Speaker 1: It's a rainy day to day sucks like this isn't
Speaker 1: why I pay California taxes. Okay, I pay California taxes
Speaker 1: because I want the sunshine. Okay, So not trus in
Speaker 1: charge here, God, but fix it because rain, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna rain rain overnight, okay, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping. I'm sleeping. Then it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1: Rain in the mountains or snow in the mountain, do it,
Speaker 1: don't do it in Los Angeles is all I am saying. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's roll it. This is the Wells with Wells
Speaker 1: Atoms and I heart radio podcast. What's up, guys? How
Speaker 1: are we doing today? Me? I'm a little doom and
Speaker 1: gloom because, like I said, it was raining outside and
Speaker 1: it's like gross, I don't understand how people live in Seattle.
Speaker 1: How one day of rain every three months and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Like how my dog has been comes
Speaker 1: l a where it's reigning outside and he'll look out
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom and he'll be like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hold it. I don't that doesn't seem
Speaker 1: fun out there. It's like you're a dog, dude, you
Speaker 1: don't what does that matter to you? You've got all
Speaker 1: built in jacket. He's like, I don't know. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit here on the couch and just wait for this
Speaker 1: to blow over. You know, it's not always sunshine and
Speaker 1: bikinis in Los Angeles. It's not. But I will say
Speaker 1: this today on the Wells Cast, we have someone who
Speaker 1: started their career hanging out in the sunshine, modeling mckinnis.
Speaker 1: That's what she lived over in Florida. Her story is crazy.
Speaker 1: She knew what she wanted. She actually dropped out of
Speaker 1: high school and yeah, manifested her destiny, became a model,
Speaker 1: became an actress, became an entrepreneur. Literally, she has done
Speaker 1: everything you can do. She holding the title of one
Speaker 1: of the sexiest women by g Q in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Was she g q's International Model of the Year. You
Speaker 1: know it was she just in the movie The r
Speaker 1: comm In or just in the movie Guesthouse. Yes? Was
Speaker 1: she in Fantasy Island? Yeah? Was she in Baywatch? You
Speaker 1: know it was she and mcgever, Yes, the newer versions
Speaker 1: of those, Just so you know, did she team up
Speaker 1: with Maria Sharapova and Mark Cuban on fitness Successories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the real money right there. She's done everything, and
Speaker 1: that she's about to do my podcast, which I can
Speaker 1: only assume is the low light of her career whatever.
Speaker 1: It all started in two thousand fifteen, and if you
Speaker 1: were watching the Super Bowl that year, which I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that's everybody might have seen Little Carl's junior commercial.
Speaker 1: That was her big break. And then since then she's
Speaker 1: been killing it on the Wells Gas Today. The origin
Speaker 1: story of the multi talented Charlotte McKenney. This is one
Speaker 1: guy's you do not want to al right, look about
Speaker 1: the Wells Gas excited to have actress model. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and say, comedian entrepreneurs on the show, Charlotte McKinney,
Speaker 1: How are you? I think that's the best title I've
Speaker 1: gotten so far. Thank you that well, hey man, you've
Speaker 1: done everything, like I think, the first time I became
Speaker 1: aware of you was the Super Bowl, So maybe I
Speaker 1: should throw athlete in there as well. Yeah right, I
Speaker 1: mean you could call me an athlete, so totally fine.
Speaker 1: You're athlete adjacent. I mean, you were on a super
Speaker 1: Bowl commercial basically a football player like totally you got
Speaker 1: a ring, I assume that year, Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: like I guess the first time everyone maybe saw you
Speaker 1: on the global scale was that Carl's Junior commercial. Everyone
Speaker 1: probably listening to this being like wait, who is this
Speaker 1: and then every guy's like, yep, I know exactly what's
Speaker 1: happening right now? Do you do you, like remember that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sun a vividly? Well, yeah, I was actually
Speaker 1: doing press for Carl's, so like I did, I actually
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl like a few days before
Speaker 1: and then like had to like work with them and
Speaker 1: and all that, so it was exciting. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that would be like my most I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like, no matter what, I will forever be
Speaker 1: the Burger Girl. So people definitely just know me as
Speaker 1: the Carl's Junior girl. So try still trying to like
Speaker 1: break that, you know, saying, but hey, like I'm super
Speaker 1: grateful for it, and it is what it is, hey man,
Speaker 1: Everyone needs a break. And the truth of the matter is,
Speaker 1: is it propelled you to do a lot of other stuff. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like hard work and talent led to all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, everyone has to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to get in the door at some point, and I
Speaker 1: think that's a pretty good entrance into a large scale
Speaker 1: But you've done so much since then. I was just
Speaker 1: going over kind of like your resume and like the
Speaker 1: stuff that I'm supposed to talk about with you, and
Speaker 1: it's a lot, so I I guess, what do you
Speaker 1: want to talk about first? Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to like get away from that stereo
Speaker 1: type of you know, my fan base is a lot
Speaker 1: of men and that whole world of the Carls Jr.
