The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Beyond the Bachelor: Carissa Stanton

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

It’s the off-season, so we’re taking you Beyond the Bachelor! Susie Evans is sitting down with Carissa Stanton (sister of Amanda Stanton from Ben’s season) and hearing all the secrets! Find out if she’d ever go on a dating show like her sister and she reveals every detail from her surprise engagement!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Stanton. You may know her as Amanda Stanton's sister from Ben Higgins season, but outside of that, you might know her from her incredible recipes on Instagram and her new cookbook called Seriously So Good, coming out April 16th. Okay, everybody, I want to welcome Carissa Stanton. She is here today. She's going to talk a little bit about her new book called Seriously So Good. It's a cookbook. It goes on sale April 16th. She's going to be going on tour. But first things, first, I feel like I need to congratulate you because you were recently engaged. Is that right? Yes. Like it was, I think like a week and a half ago. So very newly engaged. Okay, very newly engaged. Was it, were you surprised or did you like totally feel it coming? So I was surprised with

what he did, but I definitely knew it was coming. Like we had kind of discussed the timeline. I picked out my ring and like it wasn't like a huge secret. But I was very surprised with what he did when he proposed. Love that. Honestly, that's like the most rational and wonderful answer. Like anyone that's truly surprised by an engagement, I'm all a little concerned typically. So exactly had the discussions up front. Okay.

And your fiance's name is Corey. Yes. Tell us how you guys met. So we actually went to college together. We went to San Diego State. But we weren't really friends. at all. We had mutual friends and we followed each other on Instagram. So I have a personal Instagram. Now I have my food one, but this was like back in the day before I started my account.

I just had my personal Instagram page. So we've been following each other. And he was living in Brooklyn at the time. And I did a salad collab with this place called Alfalfa in Santa Monica. So he's like a little collab. And they had a picture of me in Alfalfa. And he was visiting his friend in Santa Monica and saw me in the in alfalfa and saw my salad and was like oh my gosh I know this girl we went to college together so he sent me a message and I just so happened to be visiting Brooklyn for my friend's birthday party like the next weekend and he was living there so I was like oh we have to get together and get drinks we haven't seen each other in a while so it was very casual the first time we met and then he was thinking about moving to L.A. So we. So we.

kind of coordinated a weekend where he'd come and visit and then things just kind of blossomed from there, which was so nice because I was dating in LA for a while before we rekindled. And it's like, it's just so nice meeting someone when you kind of, we already have mutual friends. People can vouch for him and be like, okay, this guy is like a crazy weirdo. You know what I mean? Yes, I do. I think that's one of the scariest things about dating as an adult is that I feel like everybody I knew, whether it was college or high school, It's just you had, you knew their background. You knew the people that they knew.

You knew their family life or whatever. And now you just meet people off the street. And it's like, they could be anybody. So I totally get that. There's probably like a sense of familiarity with that. That just feels so much more safe and comfortable to get to know somebody. But that's amazing. And so now you're both in L.A., I'm guessing.

Yes. We live together in L.A. We're on the west side. It's amazing. I love that. Okay. And I know you've been living the Auntie life for years now. Do you think there will be kids of your own in the future? Definitely. Yeah. I, I'm ready whenever. I'm going on my book tour in like a week. And so in my head, I've just been like, okay, as long as I can get through my book tour, once that's over, I'm like, I am ready to go. So hopefully sooner or rather than later, maybe by like the end of the year and we're lucky. But also it's like, scary to be like oh yeah i want kids and then i actually think about it and i'm like am i ready to like for my life to be completely changed yet right um but yeah i think so i think soon oh yeah it makes it look so easy yes yes she does so i'm like oh yeah i can have three kids i just have three kids

yeah love that we're excited now and and knowing that you're so ready like that's even more exciting. Yeah. Okay. So before Corey, of course, would you have ever gone on a dating show yourself? Okay. Everyone always asked me that. I, here's my thing. So not that I'm against it or like a post, I just am like, I wouldn't want to go on a dating show because I wouldn't want to date the type of guy that wants to go on a dating show. You know what I mean? I'm like, we would literally never, He's like so normal, doesn't want the attention. And I'm like, that is something that I like in a guy. I think that I feel like most of the people, like men that like would want to go

on a reality show or like a little more out there. They might have like, you know, ulterior motives, like trying to like meet a bunch of different girls. And I'm just like, that's not really. That's not really my thing. Yes. I feel you. And it's so funny you say that because a lot of the girls, I think from the franchise that go

on, this is such a double standard. and it's probably not even great that I'm saying it out loud. But we always say we're like, I don't know why, but we all love each other as women. And we're like, no, it makes sense to you go to a dating show. But the guys that go on dating shows, we low-key judge them. I fully agree. I'm with the double stage. And that's so horrible.

