251. Rachel Recchia: Bachelor Nation fan favorite breaks down the realities of reality TV between networks, saying yes to Perfect Match, continuing her passion for aviation and the $$$ behind it all!
Trading Secrets
Audioboom Studios
5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Rachel first captured America’s attention on The Bachelor before becoming one of the co-leads of The Bachelorette Season 19, where she navigated love, heartbreak, and the spotlight in front of millions of viewers. She later returned to Bachelor in Paradise, further cementing her place as a fan favorite in Bachelor Nation, but Rachel’s story goes far beyond reality TV. She is a licensed pilot, a career she’s pursued well before the cameras.
Rachel pulls back the curtain on her journey through two very different corners of reality TV—The Bachelor franchise and Netflix’s Perfect Match—and explains what ultimately led her to say yes to Perfect Match. She dives into her true passion outside of television: aviation. From working as a flight instructor to breaking down the costly path of pilot training, Rachel shares her long-term goals in the cockpit, the different licenses she’s earned, and how quickly she returned to work after her season of The Bachelorette.
She opens up about how the men from her season impacted her mental health, the challenge of balancing a career in aviation with the world of social media, and why she doesn’t see herself as an “influencer.” Rachel also compares reality TV audiences, reveals why she’ll never return to The Bachelor franchise, and gets candid about dating after reality TV. The episode wraps with a rapid-fire money segment that offers an honest look at life beyond the spotlight.
Rachel reveals all this and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest:Rachel Recchia
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets today. |
| 0:16.6 | We are joined by reality TV star and commercial pilot Rachel Reckia. |
| 0:21.6 | Rachel first captured America's attention on The Bachelor before becoming one of the co-leads of The Bachelorette, season 19, where she navigated love, heartbreak, and the spotlight in front of millions of viewers. |
| 0:33.5 | She later returned to Bachelor in Paradise, further cementing her place as a fan favorite in Bachelor Nation. |
| 0:39.7 | But Rachel's story goes far beyond reality TV. |
| 0:42.9 | She's a licensed pilot, a career she has pursued well before the cameras. |
| 0:47.7 | Today we are going to talk all about the financial realities of working in aviation, the money behind reality TV, and what it's like to build a brand with hundreds of thousands of followers, all sparked from dating on TV. Rachel, thank you so much for sharing secrets. I'm excited. I'm nervous. What are you nervous about? I don't know much about. We talked about this, finance, money. Guys, we talked about a lot about a lot before the camera started rolling. One of the thing Rachel said is that she has something to tell me after, but she refuses to tell me on. So if I'm nervous, it's because I'm like, I wonder what it's about. I like, that's how I like starting my interviews. Yeah. I feel like the first time when you and I connected at Art Basel like a year ago And we were just like shooting the shit. We're like, I think there's a lot you and I need clear up. |
| 1:30.8 | I know. you and I connected at Art Basel like a year ago and we were just like shooting the shit. |
| 1:28.4 | We're like, I think there's a lot you and I need to clear up. |
| 1:30.8 | I know. |
| 1:31.5 | I feel like we've been like enemies behind different lines for like so long. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.3 | We kind of, we have a truce now. |
| 1:38.3 | Well, I was never an enemy of yours for the record. |
| 1:40.5 | Well. |
| 1:40.8 | You just have allegiance and you guys have your bachelor's rec community. |
| 1:44.0 | Everyone's got |
| 1:44.3 | each other's back, even if you don't know context, then you and I got to talk a little bit. We're friends. We're friends. Alliances. Oh, yes. Alliance. Remember we in our secret alliance? You're not supposed to say the secret alliance. All right, never mind. We don't have alliance. I take it all that. We're friends with no secret alliance. |
| 2:00.4 | Friends, no secret alliance. |
| 2:01.8 | All right, let's get into what we talk about here. |
| 2:03.6 | So you're fresh off in this intro, one thing I didn't really get into, perfect match Netflix. You're at ABC. Now you're fresh off perfect match. You're back in the reality TV dating game. I mean, it's like hot and heavy right off the press. How is that feeling just as you |
| 2:17.8 | think about everything you've been through? It's been crazy. Netflix is definitely a lot more tame. |
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