Jason Tartick On How The Bachelor Upgraded His Career & Love Life
You quit corporate America after appearing on "The Bachelor" and restarted your career. I'm curious to know if you think you would still be working at that corporate bank if you decided not to do the show.
The quick answer is no. I had a plan in place. I moved from Rochester to Seattle. I talk about it in the book — I talk about exactly how much I was offered to go out there. Part of that was to build the safety net to give me my next step. I actually wanted to ... I grew up, I got to watch Rob Gronkowski early and often, and I got to see some of the people on his team. I thought it was pretty cool what the agents were doing. That was one thing I was thinking about trying to pursue, becoming a sports agent. Well, I get this opportunity to go on the show, I go back to work for a year, and then all of a sudden, social media agents are calling me to do work. I'm like, "Well, this is cool."
A few years ago, I learned I could really help people. I created an agency that I had an investor in and helped fund and get up and running, and we helped creators and comedians and actors and musicians and athletes on the agent side. I got to pursue that.
What's cool about the podcast is I get to talk to all these people about breaking this taboo about where they make money and how. While having them on the show, we get to do a lot of educational stuff. I get to have a lot of finance gurus and or partners come in to talk about how and what they do to separate themselves, then bring that to my following, which was all derived from "The Bachelor." [It's] everything from talking money, travel tips and tricks to asking Gronk how much he made on his last partnership. It's been fun.
You've talked a lot about your experiences on "The Bachelor," and you told The List once before that some part of you always feel a little bit indebted to the franchise in terms of your career success. I don't want to credit it all to that, your career success and relationship with Kaitlyn, but ... do you still feel that way?
Yes. Oh my God, absolutely. I'm on a golf course right now. I joke around — the three luckiest things that I ever got in my life: getting on "The Bachelor," meeting Kaitlyn because of the show, and getting a hole-in-one. Those are the three things I find the luckiest. I'll always be indebted to that franchise. Without that platform, the majority of my life and my world doesn't exist personally, professionally, and financially. [I'll] always be extremely thankful. Now, we can still be critical at times — we can give some feedback, but I still will always be a supporter of the franchise.
