The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - What’s it like to be a KKG but your mom is a RHOC?!

Episode Date: October 3, 2026

Shannon Storms Beador returns, this time, to reveal the trial and tribulations when your daughter’s going through rush.  How did Shannon feel when her daughter chose not to be in the same house as her mother??See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And today, we have the second episode, the second time that we get to talk to Shannon Storms Badu. Okay, so I know one of your daughters is in a sorority, right? So if he was a Kappa, at Baylor, Kappa, Kappa, Kappa, Gamma. Okay. At Baylor. So there you go. So that's like an intense Baylor is, you know, that's a Texas school. That's like a serious, serious rush.

And I don't know, you know, just now I feel like I know a lot about, especially in the South, what goes on during rush and the intensity of it. I don't know if you, with Sophie, there, we've had podcasts where, like, mothers went and tried to, you know, bribe the girls, bringing big platters of cookies over to the house. before their daughters rushed. And all the mothers are there, and they're all involved in the buying of the outfits. And was that you with Sophie? Well, I did make sure she had recommendations with good photographs.

That's good. Because I didn't do that. But it was helpful for me when I was vice chairman and president to be able to show our girls photographs of the people that were coming in. So you kind of knew who you wanted to look out for because you basically got a resume. me today when I write recommendations for people, oh my God, it's like a flipping resume they sent me.

I mean, it wasn't like that for me. But I wanted her to do well. And at Baylor, they rush in the spring. So there were all these rules. Like you couldn't go to a fraternity party or you couldn't spend time with sorority girls. That was called Dirty rushing. And I guess they implemented it. So.

Yeah. Yeah. My daughter, too. But she got into her. She got into her number one. You know, and as a mother, knowing what the hell I went through, getting in anywhere I wanted to get in, you know, my heart would be pounding at night. Sanin, that is what we talked to, we talked to a lot of mothers about that,

that it becomes so intense and so heartbreaking, right, for these girls, especially when they don't get in anywhere. You know, it's just awful. It's life-altering. Yes. Because the rejection and then the rejection in front of so many others. I mean, I remember we'd get our sheet and everyone in my little rush group was there and it's like, yeah, I didn't get any. It's devastating.

It's awful. But yes. But listen, listeners, I want you to hear this. Shannon Storms Bedore didn't get in and she went back for more and she still didn't get into her top sorority. And she became the president and she became the queen of Bravo. So ladies, just hang in. It's a bit of an exaggeration, Jen. Well, I'm going with it.

No, I agree. And I'm hoping that in today's world that things are a little bit different and more inclusive. And, you know, it's not just about looks or money. You look at the whole person, you know? And intelligence should have everything to do with it. They do. I mean, yes, we definitely now, we talk to a lot of girls. And they want to be in the Brainiac sorority and the one with the best grade.

and there's a lot of that that goes on now. And I think there's a lot more diversity. And I think that, yes, sorority, sororities are looking at different things, not just at looks and money. I'm happy to report. I've been back to USC and it's a completely different school on a Thursday night when the line for the Nino would be around the block. It's dead now because everyone's in their dorm room studying.

So it is different. Yeah. No, I remember my kids were applying. USC is not an easy school to get into. No. Yeah. So Sophie is in that your other two didn't want to rush. So where, tell me a little bit about that. Well, Adeline is at Parsons in New York City. So there's no design. So yeah, there's no sports. There's no sorority. Nothing like that. Yeah. Yeah. Is she enjoying it? Oh, she loves it. I mean, I went two or three in New York City and they're never, I think there's going to be back east forever. But Stella did get into USC and the Trojan

transfer programs. So she had to go abroad for her first year and she chose Paris. So she, there were eight boys and six girls from USC. They went to American University of Paris, traveled every weekend, which I loved because there were eight boys, though they were always together taking care of the girls. And then she fell in love with it and she transferred to American University of Paris and just started her senior year there. So she does not want to come home. So I love that. I love that. You got some cool cats. I love that. Yeah. So there's no, Again, there's no sororities. There are football teams or anything.

But my kids were raised as USC Trojans when they were born. So they had their fair share fill of football and all the sports. Well, what was it like going to parents' weekend? Like with Sophie, was it? Did you feel bombarded? I made Waco a very frequent spot for me to visit. But I would go there quite often. And you know USC, they say University of Spoiled Children.

I say successful children. But, you know, there's always like money. UCLA will put a dollar bill in their hands because USC goes like this. And it's like, yeah, okay, whatever. But when you go to a lot of these schools in the South, like Baylor, I'm telling you, there was a lot of wealth when I would go to the football games. I would go to at least one football game a year. And the people were so kind and welcoming.

And I've created a lot of friendships by visiting Waco for the four years. Yeah. Did you get bombarded? Um, a little bit. I mean, a little, a little. Yeah. We always do. I guess it's like,

yeah. But I do, I think I do more when I go to the USC games, actually. Yeah. Because I still have season tickets. But it, it was nice to experience something so different than USC. But Baylor doesn't have actual sorority houses.

There's not like a, like we had a house where I think 50 girls could live. So did we. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that was a bummer I felt for Sophie. But at Baylor,

they do something neat and I don't know if they do it in other schools they have these houses like she was at capo with the k and the softwors would live in cowboy k-o-w-b-o-y and so there were five-bedroom homes and then you'd move to like I don't know they had names for all the houses so the girls would live together in like a five-bedroom house so they got a little bit of a sororityish they got the feel did you go with her to the frat parties like was it because my experience going my daughter went to Delaware. And so we went to the frat parties and all the mothers were wasted and I might have been a little wasted myself. And I never made, thankfully, I never made a big fool of myself. But there was a lot of that going on like women trying to relive those days.

