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The 3W Podcast: Ryan Harrington
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Ever wondered how youth sports shape family dynamics and community bonds? Join us on The 3W Podcast as we welcome my good friend Ryan Harrington to share the hilarious and heartwarming stories while balancing career, community, family and friends in Northwest Arkansas. Hear Ryan's side-splitting story about negotiating with his son Will for a new bat and the friendships that travel sports foster among parents and coaches. This episode is a treasure trove of funny anecdotes and real-life lessons from the ball field to the boardroom.
Balancing a thriving career and a bustling family life is no small feat, but Ryan Harrington makes it look almost effortless. We chat about his globe-trotting business trips to places like New York, Cannes and Las Vegas, and the unique challenges of managing a leadership role at General Mills while prioritizing family. Listen in as Ryan unveils his leadership secrets that promote team autonomy and productivity.
Our discussion takes a thoughtful turn as we explore the importance of community involvement and corporate social responsibility. Ryan shares how General Mills is making a tangible impact in Northwest Arkansas through sustainability and philanthropy initiatives. Plus, get our take on the latest trends in digital marketing, online shopping, and even our favorite breakfast cereals. This episode is packed with stories, laughs, and plenty of wisdom for parents, professionals, and anyone interested in community engagement.
Baseball Coach Negotiations and Partnerships
Speaker 1Hey everyone, welcome to the 3W Podcast home of the who, what, where I have my friend Ryan Harrington with me. Ryan, hi, this could go south real fast because Ryan and I have a personal connection, so he could throw me under the bus.
Speaker 3Probably, I probably will.
Speaker 1So how do we know each other?
Speaker 3I met you through baseball, was it?
Speaker 1three years ago, worst coach ever. Was I bad, awful, the worst. You should see the Twitter feed.
Speaker 3I coached her son Chase for two years Was it two years?
Speaker 1Three. Yeah, no, you're right. Then Braden was last year, yes, then we moved on, I guess, if we want to call it that, I moved to Will's team.
Speaker 3I have four kids right so. I can't spend all my time, no, with just one kid, yeah well, we'll touch on personal here in a minute.
Speaker 1But yes, you were Chase's coach in baseball at Legacy. So, uh, what? 12u, 13u? And then we had a paid coach 14U, yeah. So yeah, lots of, lots of times I know had, I know lots of lots of times I know had.
Speaker 3I know Lots of times.
Speaker 1Lots of times Okay.
Speaker 3I didn't complain too much. You guys actually really didn't complain to my face at all.
Speaker 1No, I don't think I really had any complaints about you.
Speaker 3Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1I don't think I really had any complaints until you weren't coaching, to be completely honest. Well, that's good, yeah, that's good, yeah. To be completely honest, that's good, chase. And.
Speaker 3George go. When I coached the 8-year-olds last year, they had plenty of confidence.
Speaker 1There's a lot of magic on that team. I've only watched one game or a half of a game and there's a lot of magic. So, having gone through this travel baseball thing and we started really late, so we started in 9U and I feel really sick, Isn't in nine?
Speaker 3you and I feel really crazy that started nine years late it's so late, but you're behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1Seven, eight you travel ball is where it's at. That is like a money grab and all the things I'm like. You put them on a travel team. You make these parents pay for all these lessons. They will do it, they will show up, they will be in the gear. Yeah, and they're all in. Yeah, so for sure you're burning bridges $400. Bats, all the stuff, yeah for every year the worst swing on the planet.
Speaker 3I love it. You know, I just did negotiate with Will yesterday.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, is he getting a new bat?
Speaker 3No, so the option was. So, colin, who's my 14 year, or 15old, 15-year-old?
Speaker 1Oh 15.
Speaker 3So they moved to high school. They moved to that drop three bat, which is another racket right. Yes, that they have all these different bats that you have for different ages, so he had to get a new bat when we were up in Minnesota, and Will's gotten a lot of hand-me-downs right, of course he's the last child. So he gets hand-me-downs. So he wanted a new bat. He wanted the Hypefire.
Speaker 1Of course he did Well. They have a new Arctic one.
Speaker 3I'm sure, and it was $350, $400 or whatever. So I told him we were in Minnesota last week. We had some meetings with Walmart, but I brought the whole family up because I grew up in Minnesota, which I'm sure will be on your questions too, probably um. So we are in shields, which is the best sporting goods store oh, we're going in two weeks or 10 days.
Speaker 1We need one down here.
Speaker 3Yes, um, and I got colin a bat, a 400 bat, you know, as expected, and will was with, and will wanted a bat too, of course, but I knew academy down here had the bat and I also knew that it was a a weekend. Oh yes, so it's 20, so it's 20% off.
Speaker 1Oh, yes, that 20% off, yes.
Speaker 3So I tried to do my homework on stuff like that. So I'm like, hey, let's wait until we get back and then I'll buy you a bat. In Arkansas Took a little bit of convincing, but I got him there, and so we went to Shield or to Academy on Sunday to get his bat.
Speaker 3To get his bat. They didn't have it but they had other bats. Right, they had other $400 bats that you know he could, he could get. So he picked out the bat and while we were in line, the line was like 15 people. He uh, I said to him, I said, well, you know, we have six versions of this bat. I mean we literally do like 28 drop 10. You know we have. I think we actually had four they don't have plastic on them four versions of this bat I said well, I'll make you a deal.
Speaker 3I said if you use one of the bats that we have and like these are bats like when, like you said first, my first kid, jordan, was going through it like you buy him everything, everything, gear him out, you get a new bat every you know, six weeks. If one doesn't work, you get rid of that bat, you get a new one.
Speaker 2This is how it is right we're lucky enough to do that.
Speaker 3So you know he had the you know 2019 version, or the 2020 version, or whatever it was which it's still a really good bat and still a really good rate of that it probably has very few pings on it.
Speaker 1Very few, very few. It's still a really good bat and still a really good rate of bat. It probably has very few pings on it.
Speaker 3Very few, very few. It's probably not even broken yet. So we had a few of those in the bat closet. I have a bat closet with like 40 bats I'm not kidding, because I never sell them once again, you just add the bat closet and throw them in.
Speaker 1You're like your own playing against sports.
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly, throw them in. Yeah, exactly, threw him in that closet. So I then I said we're in line. I'm like, hey, here's what I'll do for you Will. If you pick out one of the other bats that we have and don't complain that you didn't get a new bat like you can't complain you didn't get a new bat I will give you $100 in Roblox.
Speaker 3Oh, that's huge too, especially for an eight or nine year old so he sat there thinking he's like I think I want the bat. I'm like, okay, that's fine, no pressure. No pressure because I knew where he was gonna go. I'm not, it's not your first video, that's not my first right, my first kid. You know we're, you know slowly moving forward in line, like, okay, you're sure you like you want them, like we have these bats those robots?
