life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So I thought it was harmless drama, you know, like
Speaker 3: you're like, I'm not hurt.
Speaker 2: It was like for like five seconds, they thought, oh,
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 4: But did any of the guys like really try to
Speaker 4: make a move, Like I know, you know, we know
Speaker 4: that you're now engaged, but at the time when you
Speaker 4: were down there, there was some confusion about your relationships.
Speaker 4: Has where any of the guys like kind of gutting
Speaker 4: for a potential date with you?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean I think they were all
Speaker 2: just like I think they were like, what's happening? What
Speaker 2: are you doing? But I don't know. It was it
Speaker 2: was interesting. I think already there are there's some guys
Speaker 2: that already are like kind of in their feels about
Speaker 2: some girls. So you could really see that. I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: we are we're falling a far fast so no, I
Speaker 2: mean I think there were some guys that were like
Speaker 2: maybe like I tried my acting skies a little bit,
Speaker 2: but also was like not gonna lie because I don't know,
Speaker 2: I think my thoughts, So what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, You're not gonna like start actively flirting with yes, but.
Speaker 2: It was it was fun to see everybody's reaction of
Speaker 2: like what are you doing here? And I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I'm just just here to hang have more
Speaker 2: reader too, So yeah, it was it was cool to
Speaker 2: see everybody's reaction. And I've just now like kind of
Speaker 2: started watching everything back, so it's cool because I obviously
Speaker 2: hadn't seen Charity season yet. That was like my first
Speaker 2: time meeting some of those guys and then getting to
Speaker 2: watch Charity Season back. It was it was funny because
Speaker 2: like I had already met Braden and then got to
Speaker 2: watch like all his stuff and say thing with like
Speaker 2: Air and b and like Sean, Like I got to
Speaker 2: meet all of them, and it was it was cool
Speaker 2: to be able to feel like a part of it
Speaker 2: again and like I really know who's who in some.
Speaker 4: Way when you watch Charity Season back having met the
Speaker 4: guys like for a brief second, was there anyone that
Speaker 4: surprised you where you're like, oh, I wouldn't have expected
Speaker 4: that based on like my like my quick interaction with
Speaker 4: them on the page.
Speaker 2: No, I was like this makes toast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like all of this ads right up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like because like the whole like Branden stuff watching
Speaker 2: that bad like it did not surprise me at all.
Speaker 2: I thought he was entertaining. I enjoyed watching. That's why
Speaker 2: I messed up, Like I love the people that cause
Speaker 2: the drama, and I'm like, what, that's why I wasn't successful.
Speaker 2: That's why did they probably work out for me? But
Speaker 2: it was. It was great. So yeah, I didn't surprising
Speaker 2: that much. I will say brand In a little bit
Speaker 2: of how when I met him in at Bachelor in Paradise,
Speaker 2: I feel like he was like falling. He's like kind
Speaker 2: of falling hard.
Speaker 1: I think he is. Yeah, I think he really is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said I love a charity of like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if this can work. That surprised me because
Speaker 2: of the experience I had with him of like feeling
Speaker 2: like he was like he's all in. So I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see how that continues throughout the season.
Speaker 3: Me too, Me too.
Speaker 4: I'm curious to see if we see kind of like
Speaker 4: a repeat of him with Charity where he's like, I
Speaker 4: don't know, or if maybe this format like works a
Speaker 4: little bit better for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: All right, let's jump to the truth circle. Because I
Speaker 1: even I told you, and I'm like, look at you.
Speaker 1: Could see your face when you realize that whatever you
Speaker 1: asked them they were going to answer truthfully. It was.
Speaker 1: It was crazy because I was like, they could just lie,
Speaker 1: but they just felt like they had to tell you
Speaker 1: the truth. Yeah, and it was. It had to be
Speaker 1: so much fun. I watched it. I was I was jealous.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that has to be being you in that situation.
Speaker 1: It had to be a blast. Can you talk?
Speaker 2: It was so fun And I tried to like be
Speaker 2: like really serious about like it is true. I think
Speaker 2: you do have to be if you're going to start
Speaker 2: a relationship, like there has to be some honesty, and like,
Speaker 2: I think in that situation you might try to want
Speaker 2: to like play it cool, but I mean, as you
Speaker 2: guys know, you don't have that much time. So I
Speaker 2: kind of tried to like like hone in on, like
Speaker 2: it's important to be honest. It was great. When they
Speaker 2: actually were, I was like, peace, so fun and like,
Speaker 2: what is happening? And it was cool because I guess said,
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen Charity season, so I didn't know all
Speaker 2: the beef between all the boys at all. What is happening?