Speaker 1: But I think there's just a lot more to me
Speaker 1: and a lot of other things that I've worked on
Speaker 1: that I guess people aren't so familiar with um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've kind of just been doing press today
Speaker 1: for a recent campaign. I did so just all around
Speaker 1: anything you have to ask me, I'm pretty open to. Well,
Speaker 1: your acting career has gone from like girl on a
Speaker 1: bicycle to now leading movies. I want to go that far.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're but you know it's these are like
Speaker 1: legit roles on big movies, Fantasy Island, Baywatch, and you've
Speaker 1: got some new stuff coming out. I was just going
Speaker 1: over the IMDb. There's a film called Phobias that's completed
Speaker 1: but hasn't been hasn't been released, Guesthouse, the Argument, Like
Speaker 1: this is all new stuff. I think the one I
Speaker 1: was most excited about was um it was and indeed
Speaker 1: that came out this year was The Argument and guest
Speaker 1: House and those were those were super fun and Phobias
Speaker 1: was another just a small little cameo. But um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of working towards that, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's a t a reoccurring TV role or you know,
Speaker 1: a bigger movie role. But that's kind of where my
Speaker 1: where I've kind of put my focus on is more
Speaker 1: of the acting. And I love comedy and that that
Speaker 1: kind of area. So so yeah, I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: trying to break the break the mold of it. My
Speaker 1: fiance and myself are huge fans of the show Shark Tank,
Speaker 1: and I know and I know that you are now
Speaker 1: linked to Shark Tank. I guess talk to everyone about Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so it's pronounced Balla and yeah, today we're on
Speaker 1: kt l A talking about it and doing a bunch
Speaker 1: of things. So I just did at a collaboration and
Speaker 1: a campaign with Bala Bengals. And if you're familiar, So
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I guess people would know it from
Speaker 1: Shark Tank. Um, they were on Shark Tank. They got
Speaker 1: picked up by Maria. I don't know if I'm saying
Speaker 1: it Mark Cuban and um, the Maria Sharapova Maria exact
Speaker 1: thank you. So so they started working together and during
Speaker 1: kind of the lockdown, it's really just taken off because
Speaker 1: it's been It's basically these ankle weights and arm weights
Speaker 1: and these things you can basically just wear them when
Speaker 1: you're walking around going to the grocery store. They're just
Speaker 1: like super convenient. And they totally took off during the
Speaker 1: time when everyone had to kind of work out from home,
Speaker 1: and so we kind of were able to do a
Speaker 1: big campaign during the time, and um, now it's all
Speaker 1: launching and it's been really fun. I remember that episode
Speaker 1: very vividly, and I remember Maria Mark going in together.
Speaker 1: That's so cool that you guys are teaming. And also
Speaker 1: like it just makes sense everyone stuck at home right now.
Speaker 1: It's like either you lean into just eating Postmates every
Speaker 1: day or you try to better yourself in your body.
Speaker 1: And I guess totally yeah, I mean I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like there came a point where like at
Speaker 1: the start, everyone was like eating and drinking and this
Speaker 1: and that. But then there came a point where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I've put on like the COVID nineteen. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: need to like I need to get my ship together.
Speaker 1: So so they just like totally took off. And and
Speaker 1: it was funny because I got photographed maybe like leaving
Speaker 1: air one or something wearing them and and so you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of connected again on that, and I was like,
Speaker 1: we should really work together. And I was just such
Speaker 1: a fan. I was literally living in these ankle weights.