Speaker 3yeah, they have these balls they're pretty new, they're pretty good. Um, and he, you know, about four minutes later he's like I'm gonna take the roadblock. Yeah, this is a 400 or bad, or 100 rubles. I'm like are you sure? He's like, yeah, I'm gonna take the roadblocks. I'm like you can't complain.
Speaker 1It's like I won't complain but what happens if he does complain? You can't take the robux back. Yeah, you can't, that's already it. He's not getting bad.
Speaker 3So, like you know me, I'm like once you make your decision yeah, we're done okay and we're out y'all enjoy the life exactly so he he took the roblox and now he's got one of the older bats.
Speaker 1Oh, look at those negotiation skills playing off.
Speaker 3That's my story of $400 bats.
Speaker 1I know I just bought a $400 bat a few weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, and a bag and gloves we got one pair for free, so I felt like we had just won the lottery. Yeah, buy a bat, get a pair of $ dollar gloves for free.
Speaker 3Well, now the gloves are like 100 bucks, oh yeah, but we he doesn't play, for he doesn't use bruce bolts.
Speaker 2He had one pair and he was like no.
Speaker 1So he is pretend sponsored by war stick okay so we pay war stick for him to wear it maybe one day that's his, that's his. He gotta have goals right. So, yes, that's how we met is through baseball, and it's been a journey ever since, and then I bullied you into spending money with me, so it's been good.
Speaker 3But we I mean General Mills through the years has been historical partners with 3W. Yes.
Speaker 1Really appreciate all the stuff that you've done for us. What is your exact title? Tell us how fancy you are.
Speaker 3That's a great question.
Speaker 1Titles are big in the supplier world.
Speaker 3They're big, but they always say titles are deprived at General Mills.
Speaker 1Well, I'm a janitor so I don't know if you can top that.
Speaker 3No, I'm just VP of sales for Walmart. I lead our Walmarting business, so everything. Walmart and Sam's. Which makes you best, friends with the dough boy, which makes me best friends with the Doughboy, which makes me best friends with the Doughboy which we were just up in Minneapolis last week, and Jordan, my 16-year-old, had to get a Doughboy DJ shirt.
Speaker 1Well, obviously I'm sure you'll see that. Oh, I'll see that soon. Well, nice, is he going to drive himself to school?
Speaker 3He will drive himself to school Nice, but the nice yeah, but the problem is he won't drive colin to school because is he early start, jordan's early start really jealous about that.
Speaker 1Early start is not early. No, I don't like this. 9 a 9 am start time. What does an average work day look like?
Speaker 3uh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1So recently, I think, I've traveled I think you've been gone a lot.
Global Travel and Work Dynamic
Speaker 3Yeah, I think I've traveled like nine weeks, nine weeks this summer, I mean so like I've been gone at that time this summer um a lot of Minnesota, a lot of you know other stuff, minnesota, which works out well because you're from there, I'm from. I grew up in Minnesota. So, um, I made it a thing every time I go back to Minnesota I have to see my mom. So very important, super important, um and uh, yeah, but other stuff. So we went to New York, florida, that was for fun. Went to France for work.
Speaker 1You went to France. Yeah, yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was good, so we had some meetings out there.
Speaker 1Did you hit Paris? No, we went to Cannes. Oh yeah, but it wasn't during the festival, because that already happened in the spring, right yeah?
Speaker 3it's a Lions, it's a marketing award festival, so we were out there and then just all over, I think, dallas, vegas.
Speaker 1That's a lot A bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, Minnesota a bunch of times, but a typical day, a lot of meetings, whether it's meetings with Walmart, meetings internally to get aligned.
Speaker 1What time do you get in? Because?
Speaker 3I see you in drop-offs or I saw you in drop-offs, yeah. So non-school year I'm usually there between 7 and 7.30, and then school year I usually dropped off my two middle kids at. Fulbright and I just went from there, so it was like 8.
Speaker 1That's not bad. How's Colin getting to school this year?
Speaker 3Either bus or we'll drop him off. I don't know. We were talking about that yesterday.
Speaker 1At least the first day.
Speaker 3I don't know if they can make the bus and get over to the TAC by 8.45. I don't know.
Speaker 1Chase's. One thing he has to do tomorrow is ask the coach how early can he be there? Oh interesting, yeah, because I'm like who starts work at 9 am.
Speaker 3Yeah well, they have to be 8, 45 at the time, 8 45.
Speaker 1I'm like can we move that up to 8?
Speaker 330 like how early is too early because I was actually wondering that too, because jordan's early start, which he won't get there or he'll get there around seven I would love a 7 am start good calling, good calling Right.
Speaker 1Can he just camp out? Can he do other stuff? Yeah, he can study for his high school classes to guarantee our A's.
Speaker 3But yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 1But then you leave. I know that you're very available for the four kids that we'll touch on or we've already touched on. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3Always coming on, yeah, so yeah, always coming and going, yeah, I mean it's in all. It's one of those things too, like we're what general mills has said. You know our policy is work with heart. So you know it's. It's not a dictated. We're not a dictated schedule in the office or or um, you know, in our schedule I do go in the office every day. Most of the team goes into the office every day do you feel?
Speaker 1more productive. I do.
Speaker 3Yeah, I do. I mean with four kids and three dogs.
Speaker 1Oh, the dogs you should have brought Pop up.
Speaker 3Yeah, there's no chance that I can get anything done. But I work a lot at night too, like it's probably a weird thing. And then even before, sometimes you know, before um, like drop off and stuff like that I take a meeting at seven or something like that and then do drop offs I feel like you're a unicorn, though, in the supplier community, and that you're four kids.
Speaker 1You're very hands-on. Yeah, I think so is that unicorn?
Speaker 3It feels normal to me.
Speaker 1It doesn't feel normal in conversations with me. Really Could be that Like I think that's okay. Let's take my husband, yeah, who you know very well. Yeah, he's not available in the daytime at all. I wouldn't say I'm available in the daytime. Well he's not available in the afternoons until like 7.
Speaker 3Yeah so.
Speaker 1I think you're available.
Speaker 3I manage my schedule well, I think, is what we do, and the other thing, too, is, like you know, we try to be leaders, right? So we try to empower people on our teams to do things, so, like, being over involved in my team's work isn't something that I believe is super good for them yes, we're a remote culture. We can, we can work from anywhere. I take advantage of that when I, when I need to you it's. You know General Mills is a, you know, a family first culture.
Speaker 1But you know when work comes. You got to get it done. Is this your only job? Is this your only company?
Speaker 3Yeah, that's what I was thinking no, it's not. It's actually not. So I came out of school and I worked for a small retailer in Minneapolis, a food company, and then I worked for Super Value and then I worked for Kmart so that was like a three or four-year thing and then I've been with General Mills for 21 years.
Speaker 1That's a long time, yeah yeah, so I was just speaking with Julie Barber before you got in here and she's been with them for 20 years and I feel like that's our generation, is longevity. I don't feel like that's the new generation and that's fine too, right. With any hop comes experience, and everybody can value something from experience. But 20 years is a long time.
