# What’s it like to be a KKG but your mom is a RHOC?!

An episode of [Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1477524410), 3 Oct 2026, 15 min.

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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.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, the truth about sorority life, with
[0:04] Speaker 1: your hosts, me, Gia Giudice, Daisy Kent.
[0:07] Speaker 2: And Jennifer Fessler. Hi, you guys. Welcome back to Dirty Rush.
[0:14] Speaker 1: I am Jen Fessler, and today we have the second episode,
[0:20] Speaker 1: the second time that we get to talk to Shannon
[0:24] Speaker 1: Storms Bedore.
[0:26] Speaker 2: Okay, so I know one of your daughters is in
[0:29] Speaker 2: a sorority.
[0:30] Speaker 3: Sophie was a Kappa at Baylor, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Okay.
[0:33] Speaker 2: At Baylor. So there you go.
[0:34] Speaker 1: So that's like an intense, Baylor is, you know, that's
[0:37] Speaker 1: a Texas school.
[0:38] Speaker 2: That's like a serious, serious rush.
[0:41] Speaker 1: And I don't know, you know, just now I, I
[0:44] Speaker 1: feel like I know a lot about, especially in the South,
[0:47] Speaker 1: what goes on during rush and the intensity of it.
[0:50] Speaker 2: I don't know if you, with.
[0:51] Speaker 1: Sophie there, we've had podcasts where like mothers went and
[0:56] Speaker 1: tried to you know, bribe the girls, bringing big platters
[1:02] Speaker 1: of cookies over to the house before their daughters rushed.
[1:07] Speaker 1: And all the mothers are there and they're all involved
[1:11] Speaker 1: in the buying of the outfits.
[1:13] Speaker 2: And was that you with Sophie?
[1:15] Speaker 3: Well, I did make sure she had recommendations with good photographs.
[1:18] Speaker 2: That's good.
[1:19] Speaker 3: Because I didn't do that, but it was helpful for
[1:22] Speaker 3: me when I was vice chairman and president to be
[1:24] Speaker 3: able to show our girls photographs of the girls people
[1:28] Speaker 3: that were coming in so you kind of knew who
[1:30] Speaker 3: you wanted to look out for because you basically got
[1:32] Speaker 3: a resume today when i write recommendations for people oh
[1:36] Speaker 3: my god it's like a flipping resume they send me
[1:39] Speaker 3: i mean it wasn't like that for me no i
[1:41] Speaker 3: wanted her to do well and at baylor they rush
[1:44] Speaker 3: in the spring so there were all these rules like
[1:46] Speaker 3: you couldn't go to a fraternity party or you couldn't
[1:51] Speaker 3: spend time with sorority girls that was called dirty rushing
[1:55] Speaker 3: so it And they, I guess they implemented it. So. Yeah.
[2:00] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[2:01] Speaker 2: My daughter too.
[2:02] Speaker 3: But she got into her, she got into her number one,
[2:04] Speaker 3: you know, and as a mother knowing what the hell
[2:06] Speaker 3: I went through, getting in anywhere I wanted to get in,
[2:10] Speaker 3: you know, my heart would be pounding at night.
[2:14] Speaker 2: Shannon, that is what we talked to.
[2:16] Speaker 1: We talked to a lot of mothers about that, that
[2:18] Speaker 1: it becomes so intense and so heartbreaking, right. For these girls,
[2:24] Speaker 1: especially when they, don't get in anywhere. It's just awful.
[2:29] Speaker 3: It's life altering because the rejection and then the rejection
[2:34] Speaker 3: in front of so many others. I mean, I remember
[2:36] Speaker 3: we'd get our sheet and everyone in my little rush
[2:38] Speaker 3: group was there and it's like, yeah, I didn't get any.
[2:41] Speaker 3: I mean, it's devastating.
[2:42] Speaker 2: It's awful, but yes.
[2:44] Speaker 1: But listen, listeners, I want you to hear this. Shannon
[2:48] Speaker 1: Storms Bedore- Didn't get in. And she went back for more.
[2:53] Speaker 1: And she still didn't get into her top sorority. And
[2:56] Speaker 1: she became the president. And she became the queen of Bravo. So, ladies,
[3:00] Speaker 1: just hang in.
