Going On a Reality Show? You Need to Listen to this First!
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week Sarah talks with Nick Thompson. You may know Nick from season two of Netflix’s hit reality show “Love is Blind,”. After the show Nick took legal action against the show, and is now empowering other Reality TV contestants to change the system. In this episode of This Changes Everything Sarah and Nick discuss and share insight that any and all potential reality TV contestants would find extremely valuable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host Sarah and with me today is Nick Thompson. You know Nick Thompson from Love is Blind. He is now a mental health advocate and the co-founder of You Can Foundation, which is working to support reality TV contestants rights. I am a huge fan of his. Welcome to the show, Nick. I'm so excited to have you |
| 0:21.5 | here because last time we were talking, we were in opposite roles. I was on your podcast. And so |
| 0:29.1 | thank you so much for coming on mine. Welcome to the show. Tell people, first of all, |
| 0:33.9 | where you are from. Yeah, do you mean where am I? Not like location. |
| 0:38.3 | I mean, of course. |
| 0:39.5 | That's like, that's like the, that what an annoying reality television question to ask? |
| 0:45.9 | Because that is like, what do you do? |
| 0:47.7 | And you're like, what do I do? |
| 0:48.6 | You mean like as a human being out in this world or for work? |
| 0:51.4 | No, I unfortunately mean like when people say that, where do I |
| 0:55.9 | know you from? Where do people know you from? Well, we should talk about the where do they know |
| 1:00.9 | you from? Because I got some really good advice on how to answer that question a couple months ago. |
| 1:05.6 | Oh. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm so curious about that. Because I just get uncomfortable, uncomfortable and awkward, but most people probably know me from Love is Blind season two, which hard to believe we filmed four years ago and came out over three years ago. Oh my God. It was season two, you're on? |
| 1:23.7 | Season two, which was coming out of the pandemic. It was the biggest show at that time because everybody hunkered down in lockdowns and watched it and then couldn't wait for season two. |
| 1:34.5 | And when it finally came out, that was 2022 and people were really hungry for it. |
| 1:39.5 | Now there's like a season every six months. |
| 1:42.4 | So I just saw a bunch of people from season nine |
| 1:46.3 | popping up all over my Instagram feed. I'm like, oh, I guess there's another another season coming out. |
| 1:52.2 | Is this Denver? Yes, I'm in Denver. So this is going to be like everybody's starting to talk about |
| 1:58.0 | it. That is one of the big reasons why I wanted to have you on here because I'm getting a bunch of stuff in my feet about it. |
| 2:04.6 | I'm like, I got to talk to Nick. |
| 2:06.7 | He is the expert, not only on being on the show, but in so much of the behind the scenes world of reality television, because after you were on, I mean, you went out and you started an organization |
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