Community Involvement and Philanthropy Discussion
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean, in general, most has been good to me, right, I mean it's it like you said. You know we have the flexibility to to be able to to put family first, and you know we have the flexibility to be able to put family first. And you know figure out your, you know how to work productively with teams and stuff like that, when you know our leaders and our teams understand that. And I think you know it's the people and the culture what keeps people there right.
Speaker 3And we get a lot of shit done. We do a lot of great stuff. You do and you have brands that people love and we have brands that people love, and I think our teams are all of our business and I think we're winning. You know, in market, you know whether it's here, whether it's other places too, but I think a culture of accountability and a culture of you know, waiting together is what makes us be able to do it and be able to work a family life you know with it.
Speaker 3I think you know to be, honest, I think we see a lot of that at Walmart too. Absolutely you know, I think Walmart's done a really nice job of evolving over time.
Speaker 1Oh, totally, julie, and I just talked about that.
Speaker 3On hours and how to work and what's the right stuff to work on, and all that stuff.
Speaker 1I think that was a small blessing from COVID, A little bit yeah, for sure, trying to navigate Maneuverability.
Speaker 3Yes, yeah, I think so. Um, you know we always struggle with. You know the questions on is everybody, you know, getting what they need to get done and you know not taking advantage of the rest of the teams to do that, and that's something I think we all talk about. You know, whether it's, you know, behind closed doors or, but I think that's one piece from COVID, too, that we're still trying to figure out, absolutely. But yeah, I think for the most part of being able to figure out your schedule and work on that.
Speaker 1Well, you mentioned culture, so let's talk about culture, because that's a big deal at General Mills which hopes for retainability, and General Mills has pillars. I think you all coined the term and laid the landscape for Northwest Arkansas with the BACCET committee, which used to stand for Bentonville Area Community Involvement Team. Does it still exist? Yeah, okay, even though you were in Rogers and are still in Rogers, but I always thought it was so funny, like I feel like it was born like 20 years ago or whatever, and you all are winning in market, but I think you're winning in philanthropy. Yeah, I mean, you have a a huge, huge footprint in philanthropy in Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's not just Northwest Arkansas, and it's it's who we are right, it's the core. Our core is G stands for good, right and it, whether it's, you know, in our work or whether it's in our, our actions, our communities. I think that's what the core of us, the core of us, of our team, is, and you know we're working on a ton of stuff for our community involvement, but also sustainability of how do we? You know, we worked with Walmart last year on a joint goal to regenerate over 600,000 acres by 2030, and we're already halfway there. So, like different things like that that we're doing with our business is pretty cool and, yeah, we spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1I know you do, but you make a big impact.
Speaker 3In the communities, and that's what we're about, right, how do you make an impact in the communities?
Speaker 1that you're in.
Speaker 3Right, I know we talk about like hey, what don't you sponsor?
Speaker 1Which isn't a bad thing, which isn't a bad thing?
Speaker 2yeah, and we try to be specific.
Speaker 3A lot of it's around kids, food, insecurity, healthcare. I'm on a couple boards. My team's all on boards right, your team is very diversified and sometimes the interesting piece is we're on boards that we don't even participate, with General Mills on too. I think there's a really good. Yeah, we try to play in places that are are important to you know, our associates absolutely kind of go from there, but also try to change things in this in the system right we're.
Speaker 3We're on the Mercy Health Board. Mm-hmm, you know I get pretty wound up in meetings.
Speaker 1I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3About. You know, are we doing enough? Are we bringing enough?
Speaker 1We're not doing enough. No, we're never doing enough, and we have to always strive for more Right.
Speaker 3Yes, you know, we, you don't have to, you have to often leave for your 15-year-old to seek care, and we don't want that. Right and others you know from a trauma standpoint.
Speaker 1Your team members have had to move.
Speaker 3Yeah, and we've known people that have had traumatic events that had to be airlifted to Springfield.
Speaker 1We're bigger than Springfield. We should be bigger than Springfield Right.
Speaker 2I totally agree, yes right, I totally agree.
Speaker 3Yes, um, so yeah, I think we, you know, we owe it to this community as as a, you know, as a work environment, as a supplier community, whatever you want to call it to to, um, you know, increase our, our uh, you know footprint here and and increase our giving here to make the community better. I, I think Walmart does a tremendous job of that.
Speaker 1Oh, they lead by example, right, and then all we can do is like follow their trajectory.
Speaker 3Yeah, and there's a ton of Fortune 500 companies that I would challenge to do more. And even I challenge our team.
Speaker 1Yes, like what can we do more? Where can you plug in more? Yeah?
Speaker 3And what new events can we create that will then generate something big that we can talk about. But that's the piece. It's everything right. We come from a lot of places that are big cities and big towns that have a lot of choices. We don't have as many choices here. We've got to get some more choices.
Speaker 1Right. Well, speaking of choices and new events yeah, you single-handedly just kidding no we're here to talk about a new event an inaugural event which we don't have many inaugural events or anymore, so I think it's always amazing when we do yeah, but you sit on the. What a corporate council? Is that what it's referred to?
Speaker 3that's not in the board, that's not right. The board For the Walton Arts Center, both yeah, the board and the council.
Speaker 1Yeah For the Walton Arts Center which owns the AMP and you all have developed a new event called AMP Up the Arts.
Speaker 3Yeah, we did so. It was one of those things that came out of conversations with the team.
Speaker 1I feel like it's been over in the couple years.
Speaker 3Yeah, we've been talking about for a while and yeah, I mean you've been talking about it for a while, like um, you know, the challenge that we had is, you know, we have a great venue in fayetteville, but we also have a tremendous supplier community and a great venue here in in bentonville. And how do we um take advantage of that venue that we have and do something up here for the?
Speaker 1because we have all the concerts and all the things. Great, it's separate. This is completely separate.
Speaker 3Yeah, so how do we use that venue to create a new event? And something that's differential to us is we. You know I'll go to hammond center or sage or wherever it you know, for whatever event it is you know um this week or next week, but like we have like one of the coolest venues, out there absolutely and it's an intimate personal venue.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's big for us and that's the amp. So the conversation was like how do we do something at the amp and use that venue? I think, from working with Peter and Becky and Kyle at the time was like let's develop something up here, whether it's a charity we have access to, it's our's, a charity we have access to.
Speaker 1It's our space, so we don't have to pay a rental.
Speaker 3To the space we have access to artists with Live Nation. Live Nation's a big part of it, Huge partner. Part of the event, too, of how do we.
Speaker 1And you have local people on that board. Yeah, yeah, here in town. Yeah, exactly, how do we?
Speaker 3bring something to that space that we have and do something cool for the community, something to give back to the kids. And get arts yeah, and get arts more deep in our culture.
