The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Say Yes to the Tes(la) with Ivan Hall

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

We have another member of Bachelor Nation making moves toward the wedding chapel! Ivan Hall from Tayshia Adams’ season of The Bachelorette is here to share his fairytale love story! Find out what brought him back to his college sweetheart after he left Paradise, and hear the story of how he popped the question in a way you’ve NEVER seen before!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Almost Famous Podcast, bringing in, yes, some of your favorite contestants ever to celebrate big things in their life. And today we have Ivan Hall here. It's been a bit since you've been on the podcast, Ivan. Welcome. back. What's up? What's up? I appreciate you guys having me back. I was good to touch pace. Since we've had you on, so much has happened that before we started recording, we said, congratulations. And you said, thank you, but on what? So you have a lot of things going on. We met on your engagement. But like, tell us, like, just where life's at right now. Oh, life is just, you know, crazy. Really, since ever being off the show, it always was before.

I feel like every year something new and big happens for me in a good way. So I just got a lot of business dealings. I run a nonprofit now. We got my, me and a couple of business partners also are in commercial real estate. That's been very good. All while I still, you know, continue all my regular day-to-day engineering job. Oh, you do both things now? Yeah.

Yeah. So I like to automate a lot of things. So it's not as much time as one would really think. but yeah, no, I got a lot of different responsibilities now. And every year I just keep getting better and better. And then, of course, the biggest news I got engaged, you know, this year. So that's been super exciting as well. We're going to talk about the engagement.

But obviously you just mentioned a bunch of things you're a part of. Ivan, it is, you know, I hope for you that continues that you can say every year it gets better and better. I don't know if I could say that, you know, about my life necessarily. I think there's been good years and bad years. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, there's been good years and bad years. But for you, you're saying, like, every year there's been something new and big,

and you've kind of been, it feels like building on the good. So let's start with the organization that you started. What is it? Where did the passion come from? Why to start? Yeah, I actually didn't start it. It's called the National Society of Black Engineers. I was part of it in college at Texas Tech.

It was a great way for me to, you know, get exposed. the companies, learn some things, mingle with other peers, you know. And then I kind of just wanted to, you know, do something more in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. So for the last two years, it's an elected position. It's all volunteer-based. I don't take any money for it. But we, I ran for president. I've been the president in the last two years. We've grown like doubled our amount of members that we have. I think we have a few hundred members in the Dallas Fort Worth area now. We won the national chapter of the year last year. because we are raising, you know, 10 times the amount of money they were raising before.

So, yeah, we're going to break a record with the amount of scholarship money we give out this year. We do a lot of volunteer work in the community, mentorship of college students. And then also we'll get like our professional engineering professionals in the area of certifications, all types of things. So anywhere from like, you know, elementary school kids to, you know, executives at companies in the Dallas, Fort Worth area. So that's been a good way for me to like balance, give a little bit back and just add some more balance to my life. So what's in the mission is to kind of highlight, promote, encourage, educate? Yeah, it's to increase the number of, you know, black engineers in general. That's why we outreach to kids. And then also help, you know, engineers through their careers, managing them,

getting them, you know, appropriate guidance, just helping them in certain ways. And then also, of course, there's always the networking aspect of all these things as well, which is a big part of it. So pretty like holistic mission just to like help. you know, minority engineers throughout their whole career life cycle, basically. Fantastic. So can you tell us a little bit about how you met your fiancé Taylor? Yeah. We recall it's sweethearts is the easiest way to put it.

Oh, my gosh. So, yeah, it's pretty funny because, like, some people think it's like a newer relationship, but I've known her over 10 years now. So it's like she went to UT Austin. I went to Texas Tech University. I randomly enough met her while I was at an engineering convention in Austin and she was just out and about in Austin.

And that's how we originally met. She's been the only girlfriend I've ever had in my life. Went our separate ways when she went to med school and I went out to Florida to work for a couple of companies or a company out there. And then kind of reconnected. She's, I think Ashley, you'll like this. She's an anesthesia resident here in Dallas.

