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Jamie Fiore Higgins became one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs. Spurred on by the obligation she felt to her working-class immigrant family, she rose through the ranks and saw it all: out-of-control, lavish parties flowing with never-ending drinks; affairs flouted in the office; rampant drug use; and most pervasively, a discriminatory culture that seemed designed to hold back the few women and people of color employed at the company.<\/p>\n
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Jamie is available for book group discussion! <\/span><\/a> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Poppins|300|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.8em” text_font_size_tablet=”20px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Despite Goldman Sachs having the right talking points and statistics, Fiore Higgins soon realized that these provided a veneer to cover up what she found to be an abusive culture. Her account is one filled with shocking stories of harassment and jaw-dropping tales of exclusionary behavior: when she was told she only got promoted because she is a woman; when her coworkers mooed at her after she pumped for her fourth child, defying the superior who had advised her not to breastfeed; or when a male boss used a racial epithet in front of her, other colleagues, and clients without any repercussions.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Poppins|300|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.8em” text_font_size_tablet=”20px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Bully Market<\/strong> sounds the alarm on the culture of finance and corporate America, while offering clear, actionable ideas for creating a fairer workplace. Both a revealing, extraordinary look at the industry and a top Wall Streeter\u2019s explosive personal story, Bully Market<\/strong> is an essential account of one woman\u2019s experience in a flawed system that speaks to the challenge and urgency for change.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f7f7f7″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Playfair Display||||||||” text_text_color=”#A31916″ text_font_size=”45px” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”45px” text_font_size_phone=”35px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.5em” 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A brave and vivid portrait of a destructive corporate culture and toxic sexism and the terrifying toll it took on Higgins and her family.” <\/p>\n “On Wall\u00a0Street, it\u2019s unusual to make it into the club of Goldman managing directors, as she [Jamie Fiore Higgins] did in 2012, and almost unheard of to tell the world what goes on there. The book will make Fiore Higgins one of the most senior people to do it.” <\/p>\n “In her debut memoir, Fiore Higgins mounts a scathing critique of the sexist, racist, homophobic, and elitist culture pervading Goldman Sachs… A disturbing portrait of power and greed.” <\/p>\n “One of America\u2019s leading financial institutions is rife with misogyny, homophobia, and racism, according to this scintillating expos\u00e9… a persuasive warning that Wall Street still has a long way to go to become a more human and equitable workplace.” <\/p>\n “Jamie Fiore Higgins\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Bully Market<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>is a riveting and powerful story of one woman\u2019s experience in finance, as she climbs the corporate ladder amidst harassment and discrimination. You might argue that this book isn\u2019t even about Goldman Sachs, but about the behaviors and patterns we\u2019re willing to accept across all of corporate America.” <\/p>\n “Jamie Fiore Higgins\u2019s entrancing firsthand account of her time as a high-up managing director at Goldman Sachs is a breath of fresh air\u2014not for the stories of abuse and discrimination, which are maddening\u2014but for the overdue chance to finally bring the truth to light. With grace and precision, she shows the hypocrisy of finance and how it and other industries can, and must, change for the next generation.” <\/p>\n “Bully Market<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>is essential to understanding the power dynamics at play in one of the most influential and powerful industries in the world. It\u2019s shocking, saddening, and infuriating by turn, but empowering in the way that it imagines what the future of the workplace can look like.” <\/p>\n “Bully Market\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>exposes the #MeToo movement’s unfinished work on Wall Street and should be required reading in the Goldman Sachs C-Suite. Working women will see themselves in Jamie Fiore Higgins’ seering story, cheering on the daughter of immigrants and mother of four as she overcomes misogyny and discrimination to become a Managing Director at the storied firm. From assault to punishing women for becoming mothers,\u00a0<\/span>Bully Market<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>shines a bright light on Goldman’s broken culture and all of corporate America’s failure to keep its promises to women\u2014and challenges business leaders to heed Higgins’ call for transformative change and equality.” <\/p>\n “In this engrossing book, Fiore Higgins takes us on her turbulent journey from a working class immigrant family to an unprincipled upper echelon of Wall Street. Her personal story exposes the sickening pull of money in a society devoid of a safety net and wired for profit maximization, and the misogynistic, racist, and homophobic work environment it fuels.\u00a0<\/span>Bully Market<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>is an urgent call to rectify economic systems that create extreme inequality and workplace cultures that talk a good game but remain destructive for anyone who does not ‘fit the mold’.” [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Excerpt” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” toggle_level=”h3″ open=”off”]<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe money hit,\u201d I said, pointing to the credit in the online ledger. My husband, Dan, stood over my shoulder as I sat at the kitchen table. This early in the morning, the room was quiet, the kids still asleep. I felt his warm breath on my neck and smelled the coffee brewing on the counter.