Speaker 1What is it? Thursday, September 12th, Is that right? September 12th, okay, and you're bringing in Nellie, we're bringing in Nellie.
Speaker 3Yeah, country rapper, because it's hot in here, September 12th, it still will be hot in here.
Speaker 1Don't make me rap. Yeah, exactly, it won't go well.
Speaker 3So yeah, that'd be fun. I mean, the goal was like, how do we bring something that's fun?
Speaker 1Right, he's so fun. Kick it off. He was here several years ago, just him, okay.
Speaker 3And they're, you know, for sponsors there's certain level sponsorships, as normal. There'll be, you know, like a dinner and meet and greet for a level of sponsors, and then we'll have the concert.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, because that was going to lead me to ask of like, what does this evening look like? Not your typical rubber chicken event dinner?
Speaker 3right, right, exactly, it'll be a dinner with Nlly.
Speaker 1So, uh, are you doing that on that side it'll be where the land of lakes.
Speaker 3Okay, yep so that'll be there, um, and then, um, it'll be a meet and greet for for some of those folks as well, and then we'll, we'll do a concert. And what? Not only will they have a corporate portion, we've also opened some seats up to the rest of the community to if they would like to make a donation and be in the seats.
Speaker 1The goal is to keep it small, to not keep it super big, so so not the traditional 10,000 no, so it's like 3,500.
Speaker 3So just think of the seats area and in front of it.
Speaker 1Oh, I didn't realize that. No lawn, so yeah, we won't do. Oh, wow, this is very intimate, yeah so it will be we still want to create a fun atmosphere right.
Speaker 3Obviously, a lawn creates a huge atmosphere, but we want to make it a little bit more intimate.
Speaker 1I love this, so it'll be all. So why, nelly?
Speaker 3You know we were looking at a lot of you know a lot of options, but I think some of it was like you said, like you want to make it fun kick it off.
Speaker 1I mean, he's like he, he's a total wow factor. Yeah, how do you do?
Speaker 3something that will get people up and dancing and having a good time, not that a country artist or a different artist would.
Speaker 1And maybe we go there next year, but I think it's really random in the best way. I love it yeah.
Speaker 3And I think there's a lot of, I think, for our age demographic too.
Speaker 1It's relevant, and it's a little relevant're all big fans of Millie? Yes, yes.
Speaker 3It's relevant and it's a little relevant younger too? Yes, Right, so I think that was the thing too is how do you find a sweet spot of folks, that that you know and want to participate?
Speaker 1we just had nelly on the radio last night. No way, yeah, with uh florida, georgia line a little bit, and so chase was like turn it up.
Speaker 3You like this song and I was like, oh, he'll be here in a couple weeks.
Speaker 1Yeah, there you go yeah, so see, he's very relevant and very fun and brings the energy yeah, and but I like that we're bridging the gap. Of right, the amp is building a bridge down to fayetteville, yeah. Or the Walton Arts Center, which is an amazing asset to the Northwest Arkansas community, right, right, yeah.
Speaker 3Hamilton. I think we have 49 shows at the amphitheater lot. I think. I don't know when this will come out. I won't. I think there's a couple more.
Speaker 1I think there's a couple more coming too.
Speaker 3Oh, this is real soon, like in a week, I think, there'll even be some more shows announced and, like, post Malone was just announced, not too long ago too. Oh, I know yes which is huge, so Brian Crown does just a tremendous job.
Speaker 1I mean Postie's huge yeah Like huge, just like Taylor Swift. And then it's right, it's real close. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3I've asked for T Swift. We can't figure that out. That's unfortunate, I know. Maybe one day maybe her boyfriend can help.
Speaker 1I saw him last week actually I took Chase to see Morgan Wallen last week yeah my mom bought him tickets, so we were a little bit higher than I would normally like to be, and so so it was a different experience but it was interesting. I know, but it was really good it was. He's an amazing performer and Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey brought him out, so we were at the right.
Speaker 3did you go to the amp concert when Moriwan was here? No, that's good to know.
Speaker 2I bet it was Because he's like catapulted. He's big now yeah.
Speaker 1Like from the AMP to a stadium in less than two years. Yeah, that's kind of amazing. Oh, the AMP's a big deal too, it is huge.
Speaker 3No, it's huge.
Speaker 1I'm To go from 10,000 to yeah, fill in stadiums. Yeah, that's awesome, but I mean, look at where he started. Yeah, so I think that's a testament to the amp having him here first and that show sold out within seconds.
Speaker 3I think those tickets went on sale around December. There's several shows that yeah.
Speaker 1A postie was gone within a second.
Speaker 3Yeah, Even feel like they sell out before. Yes.
Speaker 1Well, and then Chapel Rome's coming and everyone wanted those tickets and her tickets went like that. So I'm like, okay, so much stuff, it's amazing, but I like that. It's fitting everyone. Yeah, it's not just country it kind of was country-based for a while and I think unintentionally when it first opened, but I like that they're hitting everyone at this point.
Speaker 3Marilyn Manson and Five Finger Death Punch tonight.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm not going to be at that one, but you and Mindy have a super fun time, so I don't think she can wear her hot pink hat. I've told her no, okay, well, let's talk about Mindy, but I do want to circle back to General Mills in a few minutes, okay, so from Minnesota? Yeah, and I just found out you're older than me, which makes me feel amazing.
Speaker 2Not by much. I told you that I did not believe you.
Family Dynamics and Sports Involvement
Speaker 1And then married to Mindy, who's like a little tiny Barbie, and I love her because she's just got the foulest mouth and funnest personality ever and I know funnest isn't a word but I still like it. Four kids, three boys and a girl.
Speaker 1Um, boy, boy, girl, boy, the caboose is a firecracker he's awesome, he's amazing and then, but toots which is weird, that she has a real name, lauren yeah, does not fit, it's tootsie, yeah, forever. And then I write like toots in a Tootsie forever. And then I write Toots in a text and it looks like Toots and I'm like, no, that's weird, but that's who she is, so I love it.
Speaker 3I love her. It's interesting, it's Toots to older folks. It's Lauren to her classmates. It's weird when Mindy said Lauren on a group text.
Speaker 1Like a full-length group text I was like who's Lauren?
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly, it's Tootsie, I know, and we can't call her Lauren.
Speaker 1We can't call her her.
Speaker 2God-given name yeah but someday.
Speaker 3But her friends all call her that and then I ask for an explanation. That never goes over.
Speaker 1Well, so I don't ask anymore. I feel like the two of you work for Tootsie.
Speaker 3Probably. Yeah, that's kind of how it is, and she's a firecracker.
Speaker 1I love that. She has to be strong in that boy household.
Speaker 3She's strong I love her. We've seen a lot of knockdown drag outs lately. That's the new thing.
Speaker 1Welcome to purity in junior high right, yeah exactly. So I feel like mindy kind of runs tootsie, don't you think, and you run the boys, kind of schedule wise um, it's just.