Oh, no way. That's awesome. Yeah, so she's, yes. So once she got the job back here, we kind of, you know, reconnected. She works in the area. She's in year three or four residency, so we're almost done with that finally. And yeah, so. And she's from the Frisco area, which is like a northern Dallas suburb like myself. So a lot of similarities there.

And, yeah, she's great. So then when you, when she was kind of choosing where she was going to do a residency, you were already in Dallas. Did that, did you being there have a role in her going there? Or was this just a random? That's a good question. I'll say, I'd say honestly, because we weren't really talking too much back then. It was probably more so just because she's from the area.

Like she's from 30 minutes from the downtown Dallas area, all her family's here. And that's kind of what brought me back here to is just my family, like being close to them, helping them out with stuff. So I'd say that was probably the biggest role. But yeah, definitely reconnected. I was a little bit after Paradise when she got her job here. So reconnected. I was definitely trying to stay single for a bit.

I kind of always in the back of mind also knew like when I first met her I was like this she's great wife material but I did think and I don't know if this was wrong or right but I told her I thought we met too soon back in the day because I thought she needed to do a little bit more life and I knew I needed to as well so that's why we were always you know on and off back in the day too as well so we found our way back to each other like we always have and it's been great ever since oh that's so amazing I was going to ask I was like when you were on bachelor in paradise in The Bachelorette, were you ever like, eh, this doesn't work out, not a big deal.

Probably thinking about going back to Taylor anyway. Well, to be honest, I mean, Taylor or, I don't know, I always have a positive outlook on most of it. Like, I don't, like, lose all hope as soon as it doesn't work out on the show. I was just like, I'll find the right person eventually. Yeah. Yeah, so that line of thinking is always, yeah, I always try to flip it in my head to be a positive real quick,

so I don't have to, like, deal with it as much I'll say. Exactly. always nice to have something like another something in the back of your head, like another plan. Yeah. Do you have that right now Ashley? No. I guess that did stop when I got married though.

I love you while. She's like yeah. I have good by ideas. When you're single though, you always like have that like roster be like okay I can revisit this, I can revisit this. That's so funny. That's funny you say that because when I was single after the show, after The Bachelor, there's

a big season of life for me where I was dating. and I had somebody that was dating consistently, and she was amazing. But before I had met her, I was like, I'm out. Like, I think I'm single.

Like, I don't have anybody wind up here. I have no options. I am done. I gave it up my all. Ivan, tell us about how you proposed to her. Obviously,

you said you guys were college sweetheart. You know each other for 10 years. You met and she came back to Dallas. And then obviously the proposal was recently, I don't know how recent, actually. Yeah. It wasn't too long. I mean, it was in March, but yeah. And yeah, the proposal was a, was a funny one there. You know, she had sent me a few rings that's like the style that she liked. So I pretty much knew what that was. And then one day when in the mall, like we kind of went into a place and I figured out what her size was, basically. But then I just had to let it sit for a little bit so I could surprise her actually. So on my proposal, the thing that I kind of kind of caught headlines a little bit was the fact that she's been needing a new car like she's got a really

she had a really crappy like old Nissan Versa from college so I was like let me just go ahead and combine both these expenses in one and just say effort and so yeah I proposed to her it was in downtown Dallas on top of this like a kind of parking garage area which worked out perfectly had a good backdrop and stuff and then right after the engagement uh or the proposal um I had my dad and my brother drive up her new brand new Tesla, so which is exactly the job, dude, was splurgeon. I hope my wife does not listen to this episode. I really do. I don't want her to hear this.