Speaker 1: So the girls and everyone was just so amazing to
Speaker 1: work with and collaborate with. And um, I'll have to
Speaker 1: send a pair to you and your girlfriend. Yeah that
Speaker 1: would be really cool because I need all the help
Speaker 1: I can get because I didn't pack on the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen for sure, I think we all did. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: judgment here. Tell me about the Detox bar and the
Speaker 1: good chocolate. Oh yeah, so randomly, so totally random. Um.
Speaker 1: Another thing, I just like, I loved this chocolate line
Speaker 1: and they kind of reached out to me to collaborate
Speaker 1: and we made a chocolate bar together. I I found
Speaker 1: their chocolate at a grocery store and then they were like,
Speaker 1: we'd love to make something with you. And during COVID
Speaker 1: I had I had kind of that downtime to like
Speaker 1: do my research, and I made a chocolate bar, so
Speaker 1: that happened. It's basically, like I'm practiced an anti inflammatory diet,
Speaker 1: and it's basically an anti inflammatory like tumoric dark chocolate
Speaker 1: chocolate bar, so you don't feel bad while you're eating it.
Speaker 1: So here's the plan. You can go eat chocolate and
Speaker 1: then afterwards you can use the ball of ants to
Speaker 1: work off said chocolate. So it's perfect exactly exactly, but
Speaker 1: this chocolate is so healthy that you don't even really
Speaker 1: have to work it out. So I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: here helping everyone live their best and healthiest life. I
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah. Alright, well I don't know if anyone
Speaker 1: told you, but this show is an origin story podcast,
Speaker 1: so I like to talk to like uber successful people
Speaker 1: and find out how they got to become successful in
Speaker 1: their careers. And so we are going to take a
Speaker 1: break and when we come back, can we do a
Speaker 1: deep dive and find out where the hell Charlotte came
Speaker 1: from and how the hell she got here. I am
Speaker 1: ready a good story. I cannot freaking wait. Stick around
Speaker 1: everybody all right back in the Wales cast very excited
Speaker 1: to have Charlotte McKinney on this show. You know her
Speaker 1: as an actress and a model, Instagram influencer. She's now
Speaker 1: getting into the entrepreneurial side of social media, helping out
Speaker 1: with the ball of bands that are weighted bands to
Speaker 1: help you lose that COVID nineteen. You can find out
Speaker 1: more at shop Bala dot com. She's also getting into
Speaker 1: the food industry with the detox bar from The Good Chocolate.
Speaker 1: Go to the Good Chocolate dot com. You've got a
Speaker 1: new movie coming out called Phobias is not yet released
Speaker 1: out right now that you can go check out Guesthouse.
Speaker 1: The argument for she was on Fantasy Island Baywatch. You
Speaker 1: did mcgeiver too, which is cool. Were you a fan
Speaker 1: of mcgeiver. Are you old enough to remember like the
Speaker 1: O G mgeiver? No. I know mcgever from. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was Saturday Night Live or Mad TV,
Speaker 1: but I know them from like the they would when
Speaker 1: they would like make fun of mcgever. But I never
Speaker 1: really watched like the real mcgeiver, Yeah, it was. I
Speaker 1: think it was mcgruber was the That was it? So
Speaker 1: I knew that, And then I had a had a
Speaker 1: few episodes on the Real Show and I was like,
Speaker 1: I kind of still thought it was a joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that's awesome. But yeah, thank you for all the plugs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did I forget anything? Okay? Yeah, So this is an
Speaker 1: origin Story podcast, and I just am so fascinated with
Speaker 1: how people become famous. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there just assume that everyone, just I guess
Speaker 1: just is born famous and they don't realize all the
Speaker 1: hard work and dedication and crazy odd jobs and burnie
Speaker 1: at both ends to kind of get to where everyone
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden knows you aren't. You have
Speaker 1: a blue check mark next to your name. So I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated to hear your story. Are you from like the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles area? No, So that's kind of what was interesting.
Speaker 1: And I feel like nowadays, like I feel like everyone,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's kind of like born into it
Speaker 1: or like a famous celebrity kid or things like that. Um,
Speaker 1: so people just think it's like such an easy thing,
Speaker 1: or they live in Hollywood and know someone, but I
Speaker 1: knew absolutely no one from Hollywood. I grew up in Florida,
Speaker 1: so I literally had no ties or any connection to
Speaker 1: the Hollywood world. And are you, um like an only child?