[3:01] Speaker 3: It's a bit of an exaggeration, Jen.
[3:03] Speaker 2: Well, I'm going with it.
[3:05] Speaker 3: No, I agree. And I'm hoping that in today's world
[3:09] Speaker 3: that things are a little bit different and more inclusive. And,
[3:13] Speaker 3: you know, it's not just about looks or money. You
[3:17] Speaker 3: look at the whole person, you know? And intelligence should
[3:20] Speaker 3: have everything to do with it.
[3:21] Speaker 2: They do.
[3:22] Speaker 1: I mean, yes, we definitely now, we talk to a
[3:26] Speaker 1: lot of girls and they want to be in the
[3:29] Speaker 1: brainiac sorority and the one with the best grades. And
[3:31] Speaker 1: there's a lot of that that goes on now. And
[3:33] Speaker 1: I think there's a lot more diversity. And I think that, yes,
[3:38] Speaker 1: sororities are looking at different things, not just at looks
[3:42] Speaker 1: and money.
[3:43] Speaker 2: I'm happy to report.
[3:45] Speaker 3: I've been back to USC and it's a completely different school.
[3:47] Speaker 3: On a Thursday night when the line for the 9-0
[3:49] Speaker 3: would be around the block, it's dead now because everyone's
[3:53] Speaker 3: in their dorm rooms studying. So it is different.
[3:57] Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I remember my kids were applying. USC is
[3:59] Speaker 2: not an easy school to get into.
[4:01] Speaker 1: No.
[4:02] Speaker 2: Yeah. So Sophie is in, but your other two didn't
[4:06] Speaker 2: want to... Rush. So where, tell me a little bit
[4:09] Speaker 2: about that.
[4:10] Speaker 3: Well, Adeline is at Parsons in New York city.
[4:12] Speaker 2: So there's no design. So there's no sports.
[4:15] Speaker 3: There's no, uh, nothing like that. Yeah.
[4:19] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[4:19] Speaker 2: Is she enjoying it?
[4:20] Speaker 3: Oh, she loves it. I mean, I went to a
[4:23] Speaker 3: three in New York city and they're never, I think
[4:25] Speaker 3: there's going to be back East forever, but Stella did
[4:28] Speaker 3: get into USC and the Trojan transfer program. So she
[4:32] Speaker 3: had to go abroad for her first year and she chose, uh, Paris.
[4:36] Speaker 3: So there were eight boys and six girls from USC.
[4:40] Speaker 3: They went to American University of Paris, traveled every weekend,
[4:43] Speaker 3: which I loved because there were eight boys, so they
[4:45] Speaker 3: were always together taking care of the girls. And then
[4:48] Speaker 3: she fell in love with it, and she transferred to
[4:51] Speaker 3: American University of Paris and just started her senior year there.
[4:54] Speaker 2: Wow.
[4:54] Speaker 3: And she does not want to come home. So I
[4:56] Speaker 3: love that.
[4:57] Speaker 2: I love that. You got some cool cats. I love that.
[4:59] Speaker 3: Yeah. So there's no, again, there's no sororities. There are
[5:02] Speaker 3: football teams or anything. But my kids were raised as
[5:05] Speaker 3: USC Trojans when they were born. So they had their
[5:08] Speaker 3: fair share fill of football and all the sports.
[5:11] Speaker 1: Well, what was it like going to parents weekend? Like
[5:15] Speaker 1: with Sophie, was it, did you feel bombarded?
[5:18] Speaker 3: I made Waco a very frequent spot for me to visit.
[5:23] Speaker 3: But I would go there quite often. And you know, USC,
[5:26] Speaker 3: they say University of Spoiled Children. I say Successful Children.
[5:30] Speaker 2: There you go.
[5:31] Speaker 3: You know, there's always like money. UCLA will put a
[5:34] Speaker 3: dollar bill in their hands because USC goes like this.