I'm actually dating a guy that's from the franchise. So, like, love him and he's not, he's a gem. But it's so funny to me because I just think we're like there's such a double standard. But it's just, that's just how we feel. I do feel like there are some gems in there, though, like, people that are like, oh, I actually want to go on and like meet a nice girl and, you know, all of that. Like, that definitely exists. I just think as a whole, like, for the most part, I'm like, something like in it for the fame. And I'm like, I don't know if I'm really into that.

No, I totally get that. So, okay, my next question was going to be, do you think that dating shows can actually work? 100%. I am like a full. I just watch Love is Blind on Netflix, which love. I totally think it can work. I think for the most part, it's maybe not the best way to meet somebody, but I am not, I'm not against it at all.

I think that it's totally, yeah, you can totally meet someone on a dating show. I agree. I think it's, I personally think it's like a hard, tough journey to make it successful, but I think that it's very possible. So I'm with you on that one. Yeah, definitely. lot more work to to make it work so true um so bachelor nation obviously knows you and loves you from your sister amanda going on the show but you really paved the way for yourself on your food instagram account

and i know a little bit about how you got started um that it was you were having girls nights and you were just chefing up these amazing appetizers and meals and foods and all the girls were asking for recipes and you were helping to type it out and send send it to all the girls so you started this Instagram page, can you tell us, like, how did you, how did you find out or figure out that you could actually make a career from it? And how did you start to get traction on that page outside of just your girlfriends? Yeah. So I started my account in 2017, which I feel like was just a whole Instagram has evolved so much since then. I was just posting like static photos. And now it's like reals. You can grow so easily. So I think the way that I grew was

literally people just tagging me on their stories, they would remake my recipes and just be like, this is a barricerati recipe. And then people would find me. It was like the old fashion way. I'm like, I am old school. Felt it from the ground up. That is so wild. And when did you find most of your growth was kind of in those early stages? Or did you find that when Reels started, you started to get way more traction? And is that kind of what has allowed you to create the cookbook, like, when did that massive traction really start to come into your world? So it was definitely a gradual build in the beginning. It was very slow. I started out and I really wasn't thinking it would ever be a career. I'm more so like Amanda was getting like cool PR packages

and I'm like, ooh, I would like a PR package or I would like a cool brand to like send me some, maybe some free food or something like that. So the first I would say like a year and a half, I was just, you know posting for fun i would get like a couple brand deals here and there like people would pay me like 50 bucks or whatever for a post and i was like all excited um but i would definitely say when video started to become a thing so like even within the past like two years being able to post reels and though you know so many more people can have their eyes on your content that's helped me grow a ton. So taking advantage of that has been amazing. I've grown way more in the past few years than I did the first like five years I started.

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um what i really like about your recipes is that they're seemingly like quite simple you know it's overly complicated um but but at the same time if you go to your page it is very aesthetic so how did you like find the balance of doing like having the aesthetic page but also really just saying authentic to what was true to you and your like cooking style. That's a great question. So I think just it's really like practice makes perfect. Nobody really knows what they're doing. I don't think anyone has ever been like trained on how to, I mean, maybe nowadays, who knows, like how to grow a business on Instagram. I feel like most of us are kind of just posting things, seeing what works, and then leaning more in that direction. So I'm always paying attention to,

the videos that are performing well, the types of recipes people want to see constantly interacting with my community, seeing what they're liking, seeing what they're not liking, and adapting and going from there. So really taking your audience in your community and putting them first. And then, you know, the more you do it, the better you get at it. If you look at some of my first reels, they're so bad, so terrible. No one, again, no one is training you. No one is showing you how to do any of this and it's fine we're all in the same boat if you talk to anyone they've all been like oh yeah when i first started out i didn't know how to do this you just have to keep going practice see what people are liking see what's reforming well see what looks good and eventually you're

you know you'll be a pro no one even know that you had no idea what you're doing at one point exactly and i think um another thing that i feel like so many people struggle with is feeling that social media and content creation is so oversaturated but But I think it's just so cool because you literally started, it was after the time that your sister was on the show. So it wasn't like you gained a following from that. You really just started and put in hard work and people just loved you for being you and what it was that you brought to the table.

And I think that's such a testament because it is oversaturated, like social media and content creation. There's so many people doing it. But it's really cool to see how you've just exploded and like built so much based around cooking and, um, and your background is kind of like health and nutrition based. Is that right? Is that kind of what has inspired some of or a lot of your recipes? Yeah. So, well, first I will say in 2017 when I started my account, everyone was like, it's oversaturated. There's way too many food bloggers out there. So if anyone is like wanting to get started and

people are saying it's too oversaturated, I would just do it because I feel like people are always saying that. And if I would have listened to that in 2017 and not done it, I would have been very disappointed. But to your question, I studied kinesiology at San Diego State with an emphasis in fitness, health, and nutrition. So at first I was doing absolutely nothing with that. I was doing real estate. And I was like, you know, I'm going to leave my passions behind. I've always been very into like fitness and nutrition. So that is like more like my passion is what I studied in college. But I pivoted after because I just really wanted to study nine to five job. and I wasn't finding that within what I was passionate about.

