A Leap of Faith with Faith Martin

Published Jan 9, 2024, 9:04 PM

Our Bachelor Nation OG Trista Sutter is hanging out with Faith Martin the morning after The Golden Wedding! Hear her honest reactions to Gerry and Theresa tying the knot, and find out if she thinks Brayden “upstaged” Gerry by proposing during the wedding!

This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. We are back almost famous and I have got faith here. This is Trista by the way, for anyone listening. I'm filling in for Ben and Ashley who had to get back home. So I'm here and I'm so lucky to be here with Faith. How are you good? There couldn't be a better fill in.

Ah, You're the best. Really, I'm honored to be able to talk with you.

Thank you. How are you? I'm good?

You know, I'm surprisingly better than I thought.

Okay, good, I too. I feel so great.

I'm loving this whole adventure opportunity. Yes, to just be part of something so beautiful and it was amazing.

Last night was amazing and really fun.

And to connect with everybody in the Bachelor Nation and to see Gary and Teresa so happy, and they walked in this morning and they're like, you know, they're just settling in and finally together.

Yeah. So yeah, it's beautiful. Little because I was gonna say, because the night before we were talking and the feelings are still there. You can't just shut off feelings, right.

It's perplexing to me because you know, right from the get go, Gary and Teresa and I would talk on the phone when it was out that they were together, and I, ahead of time, love them both, and you know, Teresa and Gary and I are very transparent with our feelings. Teresa'd be like, he loves you so much, and I'm like, I love him too, and I love you and we're gonna be friends for life, right, And They're like, yeah, so we call and check in with each other all the time. Very sweet, but I'm you know even that still I would be like so excited, so happy for them, and then all of a sudden I had to go in the bathroom and cry for a little bit. And then then I would come back out and I would tell Teresa a text her tell me how happy you are and how great this is going to be.

Because then my heart will heal.

Every time I talk to her or him and hear about the hope for their future, my heart got.

More and more healed.

But you know, it's still a little bit because I so was so in love with him, and I don't know that I would ever find those qualities in another manner, you know. So I felt the loss for sure, but I'm super excited for them both.

Do you feel like when you came on the show. Do you feel like you were very hopeful you found it and your heart was broken? Yeah, do you feel that that hope was diminished at all? You know, I think that.

You go all in with your heart, you know, you go all in, and I think an immediate reaction is Okay, I'm you know, I'm done. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be done. You know this, this didn't work. I'm just gonna be done.

And then when you.

Think about it and you really let it sink in, because initially, when your heart's broke, of course you go there. You know, you're kind of like, okay, I'm done.

That was so yeah. Yeah.

But then when I think about it, I think, you know, the fact that it allowed me to feel again and to know that.

I had heart that.

That wasn't dead inside, that I actually could muster up those feelings and I have that in my heart made me think, okay, I am still alive and really, yeah, I just got to look at it differently, So, you know, it takes a little prodding every now and then I think, yes, I'm going to get back out there and start, you know, trying to date with purpose and find my person. But yeah, of course when you get your heart broke, that's the first defense. Of course, of course I am hopeful for the future because it is like grieving. You go through the stages of grief, you get angry or denial, you know, all of those things, and I just hope you get to the place where you truly feel like I feel like I will. I you know, I'm hopeful. I haven't been on a date yet or anything.

Yeah, but I have flirted a little bit.

Okay, go, I have somebody that I was really really flirting with a little and I actually was feeling like, yeah, it would be so fun to meet up with that mu.

So, yeah, who lives in your town? No? No, did you meet through GM. I'm not going to say, oh, it might be somebody we know it might be.

But here's the thing, you know, and to clarify, so I never said I wouldn't move. I said I said it's important that a person knows my pull to my community, to my kids, to my grandkids, Like, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not a person that could see their kids twice a year.

That's not me.

I would share time. I would love to get an RV and travel between two places. I'd love to live in a central location that was warm and sunny in the winter, and you know, I would love to just have that with somebody that I was in love with. So, you know, you just never know how that looks back.

You just never know. Yeah, okay, well I'm going to be very on the edge of my seat. Yeah me too, Me too. What happened? So? Did you have fun? I do close it down.

No, I didn't close it down because you know, I've learned my lesson with that.

I knew. We had the brunch, but I did dance for two hours.

The band was amazing, amazing. Yes, now, let me clarify the band at the second reception. Okay, the first one, but the Yeah, the band that we all saw in our private reception was amazing. They played oh yeah, so yes, me too. I danced for like two hours, and then they were going to serve dinner and I'm like, I want to get out of my clothes and I want to wash my face, you know, So so I did. I went home and just hung out and then the party crew got the party got over it.

I don't know what timeh and I went to bed at midnight.

I think everybody was partying outside my doors what they were doing, but that was okay too.

