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- Hey everyone, it's Mindy McKnight.
So this morning I'm taking off on the beginning
of my crazy whirlwind of trips for all my retailer meetings.
So I'm going out at DFW directly
to Philadelphia where I'm speaking at the Emerson Group
of industry days today, rehearsal today, speaking tomorrow.
It's crazy.
We'll get to the rest of it, but that's the beginning.
Just Philly.
Start with later this week we hit Chicago as well.
Then I come home and it's
like a whirlwind of trips this month.
Very exciting.
So if everyone can cross their fingers because
we're trying to pitch a bunch of different retailers
to pick up (mumbling), so wish me luck.
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- We survived the tech rehearsal.
- We did.
- I think they want just to dance tomorrow.
- Mindy's gonna bust out some moves instead.
- I'd rather dance than speak I think.
At least they'd all laugh.
- Hey, I'm back at my hotel.
I totally forgot to pull out my phone and film tonight.
Went to a kind of like a reception dinner for everyone
speaking tomorrow and just got to mix
and mingle with lots of cool people
and have some interesting business conversations.
Some of 'em were
like people who kind of have like totally opposite
not viewpoints, like politically like on work stuff as me.
And it was really interesting to talk
to them cuz always think having differences
of opinion and listening to people
and hearing 'em out makes your brain expand.
So it's interesting. Back at the hotel.
Very boring stuff guys.
I'm wearing a green suit tomorrow.
I'm gonna look like the jelly green giant, but it's cute.
I'm gonna rehearse my talking points
and I'm gonna go to bed.
- Well it's the morning of the event.
I have my hair and makeup done with a ponytail back
because I'm worried about the microphones
like my hair rattling in the microphones
or like if you go like this
and then your face was covered from the camera.
So I pulled it back and I'm wearing a green suit.
I showed you guys
I'll show you when I get the blazer on, I'll do a fit check.
That's it.
I'm just practicing checking my makeup right now
in the camera.
Practicing all my bullets again this morning
going through it and eating, trying to eat some food.
Okay, so here's the outfit.
Don't know if you can see it. I'll stand up here.
Here you go.
Green power suit has these cute pops of pink on the sleeves
and I am gonna wear the sneakers
with it just to keep things nice and real.
Like it can't be too, you know.
I gotta still keep it real.
Yesterday went really well.
I think the speaking portion went really well.
Everyone seemed to be really receptive and really engaged
in what I was saying, which is good.
I forgot to film, but it's the next morning.
It's 4:00 AM.
There's literally nobody up.
That way too early to get up guys.
We're off to the next city.
Chicago. Here we come.
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- Another day, another airport.
Another really early morning.
I'm so tired at this point.
I'm like my popping my eyeballs open.
Flight three in three days.
So I'm home.
Just got home.
Had a funny thing happen while I was gone.
Got a note through the rescue
the puppy rescue that they had need of just a foster
for like 48 hours
for a mom with seven puppies.
They're like barely three weeks old.
Sean tried to act tough and act like he didn't wanna do it.
Huh?
- I'm just a sucker for these little animals.
- Yeah, he was like, you gotta ask next time first.
And I'm like, I will, I promise.
- Because it always ends up being me taking him out
in the middle of the night.
It's me cleaning up if they get vomitty.
- No, it's only two days and I help.
So meet Daisy.
This is the mama.
Are you the mommy, baby? Huh?
Oh, you're such a good mommy, aren't you?
Yes you are.
So here they are.
They're all just passed out.
Yeah, I'm right here, Daisy.
Keeping an eye on things.
See 'em all.
They're just a zonked.
There's seven of them.
- Oh, Ryland's meeting 'em for the first time.
- Oh my god.
- So this one right here is the only girl.
All the others are boys.
And the yellow one, where's yellow?
Yellow is the runt.
So we're just fostering for the weekend for people
who are going out of town.
She's, she's awesome.
She's a good dog.
So if anybody wants to adopt puppies, these will be going up
on Dual Rocks Facebook page
and Instagram page in a couple months.
- Hello.
- See? We're nice.
- Nice meet too.
- Think she's gonna get too hot.