[5:36] Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, okay, whatever. But when you go
[5:39] Speaker 3: to a lot of these schools in the South, like Baylor,
[5:42] Speaker 3: I'm telling you, there was a lot of wealth when
[5:44] Speaker 3: I would go to the football games. I would go
[5:45] Speaker 3: to at least one football game a year. And the
[5:48] Speaker 3: people were so kind and welcoming. And I've... I've created
[5:51] Speaker 3: a lot of friendships by visiting Waco for four years. Yeah.
[5:55] Speaker 2: Did you get bombarded?
[5:57] Speaker 3: A little bit. I mean, a little, a little. Yeah.
[6:00] Speaker 2: We always do. I guess it's like.
[6:02] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[6:03] Speaker 2: But I do.
[6:04] Speaker 3: I think I do more when I go to the
[6:05] Speaker 3: USC games actually.
[6:07] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[6:07] Speaker 3: Cause I still have season tickets, but it, it, it
[6:11] Speaker 3: was nice. It's, it was, it was nice to experience
[6:14] Speaker 3: something so different than USC, but Baylor doesn't have actual
[6:19] Speaker 3: sorority houses. There's not like we had a house where
[6:23] Speaker 3: I think 50 girls could live.
[6:25] Speaker 2: So did we.
[6:26] Speaker 3: Yeah. So that was a bummer, I felt, for Sophie.
[6:29] Speaker 3: But at Baylor, they do something neat. And I don't
[6:32] Speaker 3: know if they do it in other schools. They have
[6:34] Speaker 3: these houses. Like she was a Kappa with a K.
[6:37] Speaker 3: And the sophomores would live in Cowboy, K-O-W-B-O-Y. And so
[6:42] Speaker 3: they were five-bedroom homes. And then you'd move to like,
[6:45] Speaker 3: I don't know, they had names for all the houses.
[6:47] Speaker 3: So the girls would live together in like a five-bedroom house.
[6:51] Speaker 3: So they got a little bit of a sorority-ish.
[6:53] Speaker 2: They got the feel.
[6:54] Speaker 1: Did you go with her to the frat parties? Like,
[6:58] Speaker 1: was it, because my experience going, my daughter went to Delaware.
[7:01] Speaker 1: And so we went to the frat parties and all
[7:05] Speaker 1: the mothers were wasted and And I might've been a
[7:08] Speaker 1: little wasted myself and I never made, thankfully I never
[7:11] Speaker 1: made a big fool of myself, but there was a
[7:13] Speaker 1: lot of that going on. Like women trying to relive
[7:16] Speaker 1: those days.
[7:17] Speaker 3: Really?
[7:17] Speaker 2: You see that? Yeah.
[7:19] Speaker 3: I didn't really see that, but there were, you know,
[7:21] Speaker 3: it was such a small town. There was one place
[7:23] Speaker 3: known for pickle shots. I'll never do that again. And
[7:27] Speaker 3: then I would go, Sophie's boyfriend was in a fraternity
[7:31] Speaker 3: and you'd go to the party outside and there would
[7:33] Speaker 3: just be broken beer bottles all over the ground.
[7:35] Speaker 2: It was gross.
[7:36] Speaker 3: Why aren't you sweeping this up?
[7:38] Speaker 2: Yep.
[7:39] Speaker 3: But I didn't see that. That would have been a kick.
[7:43] Speaker 3: I will tell you, I only go to one football
[7:45] Speaker 3: game a year because when I go, I start acting
[7:48] Speaker 3: like I was when I was 18 years old. So
[7:50] Speaker 3: it's exhausting.
[7:50] Speaker 2: That's the whole thing.
[7:51] Speaker 1: You know how many girls we've spoken to about on
[7:54] Speaker 1: the pod about like their parents and what their parents
[7:56] Speaker 1: did or what their best friend's parent did. There's, I'll
[8:01] Speaker 1: never forget the story of someone came on and said
[8:03] Speaker 1: that her sorority sister's mom came, got wasted and started
[8:08] Speaker 1: making out with one of the frat boys.
[8:10] Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
[8:12] Speaker 3: No.
[8:13] Speaker 2: And you, I know, I know.
[8:15] Speaker 3: But I'm sure it happens. I'm sure it does.
