Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is your host Taylor and today we're going

to get a little bit into Bachelor World. So if you've got any Bachelor fans, this episodes

for you and for anyone who has no idea what Bachelor is or has never watched, you're

in for an interesting episode. Today we're going to be talking with Amanda Stanton, who appeared

on Ben Higgins season of The Bachelor and then was on a season of Paradise where she was

then engaged to Josh and then went on another season of Paradise where I then had the pleasure

of meeting her and becoming friends. And now she has a book out called Now Accepting

Roses, Finding Myself While Searching for the One and Other Lessons I Learned From The

Bachelor. It's a really fantastic book that goes over just that really, how she is searching

for herself and how she has learned many many many things from dating on the Bachelor

and post the Bachelor. So I am really excited to have Amanda here with us today on the show

and really excited to chat some of this Bachelor's stuff and dating that we don't always get to

talk about on the show. So with that, welcome Amanda to the show. Thank you so much for taking

the time to chat with me and for taking the time to write this book and really put it all

out there and be vulnerable with all of us in a way that really lets us kind of get to

know you and your story a little bit more. So I'm really excited to chat today.

Thanks. Thanks for having me. I'm excited. Yeah. One thing that I learned reading this

that I did not know about you previously was that you hadn't gone in a date in three

years when you went on Ben's Season of the Bachelor. Literally hadn't been on a date. I mean,

it's my ex, but I hadn't been on a first date in, yeah, over three years. Yeah, that's wild

to think about. It was scary. Yeah. And you were how old when you went on again? It was

25. Yeah. And that's so really since then, you kind of have this like, you know, bachelor's

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