- And what do you think Bales?
- They're so cute.
- They are aren't they?
Look at all little tails and feet.
- I know all these little
- All in a row.
He's the biggest, he's the big boy. Look at him.
They're only three weeks old.
- About as big as Ash here.
- But there's only three months difference
between what you're holding right there
and this right here.
Ellie.
(puppies whimpering)
- That's ready.
- This is Daisy.
You've gotta meet Daisy first.
- Hi Daisy girl.
- That's a mama.
- Hi mama.
Oh are you just a sweet baby?
Are these your babies?
Oh my goodness.
Are you a proud momma?
Are these your babies?
- She's like, it's okay.
- Oh, she's so cute.
- What do you think bud?
Are they cute? - They're so cute.
- They're so cute and little.
Can you hear them? Aren't they cute?
- See she walked through there and they can smell the milk.
So now they're all whining.
Yeah, they want milk.
- These puppies' dad and Ellie's dad are the same.
- They are?
- Yep. So they're half siblings.
- So we're at a Vex robotics competition for Dax.
It's called for the love of the box.
And he's been here all day competing.
- Wasn't quite ready.
- They did really well.
- Did well for not having it done.
- They did really well.
They actually won the majority of their matches today.
What do you think Dax? First competition of the season.
- Think we could have done better.
- Well your bot needs to be done.
You need a flywheel on there.
- Yeah.
- So this isn't the exact core set
but the idea is generally that there's these little discs
and they need to pick up the discs
with the robots and then throw 'em
into the opposing teams little net like goal eat goal.
And if they can get the most points they win.
They also can earn points by spinning these
to the opposite color, which is tricky to have robots do.
So every round the teams get paired up in twos.
So it's like two on two and they compete
and whoever gets the most points advances
and at the end there's
like an elimination process, like a final round.
And then they declare the winners.
They also get points for
like their notebooks being clean and organized.
It's a whole thing.
They usually start at like 6:00 AM
and last competitions go until like six or seven at night.
- This is a Wednesday night activity in the McKnight home.
We bond, family bonding over.
- Hey, say I charge $10 an hour.
- Braids! How do you feel about this?
- I just wanna see how long could I take to take
out the last...
- How you doing Dakota?
- My fingers freaking hurt.
(laughing)
- Already?
I think he's done literally two braids.
- That's a second.
- I've done three.
I've done three.
- I don't believe that.
- He like his fingers have no nail either.
- My nails are very helpful because they get in
those braids.
- See, I have no nails so it's hard.
- I think I've done 20 in Dakotas and two.
- Leo.
- This is my first time.
This is Mindy's like... - Hey you know what Dakota,
- I'm gonna give you props for doing it.
Mad props.
- Yeah, Ace is not doing it.
And guess who's standing in the back over...
- Ace has gone from the kitchen to the bath.
- Ace get in here.
- So today is a photo shoot day, day one for heritage
for all the new stuff. I've been shooting all morning.
I'm gonna go up and shoot some more and then I do a lot
of video today and then tomorrow the whole family's
gonna be here.
And the house we're shooting at today
has a really pretty view of a lake.
We're working with all the gang making us look pretty.
I was inside filming video of like talking points.
This new stuff that we have coming out next year is like
it's really technical, it's otc, which means there's actual
like medical claims attached to it.
And so like the verbiage, like for legal reasons obviously
and for regulatory reasons has to be very specific.
So they have all these bullet points
for me to use on these videos that we're gonna be putting
out that are kind of educational pieces.
But then I have to like also make it sound
like I'm talking to you guys still cause that's
that's like my shtick and it's like how I always communicate
with you guys and teach you new things.
Then I have to do it in a way that's
like legally and regulatory approved
which is very tricky.
And then not sound like a robot.
Not my favorite part of the day.
I'm also side note started my period last night.
Not ideal timing.
So today I just feel like
like I'm fighting like a lot of emotions.
I swear being even sucks sometimes you guys.
So the first time I've been on set
like just because I was battling these verb
this verbiage with this videos and literally felt
like I was gonna like start crying
and it has nothing to do with anything anybody's doing.
My team's being amazing.