Really? You see that? Yeah. I didn't really see that. But there were, you know, it was such a small town. There was one place known for pickle shots. I'll never do that again. And then I would go, Sobie's boyfriend was in a fraternity and you'd go to the party outside and there would just be broken beer bottles all over the ground. It's gross. Why aren't you sweeping this up? Yep. But I didn't see that. That would have been a kick.

I will tell you, I only go to one football game a year because when I go, I start acting like I was when I was 18 years old. So it's exhausting. That's the whole thing. You have many girls we've spoken to about on the pod about like their parents and what their parents did or what their best friends. parents did. There's, I'll never forget the story of someone came on and said that her sorority sisters, mom came, got wasted, and started making out with one of the frat boys. Do you imagine? No. And you, I know, I know, I know. But I'm sure it happens. I'm sure, I know. Sure it does. It's like a great, you go back and I think the parents, especially like

our first year, Jeff Fessler is not a drinker and he's doing like bongs and like, I mean, he is like he was I mean my daughter insisted so he did what he had to do but you know it's like so much fun to sort of be back in you know in that that whole vibe of just uh greek life yes but when you're 62 it catches up on yes oh yes honey 58 62 it's all the same thing the hard rock bet casino app is here ontario and with a name like hard rock you know you're in for experience you can only get here. Exclusive games, an exclusive progressive jackpot, and the kind of trust and security you can only get with Hard Rock. And now you can enjoy the things you can only get here anywhere. Hard Rock Bed is here, Ontario.

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Tell me if you have just some advice for like the moms of girls that are going through. You know, I don't want to say just let your daughter, you know, like do the, help your daughter do the research. I wish that my mother had done that because I didn't know how what, what people dress. I didn't really know what the process was. So try it and just help educate your daughter and what. what they have coming ahead of them. And get those letters of recommendation out because in order, at least in our sorority,

in order to get for us to extend a bid to someone, they already had to have a letter of recommendation. So you're going to need to get that at some point. But you know what? You just love yourself and be who you are. You know, I wasn't going to go, hi, hi, hi. It's like a joke. We still have a joke in my family.

When we go, hi, that meets you have something in your teeth. It was never me. So just be yourself and you will find the right place. I think Alpha Chi Owego was my place. It was the right place for you. I wasn't happy about it at the beginning. But you know what? I learned a lot.

I had a great college experience there. Something that I'll never forget. Charles, I hope really you are listening to this, like especially because you got into one that you didn't think was your place. And now you're saying that it was your place. You were the president of the damn thing. No, yeah.

You know, you never know what's going to happen. You know, maybe you're put in a place. Like, I feel as though I change some things for the better. So do that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they have now sorority coaches, just like they have college counselors. Knock it off.

Okay. So we've interviewed more than one. Not only so they have coaches that women hire them like senior year of high school. And they start with cleaning up the girls social media. And they pay thousands of dollars. When I say thousands, I mean thousands. What to drip, how to dress, what to say. And we've spoken to them.

And I always feel bad sort of, you know, rolling my eyes. The truth is they say they're trying to help these girls. It's almost like job interviews get to where they want to be. So I guess from that perspective, I would, my daughter ever asked me to hire her a sorority coach? No way. But they have rush chairs, rush coaches, excuse me, they have now decorators for the dorm rooms. So we've interviewed them where people are literally hiring interior designers for dorm rooms or house rooms or whatever it is. It is crazy.

I don't know that I could have handled that back then. No, I think social media has really upped it too because now everyone posts all of it. I did have organic headboards made for Sophie and her roommate. I did too. I can't lie. I bought one. I definitely didn't have it made, but I did buy one for Rachel. But yeah, I think everything today is over the top.

You know, I did, I hired college counselors for all my kids. My ex didn't agree with it. He didn't agree with it. So I paid for it. And so I don't know that I would say no. Like if everyone going through rush was having a rush coach, I would not want to deny that. of my daughter, but at the same time, at the same time, I'm, listen to your mother.

Shannon, I'm telling you, if I paid $5,000 for my kids college poaches, it was like $5,000 for a rush, something like that. I don't remember exactly what I paid. It was a while ago. They're 24 and 26, but like a lot of money, not like silly money, thousands. So I think I would definitely like kind of rail against that. It's funny because Gia, Jude Ice, who is our other, who's my co-host on this pod was saying that, you know, Teresa didn't know anything. And so she was sort of able to say to her, because, you know, Teresa was in a story,

Mom, I need this, I need that. Okay, okay, you know. Maybe, you know, maybe that was a plus because if Rachel had come to me and said, I need an interior designer for my dorm room, we would have had a very big problem. Yes. Right.

So I get it. I tried to be the interior designer of my daughter's dorm room and that didn't go over set up. Well, I bet you're good at it. No, it didn't go over so well. She left half the stuff in the hallway that I paid to transport over there. Oh, my daughter just leans on me completely. My son will barely let me in the room.

You can't take it. Hey, I feel like you're a very good fit for this. I don't know how much. I know you don't have a lot of time in your life, but I would really love to come back and talk like, I don't know, other stuff specifics about this life. Because I love talking to you about it and I feel like, you know, a lot of the girls that are listening are, because especially to me, meaningful is like what you just said about not getting in. Because I would have not guessed that beautiful blonde Shannon Storms didn't get into.

Well, it wasn't blonde then either, Jen. There you go. It wasn't blonde. It was wearing pinstripes and a big nose. Yeah. And look at you now. And look at you now. I really appreciate you're joining us.

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