Before leaving that day, he told her to determine her consulting fee. When the two reconvened a few weeks later, she was still in the throes of postpartum hormones and only getting a few hours of sleep per night, with the baby waking up constantly. She couldn't bring herself to utter the proposed figure, for fear it would seem ridiculously large. González, however, assumed she was playing hardball, so he scribbled something down on a piece of paper and passed it to her. "He had added a ZERO at the end of the amount I was about to ask for," she said, her eyes widening. "I put on my best poker face, but as soon as he left, my entire team and I started hugging each other. It was as if we'd won the lottery."
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