TW: self-harm, sexual abuse    If you or someone you know may be a victim of trafficking or would like more information, please call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.   This week on the podcast, Trista is joined by Elizabeth Frazier, a survivor of decades of sex trafficking who is helping to empower other survivors by sharing her story to shed light on the often-hidden world of trafficking. To outsiders, Elizabeth appeared to have a “normal” childhood as part of...

Friendships are such an important and meaningful part of our everyday lives, but forming friendships and keeping them strong is definitely easier said than done. This week on the podcast, Trista is joined by best friends, podcasters, and authors Jenn Bane and Trin Garritano to discuss all things friendship, from how to meet new potential friends as an adult to expressing our needs and boundaries in our friendships. They answer questions from Better, Etc. listeners that range from how to...

Raising teenagers is challenging in the best of times, but between quarantine and homeschooling, everyone’s struggles right now are amplified. To help us out, Trista welcomes Kirsten Cobabe, aka The Teen Whisperer and Family Coach, to talk about parenting and communicating with our teenagers. In this episode, Kirsten shares some SUPER valuable tips on how to help our teens through all the phases of adolescence. In addition, your host opens up about a recent learning moment with her son Max...

This week, Trista continues her raw, emotional, and important discussion with Rachel Lindsay. We learn more about Rachel’s life beyond The Bachelorette as she opens up and shares some very difficult personal moments of dealing with overt racism and harmful microaggressions. She even talks about where her relationship with Hannah Brown stands, her hopeful plans of becoming a mother, and how she plans to raise biracial children with Bryan. Plus, Rachel offers up specific resources to help us...

For the first episode of 2021 Trista is VERY excited to be joined by her first guest from Bachelor Nation, Rachel Lindsay. In light of all that happened in terms of racial injustice in 2020, Trista felt it was important to continue the conversation with someone she considers a friend, role model, and activist, in hopes of being part of the steps toward progress. We get to know the Rachel that you may not have seen on “The Bachelorette”. She discusses the environment in which she was raised,...

This week on the podcast Trista is joined by the founder and CEO of Raw Beauty Co, host of the top 10 podcast Raw Beauty Talks, and certified health coach Erin Treloar. Erin and Trista discuss the comparisons that eat away at all of us and how to separate ourselves from the negative voice inside our heads. They discuss self-esteem, body image, aging and raising the next generation of empowered women.

Today Trista is joined by an old friend and pro kayaker, Brad Ludden. Founder of the charity First Descents, Brad offers free adventure therapy for young adults with cancer and multiple sclerosis, their caregivers, and, this year, introduced programs for frontline workers. Trista and Brad discuss his upbringing in Montana as a professional kayaker (since the age of 13!), the genesis of his organization, and the remarkable benefits of adventure therapy. This episode highlights the positive...

This week Trista is joined by her friend Celynn McClarrinon, a certified grief recovery method specialist and social worker. They chat about the details of grief...what exactly it is, the various types of grief and loss, the myths, the ways to work through it, and because it’s been such a source of loss for nearly everyone this year, they also discuss COVID and its effects. Whether you have experienced significant loss in your life, want to be prepared for when the time comes, or are hoping...

Calling all love addicts! You’re not going to want to miss today’s fast-paced episode as Trista is joined by the dynamic Patti Stanger. Among her many accomplishments, she’s a third-generation matchmaker, best-selling author, actress, and owner and CEO of MillionairesClub123.com! As the leading relationship expert in the world, Patti is the former VP of marketing at Great Expectations, and the executive producer and star of the hit Bravo show The Millionaire Matchmaker. On today's episode,...

Today on the podcast, Trista speaks with best-selling author, speaker, and one of the stars of MTV’s The Buried Life, Ben Nemtin, whose guidance helps people everywhere live their lives without holding back. Ben opens up about his personal experience with anxiety and depression and how his struggles eventually led him to find a support system and change his life for the better. Trista and Ben dive into the value of asking of help and guidance, unburying your dreams, and living the life you...

Today on the podcast, life coach extraordinaire Kelley Wolf joins Trista to speak about how we can use her incredible happiness map, FLOW, to move from a place of stress and worry to a place of love and action. Her mission is to help us change our lives and our mindsets from “good” to “great” so that we can ultimately become helpers for the movements and causes that are particularly meaningful to us as individuals. Kelley shares with Trista how she pairs magic with science through life...

In her second episode, Trista sits down with longtime friend, Catt Sadler, for a much-needed chat! You likely know Catt from her incredible hosting career, from her own podcast called NAKED, and from her blog, theCATTWALK. Catt has not only created a name for herself in entertainment but also by fighting for equal pay for women everywhere after ending her longtime career with E!. She discusses what it was like working toward pay parity prior to the Time’s Up movement and how she made the...

Welcome to the first episode of Better Etc. where Trista Sutter shines a light on the ways we can all be better! Her first guest is none other than her husband and final rose recipient, Ryan Sutter, who shares how he strives to be better when it comes to his career and family. A LOT has happened since they met on the first season of The Bachelorette all those years ago, including a major career change for Ryan that left him with some reflections about his life purpose. Ryan explains the...

Have you ever heard Maya Angelou’s phrase, “If you know better, you do better”? Well, Better Etc. is here to help with the “know better” part so that we can all get out there and tackle the “do better” part!