Speaker 3I mean a lot of it runs around baseball. She's done a lot around jordan's our oldest too. She it's probably more of her with jordan and toots and me with colin and well.
Speaker 2And that's because, I coach those teams. Yeah, the coaching I used to coach Jordan a long time ago.
Speaker 1And now Jordan drives, so that helps a little bit Right, which is so helpful, which helps a little bit too, and he's going to be 17 in the fall. Yeah, that's so old.
Speaker 3I know I'm a junior, so that's crazy, yeah, but yeah, I mean junior.
Speaker 1So that's crazy, yeah, but yeah, I mean it's um, there's so much stuff, there's always something going on always. Are you ever home? No, in the evening are you ever? Home on a friday night. I know that's my question way down probably, um, not really. No, I mean it's, it's, it's almost like take out amp season, which I know you're like pulling in. I'm here loving it. But like a Friday night, do you ever just get to like be a family of six with no chaos aside from the amp?
Speaker 3and vacation really, because I mean baseball kind of goes all year right. There's a lot of, there's a lot of Friday stuff there, and then basketball in the summer, in the winter, and there's like inevitably somebody on that have practice on Friday night.
Speaker 1For sure. Yes, I just found out about one this Friday.
Speaker 3Yeah, with four kids I mean, there's really not a night off that you love your kids.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's why I love spending time with my kids.
Speaker 1You sat on a panel a couple years ago and you're like I'm weird, I actually love my kids. I love to be around them and. I'm like, oh, I love that, yeah, cause I feel the same way.
Speaker 3Right and like you keep hearing they drive me nuts and I try to try to listen to. You know all of the people like that have gone through it and be like you don't have that, Like they'll be they'll be gone in no time.
Speaker 1Jordan's leaving in two years Right.
Speaker 2Right, I think Jordan will always be around, even though he's a whole bunch.
Speaker 3Technically, jordan will go to Arkansas, which is beautiful, but he may not, he may make a different choice, but like Jordan's, just awesome, he's just awesome. He prioritizes the family too, which you know. Like yesterday too, there was one of his friends was having an end of summer get-togethers stay over with all the guys, and it was my birthday yesterday and he's like no, I'm not going.
Speaker 1Oh, I didn't know that I'm not going Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3I know right, it's really close right now and it was like go, go, hang out with them.
Speaker 1For sure, of course you are.
Speaker 3And he's like no, no, yeah, no. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 1Well, hold on Pause. Was this a big birthday? No, oh, okay, it's not a big birthday. Okay, was it a monumental number? No, oh, okay, no, no, I just wanted to make sure it didn't miss anything. No, it's not um so uh, you know what I love about jordan? I love jordan and will's relationship. Yeah, it is, oh for sure, the sweetest thing and it makes me cry every time I watch the like tear out he loves jordan more than anybody.
Speaker 1Like jordan's his favorite I love that because that takes a special kid to always want to be with a real tiny kid and I'm like that's just. You can tell he is like protector of will.
Speaker 3But will, yeah, like will. Differentially loves jordan too, like, and he'll even tell that, like, like, who's your favorite? Like it won't be mindy, or it's jordan, because the two of you are always running the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1And so jordan's like, even though I coach all his teams and do all that stuff, it's still j middle somewhere.
Speaker 3And so jordan's like, even though I coach all his teams and do all that stuff. It doesn't matter, it's still jordan.
Speaker 1It's still jordan their relationship is special and I love it and I'm jealous. I don't have four to have, I don't think. I don't know if chase is capable of that, but I think it's real sweet.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like my favorite, it's fun. It's fun. But you know back to your main question like I just like spending time with them. You know, like I'm a kid, I love spending time and we're not. I think the good part of it too is and maybe we are but I don't feel like it. It's like we're not like hey, you're spending, only spending time with us, like go, do whatever you want, and maybe that's why I know, that's why it's a little bit.
Speaker 1I love it.
Speaker 3You know, I'm like oh good, you want to hang out with me. But there's so many events, there's so much stuff.
Speaker 1There's so many events.
Speaker 3It's sometimes. I think it's just they're tired of running from place to place. Absolutely, and they have practices, as Jordan and Colin usually went to Will's practice and touched too. You know, and would you know, help out and do different things and stuff like that.
Speaker 1Well, it takes a village to run those little teams.
Speaker 3They enjoy it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Lots of magic, lots of corralling.
Speaker 2That's my favorite. It's a good word.
Speaker 1You're not real sure where the ball's going to go once someone gets it. So that's when the magic magic happens.
Speaker 3Just keep running the bases is my opinion and just try to be as positive as you can.
Speaker 1I love it, even though it's not that easy, it's hilarious, I love it I watch those games with a smile, like this is the best day ever, there's no drama except for the pure joy too, they're so happy.
Speaker 3They're so happy when they make a catch or hit them, not the parents to sit in the stands of an au game.
Speaker 1That's magical too, because his dad I think he's I'm not gonna say what position is kid he's like finally I mean, he had said multiple things to him finally he's like, son, you're gonna have to move, you're gonna have to move your body to make something happen. And I was like this is noise.
Speaker 3Enjoy always how the parents get to into the game so like if they're cheering against hearing, against the other okay, and trying to get an eight-year-old heads because there are several times. I don't do that where other teams and like I tried it with our team, but like they're like literally like trying to play mind games with a seven or eight year old.
Speaker 1You know me, I'm very positive and hard, hard on my kid yes, like catch the ball, like that's your job in the outfield, like back up first and catch the ball.
Speaker 3Yeah yes, I'm sure those car conversations, this car ride homes are pretty fun.
Speaker 1They're really, really enjoyable.
Speaker 2I think he loves that bonding time.
Speaker 3I had one of those yesterday with Will after his practice.
Speaker 1Really.
Speaker 2He didn't do that well. You have to focus.
Speaker 3It wasn't. Yeah, I mean that's what it was right and they've taken there was their first practice back after six or seven weeks. It's just you're paying attention, right For sure. Hey, do you want to do this?
Speaker 1if you do it like, make sure you pay yeah, that's always the first question, regardless of what has happened in a game this past year. It wasn't the most positive. Did you have fun? Yeah, because the second you say, no, we're done, let's find something else. Yeah, but if you, I'm not saying it was fun to get your brains blown out and there was a carousel around the bases, but are you still enjoying the game? Yeah, exactly, because if not, I'm going to be a lot richer.
Speaker 3But there's some of it too. We put so much pressure on.
Speaker 1Because there's pressure everywhere If you nine new baseballs, travel baseballs late, late to the game, so that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2It game. So that's yeah ridiculous, it is it's.
Speaker 3It's super ridiculous and, yeah, you want to still make it fun and you want to make it a learning experience. I think that's always the. I think you do.