<\/p>\n \u201cCongratulations,\u201d he said. \u201cYou ready to leave?\u201d I looked at the new balance in my account. Even though it was late January, it was Christmas morning at Goldman Sachs. Our yearly bonuses had been paid overnight.<\/p>\n This was a huge windfall, a sinful excess. I knew I worked hard, but so did many others. I felt guilty making so much\u2014forty times more than my cleaning person, twenty times more than my kids\u2019 teachers, and ten times more than my doctor. My income covered me with a mix of satisfaction and shame.<\/p>\n I also knew my bonus wasn\u2019t without strings. Goldman wanted even more from me. The bonus was a carrot and my managing director (MD) title, although I\u2019d earned it years before, was an IOU. Only the top 8 percent of Goldman employees achieved this rank, and the firm expected more from me than ever. I owed them my days, nights, and life. If I chose to stay, today started another year. Another 365 days of hardly seeing my family, another 365 days of working in a culture where those in power created a racist, sexist, and intolerant environment, another 365 days where the Goldman gods would dangle the next bonus over my head. No amount of money was worth it. I\u2019d almost lost my family in the process of getting to where I was, and I very nearly lost myself.<\/p>\n \u201cToday\u2019s the day,\u201d I declared.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ll be shocked,\u201d Dan observed as the ice-covered branches of the sycamore outside tapped against our kitchen window.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe,\u201d I said, \u201cbut there\u2019ll be a dozen guys chomping at the bit for my job.\u201d I couldn\u2019t blame them, Goldman was a kill-or-be-killed world, and my departure would be someone\u2019s golden opportunity. One would take my place, but none would resemble me in the slightest, except for probably being white. My replacement would inevitably be single, male, childless. As a woman\u2014a mom of four, no less\u2014I had never fit their mold. \u201cLet\u2019s just review the sheet one last time,\u201d I tried to reassure myself. Dan sat next to me at the table as I pulled up the financial planning spreadsheet we dubbed the \u201cSpreadsheet of Freedom.\u201d I\u2019d calculated everything we \u2019d need to supplement Dan\u2019s income as he built his business. I was hard-wired to imagine catastrophe, something my husband of twelve years knew well. He patiently read out our expenses, line by line, and went over our Plan B and Plan C, in case we were hit with something unexpected. The spreadsheet was bulletproof. I had my freedom, if only I had the guts to take it. You can only leave Goldman once echoed in my head, the refrain I\u2019d heard countless times during my eighteen-year career there.<\/p>\n With a little distance, I would come to realize that I was just the candidate to fall for this warped world. Starting my career at Goldman without any connections, I felt pressure to be financially successful for my entire immigrant family, for my grandfather who took his life when he couldn\u2019t make ends meet, for my parents who\u2019d sacrificed. And with the cloak of defectiveness stemming from childhood health issues, I was determined to refute any \u201cyou\u2019ll never\u201d doubts that I confronted, to prove that I was just as whole as the next person. Not only would I show that I could fit into this foreign land of high finance and privileged access I had never experienced before, much less the many types of discrimination I witnessed and then became a part of, I would prove to Goldman and myself that I could climb the ranks to claim one of Wall Street\u2019s most elusive and exclusive titles.<\/p>\n But now I finally had clarity to break this abusive cycle, and knew what I had to do. I could experience the firsts of my baby, Hannah, help the girls with their homework, and pick Luke up from preschool. I was lucky enough to be able to take a sabbatical from work to reflect on what I had just been a part of and have the opportunity to think about what I\u2019d want to do next with my life. I closed the laptop and grabbed my workbag.<\/p>\n \u201cOkay,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Discussion Guide” open=”on” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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Next Big Ideas Club\u2019s Nominee<\/b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\u2014Booklist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Bloomberg<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Gretchen Carlson, Acclaimed Journalist, Co-Founder Lift Our Voices, Female Empowerment Advocate<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Emily Chang, author of\u00a0<\/span>Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys\u2019 Club of Silicon Valley<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and host of Bloomberg Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Linda Babcock, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University and bestselling author of\u00a0<\/span>The No Club<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Ask for It<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Meighan Stone, former president of the Malala Fund and author of\u00a0<\/span>Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro, authors of\u00a0<\/span>Power, for All<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nIntroduction<\/h3>\n
After years of looking at my life through Goldman\u2019s warped lens, after years of tolerating and perpetuating harassment and abuse, after years of complying with its sexist and outdated culture, after years of questioning who I was and what I deserved, I was ready to quit it all. I was ready to stop being complicit in a broken system and instead reclaim myself and my family.
I couldn\u2019t rewind the clock and choose a different first job. I couldn\u2019t go back and launch a career that fulfilled me and re- flected my values. Or start with a role that had more purpose and balance, so I might have been able to see the first steps of my twins, Abby and Beth, or hear my son Luke\u2019s first words. But I could enjoy my life and my family now. I could find a new career path where I could make a difference in the world and help and support others, instead of making rich people richer.<\/p>\n