You're listening to the Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your host, Evie McLeod and Lindsay Roman. Welcome back to the show friend. We are so excited for today's guest. This is someone who I feel like has been on your podcast guest list for... Listen, y'all. Ever since we started the podcast, this was like a name, this she was a name that was on like dream guest list.

She was a woman who was on a dream guest.

She was a woman who was on my personal dream guest list.

Yes.

And she's on the show today.

Yes.

So it was a moment.

If you have not already figured out her name by the title, today we get to chat with

the beautiful and wonderful Hannah Brown. Hannah Brown is a television personality, lifestyle expert, and two-time New York

Times best-selling author. Brown's authenticity and charismatic personality have captivated her

millions of followers, and she continues to inspire and empower others. She is born and raised

in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Amazing.

So what we got to talk with Hannah about today is kind of like her journey from Bachelor and Bachelorette, reality TV, how her life was kind of thrust into the spotlight, and her journey on what that taught her in her life, and especially in relationships,

and how that led her to writing romance novels today.

And so we're talking about her second fiction release today,

which is the Four Engagement Rings of Civil Rain.

And I don't know, we talked about a lot.

We talked about her writing process,

how it was working with a co-author.

We talked about if any of her past relationships, specifically the ones on television that we got to

see as an audience and as a world, influenced any specific characters in her book.

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