Speaker 1: You have siblings? No, So I grew up with an
Speaker 1: older sister, UM and my parents. My my dad was
Speaker 1: from the Bahamas, my mom was from Canada, and they thought,
Speaker 1: you know, well, I guess we'll live in Florida. So
Speaker 1: I kind of grew up in Florida and going back
Speaker 1: and forth to the Bahamas and things like That's why.
Speaker 1: So I really lived kind of like an simple life
Speaker 1: by the water, just like kind of a beach rat
Speaker 1: and just yeah, it was a pretty normal life. I
Speaker 1: guess you could say, are not really but kind of
Speaker 1: what kind of kids were you? Were you a nerd?
Speaker 1: Were you like someone who skipped class? I was very
Speaker 1: introverted even my whole life, like I just you know,
Speaker 1: never had too many friends. And then when I hit
Speaker 1: high school, I you know, I was this girl who
Speaker 1: had like a double D chest. Everyone kind of hated me.
Speaker 1: I didn't really fit in. I had no like good
Speaker 1: friends at the time, and I wasn't I to be honest,
Speaker 1: I really struggled with school. I grew up dyslexic, so
Speaker 1: no matter what, I literally couldn't even pass like eighth
Speaker 1: grade math. So I was like about to be in
Speaker 1: my senior year trying to like pass you know, middle
Speaker 1: school math, and I just got to a point where
Speaker 1: I dropped out. So I am a high school dropout.
Speaker 1: I'm also like at the point in my life where
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to like say that. So what were
Speaker 1: your parents saying when you were like, guys, this is
Speaker 1: just I can't get through algebra, so we did I
Speaker 1: gotta go. Well yeah, I mean, like I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but it kind of ran in my family,
Speaker 1: like my grandfather, my father, and like my mom, like
Speaker 1: it just everyone was very just like visual and business
Speaker 1: oriented and like just did school just wasn't really in
Speaker 1: the McKinney jeens, Like it just wasn't for us. Um
Speaker 1: So like my sister did good and graduated from FIDLM
Speaker 1: and things like that, but for me, I was just
Speaker 1: like f this everyone's mean to me. I you know,
Speaker 1: I can't finish any like I can't pass these tests,
Speaker 1: so I'm out. So I kind of just like my
Speaker 1: parents were like you know, like obviously they weren't stoked
Speaker 1: like their kids dropping out of high school, so they
Speaker 1: weren't like super excited. So but I did it, and
Speaker 1: I like I I was grateful like they at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they still supported me and like
Speaker 1: they were you know, they were happy for me because
Speaker 1: I wanted to just like start modeling. So I just
Speaker 1: kind of said, you know, this is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I find it very hard to believe that you were
Speaker 1: unpopular in high school. I know it's always like the
Speaker 1: pretty girl being like, oh boo, who me? I had
Speaker 1: no friends, but I really didn't. Like I just like
Speaker 1: I had, like my best friend went to a different
Speaker 1: high school, so I just didn't really you know. And
Speaker 1: then like the guys were just you know, I had
Speaker 1: a lot of guy friends, which made the girls not
Speaker 1: like it was just like it was dark. I just
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't vibe with anyone at my school. So
Speaker 1: were you doing the modeling like while you were in
Speaker 1: high school or when you dropped out where you like,
Speaker 1: well I got to pivot over and do something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So basically I was just like I told my parents,
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm going to drop out. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: my senior year, and I'm gonna move to Miami and
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to start modeling, and everyone kind
Speaker 1: of just like laughed in my face. So technically I
Speaker 1: went out to Miami and you know, kind of started
Speaker 1: doing like test shoots and things like that. No one
Speaker 1: really like I would meet with these modeling agencies, but
Speaker 1: no one really wanted to take a chance with me.
Speaker 1: I was kind of this no name. Um, I was five,
Speaker 1: I'm five seven, I'm not super tall. I couldn't fit
Speaker 1: into any sample clothing because my chest was so large
Speaker 1: at the time, and so I just kind of was
Speaker 1: just like no one was working with me, and I
Speaker 1: was getting really really frustrated. I think I put into
Speaker 1: like a strong year and like just nothing was happening.
