82: Bravo legend Caroline Manzo: From reality television to new ventures, Real Housewives fan favorite on why she left reality TV, taking the fear out of cooking, and knowing your value
Trading Secrets
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4.9 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jason is joined by Bravo legend and on the OG cast members of Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo!
Caroline appeared in the inaugural season of the hit Bravo series and instantly became a fan favorite for her loving, bluntly honest personality. After five seasons on the show, she decided to step away and start a spinoff series called Manzo’d with Children which ran for four seasons, ending in 2017. Now five years removed from reality television, Caroline has been able to focus her career toward other interests.
Caroline provides insight on how she negotiated for herself when it came to her TV contract, the differences between being on Real Housewives and Manzo’d with Children, the importance of being yourself, and how her new YouTube cooking show, Food, Love and Chaos with Caroline Manzo is around teaching people not be afraid of cooking. Caroline also reveals how she feels about being called a fan favorite, how she was discovered and cast for Real Housewives of New Jersey with the help of her sister, the differences between her two books, and what her experiences at Bravo Con have been like. What is her best advice for negotiating? What were the biggest differences between being on Real Housewives of New Jersey and Manzo’d with Children? How has she monetized on social media after being on the show? Where are the best places to eat in New Jersey?
Caroline reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
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Host: Jason Tartick
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. Today I am joined by Bravo Legend in one of |
| 0:22.4 | the OG cast members up Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo. Caroline appeared in |
| 0:28.4 | the inaugural season of the hit Bravo series and instantly became a fan favorite of her loving, |
| 0:34.4 | bluntly honest personality. After five seasons on the show, she decided to step away and start a |
| 0:39.9 | spin-off series called The Demonsode with Children, which lasted four seasons, wrapping up in 2017. |
| 0:47.5 | Now five years removed from reality television, Caroline has focused her career towards other |
| 0:51.9 | interests. After writing her first book in 2013, she is now writing a second one, which is scheduled |
| 0:57.0 | to come out in 2024. We will talk about that. She's taken on the big role of a grandmother in |
| 1:02.3 | recent years as well. Today we're going to dive into all things reality television, her experiences |
| 1:08.3 | on and off the show and how she was able to leverage her platform in various revenue streams for her |
| 1:13.6 | and her family. Caroline, thank you so much for being on Trading Secrets. Thank you so much. I love |
| 1:18.0 | when someone adorable and smart asked me on, so it's all good. Yeah, that's so nice. Thank you for |
| 1:22.9 | pumping my tires. I was pumping Caroline's tires earlier because my mom, when I told her that I was |
| 1:27.5 | having you on, she is a huge fan of yours and she's very, very envious. So I'm excited to have |
| 1:32.8 | you. And then when I talk to one of our producers, it said, tell me more about Caroline. She says, |
| 1:37.8 | here's what we need to start with. She is the fan favorite of all real housewives. I mean, when |
| 1:45.5 | you hear stuff like that, what does it mean to you? It blows my mind because I never really, |
| 1:50.5 | I never really understood it because truth be told, we were just, you know, the housewife franchise |
| 1:56.3 | as a whole. We were just a bunch of women that got lucky. You know, there are some amongst us with |
| 2:03.0 | true God-given talent that could sing, that could dance, that could act sure. But for the most |
| 2:08.3 | and I'm throwing myself in that category so don't come at me ladies. There's no talent there. We |
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