June 2021
Beginner
304 pages
5h 56m
English
The tampons were piled up in the middle of the long conference table. Outside, the deep-blue Pacific Ocean sparkled in the distance beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows. Sitting around the table were not Girl Scouts in a middle school health class, but a dozen tan, buff alpha males. Shifting in their chairs like they had ants in their designer jeans, they looked up; they looked out; they looked down; they looked anywhere except directly at the scary sticks of feminine dynamite directly in front of them.
It was 2013 in Newport Beach, California, and I found myself smack-dab in the middle of my very own real-life Shark Tank moment. Except there was no Lori. Or Sara. Or even Barbara. Instead, the room was full of dudes ...