For more than a year, Terri O'Connell has been tireless in her pursuit of a sponsor. She spends hours on the phone daily. She spends even longer preparing and mailing proposals, trying to come up with the money she needs to resume her career as a race car driver.
Every sell is a hard one.
No one's pitch, though, is more difficult to make than O'Connell's. They all have declined politely, but repeatedly. No one has said O'Connell's sex change was the deciding factor, but she has her suspicions. People don't understand my situation. And so, day after day, O'Connell works the phones and knocks on doors.