Speaker 1I always told you I there's a teammate of chase and Collins, and he's funny, hilarious, and you all had a very special relation, a very special banter back and forth that his dad would die at knowing, and I'm like to watch the two of you was hilarious, so you did always bring the fun.
Speaker 2You tried. Yeah.
Speaker 3I think, you did a good job and tried it.
Speaker 1We're still friends, so it's obviously worked out really well for you For me, I mean we're still friends, so it's obviously worked out really well for you. So you didn't read my mind and bring in the coveted Kelsey cereal yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 3I really want it. You want it right here. Yes for those. Yeah, let's talk about.
Speaker 1General Mills brands. And yeah, retail changes and brand changes. But then I also want to know, like, what's your favorite product, my favorite General Mills product, literally on-the-shelf product.
Speaker 3My favorite General Mills product I need to work on because you can't get it at Walmart. Oh no, so I have to order it special to go into the office.
Speaker 1Okay, so more negotiation skills to be had.
Speaker 3Exactly, it's raspberry Pillsbury toaster strudel, so not.
Speaker 2I mean it's.
Speaker 1Okay we have toaster strudels. Yeah, we have toaster strudel.
Speaker 3Raspberry is a different flavor right, okay. So not the number one in everybody's mind, but I think it should be there. No, not at all, but mine, but I think it should be there um. But I grew up in Minnesota for some reason, like I think, raspberries big.
Speaker 1I'm like, are y'all big razzy people out?
Speaker 3there, right? So that's that, that was my one, like I have sold, like raspberry yoplait, which is another one that when people usually say that, and then like my more traditional and I've given you, yeah, what's on the shelf. My more traditional uh one would be cinnamon toast crunch. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1What's your favorite? I?
Speaker 3don't know. Come on Cinnamon rolls. You like Pillsbury cinnamon rolls? I love me some cinnamon rolls. The pumpkin spice one. Oh, my husband's dying to try them.
Speaker 2He thinks it's a brand new product, which I think is hilarious.
Speaker 1You might have to order them. I can't seem to find them because they're off the shelf so fast, so I guess I'm probably a Pillsbury fan first and foremost Like baked goods.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1But I'm a salty person too, so I don't know. Yeah, you are salty A little bit. No, I'm probably not very sweet, am I? What, um, what changes have you seen post-covid in retail that has affected your brands?
Speaker 3yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing for us is especially from walmart is the transition from going to a store, in-store, to delivery and pickup.
Speaker 1We do a large, has that been hard?
Speaker 3No, it's good we do a higher index of products online and delivery than but what about the impulse, like the in-cash, those are a big deal right. They're a big deal and I feel major FOMO when I haven't gone into the store because I am so dependent on delivery and pickup but do you see like the same thing from a delivery perspective of like a banner ad that you can click through, so that'd be like a oh yes, right.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's your end cap, okay and you know from an online version so I'm probably not as dialed.
Online Shopping Trends in Digital Marketing
Speaker 1Probably are you just like taking your list and I kind of like send the same stuff all the time and not adding too much stuff. I don't add too much because I but I'm also like a marketer's dream person in store. Okay, I'm not as visual on the computer as I am in store. I'm like, show me something grand.
Speaker 3So do you spend less if you're online? Online? Probably Do so. Would you spend less if you're online Online? Probably we need you to spend more. I know I'm sorry.
Speaker 1You're getting me in store, though you put some in-caps or pallets together of all the things, with things moving and signage.
Speaker 3Recipe solutions. I'm all in. All that stuff you like. I'm all in, like bake centers, different things like that.
Speaker 1Yeah, I love all of it. Yeah, this is the best ever. I could just stand there. It's so great I'm an easy sell.
Speaker 3That's been the biggest transition, though. During COVID. There's a lot more people that have come to online shopping, and how do you target them? How do you find the right people for your brands? How do you tell your story of your brand out there to people that are now shopping online? Walmart's done a really nice job with their retail media network that we participate with.
Speaker 3That has been a change versus pre-COVID. So, yeah, there's a lot of things that are changing, but I think the biggest change is just the move digitally. And then how do we keep up with that customer and how do we keep up with the consumer that way?
Speaker 1I'm old school too, I think I'm very old, I mean I don't know, but you're shopping online.
Speaker 3If you're doing jewelry too, but I I'm also just clicking right in your list and clicking it off yes, so I do think I'm very old when it comes? How do you look? How do you find new stuff? You're not in the store. Do you like social media? Do you do?
Speaker 1recipes, or do you? Yes, yes, all the above okay. And then I do like banner ads, but I'm not, unfortunately I'm not dialed into them on a specific website.
Speaker 3It's probably more social driven than anything yeah, I mean, that's been a big phenomenon too, like tiktok recipes, oh huge. How do you, how do you um, you know, keep up with that?
Speaker 1betty crocker and pillsbury are two of the biggest websites out there you can take all your cake mixes and make them into cookies now, which we learned during COVID and then you can eat the cookie dough.
Speaker 3Oh yes, now it's like you can eat it raw.
Speaker 1Thank you for that so I think it was in the past year. The pumpkin cookies I found them hidden in a cruise room. Interesting, I know it's so nice. He's like well, it's safe to eat.
Speaker 2I'm like well, not after it's sat out for four days.
Speaker 1As you're like, you don't have a pocket refrigerator up in your room, but that tells you how often I don't walk up the stairs. So, solid parenting I only have two Crushing it. Solid parenting I only have two crushing it. But yeah, I think, wherever I can find be influenced, I'm an easy sell, 100% all the time. It's just like this cereal. That's not sitting there, that I want to point to, but I follow the new heights podcast.
Speaker 1Um favorite player is Travis Kelsey. We're big here, that I want to point to. But I follow the New Heights podcast Crew's favorite player is Travis Kelsey. We're big Chiefs fans and so I'm like this is so great, why do we not have it here? But Jason was in town a few weeks ago and I was blowing you up over it. Part of me feels like you were lying to me that he was in town for you.
Speaker 3No, we have. Obviously you'll see Kelsey mix. You'll see the Kelseys and a lot of General Mills stuff going for it.
Speaker 1It's Lucky Charms, your favorite Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Reese's Puffs.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 3We tried a lot of different combinations and a lot of different things. I'm not a big peanut butter guy, so like that's the one okay, so that's lacking for you over there.
Speaker 1It's an interesting combination it is.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I love the fact that they're doing combinations because, like a lot of people do that, you just never know right, like um some people you know, I know I used to do checks and cheerios, so, like cinnamon Chex, were you the originator of Chex. Mix.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 3No, but it's like old school. Like people are talking about Chex cereal, like that's one of my favorites too, like cinnamon Chex.
Speaker 1You like, literally eat Chex cereal as cereal.
Speaker 3Yeah, and sometimes mixed with Cheerios. Okay.
Speaker 1See no.
Speaker 3I'm like no, it's Chex Mix, it's. It's meant to be baked with butter and the W sauce. Great, I love that, you love that but see, that's another marketing thing.
