In 2014, when Wakeen purchased her club, she implemented just a few, but telling, upgrades—installing new carpeting and new toilets. “We put in these extraordinary, amazing, power-flush toilets, since we were constantly having problems with the old ones,” she says. “We still get tons of compliments about them. “I never thought women would be so pleased by something as basic as a toilet flush!” she says. If the plumbing isn’t working, she adds, no one will be happy.