This is not something she needs to hear. Yeah, through the big red bow on it too and then drove the Tesla up. It was pretty cool. And then, Susie was part of the, was my videographer for it as well, actually. What made you call Susie Evans to do this? Because she doesn't live in the area. True. Yeah. So she actually, I've met her a couple times because she visited Dallas. I think she's friends with Sierra Jackson out here. And I don't know. There was time, they're like, I met her twice. And then I know she's into the videography stuff and I like her content. You know, her reels and tick stocks she makes. So I was like, oh, this would be great. And then she actually suggested my photographer for it too. So I was like, let's just all do it together. Then how about that? So she did the videography. And then her friend did the photography and it all worked out pretty perfectly. really that's cool yeah that's great i i actually uh side note have just really started to dive into

susy's content um because ashley it told me it was such a great follow and i cackle like i am dying at some of the stuff she puts out there she is hilarious uh yeah she's really good yeah she's definitely shown her creative side for sure and i i knew she had that in her too she does great content i will say yeah so then uh obviously you're engaged now uh she said yes Have you guys started wedding planning? We've done surprisingly little wedding planning. I'll say that. So, yeah, that's the biggest thing.

So, yeah, as a resident doctor, you don't even want to really know how many hours she's working per week. But yeah, and honestly, for Taylor, the engagement is probably more important to her, or is more important to her than the wedding. I think she was happier with engagement over the potential wedding. So we'll get the wedding done eventually. I'm thinking it might have to be after her residency, though. So we'll see how that goes. But, I mean, the only thing we pretty much figured out is we want to do destination,

and that's where it stops because we don't have anything else figured out. We have no clue where or anything else. But we do think we want to do a destination wedding. And it'll give us some time anyways to plan it. So no need to stress out about it. Yeah, I understand that. She's just like, oh, I just want to know this is a forever thing, and now we can just relax. Did you, you guys living together?

Yes, yes. We've been living together for a little over a year, I think. That's going all right. Yeah, like, how's the dynamic because she's like literally working in like at least 16-hour shifts? Yeah, yeah, she, oh, it's, well, yeah, she's gone a lot. I'll say that. She's definitely gone a lot. She could barely take any vacation off or whatever else.

And then I work from home full time. So I'm like, not that I'm locked in here, but like I am kind of like just trapped in here all day. So I'm always looking for an excuse like after work to like, okay, let's go to dinner. Let's go whatever, a lounge or something, right? And then when she gets back, she's like, I've seen so many people today. I just want to like do nothing, right? So we got to like kind of figure out that I, that dynamic, probably a little better during the week at least. But during the weekends, we definitely love to indulge and eat at, you know, some of the nicer restaurants here.

It's one of our main ways to connect. So we got to mix it in. Like she's thankfully off this week for Thanksgiving. So this is a rarity. So we'll just be doing a lot of hanging out, training the new puppy pretty much. And that's it. Yeah. Badden, you want to talk to him about new puppy life?

Yeah, it almost, you know, Jessica and I almost ended our marriage about three months in because we got a new puppy. Oh, Lord. It was hard. Now it's beautiful. Waylon's about two years old. he was a good dog but that first couple weeks i had no clue just how wild it was um yeah you know it is it's it's a grind so tell us what kind of dog what are you experiencing so far uh and has it

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That is a, that looks fake. Is that an English bulldog? He's the English bulldog. He's about 17 pounds. He's this like Merle color, they call it. His coat is. Which is like the most rare color little English bulldog. So he's cool.

He's got like little blue eyes too. I don't know if you can kind of chill, but yeah, they're pretty sick. So he's been good. He's very lazy. You can tell he's kind of chill, really chill. That's helpful. When I told you to get the dog, I didn't know it was going to be the cutest dog I've ever seen. Yeah.

I still need to post him actually. I'm probably going to post him today. Yeah. He's a cool dude. Those bull dogs are chill. Yeah. You don't have to worry about him running around. You probably have to worry about him wanting to get out and walk.

Exactly. Exactly. But yeah, Taylor wanted like another, I don't even know what type of dog it was, but I could tell it had way too much energy. And I was like, no, I can't do one of those. Like, because I'm the one watching it most of the day. So like I need something that's not going to do too much. Yeah. This is, so Ivan has brought his, for anybody listening, Ivan's brought his beautiful puppy onto the camera there.