Speaker 1You started selling seasoning packets now on the end. Cat, or what a right. Yes, well, they're free.
Speaker 3Well, I'm sorry yeah, I'm not making that up, am I? Well, they're free. Well, I'm sorry. Yeah, not selling, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1Added value Gift with purchase type thing. I was like this is so great, I don't have to measure, I can just pour yeah.
Speaker 3Right, I love stuff like that. And then the recipes are on the back of the box, especially during the holidays.
Speaker 1Even more convenient. So if you make, I just buy them in the bag.
Speaker 3People call them puppy chows.
Speaker 1I just buy them in your bags.
Speaker 3They're already ready for me. Yeah, that works too. It's less time for me, and I only.
Speaker 1I don't have any time because I only have two. You have four. Okay, let's talk about. Let's talk about Northwest Arkansas. Let's make it fluffy and fun. What is your favorite? Do you have a favorite restaurant? You're always on the go, that's a great question.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's funny. So there's two things that we are on the go, but Mindy and I have done so, like I've had a weird goal last year. So last year my goal was to average 10,000 steps a day.
Speaker 1Okay, yes, I've seen you clock in your steps multiple times.
Speaker 3So this year it was to get at least 10,000 a day.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3So um this year was to get at least 10 000 a day, okay, so like no matter what. So mindy and I lately, when in town we'll do she calls it her cityscapes walk. She's probably told you or she may have mentioned that no, she hasn't, so we actually told her yesterday we will go to bettenville and we'll walk back, so we'll go downtown. So instead of like walking our neighbor, we used to walk our neighbor it got boring it yes.
Speaker 3We'll walk that and they'll see what's all changed. We'll do that a few times a week or whatever, so like. So, from a restaurant standpoint, like I usually lean, lean there. I lean rights Cause I'd love.
Speaker 1I know you love rights, I love rights yeah.
Speaker 3Barbecue. Um, if like more of said pizza, I, I think it's cause I've always said I've had so many pizzas with you for the years.
Speaker 1I like peddlers and oven and tap both. Oh, we're getting a new peddlers or they're closed, moving across the street or something like that?
Speaker 3Okay, uh, I did not know that. Yeah, um, yeah, we do a lot of pizza. Yeah, I do like your pizza dough on the grill. Okay, have you done that? No, I don't have time to cook like we don't.
Speaker 1that's the problem but aren't you the cooker between the two?
Speaker 3between the two. But we don't cook a ton just because I mean a couple nights a week, but there's just so much going on so much yes, and it all starts this week to me. Yeah, it's usually take out yeah, somewhere don't you?
Speaker 1yeah, but that's exhausting it is, it is but I'm real tired of all the food.
Speaker 3But you know to to your point about family time. Or you know, trying to get work in and doing stuff too, like the hour to cook a meal, yeah and a half, we don't have that I don.
Speaker 1No, and then to clean it up.
Speaker 3So yes, Well, how do you? You know, how do you make sure that you kind of.
Speaker 1But your pizza crust is real fast. You just unroll pop it, throw it on the grill. It's real fast yeah.
Speaker 3And then sometimes we'll have to have cereal for dinner and make it really fast.
Speaker 2Well, I know your kids love cereal, and then they take a sugar thing, and they take a sugar thing and they dump sugar on it.
Speaker 3It's my favorite. Okay, do you have a favorite dessert? You like sweets? I do, I love sweets. I'm a big ice cream guy. I like ice cream.
Speaker 1Oh, that's right, colin is a big ice cream kid. Every night, right Every night. And not a small bowl, no, a bowl as big as him.
Speaker 3Yeah, and he needs it.
Speaker 2no a bowl as big as him yeah, and he needs it and he's, he does need it and he is uh authorized to have it.
Speaker 3I know I love that, which is great.
Speaker 2So, like the endocrinologist, says whatever, more the more butter and ice cream you need unfortunately or fortunately you need calories and we need to figure out how to get you calories I love that lucky him yeah, do you?
Speaker 1have a favorite ice cream around here and that favorite ice cream place.
Speaker 3Yeah, um no, I mean, like it usually goes around, collins, sketch, it's more fast food. Ice cream collars, dairy queens stuff like that that's what I would say. Shakes like those.
Speaker 1Those three are probably in the locations. Did you go up with broms? No oh okay, it's a midwest we grew up with bridgeman's.
Speaker 3I never heard of it. Yeah, yeah, no, I grew up with broms in oh okay, it's a Midwest thing.
Speaker 1I think we grew up with Bridgeman's I never heard of it, yeah. Yeah, no, I grew up with Brahms in Oklahoma, so that's a, that's a go-to. Um, what's your favorite flavor?
Speaker 3Cookie dough, oh no kidding.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you didn't grow up with cookie dough because that didn't exist back then. Vanilla, oh, vanilla. Okay, yeah, you're kind of vanilla. I am Super vanilla. Okay, yeah, you're kind of vanilla. Oh, I want to give you credit because I just remember. I don't know why vanilla reminded me of that. I do want to give you credit because on this podcast I've talked about you but I've never used your name. Okay, but you spoke um well, at the panel a few years ago where you talked about loving your kids so much.
Speaker 1You said I'm an extrovert, introvert, and I've coined it and stolen it I do give you credit, I just don't use your name because, I wasn't ever sure but, I'm like it's everyone agrees with me on this. I'm like you are an introvert by nature I think I'm like I am and I'm not but we have to be. You are so extrovert I know, but I love to be at home and be quiet. Yes, yes, but I'm like you and mindy mindy is a true introvert and I think I've broken through that um.
Speaker 3I'm in her circle, but yeah I think we change over time too and we evolve um and, like you said, like the extrovert, introvert is, they turn it on when you have to, but I prefer to I mean people be like you're an extrovert no, I'm not like I don't get pleasure, yeah I don't get I don't get energy from, from you know being out there and being in front of people like speaking engagement, stuff like that.
Speaker 1I know it's your favorite I know you're super excited for this. It's funny I got this is fine, I don't mind.
Speaker 3I don't mind the one-on-one stuff. I don't like the big group stuff.
Personal Preferences and Career Aspirations
Speaker 1No, yeah, I know. No, I love a microphone though too. I mean, Okay, Right.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean you're out there on the charity ball like drumming up business it sends. Clark into a panic every year, but I love it.
Speaker 1That's I do love a microphone. I don't have anything good, nothing good's coming out, but I love a microphone. So, yeah, so you get credit for being an extrovert. Introvert, and more people are like that than I think we realize. I agree with that, and everyone has loved it that I have brought it to their attention too, so thank you.
Speaker 3Hey, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1Look at you, you and your vanilla. Yeah, exactly. Look at you, you and your vanilla. Yeah, okay, back to fluffy and fun, and then we'll close it out.
Speaker 3What's your favorite time of day? Oh yeah, weird question.