Yeah, I slept right through it. It was so much fun. I love a wedding because I love first and foremost, but I love a wedding because it's like celebratory. And as you might have seen last night, my husband was you know, he does not like.

Doesn't You're sitting at the table that I was at, and you were off dancing.

As per usual. That's my groove, Like I just I was a dancer. I love being on the dance floor and just letting loose. And it was the night to do it because that band great exercise. Yes, exercise, that's so true. I was actually there were so many songs that and it's not just the dancing part, like singing these songs. Yes, we know all the words.

I'm saying some of those songs in my band, so I was like singing right.

Along with them, Like that's crazy. I should have gotten you in the mic. Oh no, you know what I got to say? What's so fun?

And I know this sounds crazy, but the younger generations of all the Bachelor nations, Yeah, I am in love with all of them and Braiden's proposal.

I mean, so there are mixed reviews out there about the proposal. So so, like Ben earlier, we were talking about this and his wife had called him and said that she didn't think it was appropriate that you were that someone got engaged up stage. You know, I would let go of that.

You're like whatever, you know, love is a beautiful thing, no matter where it's at. I highly doubt that that Teresa and Gary feel upstage right. I would say that's silly. But everybody's entitled to their room feelings. So I thought it was so beautiful because it is so real and so gorgeous, and to see Braden go through his journey and find her and they are just I love them, and you know, so fun to see Dawnton and cheering, and then all the beautiful couples and all the beautiful people on this show that are just, oh my gosh, just amazing people.

It's so fun.

I've just fallen in love with all these younger generations. Love love, love Rachel. And what a badass she is. She's a pilot. Oh my god, she's brilliant, she's gorgeous, and how has she not found love?

Right, but she will, she will, she will. It's coming. All those all those people who have paved the way for her, She'll find She'll find them. I guarantee it. Yes, I love the family. It's beautiful. And what's funny is I'm flashing back to when I came to the Bachelor Mansion and met you for the first time, and you were like, yeah, I.

Know I'm so lame, but yeah, everybody want the same thing with Jesse. Jesse walks in, I'm like, it's some guy in a suit. And then.

I told people after that that I loved you because you were really You're like, I haven't watched the show. I'm so sorry. I'm like, you never have to apologize to me. Anyone who is listening to this ever do you have to apologize? But I bye. But to saying that you're sorry that you didn't watch the show, it's okay, yeah, it doesn't matter. But I love that you just said that when we first met, like, I'm so sorry, I haven't watched the show, and now you're like, oh my gosh, and I love it so much.

And so I had asked Katie, if I was to start watching, where would I watch, Like I don't even know where to find these shows. And so Katie goes, no, watch, Katie goes watch the Bachelorette. I loved it, and then I've watched everything I can possibly see, so like I'll see these people in the crowd and Bacheloration. I'm like, I know you, I saw you. I saw you, And I don't know which season you know. So they're like, I'm so and so from season nine, I'm so and so from two thousand, I'm Ben's season. I watched the other Ben. I'm watching season now. So I think it's so fun. It's like, oh my god, my whole life could be binge watching the Bochler from here on.

I love it. So it's the best show ever.

I'm wondering how long it would take from I don't know, I'm gonna I have not seen in your season?

Do you know you have them all? She has all of that, okay, because the.

When when the guys came out the first night on the show and they introduced all their producers to us, and I said, can we like get a box set of the because like, like how do we find these you know.

What that you need to do that like a box set, box set for like the people interested, but not CD.

I know, okay.

But but I don't care. I don't want to have to like log into somewhere. Also I would log in like that's like should be in the in the get in, the gifts, FA, the favors.

The like we do we need it so in on Hulu because I haven't been able to find all the seasons.

Are they all on Hulu? They're not all? Actually someone last night I saw something on Instagram or something and someone said Tristas season should be on Hulu and it isn't. Yeah, I want to see that. I want to start. I want to start, and I want to watch every season watched start to finish, because there are obviously people who become the lead from like like we started it because I was on the Bachelor and I was the runner up and then they asked me to be the Bachelorette. So people knew me from the Bachelor. So if you start from the beginning, there will have lots of stories that everything's we've twisted.

Did you ever think back then when you first started on this show, that like twenty years from now you'll be married to a guy and you'll be hosting the Golden or whatever. You know, like you'll be involved in the.

Old Yeah, yeah, didn't. I couldn't have even dreamt what a podcast was, Isn't it weird?

I did one of those when I was sitting in Warner Brothers studio. I was like, if somebody would have told me a year ago, I would be in a private room at Warner Brothers studio crying over the man that just broke my heart and I'm going to go on live stage and talk about it. I like, how do you know what's coming next in life? I love that, but I love the ride.

I am very grateful to have been part of this family and me too.

I feel like I gained a huge family. Yes, you did super fun. So thank you for being here, Thank you for having me. Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast on iHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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