But yeah, then I started my account on the side, kind of just, again, it's like a passion project, a little bit of a hobby. And I've always been, I've always loved food and cooking. So that was the hobby side of it. And then I was always really interested. I would see a recipe maybe that wasn't as healthy. And I'd be like, oh, I want to make that. That sounds really good.

But I know that it's probably going to make me feel not so good. later and I want to be able to eat this on a regular basis. And I would start playing around with swapping the ingredients and seeing how I could kind of like adapt certain meals that I wanted to eat and make them a little bit healthier, more nutritious for you and, you know, so you can eat them more often. I love that. Actually, I have your book coming, but I need to really learn from it because my brother's biggest complaint from me is that I will always try to make like a really good recipe healthier or more nutritious and he does not like to eat my cooking because I will I will sacrifice the enjoyment or like the taste and I'm like oh my God it's so good

but in reality it's probably not so I really will need to quite literally take a page out of your book when it arrives because I do value that as well where it's like you want it to be nutritious and you want to be able to enjoy it frequently but you don't want to have to sacrifice like your entire health to be able to enjoy the eating. Yeah, I would say the recipes in the book kind of go back and forth between being, you know, healthy and nutritious. And then some are honestly very indulgent. There's like an amazing chocolate cake recipe. There's a, you know, some recipes with like a ton of butter, the like whatever it is. And it's, it's, you can have it all and still have a really healthy lifestyle, which is something that I always like to promote. Like on the weekends, I am eating genuinely like whatever I. want. I don't really care what it is. But usually Monday through Friday, I'm eating a lot healthier. I'm still enjoying my food. But I kind of have just this very balanced approach to life. And it genuinely works. And that's what I learned in school, too, when I was in my nutrition

classes. Like, people are like, you can have butter and mayonnaise and all these things. They're not necessarily bad for you. They're fine in moderation. And that's just the key to life to anything is, You know, you've got to just do it in moderation. And if you're, you know, enjoying yourself on the weekends, like this past weekend, I made the carnitas from the cookbook for a bunch of friends. And we all, we had like a big taco bar. And then the next day for dinner, I was like, okay, I'm craving genuinely a salad. Like, that sounds really good to me. I want something a little bit lighter. So when you're really like listening to your body and tuning in to what it's telling you, it makes those healthy decisions just so much easier. That's so awesome. And I think you're so spot on with that. to it really being like moderation and balance is the key to life. Like no matter what it is, whether it's eating fitness, drinking and like indulging, whatever it is, like balance should be the goal. So I'm excited to check out the book.

And it comes out April 16th. Yes. And you'll be going on a book tour. Yes. I'm very excited and nervous. What does that look like? I mean, where will you be going? What should people expect if they're,

going to come out and support. Yeah. So I'm going to, I'm going to list them out, New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Denver, San Francisco, L.A. Orange County, San Diego. Oh, my God. That is a lot of, those are like the perfect stops. So many places. That's so exciting. Yeah. I'm very, very excited. It's going to be really fun. I just want it to be a really great opportunity for my community to kind of get together. I want everyone. and to meet each other and connect and just have a really good time. And hopefully everyone is loving the book. I'll be signing them, taking pictures, meeting everyone. So that's going to be really, really exciting and tiring. I can't imagine. Is it back to back or will you be

spacing it out over a few weekends? So it's back to back, like the first, the East Coast all the way through Texas is like literally I wake up every morning and get on a flight. somewhere and go to the next city. But then I have a couple days in between and then I'll do Seattle, Denver, San Francisco, and then the California stops. So it's broken up very nicely to where I feel like I'm going to not be like so exhausted, but we'll see. Wow. That's so exciting. And how long have you been working on the cookbook? So I started working on it in 2021. So a very long time ago, that's when I very first started thinking about it, trying to have like what I wanted to be in the book, the types of recipes, the feel of it.