Speaker 1I'm all over the place on that one. What time do you get up?
Speaker 3uh, 6, 36, well during the school year 5, 5.30, 6.00, outside Like a weekend's, like a 6.30 type of thing. God, what time do you go to bed? 11. Really.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Okay, I was probably used to be more of a night person. Now I'm probably more transitioning. Earlier I didn't. I don't know, I couldn't tell you. I don't either. I don't have a favorite time of day Because I'm real productive in the morning, but I don't want to get up. Yeah, I can be productive in the afternoon too, like after lunch oh like 3 o'clock, I want to take a nap. Oh, mm-hmm, like religiously and it's funny because of like all the stuff, like I don't have time not to be productive.
Speaker 3No right, it's a weird part. So like that's when you talk about, hey, when are you most productive? It's just like when.
Speaker 1I have a free hour.
Speaker 3Yes, or like something in my schedule I passed you yesterday morning.
Speaker 1So you have a Tesla. There are multiple Teslas that look like yours. So I never know it's you until, like, you're behind, you've already like passed me that. Um, I passed you leaving the high school parking lot. I was like, and you'll sit up and drive like this, like looking, and so I'm like, oh, there he goes. Yeah, and I was like, oh, hi, haven't seen you in forever. I'll see you tomorrow. I was rushing because I'm like, god, 8 am, let's go, drop off, go and figure out where I need to be for something. Yeah, so I don't have a favorite time of day either. Yeah, it's tough. What's one vice you wish you could give up?
Speaker 3One vice I wish I could give up. That's a great question.
Speaker 1It's a hard one. I don't have one. I know what one would be.
Speaker 3What's yours?
Speaker 1I need to clean up my mouth.
Speaker 3I like that though.
Speaker 1I can see that I don't want to get that up Because Mindy has a dirty mouth too, and I'm like I have a dirty mouth but I don't want to be.
Speaker 3But I just can't help it.
Speaker 1I trust people more if they have a dirty mouth. But I don't want to be, but I just can't help it. I trust people more if they have a dirty mouth. I can see that just do I don't know it could be too transparent. Do colin and jordan have dirty mouths?
Speaker 3uh, no, not in front of me, but I'm sure. Okay, chase does and I'm like clean it up like I'm your mom yeah, in front of me, I think he's just trying to be cool.
Speaker 1I think that's a cool factor and I'm like stop.
Speaker 3That's not cool. No, yeah, he's trying, really hard.
Speaker 1Do you have a hidden talent? No, not at all.
Speaker 3I don't have any talents.
Speaker 2Sarcasm.
Speaker 3Sarcasm.
Speaker 1Vanilla ice cream. Yeah, see, I'm vanilla. See, that's. That's, yeah, nothing hidden. What song could you listen to on repeat, or do you have a favorite? Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
Speaker 3that's what I need to change my question to no, that is a good question, I would say I don't see you as a karaoke, not a karaoke person but like my old school go-to karaoke artist was Vanilla Ice. Oh, I know that whole song.
Speaker 2That's my karaoke song, because. I knew it right yeah.
Speaker 3That would be your karaoke song, because I knew it Ice, ice Baby. That's my karaoke song, and you don't have to be a good singer, right. No, that's not like a singing song right so like it's one of those things like you're gonna get laughed off the stage if you're singing something right with that, like you can.
Speaker 2It's super flexible.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm just gonna, you know, wrap it up talking about whatever, so like you can look, like you're okay.
Speaker 2Brand new edition something yes that's mine, so it's easy, right, yeah, like I would say that would be my. We have in common.
Speaker 3Exactly so. It's easy right. Yeah so like I would say that would be my go-to carrier. But it's real, like the introvert thing, really hard to get me out of.
Speaker 2Incredibly hard, and I'm not a drinker too, so it's not like All the Coke, all the Coke, all day long for you.
Speaker 1I stopped drinking Coke.
Speaker 3You stopped drinking Coke. You stopped drinking Coke. Yeah, it's been over a year. What are you drinking?
Speaker 1Water? No, yeah, really yeah. Oh, I guess I'm so self-indulged that I don't even notice that you've stopped drinking Coke.
Speaker 3So that was a vice. That was a vice. I gave up.
Speaker 1So no caffeine period.
Speaker 3No, I drink coffee, so no caffeine period. No, I drink coffee, that's my problem, oh, okay.
Speaker 1Lattes.
Speaker 3So I've replaced the calories 100%, but I'm not drinking six Cokes a day.
Speaker 1Oh bless, that's a lot of soda At least. Oh my gosh, no, I couldn't do that. Okay, and coffee, and then just water.
Speaker 3Coffee and water. Oh, okay, I know.
Speaker 1Very lame. Okay, at 13 or growing up. We'll end on this one. What did you want to do up?
Speaker 2in Minnesota.
Speaker 1Besides, stay warm some businessman were you like Colin, I just want to go make some money, yeah, okay it's all entrepreneurial type talent.
Speaker 3I never did that. Obviously I work working for big company.
Speaker 1But I think you wanted to be an entrepreneur, probably.
Speaker 3Yeah, back then yeah.
Speaker 1Not work for the man.
Speaker 3Yeah, but I mean we've had a great career, it's been a good run.
Speaker 1So what did you major in in college? Business.
Speaker 3Yeah, marketing, marketing, business. Yeah, okay, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1From day one.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm.
Family Legacy and Future Ventures
Speaker 1Okay, all business, that was me too.
Speaker 3I know, but yeah, it's one of those things like, hey, when you retire, would you ever like I'd love to start something with the kids? Like and have a legacy, yeah that's what I would really like to do good luck getting the four of them to agree on something well, it doesn't have to be four, we can start with one you have multiple to choose from.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly, they could pitch it to you like Shark Tank.
Speaker 3Exactly. We could do that, that would be perfect.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what you should do. That won't cause any animosity in the family.
Speaker 3They already don't think I favor other ones.
Speaker 2I don't think you favor her. Do they think you?
Speaker 3favor her Toots does.
Speaker 1She's the girl, that's her job to bring the drama Right. Yeah, I mean drama right. Yeah, I mean I'm an only child, so I get it and she's kind of like one because she's the only girl. Yeah, yeah, I love it. I hope she puts together a 75 page uh powerpoint presentation for christmas this year.
Speaker 3She did it last year. Well, it was under 75, it was under 70, so I really hope she brings it this year, a girl after my own heart I. I'm excited for that. I love it.
Speaker 1Okay, well, I've bored you enough, I'm sure.
Speaker 3Thank you.
Speaker 1Thank you. You were very kind to me. You did not throw me under too many buses, I know right I know You're super easy on me, I appreciate it, I'll get you back I know you will. Well, thank you for joining us. If you stuck around this long, I so appreciate it. I say that every time. But keep following 3W, keep inspiring a culture of giving, and thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Bye, thanks.