It's literally just like the frustration of like
like I just want to say it how I would
in my own words say it you know?
And then you can't so you're just like
this is so complicated.
It's so much harder than it needs to be but it has to be.
Anyway sometimes,
I mean it's good cause Leo keeps us all honest.
The regulatory keeps things healthy for you guys
sometimes man.
Woo. It's tough.
In the interim, the rest of the team's been outside shooting
like product shots for old product.
So we're just trying to get some really beautiful pictures
since we have new models on set today that are new
and fresh pictures of some of our old best selling products.
So that's what they're working on.
I'm just about to head home
because I gotta do it all again tomorrow.
Okay, I just got asked to go pick up Ellie
from the groomers.
She got a haircut today and I'm excited to see what
she looks like.
She is still a puppy but she, she looks like she's
like a 70 pound puppy cuz she's like a big ol' fluff ball.
So I'm excited to see what she looks like.
Like now she's probably gonna look like she weighs probably
like 20 pounds.
I will go pick her up and I will show you what she looks
like. I'm pretty sure she's gonna look dang cute.
So stay tuned to see the haircut.
Okay, I am back from getting Ellie.
Here she is.
Let me show you her.
She looks so cute. Huh, Ellie?
I knew it.
I think she looks like 30 pounds lighter.
So all that hair made her look heavy.
She's all cut and groomed.
She looks good.
- Found this guy in our front yard.
I don't know where he is going.
He's going somewhere.
(scream)
Not funny.
Okay, tarantula on the ground is one thing.
Tarantula flying through the air.
Not funny. - It's a stick, mom.
Dad did that to me.
That's not funny.
- He just made it look like the tarantula.
- Not funny cause Sean actually flipped one at me one time.
- I hope she doesn't see that next.
So I set that next to it.
- So if you're from Texas at all, you know we had
tarantulas occasionally.
I think we've seen him, we've lived here 10 years.
I think we be wasting five.
So it's, I mean it's an occurrence but not like
every day it's mating season.
May and like September, October are mating seasons cooler.
They come out more.
We found a dead one in the backyard last week.
Today we found a live one in the front yard.
Listen, here's the thing.
If I had to choose a poisonous spider to have a living
in my space...
- They're not poison.
Tarantulas are not that bad.
They really aren't.
They're huge and they're kind of creepy looking
but they're not bad.
- Dax says they're not poisonous.
- They're not.
- Also, tarantula versus copperhead.
Tarantula any day.
- Oh, snakes? No.
- Copperheads are mean and aggressive and highly
poisonous. So...
- Tarantulas aren't poisonous.
- We'll take it.
I'm currently at the airport going through security
because I'm flying to DFW back to Dallas for our photo shoot
and I thought it was our Christmas photo shoot until today.
Apparently our Christmas photo shoot is like in a few weeks
but we're doing a photo shoot
for Heritage 90 K and all the things.
So excited to go.
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- Okay, I just got home.
Come here.
- I got you.
- Morning Two.
I have my hair beginner curls started.
No makeup yet.
But we have Dax in here chilling waiting for his turn.
Sean. Ty waiting to video.
Everyone chilling.
Let me walk you around and show you what it looks like.
So this is the makeup station
at Holden and Showy back in that corner is their...
They're on a break.
This is, this is the styling wardrobe section
and our great stylist.
Then we have like different rooms
with different shots set up.
You can see they're setting up in the bathroom.
- No, I think we might take one off too.
- And then how's it going Jess, are you stressed?
- No.
- Bri, you stressed?
- Slightly.
- What's this packet?
This is what a packet normally looks like.
- TikToks.
- This is just the TikToks. Thumb through it, Bri, for me.
- I only got one hand. TikToks.
- And then upstairs they're setting up for more shots.
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- Well guys, you wanna say it Dax?
- That's a wrap. - That's a wrap.
Unfortunately I didn't get much footage
during the day because I was running like a crazy person.
But Sean took a nap.
- I did nothing.
- The kids worked hard.
Sean worked hard.
Everyone did their job.
Who pays?
We're glad it's over.
Another one. Check check. - Long days.
- Off the plate until January.
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