Ms. Sample: I’m pretty direct.
Ms. Powers: She’s direct. You have a very economical and mathematical approach.
How would you describe Brenda’s style?
Ms. Sample: Very compassionate; more understanding; is willing to take more time with someone. I do my thing and then I move on, and many times she’ll hang out and entertain.
Ms. Powers: That’s my background, my father was a diplomat for Switzerland. … You have to, some days, socialize—especially with Europeans. Like we have to go meet Jocelyn tonight, it’s a big to-do.
Jocelyn Wildenstein [the socialite famous for her feline plastic surgery]?
Ms. Sample: Brenda, please!
Ms. Powers: O.K., you don’t want to say. We can’t just meet over coffee, you have to go, it’s an art—you have to go out for Japanese.
Ms. Sample: And I want to go work out, get my nails done. I want to have a life besides just working and entertaining people. I want to go to the gym, I want to steam.
What do you fight about?
Ms. Powers: We were asked to go to a beautiful development in Bora Bora, but it’s hard to leave.
Ms. Sample: I would rather go someplace that’s closer than Bora Bora. We’re being asked to go for business, and I would like to go on vacation for pleasure.
Ms. Powers: But it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world—so if you could combine pleasure and work …
Ms. Sample: We’ll probably be in Bora Bora.