What's the name? We call him Roli. Roli. I mean, Roli is absolutely gorgeous English bulldog. Just chilling, looking at the camera. he has done nothing other. I mean, the difference between Roley and Waylon is incredible.

Waylon would have been, like, my dog would have been kicking and barking. Oh, I mean, Ashley's in heaven right now. Oh, no. See, Jared and I have been contemplating a golden retriever or an English bulldog and, oh, no. Oh, you got to go English.

Oh, no. I could actually probably handle that. I don't know if I could turn to golden retriever. Yeah, that's a lot more energy. Well, take back everything I said about puppies being difficult because it looks like Roley is going to be about as much fun and as easy as can be. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, we're still doing the training, but I kind of made it up in my mind. I was like, all right, these first three weeks are going to suck. Yeah. But he's actually doing better than I thought with, you know, the whole potty training. So it's actually been decent so far. Yeah. It's, well, congratulations.

You do have a lot going on to life. And obviously, you know, obviously. the engagement kind of is the thing we're talking about because, you know, Bachelor Nation is known for love and hoping to make connection. Ivan, just a few more questions for you. Do you think going on the show for you, Paradise and The Bachelorette? Do you think it at all opened your eyes up to wanting to be with Taylor or do you think it helped you grow as a person?

Just kind of walk us through what you've now learned looking back at that time in your life? no yeah um it definitely may help me grow as a person um it made me i already thought it was pretty introspective but you as you guys know spending hours and hours you know talking about how you feel and you know what your plans are for the future it's like shoot you've become even more introspective than you thought you already were so i that was uh that was good for me and you know i've never done like i don't know therapy or anything else so like saying that's a bunch of you know random producers i don't really know and then other guys that i don't really know um definitely made it a little bit easier for me to open up, especially to my closer friends, I'll say.

I don't do that with everybody, but my closer friends, I'll be a little bit more open with them because there's guys, like, friends I knew from, like, college, they're like, dang, I never knew this about you. I'm like, yep. Yeah, so I think the show definitely helped with that. Um, yeah, overall, man, I love my bachelor and bachelor experience, or Bachelor in Paradise Bachelor experience overall. Like, it's been pretty much nothing, but just good times. Really a bunch of friendships. I talked to my, my boy, Damar. Noah, Thomas, every day. We're in fantasy football.

We do a bunch of stuff. So it's, yeah, nothing but good vibes from it. You know, a lot of great opportunities, experiences, and stuff. So I think, and then, yeah, I don't know how much I would have grown without the show, really, just because it's exposed me to so many more things that I probably would have been exposed to if I hadn't gone on it. So, and I try to treat everything as a learning experience, too. So I definitely think it's made me a better person and expedited my growth, actually.

in a couple different ways. I feel that. Did Taylor watch you on the show? She watched Bachelorette. She definitely watched that. I don't think she watched that much of Bachelor. Yeah, she didn't watch that much of Bachelor in Paradise, though. I know she saw highlights of it and whatnot.

But yeah, it is, like, she loves watching reality TV, Love Island, all that other stuff too. But, yeah, Bachelor, Bachelorette, she doesn't really care to anymore. She's got, like, the ick for it just because I was on it, kind of. So she doesn't really. Makes sense. Yeah, like, well, like we've seen a couple episodes of this Paradise, but, yeah, some things still throw her off, which is kind of funny. Yeah, maybe The Golden Bachelor?