Speaker 2: So I put all the pieces together there obviously after
Speaker 2: watching the season, and now I really know what I
Speaker 2: was sitting in and I'm like, this is awesome. This
Speaker 2: is some some shit that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there was definitely And when people started like
Speaker 4: being like, oh yeah, like I'm with this person, like
Speaker 4: I would kiss that person, or like I'm with this person,
Speaker 4: but I'm still waiting for these people to come down,
Speaker 4: I was like, what is happening right now?
Speaker 3: Like some of this you could keep to yourselfs guy.
Speaker 1: Well, hot Sean's like I still like Jess, I still
Speaker 1: like her?
Speaker 4: Was there what would you say? Were the things that
Speaker 4: kind of surprised you the most? I mean we saw
Speaker 4: mostly like we saw a cat name some names that
Speaker 4: she was still interested in. We saw a hot Sean
Speaker 4: say that he was interested in Jess, But like, was
Speaker 4: there anything maybe we didn't see that you were like
Speaker 4: this was crazy or really shocking?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it wasn't shown in the episode, but
Speaker 2: I at the time didn't understand some of the drama
Speaker 2: with all the guys there and some of like I
Speaker 2: think there was like bleating that was going on on
Speaker 2: the line. I'm like, what are these children? I mean,
Speaker 2: I think I'm just I'm just so removed from it.
Speaker 2: And then coming back and then realizing that like all
Speaker 2: these guys had some unresolved issues with each other that
Speaker 2: I think they were like working on was interesting because
Speaker 2: it's usually the girls that are like that, it seems like,
Speaker 2: but it was like the beef with the guys, and
Speaker 2: so do.
Speaker 1: You know what that? Do you know what that beef was?
Speaker 1: Because well, they they posted their headshots from the show
Speaker 1: and at the bottom of it they put hashtag FP.
Speaker 4: No no HASHTIG I think, just like they like put
Speaker 4: their caption and then like below it they put FP
Speaker 4: like eighteen of the guys or something from Charity season.
Speaker 2: And this guy was on for one episode. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what did he do to y'all in like a few
Speaker 2: hours of being like some little like sitting around eating
Speaker 2: and waiting to talk to Charity, Like, what did what
Speaker 2: did this guy do to get y'all? So upset.
Speaker 4: So and so for people listening who maybe don't know
Speaker 4: exactly what we're talking about, the FP stood for Fuck Peter,
Speaker 4: and Peter is pilot p Peter from this current not
Speaker 4: the OG pilot p but Peter from this current season
Speaker 4: of Paradise. He was a night one guy on Charity
Speaker 4: season and the guys just really don't like him. And
Speaker 4: we kind of see that unfolding also with Aaron s
Speaker 4: and him this episode. But I'm surprised that that's like
Speaker 4: still going on. I wonder if we're gonna see more
Speaker 4: of that this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder. I mean, it definitely seemed line there
Speaker 2: was still some underlying like stuff within the guys going on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm hoping to trude circle like help helped
Speaker 2: him out. Who knows. I don't know if I really
Speaker 2: bring them peace, But I don't.
Speaker 3: Know if you could compare it to like group therapy,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like we've got some issues here. Yeah, So that
Speaker 2: was like just surprising to me. Of course, like some
Speaker 2: of the things like going on between like the couples
Speaker 2: and like the dating stuff, but just to know that
Speaker 2: there was like some pettiness between these guys, I'm like
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah, this is why. This is why
Speaker 2: I've been gone for a while. But it's so great
Speaker 2: to be back and just full forth get into the Betty.
Speaker 1: What was when was the last season? What was the
Speaker 1: last season you watched of Paradise or of any of
Speaker 1: the or have you ever watched Paradise?
Speaker 2: I watched like not this season. Oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I watched the season of like the Girls
Speaker 2: from your season, my season, like our Culton season. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then I think I was watch like an episode
Speaker 2: every now and then, but I did. I took like
Speaker 2: a little while off, and now I'm like fully back
Speaker 2: in watching all the things.
Speaker 3: And it's watching Golden Bachelor, y'all.
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed, right, I love the show so much. I
Speaker 2: think it's it's so fun to watch and just to
Speaker 2: see like the difference of you know, twenty seven year
Speaker 2: olds dating versus people who've lived a lot of life
Speaker 2: and just I think it you can tell that they
Speaker 2: are a lot more comfortable in their own skin and
Speaker 2: we're just trying to figure out life and dating and
Speaker 2: like they've been through it and just being able to
Speaker 2: like fully be themselves. It's so fun to watch and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also sad though it is hearing some of
Speaker 1: their stories, it's also like heartbreaking, right, it was sad.