[8:18] Speaker 1: It's like a great, you go back and I think
[8:20] Speaker 1: the parents, especially like our first year, Jeff Fessler is
[8:24] Speaker 1: not a drinker and he's doing like bongs and like,
[8:28] Speaker 1: I mean, he is like, he was, I mean, my
[8:32] Speaker 1: daughter insisted, so he did what he had to do,
[8:34] Speaker 1: but you know, it's like so much fun to sort
[8:37] Speaker 1: of be back in, you know, in that, that whole
[8:40] Speaker 1: vibe of just Greek life. Yes.
[8:43] Speaker 3: But when you're 62, it catches up on you. Yes.
[8:47] Speaker 2: Oh yes. Honey, 58, 62, it's all the same thing.
[9:05] Speaker 1: Tell me if you have just some advice for like
[9:10] Speaker 1: the moms of girls that are going through.
[9:13] Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to say just let your daughter,
[9:17] Speaker 3: you know, like do the, help your daughter do the research.
[9:20] Speaker 3: I wish that my mother had done that. Cause I
[9:23] Speaker 3: didn't know how, what, how people dress. I didn't really
[9:27] Speaker 3: know what the process was. So try it and just
[9:30] Speaker 3: help educate your daughter on what, they have coming ahead
[9:33] Speaker 3: of them and get those letters of recommendation out because
[9:36] Speaker 3: in order at least in our sorority in order to
[9:40] Speaker 3: get for us to extend a bid to someone they
[9:42] Speaker 3: already had to have they had to have a letter
[9:44] Speaker 3: of recommendation so you're going to need to get that
[9:47] Speaker 3: at some point but you know what you just love
[9:51] Speaker 3: yourself and be who you are you know i wasn't
[9:54] Speaker 3: going to go hi hi it's like a joke we
[9:57] Speaker 3: still have a joke in my family where we go, hi,
[9:59] Speaker 3: that means you have something in your teeth. It just,
[10:02] Speaker 3: it was never me. So just be yourself and you
[10:04] Speaker 3: will find the right place. I think Alpha Chi Omega
[10:07] Speaker 3: was my place.
[10:09] Speaker 2: It was the right place for you.
[10:10] Speaker 3: I wasn't happy about it at the beginning, but you
[10:13] Speaker 3: know what? I learned a lot. I had a great
[10:16] Speaker 3: college experience there. Something that I'll never forget.
[10:20] Speaker 1: Charles, I hope really you are listening to this, like,
[10:23] Speaker 1: especially because you got into one that you didn't think
[10:25] Speaker 1: was your place. And now you're saying that it was
[10:27] Speaker 1: your place. You were the president of the damn thing. No. Yeah.
[10:30] Speaker 3: You know, you never know what's going to happen. You know,
[10:33] Speaker 3: maybe maybe you're put in a place like I feel
[10:37] Speaker 3: as though I changed some things for the better. So, yeah, that.
[10:42] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[10:43] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[10:43] Speaker 1: You know, they have now sorority coaches just like they
[10:46] Speaker 1: have college counselors.
[10:47] Speaker 3: Knock it off.
[10:49] Speaker 2: Okay.
[10:49] Speaker 1: So we've interviewed more than one, not only so they
[10:53] Speaker 1: have coaches that women hire them like senior year of
[10:57] Speaker 1: high school, and they start with cleaning up the girl's
[10:59] Speaker 1: social media and they pay thousands of dollars. When I
[11:04] Speaker 1: say thousands, I mean, thousands, what to drip, how to dress,
[11:09] Speaker 1: what to say. And when we've spoken to them and
[11:12] Speaker 1: I always feel bad sort of you know, rolling my eyes.
[11:16] Speaker 1: The truth is they say they're trying to help these girls.
[11:18] Speaker 1: It's almost like job interviews get to where they want
[11:21] Speaker 1: to be. So I guess from that perspective, I would,
[11:24] Speaker 1: my daughter ever asked me to hire her a sorority coach.
[11:28] Speaker 2: No way, but they have rush chair, rush coaches, excuse me.
[11:33] Speaker 1: They have now decorators for the dorm room. So we've
[11:38] Speaker 1: interviewed them where people are literally hiring interior decorators. designers
[11:45] Speaker 1: for dorm rooms or house rooms or whatever it is.
