STEEPED: ADVENTURES OF A TEA ENTREPRENEUR

Isolated, broke, and restless in a drafty mountain A-frame with colicky twins, Brook Eddy needed a path out. This is the story of one woman’s passionate spirit and how it transformed despair into entrepreneurial success.  

STEEPED: Adventures Of A Tea Entrepreneur is the story of how Brook built a socially conscious multi-million dollar tea company with a fierce devotion to feminism and sustainability. Part business memoir, part India travelogue, STEEPED is brimming with provocative prose, transcendent images of travel throughout India, and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

From forearms slashed with scalding burns, to the unseen sting of stress, depression, and near bankruptcy—Brook’s story is one of love, loss, and unrelenting resilience.

STEEPED is a testament that while you don’t need an MBA, a trust fund, a husband, or a business plan to bring an idea to market, you do need to withstand hot water, which like tea, will make you stronger.

An entirely splendid, small-business saga, wearing a neo-hippie grin, shot through with intoxicating amounts of cardamom and all wrapped up in a dizzying, sexed-up love letter to Mother India. In turns inspiring, funny, and heartbreaking as it underscores the spurious excitement and stunning cruelty of  trying to create an honest brand within the ruthless machinery of American capitalism. Brook’s powerful, woman-owned travelogue of love and motherhood, self-discovery and gut instinct, has all the ingredients to ensure you’ll never taste her company’s exquisite chai the same way again.

Mark Morford, Former Columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle and Author of The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism 

Put Brook Eddy in hot water and her inner essence blooms. She’s a talented writer, a self-taught entrepreneur, and encourager of women worldwide. Brook is an inspiration and if you want to be inspired, make a cup of her kick-ass tea and settle in with her words and wisdom.  

Joan Borysenko, PhD, New York Times Bestselling Author of Minding the Body,
Mending the Mind