Speaker 2: It was really sad. I never say his name, right,
Speaker 2: it's Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary. I always said Jerry.
Speaker 1: Because yeah, it's it's spelled Yeah, it's spelled Jerry.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Gary is the sweetest soul ever. I started
Speaker 2: crying when he I like heard his full story, and
Speaker 2: I like never cry about anything, and I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, we have to protect him at all cost
Speaker 2: like he is. He is like America's grandpa, and I
Speaker 2: just want him to have the best time and.
Speaker 3: Is America's grandpa.
Speaker 2: He's so freaking Have you all got to meet him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we interviewed him and he's he looked I mean.
Speaker 3: Not in person yet, but we did meet him on
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 1: He looks incredible, Like, he really does look really good.
Speaker 2: He is so attractive. It's weird to say about grandpa, like,
Speaker 2: but he is a very good looking man. And the
Speaker 2: ladies are all about it. And they're also so beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I hope to look like these ladies and be just
Speaker 2: like so full of life. It's not even just like
Speaker 2: the way they look but just like the way that
Speaker 2: they view life and love at this day, just it's
Speaker 2: really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, and it's it's refreshing. And I
Speaker 1: also love the fact that it's just it's an hour.
Speaker 1: I think like that time frame for the show is
Speaker 1: it works so perfectly. All Right, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about Adam and you're engaged. We saw the photos.
Speaker 1: They were beautiful. Let's talk about it. Yeah, you're expecting it.
Speaker 1: Were you expecting it? No?
Speaker 2: Yes, and no, it's a very weird story. I he's
Speaker 2: probably wanted to like get married for oh wile, not
Speaker 2: saying like but he's just like known and not that
Speaker 2: I haven't known, but I think after everything, getting engaged
Speaker 2: and like making big life decisions has been a little
Speaker 2: bit harder, yeah, scarier in some way, And I don't
Speaker 2: want to like make a wrong decision of any or
Speaker 2: even though like I look, I don't know a better
Speaker 2: man than Adam. But I was, like I knew it
Speaker 2: was coming, and I knew, like we'd really talked about it,
Speaker 2: I really like worked on that like relationship anxiety and everything,
Speaker 2: but I didn't know it was happening until I had
Speaker 2: like this, it's like a weird. We went with my family,
Speaker 2: and my family loved them so much, but like they
Speaker 2: can bring up some shit, like miss family can they
Speaker 2: just kind of like work me up. So I was
Speaker 2: really worked up and we were like sitting in bed
Speaker 2: and I was just like, you know what, even isla,
Speaker 2: I don't know, and like start going like just being crazy,
Speaker 2: which I do this like every month, so it's not
Speaker 2: like that big of a deal, but now it's the usual,
Speaker 2: just just like having an accidential crisis like every yeah,
Speaker 2: like third Monday of the month. So I'm like, I mean,
Speaker 2: are you sure? Are you sure you want to be
Speaker 2: with me? Like really you want to be with me?
Speaker 2: Like I have a freaking crazy poking me right now.
Speaker 2: And he's like yeah, like I know, it's it's wild,
Speaker 2: but I do. And I'm like, okay, I'm like, how
Speaker 2: do you know? Like so we're dealing with that.
Speaker 1: Note by the way, not to cut you off. He
Speaker 1: seems I've never I've never met him, but he just
Speaker 1: seems so like chill he is, and I'm not.
Speaker 2: At all like that is why I'll look at him.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why do you bite me?
Speaker 3: Like but it's great, but it's the perfect day you
Speaker 3: know that he balances you out.
Speaker 2: It is, but I mean that time he's like, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm like planning on proposing her this week. So this
Speaker 2: is not good. And so I had this break, this
Speaker 2: like meltdown. Then he like calms me down. I feel great.
Speaker 2: I go to bed, sleep like a baby. He doesn't
Speaker 2: sleep all night because he's like, oh, oh, I forgot
Speaker 2: the biggest part I've been going. I go to therapy
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, my therapist just said I
Speaker 2: don't need to make any big life decisions right now.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, this is giving.
Speaker 4: Like when Chandler pretends he's like never going to propose
Speaker 4: to Monica and then she like runs back to Richard
Speaker 4: and friends like it's given, like all the wrong things
Speaker 4: are happening the week of this proposal.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. So he's like, oh gosh, you know we're
Speaker 2: always having these existential crisis conversations. Now our therapist is
Speaker 2: the same, like doesn't need to make any big.