Speaker 1: And then I had met a one of the New
Speaker 1: York modeling agencies. One of the directors was in Miami,
Speaker 1: and I got to do like a dinner with him,
Speaker 1: and he saw something in me, and we started working together,
Speaker 1: and I started going to New York a bit and
Speaker 1: bo like booking small things here and there, and then
Speaker 1: it was kind of the question of like do I
Speaker 1: want to live in New York? Do I want to
Speaker 1: live in California, Like where do I see myself? I
Speaker 1: think this was like two years in and my sister
Speaker 1: lived in California, so so I moved out and I
Speaker 1: was just like suck it, like I want to take
Speaker 1: a chance, and like I saw myself like I didn't
Speaker 1: see myself fully being a model. I really just wanted
Speaker 1: to get more into the entertainment industry. So for me,
Speaker 1: it was kind of like how can I kind of
Speaker 1: get in there? And I thought, you know, start modeling
Speaker 1: and then slowly can kind of work my way in
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I did. Did you go
Speaker 1: to New York? So? New York just wasn't for me,
Speaker 1: like I grew like growing up in Florida, like you
Speaker 1: just like it was too much. I remember I was
Speaker 1: there during one winter and I was just like, there's
Speaker 1: no way I'm living here. So California was like I
Speaker 1: could work there. There was more work in California than
Speaker 1: like Miami. So so I moved to like Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: and just like went right into it. And my first
Speaker 1: kind of big job in l A was Guess and
Speaker 1: then after that, I like book Carl's and it kind
Speaker 1: of just like after Carl's it just kind of took
Speaker 1: off when you were in Miami. Did you find like
Speaker 1: an agent or a manager? How does it work? And yeah, my,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like a sketchy, weird modeling scene.
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't like it was just it wasn't great,
Speaker 1: and like I had like kind of like a weird
Speaker 1: agent that would like send me out on things, but
Speaker 1: it was nothing. Nothing, Nothing in Miami was going to
Speaker 1: really change my career. And I knew if I stayed there,
Speaker 1: I'd literally just be modeling bathing suits every day. So
Speaker 1: I knew I kind of needed to like go somewhere
Speaker 1: and kind of take it more seriously. I imagine I've
Speaker 1: I have never been good looking enough to be a model,
Speaker 1: but I imagine that it's a lot more creepy than
Speaker 1: people realize. Oh totally. I even look back on it now,
Speaker 1: and the older I've gotten, I've I kind of say
Speaker 1: to myself, like because I have two nieces now, these
Speaker 1: two beautiful young girls, and I'm like, like, I would
Speaker 1: never let my niece model. I would never you know,
Speaker 1: if I had a kid, I would never tell them
Speaker 1: to go modeling. I mean, things have gotten better, but
Speaker 1: like things I saw at time before all this, it
Speaker 1: was just it was grimy. So I don't really I
Speaker 1: never I just don't really encourage it after kind of
Speaker 1: the things I've seen and gone through. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: not the prettiest. I've been to enough fancy Hollywood parties
Speaker 1: or whatnot, and you're there and you'll look around. They'll
Speaker 1: be like, you know, a nineteen year old model, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you are just out of high school and
Speaker 1: and you're trying to buy a bunch of like really
Speaker 1: high powered, like creepy do Like, I don't know, It's
Speaker 1: just one of those things where I just always got
Speaker 1: the vibe that, like, you have to be really really
Speaker 1: tough to be a model. Yeah, And I think from
Speaker 1: growing up and just dealing with assholes all the time,
Speaker 1: I just I just always had tough skin. And for
Speaker 1: the first year trying to model, everyone was like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And so I built this tough skin. So by the
Speaker 1: time I got to l A, I was just kind
Speaker 1: of like looking like everyone's telling me no, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna still kind of keep doing it. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely didn't fall into it. It wasn't some easy thing.
Speaker 1: I wasn't like my mom was a successful model, and
Speaker 1: I got to just kind of take after her. It
Speaker 1: was it was challenging. So you come out to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: you're in Beverly Hills, your first thing you book is
Speaker 1: guess I understand how television works, but I don't really
Speaker 1: understand how modeling works, Like do you go on auditions
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeah, so I definitely went on like casting
Speaker 1: calls and things like that. But oddly enough, for even
Speaker 1: for it was weird because my life was always like
Speaker 1: castings and things like that. But when I booked Carls,
Speaker 1: it was just like a direct booking, which I thought
Speaker 1: was so odd. I've never really had that happen, so
Speaker 1: that was super exciting. But yeah, it was mostly just
Speaker 1: a lot of like casting calls, you do the guest spot,
Speaker 1: and then you book Carl's JR. I guess my first
Speaker 1: question is is there's also like the stigma of you know,
Speaker 1: models eat like rabbits, you know, like of course let
Speaker 1: us and smoothies and whatnot, Like were you a vegetarian
Speaker 1: at the time, Like are do you like burgers? Was
Speaker 1: that hard for you to do? No, to be totally honest,
Speaker 1: I mean at I now that I look back on it.