We watched The First Episode. I, uh, I don't keep, I watched Paradise a little bit more a couple times just because I still know a couple of guys out there. Um, so it's, you know, kind of cool to check in to see what they got going on. But, um, yeah. It is interesting to me how many really smart people watch, like crave watching like Paradise and The Bachelor and Bachelorette because I think, my my assumption is all day they're being smart and all day they're like dealing with really serious stuff and then when they get home they're just like still human and they're just like I just want to watch something that I don't have to think anything about like this is I just get to

watch yeah you're exactly right like she literally will come home she's like I want to turn my brain off and it's whatever binge Love Island what real real housewives those Potomac and wherever else they are Utah trust me I I hear and see some of it now and I was like, ah, Lord, but. Oh, I'm good. It's wild. Yeah, she definitely likes doing that because when it's, when she's around her and her co-workers, I can't even understand what language they're speaking, honestly, sometimes.

Like, it's insane. Yeah. So, yeah. Well, it's an incredible chapter of life for you, Ivan. And it's great to see and hear the things that you're doing. We hear really wish Taylor the best. I mean, Ashley understands firsthand what it's like to go through residency. based on her dad doing that

and it's a grind we all are familiar with that and we're hoping it finishes strong and Ivan just a final question for you is there anything that we didn't talk about here anything next for you anything you want to clear up that is in your future

man who knows man I just think about this year it's like you know I started a whole new career with the commercial real estate stuff I got engaged I gave her a car, like just so many random things. I got a puppy, so I don't know what's next. And one thing about myself is like, I just know I just want to keep growing every year

and keep exposing myself to a lot of things and figuring out what I want to do in life more and more. So I don't know what's next. It could be the most random thing six months from now. I guarantee it that's how my life tends to go. Just the most random thing pops up. If I see it as a good opportunity, I'm going to hop into that next. But, you know, everything for the most part is really good.

you know, you still, everything, everything's great, but then, you know, there's always still the life struggles. You just got to push through, but my thing is I'm just going to keep getting better every year, somehow. So I just got to stick to that. You're doing a great job. You seem very calm and tackling it all, too. Yeah, I've been exposed to quite a bit in my life, so I just not much that could rattle me anymore. It's kind of, it's kind of wild. I've realized it's, but yeah, yeah, so. Just wait till Roli wakes up at 2 a.m. five consistent nights in a row, and we'll see what can rattle you or not. Fair enough. I'll be pulling my hair out at that time. Yeah,

for sure. I guarantee you'll be frustrated. Hey, Ivan, great to catch up with you. Great to have you here in the Almost Famous Podcast. Keep us updated. We'll be following along for, you know, whenever the wedding is, get it, take your time, have fun with it. And again, congratulations to Taylor for, you know, being three years into a really four-year, difficult stretch. Wishing the best, man. Definitely. Definitely appreciate you all. If you guys are ever in Dallas, just let me know. I'll set up a nice dinner or anything else. Oh, that's so sweet. I would take a Tesla.

You can come drive it. Yeah. I got to get myself when next. Maybe that's the new thing I was going to say, like, was that partially a gift to you? Yeah. So I don't drive at all, really. So not really, actually. Like, I just Uber everywhere or walk everywhere.

So whenever we move out to the suburbs, I'll get a car for myself. But for now, I don't really need to even use one. I just got like a little grocery getter for myself. That's a way. That's a good way. All right, Evan. Have a great time. Thank you, guys.

All right, you have a good one. I'll see you. That's been Ivan Hall on the Almost Famous Podcast. Breaking down, well, his engagement, new career, some exciting things with his new family. It's a family of three now, or becoming a family of three. I don't know which one you would say. I would call it a family of three at this point. Sounds like he's doing great.

We'll be back next week, breaking down more episodes of the Golden Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, having some really special guest on. We have some incredibly exciting things coming our way. I don't know if I can even speak about it yet, but what I do know is we're going to have a very exclusive, very intimate look into the Golden Bachelor. We're going to spend some time with the ladies. We're also going to have an interview with Sydney from the Bachelor.

Yeah, Sydney Warner. That's a huge deal. Her husband right now is crushing it in the NFL, and she's crushing it in life. And then we'll have headlines. And she's pregnant. My goodness. Everybody's doing something these days.

Anyways, some exciting things coming your way. So until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. See ya. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom.

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