Speaker 4: Decisions, Like I need to talk to your therapist, get
Speaker 4: her on the phone.
Speaker 3: Okay, you do need to make some decisions this way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So we're like driving on the way home and
Speaker 2: I didn't notice like anything really and when we get
Speaker 2: homework making dinner and he's like, I want to talk
Speaker 2: to you about something. I'm like, oh gosh, is it
Speaker 2: because of like my crazy like talk. I'm sorry, you
Speaker 2: know this happens, like that's how I started. And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just about something that you said, you know, you
Speaker 2: don't even know what love is, and like, I know
Speaker 2: your therapist said like you didn't need to make any
Speaker 2: big decisions, so I feel like I have to, Like
Speaker 2: it would be a disservice and not good for me
Speaker 2: to tell you that. Like I'm planning all the proposing
Speaker 2: to you on Friday, and I'm like and so I'm going,
Speaker 2: oh my god, oday, You're.
Speaker 3: Like you did not need to give the date, like
Speaker 3: you could have.
Speaker 2: The daytime where like so I'm like no, I'm like no,
Speaker 2: why did you just tell me? Why do you tell me?
Speaker 2: And so then he's like eating his words back, like oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know right, I mean it was it was so bad.
Speaker 2: So then now I'm freaking out because I was like,
Speaker 2: it's not like I don't want Then I like realized
Speaker 2: it's not good. I mean, I knew I wanted to
Speaker 2: marry him, but it wasn't that. It was like, now
Speaker 2: you've told me, Now you've told me, and no, I
Speaker 2: like surprises, so then I'm like, no, then you need
Speaker 2: to figure this all out. It was madness. I'm nine.
Speaker 2: One morning my therapist, I wrote in all caps in
Speaker 2: an email, I need counsel a SAT. So he's like,
Speaker 2: fuck your therapist, don't go back to her. It was
Speaker 2: it was crazy, but I think this is just like
Speaker 2: how my life is, Like there has to be some
Speaker 2: type of like reality TV drama that's just like in
Speaker 2: my real life. And he ended up still surprising me
Speaker 2: because I told him. I was like, he was like, okay, babe,
Speaker 2: Like I hear you, I'm canceling. I'm not like because
Speaker 2: all my family was supposed to be there. It was
Speaker 2: like this whole thing. And he told me I had
Speaker 2: like caught everybody. I was like great, Like great, I
Speaker 2: feel so much better. I feel like he heard me. Whatever. No,
Speaker 2: he had just been planning on how to still do
Speaker 2: it on that week, but just earlier in the week.
Speaker 2: So he did it on Thursday. I had literally no
Speaker 2: idea I'd gone to therapy.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's actually.
Speaker 4: Really start because I if I'm you, I'm like all
Speaker 4: day Friday, waiting to see if he's still going to
Speaker 4: do it, and then like on Saturday, like Sunday, I'm like,
Speaker 4: it's coming, it's coming. The only way you could get
Speaker 4: me is if you did it.
Speaker 3: Before Friday, because I would not have expected that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was on it and.
Speaker 2: It was then only move or to like fully like
Speaker 2: can't like like months later and months later. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I truly had no idea, Like he I was like
Speaker 2: putting on this outfit, being like, cause you can hate
Speaker 2: this outfit, like talking about I'm like, oh about whatever.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter because I thought I was going to
Speaker 2: like some baby shower thing, but was It's so confusing
Speaker 2: because the people that were friends would have like this
Speaker 2: beautiful barn where they like will host parties, so I
Speaker 2: thought it was like this like get together celebrating their
Speaker 2: baby that they just had, but it wasn't so But
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm just wearing to say it's ugly,
Speaker 2: and he he was like, okay, whatever, remember whatever they're
Speaker 2: gonna said to it at all. But then I just
Speaker 2: wore dirty clothes that were in the That's what my
Speaker 2: pictures are, dirty clothes on the floor. I'm wearing like
Speaker 2: broken stocks, and my hair I hadn't been cleaned in
Speaker 2: like five days, and my makeup was from therapy that
Speaker 2: had all been like I'd cry it off. Not okay.
Speaker 2: I had chickilate in my teeth right before, and thank goodness,
Speaker 2: I ass like, is there's something in my teeth? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a big piece of chicken your tooth. Like I
Speaker 2: had no idea walking into the barn where it was
Speaker 2: all set up, and I'm like, I just need a
Speaker 2: new brain. Something's going on here that I got I
Speaker 2: need to fix. That's what I say. Walking in, I go, huh,
Speaker 2: this is weird for a baby shower. Didn't realize it's
Speaker 2: for me, like it my cage. Oh. I was so shocked.
