Jane Buyers: On Walking Away From Wall Street

Jane Buyers was working four blocks from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Seven years later, she made the final margin call on Lehman Brothers as the financial system moved toward collapse. Those two Septembers became the bookends of her memoir, Eight Septembers: A Woman on Wall Street from 9/11 to Lehman. But the historic events are only the external story. During those years, Jane lost both parents, watched her marriage unravel, and reached the limits of a life built around competence, compliance, and external validation.We discuss the way professional success can conceal personal misalignment and the inner work that made the memoir possible. Purchase Eight Septembers here: Eightseptembers.comFollow Jane here: Janebuyers.com