Speaker 1: There was a time I was like vegan, but at
Speaker 1: the time I eat burgers all the time. I like
Speaker 1: I was you know, I didn't. I was young. I
Speaker 1: didn't really care what I was eating. So it wasn't like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm eating me, like this is disgusting.
Speaker 1: I was. It was. No, it was totally natural and
Speaker 1: like obviously, like when I was on set for that spot,
Speaker 1: like the burger was being painted on and things like that,
Speaker 1: so I kind of I couldn't really eat it like
Speaker 1: I kind of And then we were doing so many takes,
Speaker 1: so I was definitely spitting it out in between teakes.
Speaker 1: But no, I wasn't like afraid to eat me. Now,
Speaker 1: did you have any idea how big of a deal
Speaker 1: that was going to be at the time. No, to
Speaker 1: be honest, they didn't say. They didn't really make it
Speaker 1: like oh, this is like a Super Bowl ad because
Speaker 1: they didn't fully know, so like no one was really
Speaker 1: saying like, oh, this is a Super Bowl ad, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. It was kind of just like, this is
Speaker 1: a commercial hopefully it could be you know, in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. For me, I was just living in the
Speaker 1: moment and I was not trying to worry about like
Speaker 1: if it was going to ghost anywhere, and like I
Speaker 1: had been through so much stuff to where like I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, who knows, maybe this won't even go on,
Speaker 1: you know. So I wasn't. I didn't put any pressure
Speaker 1: on it. I just kind of took it as a
Speaker 1: day to day job. And like that's why I think
Speaker 1: it was so exciting, because I really had no idea
Speaker 1: that magnitude it kind of wouldn't bring. Can I ask
Speaker 1: a business question about this, okay, because I'm fascinated with
Speaker 1: this because I've done commercials to none of them were
Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl, But like, do you get more
Speaker 1: money if it gets on the Super Bowl? Or is
Speaker 1: it like you've signed kind of a crap contract and
Speaker 1: you don't get more money even though fifty million people
Speaker 1: see it on one night. Well, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: it's a tough question because I don't probably, But I
Speaker 1: think at the time they I think that they were
Speaker 1: smart and they got me when I wasn't very known,
Speaker 1: so I got I think I got paid up front
Speaker 1: and I got like residuals. But yeah, I think now
Speaker 1: if I booked something like that, I probably would have
Speaker 1: had a better lawyer. Look um, So it's definitely a
Speaker 1: learning experience. Like I think I was so stoked to
Speaker 1: just like be able to do that. I wasn't even
Speaker 1: thinking about money or like when they said a rate,
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to make it higher or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my god, I'm getting paid
Speaker 1: to do this, Like this is crazy. But like now,
Speaker 1: like I have a lawyer who looks over every contract
Speaker 1: I do, so so yeah, definitely Carl's got me. Hello,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what I assumed. But I just wanted to
Speaker 1: I wanted to know, well, hey, listen, like I know
Speaker 1: that you probably and I and I totally get it.
Speaker 1: I can very much empathize with like, yes, I was
Speaker 1: on this Carl's Jr. Commercial, but like I'm so much
Speaker 1: more than that. But the truth of the matter is,
Speaker 1: and the same with me. You need some sort of
Speaker 1: way to get the fifteen minutes, and then you have
Speaker 1: to be talented and you have to be hard working
Speaker 1: to be able to continue the upward trend of your career,
Speaker 1: which you've done really really well. And you know, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of reality TV people on this show,
Speaker 1: but there's also a lot of a lot of actors,
Speaker 1: a lot of musicians, and everyone has a story of
Speaker 1: like listen, I needed a break and that was it.