Speaker 2: But also I was like, you gotta be kidding me,
Speaker 2: because I was thinking kind of like you're a saint stream.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, now I'm gonna be like prepared for
Speaker 2: when it's gonna happen anytime we go somewhere, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be able.
Speaker 4: To like because yeah, you're like, I'm buying all white
Speaker 4: outfit side Revolve. I'm getting my nails in twenty four
Speaker 4: to seven because like, now I know it's coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I did not know, but it all like
Speaker 2: ended up being great and.
Speaker 1: It's just so it's so that is the most hectic engagement,
Speaker 1: hectic week I've ever heard, But it's also like perfect
Speaker 1: because it's your story. It's unique, and honestly it's it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful story as crazy as it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I think a lot of times, and I
Speaker 2: talks about it on my podcast. A lot of times
Speaker 2: we see like the pictures of the engagement, it just
Speaker 2: seems like the girls just like oh the moon and
Speaker 2: like everything's perfect. And I think a lot of times
Speaker 2: we're making like big decisions like that, like this anxiety,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know if it's always just this feeling
Speaker 2: of like pure bliss. Like I think in life, when
Speaker 2: you're making any type of decisions, there's going to be
Speaker 2: those moments of like is this the right time? What
Speaker 2: am I doing? How am I I like as a person,
Speaker 2: how's my brain? You can I fully accept this love,
Speaker 2: especially if you've had, like I haven't always had the
Speaker 2: best relationships that really taught me how to like accept
Speaker 2: somebody like truly loving all of me and ended up
Speaker 2: being like a really big aha moment of I think
Speaker 2: for me, when I was on the shows, I don't
Speaker 2: think I even knew how to like instill like love myself,
Speaker 2: So how could I really accept love from somebody else
Speaker 2: truly loving me? Like not handed the Bachelor, I not
Speaker 2: handed the done all these things, but like me at
Speaker 2: my worst when I'm like the way I was that
Speaker 2: week of getting engaged, and that was just like, I think,
Speaker 2: such a blessing for me and like of like, really
Speaker 2: what love is somebody like even choosing you and saying
Speaker 2: that I still want to be with you you even
Speaker 2: when it's not perfect and it is crazy and hectic.
Speaker 2: So I think it it ended up being just what
Speaker 2: I needed to be able to like step into this
Speaker 2: new season and feel like this is someone who like
Speaker 2: is going to be my partner and the good and
Speaker 2: the bad and the absolutely blacked crazy, which is most
Speaker 2: of the time.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's great. Do you so,
Speaker 1: like do you get this deep on your new podcast
Speaker 1: Better Tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I mean that's that is like the thing
Speaker 2: about the Better Smart That's important for me, Like I
Speaker 2: still want it to be fun, but I want every
Speaker 2: conversation to make somebody feel seen heard and just feel
Speaker 2: a little bit better than they did when they pressed
Speaker 2: play to listen. And I think the only way to
Speaker 2: do that is to be like really authentic and honest
Speaker 2: and have those type of conversations that made people feel
Speaker 2: a little less alone and not feel like they have
Speaker 2: to fake it all the time. Because that's what I mean,
Speaker 2: because sometimes i look around to my left and right
Speaker 2: and I'm like, how does everybody else seem to have
Speaker 2: this together? Because I don't, And so having people on
Speaker 2: the show and having these conversations of yes, these like
Speaker 2: moments of success and like these mountaintops you're onwn, but
Speaker 2: also like what did it take to get there? And
Speaker 2: then like what is it even like up there on
Speaker 2: the mountaintop, Like when it seems like you're crushing life,
Speaker 2: Like there's always something that I think can connect us
Speaker 2: all and we can learn from and get better from.
Speaker 2: And so that is the goal of every conversation. And
Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed all the people that I've had on
Speaker 2: and what I've learned and what I feel like the
Speaker 2: listeners have as well.
Speaker 1: Do you have a dream guest? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Everybody always asking usin It's always going to be the
Speaker 2: same answer because Taylor slash.
Speaker 3: Like, well, you're really for the stars there, Hannah.
Speaker 2: But I just shut it out there. I mean it
Speaker 2: probably I don't know if she's ever done a podcasts,
Speaker 2: like it's probably not gonna be better tomorrow with.
Speaker 1: You never know, you never know, we.