[11:49] Speaker 2: It is crazy.
[11:51] Speaker 1: I don't know that I could have handled that back then.
[11:53] Speaker 3: No, I think social media has really upped it too
[11:56] Speaker 3: because now everyone posts all of it. I did have
[11:59] Speaker 3: organic headboards made for Sophie and her roommate.
[12:02] Speaker 2: I did too. I can't lie. I bought one. I
[12:04] Speaker 2: definitely didn't have it made, but I did buy one
[12:06] Speaker 2: for Rachel.
[12:07] Speaker 3: But yeah, I think everything today is over the top.
[12:10] Speaker 3: You know, I hired college counselors for all my kids.
[12:14] Speaker 3: My ex didn't agree with it. He didn't agree with it.
[12:16] Speaker 3: So I paid for it. And so I don't know
[12:19] Speaker 3: that I would say no. Like if everyone going through
[12:23] Speaker 3: Rush was having a Rush coach, I would not want
[12:26] Speaker 3: to deny that of my daughter. But at the same time,
[12:30] Speaker 3: at the same time, I'm listening to your mother.
[12:34] Speaker 2: But Shannon, I'm telling you, if I paid.
[12:36] Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 for my kids' college coaches. It was like $ 5, 000
[12:40] Speaker 1: for a rush. Something like that. I don't remember exactly
[12:43] Speaker 1: what I paid. It was a while ago.
[12:44] Speaker 2: They're 24 and 26. But like a lot of money.
[12:48] Speaker 2: Not like silly money. Thousands.
[12:50] Speaker 1: So I think I would definitely like kind of rail
[12:53] Speaker 1: against that. It's funny because Gia, Jude Ice, who is
[12:57] Speaker 1: our other, who's my co-host on this pod, was.
[13:00] Speaker 2: Saying that, you know, Risa didn't know anything.
[13:03] Speaker 1: And so she was sort of able to say to her,
[13:05] Speaker 1: cause you know, Teresa was in a storage, mom, I
[13:08] Speaker 1: need this, I need that.
[13:09] Speaker 2: And okay, okay.
[13:10] Speaker 1: You know, maybe, you know, maybe that was a plus
[13:14] Speaker 1: because if Rachel had come to me and said, I
[13:17] Speaker 1: need an interior designer for my dorm room, we would
[13:20] Speaker 1: have had a very big problem.
[13:21] Speaker 2: Yes.
[13:22] Speaker 3: So I get it. I tried to be the interior
[13:25] Speaker 3: designer of my daughter's dorm room and that didn't go
[13:27] Speaker 3: over so well. No, it didn't go over so well.
[13:30] Speaker 3: She left half the stuff in the hallway. That I
[13:33] Speaker 3: paid to transport over there.
[13:35] Speaker 2: Oh, my daughter just leans on me completely. My son
[13:38] Speaker 2: will barely let me in the room. Can't take it.
[13:42] Speaker 1: Hey, I feel like you're a very good fit for this.
[13:45] Speaker 1: I don't know how much, I know you don't have
[13:47] Speaker 1: a lot of time in your life, but I would
[13:48] Speaker 1: really love to come back and talk like, I don't know,
[13:51] Speaker 1: other stuff, specifics about this life.
[13:54] Speaker 2: Because I love talking to you about it.
[13:56] Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know, a lot of the
[13:59] Speaker 1: girls that are listening are, Because especially to me, meaningful
[14:03] Speaker 1: is like what you just said about not getting in.
[14:04] Speaker 1: Because I would have not guessed that beautiful blonde Shannon
[14:07] Speaker 1: Storms didn't get into.
[14:09] Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't blonde then either, Jen.
[14:12] Speaker 2: There you go. It wasn't blonde. It was wearing pinstripes
[14:15] Speaker 2: and a big nose. So horrible. And look at you now.
[14:21] Speaker 2: I really appreciate your joining us.
[14:23] Speaker 3: Well, thank you for having me. It was so much fun.
[14:25] Speaker 1: Okay, you guys, so that is it for this episode
[14:28] Speaker 1: of Dirty Rush, which I have to say may be
[14:32] Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Thank you so much for joining
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