Speaker 1: And so I think that that's cool that you had that,
Speaker 1: But I also think it's really impressive that you've continued
Speaker 1: forward momentum upwards. What was the next big thing after
Speaker 1: hold Well? I then I signed with U t A,
Speaker 1: the talent agency, and I think I kind of went in.
Speaker 1: I went in so naive and young, and they had
Speaker 1: put me on Dancing with the Stars like right after.
Speaker 1: And it was really bizarre because at the time, like
Speaker 1: when people brought up Dancing with the Stars at you know,
Speaker 1: no offense, but it was kind of like the like
Speaker 1: the hasbands and older you know people. But I guess
Speaker 1: that that that year they were you know, looking into
Speaker 1: people who like, we're trending and younger, and they had
Speaker 1: like me and Rumor Willis and um like this young
Speaker 1: actress and stuff like that. So so I did that. Um,
Speaker 1: but after that, I knew I didn't want to do
Speaker 1: anything in the reality space. I saw how like manipulous,
Speaker 1: like they just kind of pined me as this person
Speaker 1: and made me kind of like look a certain way.
Speaker 1: So I knew that that's not really not really what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. So it was kind of like
Speaker 1: the part of my career I don't I love to
Speaker 1: talk about or say I did, but you know, it
Speaker 1: is what it is, and you know, I got my
Speaker 1: name out there again. So well, I do have friends
Speaker 1: that have been on Dancing with the Stars. Actually I
Speaker 1: was on one episode and I was terrible. Stop you
Speaker 1: were Yeah, I was like a background dancer for my
Speaker 1: friend who was on. But I you know, contrary to
Speaker 1: the Carl's contract, I do remember that. Apparently the Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars contracts not that bad, So you know, totally,
Speaker 1: I mean that I knew. I definitely knew why with
Speaker 1: my agents at YouTube were pushing me through it like
Speaker 1: it wasn't a no brainer. But but yeah, I mean everything,
Speaker 1: everything in my career I think has been such a
Speaker 1: learning experience and like I'm grateful for any opportunity or
Speaker 1: any of those jobs too. I've learned from so many
Speaker 1: of those things. So but yeah, I mean I took
Speaker 1: it for what it was, got to learn the salsa
Speaker 1: and move on. Have you had the I've made it
Speaker 1: moment or are you one of those people that will
Speaker 1: never give yourself the credit that you probably really deserve.
Speaker 1: I am the person who will never give myself the
Speaker 1: credit even when I and I'm trying to learn to
Speaker 1: kind of live in the moment and be happy with
Speaker 1: what I have. But I still feel like right now
Speaker 1: I'm nowhere close to that. Especially with acting. I feel
Speaker 1: like every role has been pretty mediocre, So I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like I'm not really there yet. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm definitely trying to learn to be a little
Speaker 1: nicer to myself and congratulate myself self for the smaller things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm pretty hard on myself, and I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day that kind of put
Speaker 1: me to where I am and kind of keeps me motivated.
Speaker 1: What's something that you haven't done in your career that
Speaker 1: you want to do. I would love to just like
Speaker 1: have a reoccurring I mean, I've done a lot of films,
Speaker 1: but I would love to have just like a reoccurring
Speaker 1: TV role. I grew up watching like I still to
Speaker 1: this day. I love watching like Two and a half
Speaker 1: Men and things like that. I just love those little
Speaker 1: stupid like comedy thirty minutes shows like A Will and
Speaker 1: Grace or all that. Like I just I find that
Speaker 1: to be so fun. Those are all multicam sitcoms, so
Speaker 1: I know I know so and and you know i've
Speaker 1: I've I've read for some and I think that's something
Speaker 1: I find so fun and challenging at the same time.
Speaker 1: What's one piece of advice you'd give to somebody that
Speaker 1: you live by the help continue to be successful in
Speaker 1: your career. I would say what I always kind of
Speaker 1: told myself was just because one person says no, doesn't
Speaker 1: mean everyone else's. You know, my whole life is kind
Speaker 1: of these nose and nose and nose. And then I
Speaker 1: got that one. It's it's just about getting that one
Speaker 1: yes or that one person to see your vision, whether
Speaker 1: it's a product or it's you or anything. I think
Speaker 1: it's about just kind of not letting yourself get too
Speaker 1: hard on other people's opinion on you because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it doesn't really matter. So true, Um,
Speaker 1: I want to be respectful of your time, so I
Speaker 1: don't want to take up too much much more of it.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to end the show with with some
Speaker 1: rapid fire questions. Are you ready for that? Love it?