Speaker 3: Are insane and such. That would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So she's just like, I'm obsessair. I love res
Speaker 2: other Spain back in the South, and that's like, you know,
Speaker 2: she's here in Nashville. You know, maybe I'm putting it
Speaker 2: out there. Talked to Caitlin Bristol and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I've tried for like five years. It hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 2: but if you get it, like go girlfriend. But those
Speaker 2: would be like the two people that just love to
Speaker 2: to interview one day.
Speaker 3: But what inspired your move today?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love my time in LA. Where are
Speaker 2: you guys?
Speaker 3: Where in New York right now?
Speaker 1: Well, right now, physically we're in Toronto.
Speaker 3: Where my parents pools.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're living in New York.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm from Alabama and I think I'm from Testcalusa.
Speaker 2: I went to school Year's Valved, but like, literally I've
Speaker 2: only been in like fifteen minutes of where like I
Speaker 2: was born, basically rested my life until I was on
Speaker 2: The Bachelor and the very first place outside of the
Speaker 2: country was Singapore. Like I will always be thankful for
Speaker 2: like what The Bachelor did to like open my world
Speaker 2: up and just like what's out there and the different
Speaker 2: types of ways people live and cultures and everything. And
Speaker 2: so when everything after the show, I knew I wanted
Speaker 2: to get out. I knew it was time, and I
Speaker 2: always thought it would be Nashville because Nashville is like
Speaker 2: drivable to my family, but it's still like had a
Speaker 2: lot going on, but ended up going honestly, like was
Speaker 2: having that, you know, one of many mental breakdowns after
Speaker 2: the show, and like never came home. I honestly was
Speaker 2: just like I can't go home because I didn't want
Speaker 2: to like face all the how are you what's going on?
Speaker 2: I just I couldn't do that, and I just kept
Speaker 2: prolonging it until I got really bad. But that's what
Speaker 2: kind of got me in La at the first place,
Speaker 2: is honestly just trying to like run away from everything.
Speaker 2: And then I did like to like I started to
Speaker 2: like find myself there in a way, and I loved
Speaker 2: my time in Santa Monica and swear I'm at Adam.
Speaker 2: But we were just talking one day about like, is
Speaker 2: this like where we want to be because we're in
Speaker 2: Santa Monica. It's very expensive to like what we want
Speaker 2: to live in. It's almost like impossible unless I like
Speaker 2: do something really crazy swift, and even then it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm probably still renting the house. And so we're just
Speaker 2: like really just talking about the future, and you know,
Speaker 2: where else do we want to go? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I've always like thought I need to try Nashville. And
Speaker 2: then it was crazy because we have this one conversation
Speaker 2: and the next day Adam has actually lived lived in
Speaker 2: Nashville for like seven years before he moved to LA
Speaker 2: and gets a call from his old boss being like, hey,
Speaker 2: would you ever be like interested in getting back into
Speaker 2: banking like whatever, and so just felt like, let's do this,
Speaker 2: and so we had that conversation and within a month
Speaker 2: we were we were here, we found somewhere to rent,
Speaker 2: and it was the best decision. I feel like very
Speaker 2: at peace here. There's still a lot going on, so
Speaker 2: many people that are creative and have big dreams and goals,
Speaker 2: but I also feel like this is my home and
Speaker 2: I'm always going to be a Southern girl and it's
Speaker 2: great to be able to like drive to see my
Speaker 2: family and there's just still like a lot of opportunity here.
Speaker 2: It's been. It was really like the best decision that
Speaker 2: we've made, and I love it.
Speaker 1: Nice, nice hair, It's so nice.
Speaker 4: Wow. Feels like it like all the stars aligned in
Speaker 4: that situation. With like Adam getting the call, you always
Speaker 4: wanted to go back there. Him having lived there, I'm
Speaker 4: assuming he has like kind of like a friend group
Speaker 4: there as well.
Speaker 3: So that's so nice.
