TimmyDaddy

By Tim Sullivan

People are shocked when I tell them that my wife Kristen is actually older than me. Shocked! Granted, this is untrue by a couple years but mostly it is because she’s been using this Rodan and Fields skin care regimen and looks amazing. But when she said she was thinking of joining the team and selling the products, too, I winced a little. There’s a short but embarrassing chapter from my college days that has to do with skin care products and multi-level marketing. So let’s just keep this between you and me, OK?

I had a high school friend named Fred who was a year ahead of me at Boston College. So when I and another friend from high school, Arun, enrolled at BC we were lucky to have Fred around to take us to things like off-campus parties that typically excluded freshman nerds. Fred was gregarious and popular, and had a way of elevating the most mundane aspects of college life into something spectacular. ‘You gotta see this! Look how neatly Dave folds his laundry. It’s incredible!’

So when Fred started selling a product called NU SKIN and thought that it would be a great opportunity for me and Arun as well, we agreed to listen. Fred bubbled over with the same excitement he had the first time he took me to Nick’s Beef and Beer House. He