Speaker 1: Let's do it all right? Here we go rapid Fire
Speaker 1: Questions with Charlotte McKenny. Number one, what's one thing that's
Speaker 1: always in your fridge? Water? That's one thing that's on
Speaker 1: your bucket list? Um, invisibility or the ability to fly invisibility?
Speaker 1: Why Oh I would be so invisible and just do
Speaker 1: like shady things I could steal. I could go and
Speaker 1: listening on conversations. Oh, I could do so many things.
Speaker 1: You need to go read a book or like me,
Speaker 1: I listened. I listened to books. Um, there's an amazing
Speaker 1: book called The Visible Man, and it's all about this
Speaker 1: guy who makes an invisibility cloak effectively, and his whole
Speaker 1: thing is that he likes to go and just watch people.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing. What animals you wish you could talk to? Dogs,
Speaker 1: Physical trait you notice about someone you are attracted to.
Speaker 1: Last person you texted my mom, waffles, your pancakes neither?
Speaker 1: What's your breakfast go to? I don't. I just don't
Speaker 1: like waffles and pancakes. I just never got into it.
Speaker 1: I think I'm I don't know, I'd rather get like
Speaker 1: a smoothie bowl or something. I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: not a pancake person. I love my sweets. Though, do
Speaker 1: you believe in soulmates? Yes? Who is your childhood hero?
Speaker 1: My mom? Who's your celebrity crush? Paul? That is every
Speaker 1: woman's celebrity crush. It's amazing. Whether you were born in
Speaker 1: nineteen nine or whether you're born in two thousand and twelve,
Speaker 1: it's still Paul Rods. Do you have a nickname? And
Speaker 1: if you do, what is it and do you go
Speaker 1: by it? Yeah? Sharny. My parents, my sister, everyone I
Speaker 1: grew up with called me Sharnie. Favorite pizza topping? Um?
Speaker 1: Oh uh, normal cheese. Who's your first kiss? Oh god,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's a name. So that poor
Speaker 1: guy is listening to this and being like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you to save my life. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: because you know how you know how Pumpty is about
Speaker 1: that story in his life, Like, do you know how
Speaker 1: many times he's told that and you don't even remember him? Yeah? Sorry,
Speaker 1: can't celebrity. You've been mistaken for Taylor Swift actually when
Speaker 1: I was younger. Really, yeah, you're much shorter than her.
Speaker 1: Who would you call to get you out of jail?
Speaker 1: My dad? Who's the most famous first person in your
Speaker 1: cell phone? Oh? I'm not answering that, all right. When
Speaker 1: you win your oscar, who are you gonna think first?
Speaker 1: Everyone who told me no to keep me going? I
Speaker 1: love that. Really, that's on that. Charlotte, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being on the Welles cast. Really cool story
Speaker 1: it was. It was such a pleasure. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: I got to meet you. You're so handsome and kind
Speaker 1: and easy to talk to, so thanks for making that
Speaker 1: so fun, and I look forward to talk to you
Speaker 1: again soon. Yeah, one day we'll all actually be able
Speaker 1: to leave our houses and I'm sure i'll see you
Speaker 1: what some weird Hollywood party? And yeah, and I'm hoping
Speaker 1: to build up a podcast sometime soon too, so you'll
Speaker 1: you'll be one of my guests. I'd love to love it, alright,
Speaker 1: hon have a good one, all right, don't forget everybody.
Speaker 1: Go to a shop Bola dot com to find those
Speaker 1: fitness successories. Go to h The Good Chocolate dot com
Speaker 1: to get yourself the detox bar. Where do people follow
Speaker 1: you on social media? Just my name, Charlotte McKinney, nothing crazy,
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks so much, enjoyed the day. All the
Speaker 1: best to you. Buy well. She was lovely. I think
Speaker 1: that might be our first drop out of high school
Speaker 1: story for her man, she was able to make a
Speaker 1: dollar at a dime, and she's got modeling, she's got
Speaker 1: commercial work. She's in the fitness space, she's in the
Speaker 1: food space, she's an actress. You've done a lot. Pretty cool. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: that is it for me. Don't forget to follow Wells
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Speaker 1: thank everyone who told me no to keep me going. Alright, guys,
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