Speaker 4: Do you have you like had the chance, I know,
Speaker 4: like Calen Bristow lives there. There's like a lot of
Speaker 4: like Bachelor community, if you had the chance to kind
Speaker 4: of like connect and like you know, build some new
Speaker 4: or work on some old friendships now that you're living there, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You got mine. I felt like after my seats and everything,
Speaker 2: I kind of just went like straight into doing other
Speaker 2: things and didn't really connect that much with a lot
Speaker 2: of people who weren't like on the season that I
Speaker 2: was on or anything with Bachelor Nation. And I'd like
Speaker 2: hung out with Caitlin before. But there are a lot
Speaker 2: of bachelor people here, and I feel like it's been
Speaker 2: cool to be able to have the time now to
Speaker 2: actually like get to really have a relationship with Caitlin
Speaker 2: for sure, Like we're going to get lunch or dinner
Speaker 2: next Tuesday. So that's that's been great. Like I ran
Speaker 2: into tea booth the other day like her, I guess
Speaker 2: fiance went to the gym that we started going to,
Speaker 2: So I've seen them. I'm trying to think who else
Speaker 2: is here? Oh, Victoria Fuller, like I've seen her. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of anybody else. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: being cool to just be able to like, first of all,
Speaker 2: I meet people for the first time, or I actually
Speaker 2: have a real conversation where I wasn't just like days
Speaker 2: and confused and actually be like present with people. And yeah,
Speaker 2: it's crazy that I forget there's so many people here.
Speaker 2: But honestly, I feel like it's just been a really
Speaker 2: busy season of my life that like I've lived here
Speaker 2: but for like six months, but we've been just going, going, going,
Speaker 2: So I'm still excited to like continue to plant roots
Speaker 2: here and have more time to connect with people.
Speaker 1: When the fuck did you find time to write a
Speaker 1: second book.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean all these things take a long time.
Speaker 2: I think there was a time where people are like
Speaker 2: what is she doing? Because I was like working in
Speaker 2: all these things for a while and then like couldn't
Speaker 2: talk about it. So it all has taken some time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's probably been like over a year working on working
Speaker 2: on this first book. So I'm so excited about mistakes
Speaker 2: we've never made. But it's a two book deal, so
Speaker 2: there is a whole series that is kind of my Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I you know, of course, wrote my memoir God
Speaker 2: Bless This Mess, and that was great, Like my my
Speaker 2: dream has always been to write a fiction book. That's
Speaker 2: always like wrong COM's always been my things. So to
Speaker 2: be able to kind of come back, it's weird. It's
Speaker 2: like a mirrorying like my love but also kind of
Speaker 2: where I'm from, like where people know me from, like Romance, Bachelor,
Speaker 2: nagation type stuff, and now doing this like rom com
Speaker 2: that really does a lot of inspiration comes from some
Speaker 2: of the things that I've been a part of, and
Speaker 2: and there's are there are little like snippets of my
Speaker 2: life in there and not like really noticeable unless like
Speaker 2: you like a deep dive on my Wikipedia page or
Speaker 2: in my book.
Speaker 3: I'm sure figure it out.
Speaker 2: But your life, yeah, and different. Like there's four girls.
Speaker 2: It's like four best friends that are kind of like
Speaker 2: the core for and each book is focusing on one
Speaker 2: of their lives like more deep dive, but they're always
Speaker 2: like there for each other and like each girl it's
Speaker 2: kind of like a different part of me. And so
Speaker 2: this book is like has everything that makes very good summary,
Speaker 2: and it's got like rivals to lovers, We've got it's
Speaker 2: all like set beach setting, road trip type thing, and
Speaker 2: then like best girlfriends like there for each other, helping
Speaker 2: each other figure out love and life and all the things.
Speaker 2: So I'm really proud. I've got to do a lot
Speaker 2: of things. I'm really proud of this book. Like I
Speaker 2: read a lot and I'm like, this is a good book.
Speaker 2: Like I am really proud of of everything that was
Speaker 2: put into it and the storyline, and it's just I
Speaker 2: think something people are going to really like.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. When does it come out on pre.
Speaker 1: Sale right now? Right?
Speaker 2: I pre sale right now. It doesn't come out until
Speaker 2: next spring, so it'll be just in time for those
Speaker 2: beatreades next year. But we're going to be you know,
Speaker 2: unveiling the cover soon and continuing to like talk more
Speaker 2: and more about it. But it's going to be good. I'm,
Speaker 2: like I said, one of the things I'm like the
Speaker 2: most proud about and like feel really great that people
Speaker 2: are going to love it and it's going to be
Speaker 2: one of their their favorite reads in the next summer.
Speaker 1: Will you do like and you may not know this yet,
Speaker 1: but will you do like a live reading?
Speaker 3: I don't know reading? And there's the thing, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes when when someone comes out with a novel,
Speaker 1: they'll go to like a certain bookstore and then.
Speaker 3: Read a portion of it.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I thought you meant like she's
Speaker 4: going to rent a venue and like read her whole
Speaker 4: book out loud.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, does everybody have about seven hours?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't really seem practical to me.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah they do that.