So that's when I really started like thinking about it, working on it. And then I come up with a proposal. And then that's when I found my literary agent. And we worked on the proposal and, you know, the outline of the whole book. And then go out to the publisher. and there's like an auction for it. It's just this whole crazy process even before you start actually writing the book and working on it. And then it takes like a year to write it and do all the recipes. And then I shot all the photos for it like a year ago, actually. So then once all

recipes are done, you have to have someone test them all and edit them. And then you go in and do a full photo shoot of all the recipes, which is so much fun. And then it takes a year to like edit it. and put it all together, and then now here we are. The U.S. Open is here, and on my podcast, Good Game with Sarah Spain, I'm breaking down the players from rising stars to legends chasing history, the predictions, will we see a first-time winner, and the pressure. Billy Jean King says pressure is a privilege, you know. Plus, the stories and events off the court, and of course the honey deuses,

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And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free iHeartRadio. app search emergency intercom and listen now i feel like i have to know how do you shoot all of the recipes like do you go in is it multiple days that you go in and you cook all these meals and have them perfectly presented like i need to know okay i'll tell you everything it's actually such a fun cool process that i didn't know about before i had written a book so i didn't cook anything which

was very nice. You hire a food stylist. So someone comes in that's a professional at cooking the food and making them look beautiful. So there is a food stylist. Then you have a prop stylist. So that is someone that comes in with, when you look through the book, you'll see like really cute, like little forks and the bowl that it comes in in the linens and the background. We actually shot, besides, there's some photos in my home, but the actual just food photos were shot in like an Airbnb, like in the living room. So it was like a makeshift little studio that we had. So they're all just like on a surface that the prop stylist brings in all the different colors.

It is so insane. It's really, really cool, though. Like it's such a fun job. So yeah, comes in with all the little props. And then there's the photographer. that shoots it all. So I pretty much was like the creative director of it all. I just got to stand around and be like, that looks good. That doesn't look good, which was so much fun because I'm so used to like being the one in the kitchen, like doing everything. Um, so that was like a really fun

process. And the whole thing took like two weeks to shoot because there's a hundred recipes. Oh, okay. So, oh my gosh. So multiple recipes a day. Yeah. So does stuff basically cook a meal, present it and then everybody else styles it and then gets back in the kitchen and starts cooking the next meal. Yeah. That is so wild. When I was thinking about this interview, I was like, oh my God, that's like my biggest question. I know it sounds so silly. That is a bizarre process to have to think about how you present each of those meals. I was thinking it had to have taken months to get done, but I guess you guys just had like a powerhouse of people making it happen. Yes, they just crank it out. And the food stylist and she had an assistant as well,

I would say like at least five days before the shoot were like prepping everything, having everything ready to go. So once it was time to cook it all, they like had it, had everything ready to go in the kitchen. But yeah, it was a really, really cool, exciting process. And it was so fun to be the one person that was just like directing it all for once. Like I was like, oh, this is I can just sit back and watch everything come to life. It was so much fun. That's so cool. And I know. obviously this is so new and it's hard to probably even think about what's next but I'm curious like where do you see your career going after after the tour and after the book has been out for a little bit like what is on the horizon yeah so I want to write another book like it's so funny it's like it's like when you have a baby people are like oh my gosh you just forget about like going in labor and the pregnancy you just want to have another one that's how I feel right now I'm like I want to do it again, even though I'm like not done with it. I just love the whole process. So I'm hoping that, you know, success. And then I'm able to write another book and keep writing

cookbooks in my career because it's just such a blast. Working on coming out with a product that I'm really excited about. So that is in the works right now. And then get married and have a kid sometime between all of that. Really? Such an exciting time in your life. It's such an exciting season. It is. Yeah. It's really fun. It's like a whirlwind.

So much happening. But I am so grateful. Awesome. Okay. Well, I know obviously beyond The Bachelor, we wanted to ask a couple of questions before we wrap up. We wanted to ask how Amanda was doing and how often you get to see her and her little babies and what that looks like for you. Yeah, it was with her yesterday. actually, we had like a little family get together. It's her birthday on April 9th. So we were

celebrating a little bit. And she's doing great. She's such an amazing mom. I cannot believe that she has three kids. Like, it just blows my mind. I really can't believe it. But Rosie is so freaking sweet. Her newest baby. She's like almost three months now, maybe, yeah, like two and a half months old. She's so precious. She's just like the happiest, sweetest thing. And Amanda just thrives being a mom. She's doing so well. And she's also trying to plan my wedding. Oh, my God, I love that. He's all excited about it. But we want to do something small. But I'm like, you can help me plan it, but it's not going to be anything crazy. So she's very excited about that with all the wedding festivities over on my end as well. So exciting.

Well, thank you so much for letting us indulge not only on your cookbook, your engagement, our little Bachelor curiosities, but I want to congratulate you. And if you wanted to let people know where they can find you on socials and where they can order your book on April 16th. Yeah. So my Instagram handle is Brock Your Body, B-R-O-C-C, Your Body. And then my website is brockyrebody.com. If you go to Brock Your Body.com slash cookbook, you can. find all the places that you can order my cookbook. It's also at on Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble,

your local bookstore most likely. So all of those places. And yeah. Amazing. Thank you so much for joining us on Beyond the Bachelor. And thank you guys for listening. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you.

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