Speaker 4: No, No, yes, they do what you're saying. They don't
Speaker 4: do what I'm thinking for good reasons.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hannah, you want to play a quick game with
Speaker 1: us rapid fire, and then I'll let you get out
Speaker 1: of here. All right, Okay, rapid fire first thing that
Speaker 1: comes to your mind. It doesn't have to make sense,
Speaker 1: because just like fun esses, we don't care you.
Speaker 2: My brain is blank when somebody says that first thing
Speaker 2: to come to mind, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: All right, what is the first thing you do when
Speaker 1: you wake up in the morning?
Speaker 2: Uh, try to go back to sleep, thank honestly to
Speaker 2: wake up.
Speaker 1: Are you more of an introvert or extrovert?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think I'm more of an introvert than people realize.
Speaker 1: What would be your go to paradise cocktail?
Speaker 2: Oh? Just like a really really good margarita, just simple, basic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is the first thing you would buy if you
Speaker 1: won the lottery?
Speaker 2: Honestly, if I won the lottery, I think I would
Speaker 2: like start and I would call financial advisory and be
Speaker 2: like put this in stocks or something for me. That's
Speaker 2: what I would do.
Speaker 1: That is what is your goal?
Speaker 2: Anvacation house? An a vacation house at the beach?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, which where where?
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 2: This sounds that probably like at the beach that I
Speaker 2: grew up going to, because then my whole family could
Speaker 2: could be there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is your go to pump up song?
Speaker 2: It's so embarrassing, but it's imagined Dragon's thunder. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I could actually picture that.
Speaker 4: I don't know what I was like, not that the
Speaker 4: fact that you like knew it too, Like you're definitely
Speaker 4: listening to that a.
Speaker 2: Lot because we talked about this like two nights ago,
Speaker 2: because I was like, this is my embarrassing song that
Speaker 2: like really just makes.
Speaker 1: Me like, Yeah, what is one word your fiance would
Speaker 1: use to describe you?
Speaker 4: Ooh?
Speaker 2: Really like complicated?
Speaker 1: What you ever see? It's complicated?
Speaker 2: No, I know what you're talking about and I haven't.
Speaker 1: It's like one of my favorite movies. You should watch
Speaker 1: it. It's great.
Speaker 3: I don't know, jose Oh, that's complicated.
Speaker 4: He's always looking for a reason to slide that into
Speaker 4: the it's like the third time it's mentioned.
Speaker 1: It's a great movie. Okay, what is your favorite dessert?
Speaker 2: My mom's chocolate cookies.
Speaker 1: What is the best dish you cook?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ah, what do I cook? I don't really cook that.
Speaker 3: The vibe it's gonna be like water?
Speaker 2: No, what is Oh? I make this? I make this
Speaker 2: five ingredient halio spaghetti something? No, Hi, it's I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, spaghetti pie.
Speaker 2: It's not spaghetti. It was pizza that I couldn't you know,
Speaker 2: get in my paleo. No, it's just something that it's
Speaker 2: quick and easy to make that makes it's not like
Speaker 2: it tastes like a pizza, but it's made out of
Speaker 2: spaghetti squash. That's where the spaghetti is coming fro. And
Speaker 2: it's something that Adam will like eat the whole thing
Speaker 2: in one's sitting and he's like, oh, but it's healthy.
Speaker 3: So it's a spaghetti squash.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, the last, but not least, let everyone know where
Speaker 1: they could find your podcast, And what is next for
Speaker 1: Hannah Brown?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so my podcast Better Tomorrow with Hannah Brown is
Speaker 2: anywhere we listened to podcast New yorkisodes come out Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for the people that we've already had
Speaker 2: on the people that we have coming up, so check
Speaker 2: it out. And yeah, my new book Mistates We've never made.
Speaker 2: That's coming out next spring, but you can order now
Speaker 2: wherever you get books. And what's next for me, I'm
Speaker 2: really just trying. There's definitely some things that are like
Speaker 2: in the pipeline, but honestly, right now, I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to continue to learn how to stay present and relax
Speaker 2: and be like at peace and just like really focus
Speaker 2: on the things that I'm doing right now it's easier
Speaker 2: said than done, but that I'm really right Now, what's
Speaker 2: next is me just really continuing to like hone in
Speaker 2: on how to make better tomorrow better for people and
Speaker 2: getting you really excited about this book coming out because
Speaker 2: they because they should be, because it's freaking good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The read of the Summer it goo.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Hannah, I will definitely buy your book. And thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on the podcast today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, thank y'all for having me. It's great to
Speaker 2: be back and celebrate Go into Paradise, and.
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Speaker 1: Bye bye