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In this searingly honest LGBTQ+ memoir, Maeve DuVally tells the story of
coming out transgender in one of the most high-profile financial institutions
in America, Goldman Sachs.When Maeve
DuVally came out as a transgender woman while working as a corporate
communications manager at one of the most renowned financial institutions in
America, she knew she couldn't do it quietly. She was, after all, the face of
Goldman Sachs. DuVally
intimately documents her struggle to be herself in this environment, initially
keeping her identity a secret with wardrobe changes in the lobby bathroom after
work. Eventually she declares herself and, to her surprise, Goldman Sachs
embraces the effort. Surgery follows. When DuVally
finally takes those first steps on heels through the corridors of this
institution on the way to her first meeting with her team as a woman, the
reader cheers. A New York Times story helped DuVally realize she could become a
role model for other transgender people in corporations and branded Goldman Sachs
as a model for corporations assisting their transitioning employees. Before she
found her courage, DuVally's life was mired in depression and unconscious
struggle. Raised in an Irish Catholic family with a sadistic pathologist
father, her upbringing dropped her―already damaged and feeling separate―into an
adulthood plagued by alcoholism. After a decade
in Japan, she returns to the US and prospers as a journalist and bank
communications specialist. Yet throughout, her personal life is in shambles,
leaving two marriages and three children in her wake. At Goldman Sachs in New
York, she ascends to a top communications position before her drinking begins
to encroach upon her work.
Finally,
DuVally hits bottom, becoming sober after a lifetime in and out of AA and
rehab. Clear at last, she begins to understand the source of her lifelong
struggle and takes the bold step to become the woman she is now.
coming out transgender in one of the most high-profile financial institutions
in America, Goldman Sachs.When Maeve
DuVally came out as a transgender woman while working as a corporate
communications manager at one of the most renowned financial institutions in
America, she knew she couldn't do it quietly. She was, after all, the face of
Goldman Sachs. DuVally
intimately documents her struggle to be herself in this environment, initially
keeping her identity a secret with wardrobe changes in the lobby bathroom after
work. Eventually she declares herself and, to her surprise, Goldman Sachs
embraces the effort. Surgery follows. When DuVally
finally takes those first steps on heels through the corridors of this
institution on the way to her first meeting with her team as a woman, the
reader cheers. A New York Times story helped DuVally realize she could become a
role model for other transgender people in corporations and branded Goldman Sachs
as a model for corporations assisting their transitioning employees. Before she
found her courage, DuVally's life was mired in depression and unconscious
struggle. Raised in an Irish Catholic family with a sadistic pathologist
father, her upbringing dropped her―already damaged and feeling separate―into an
adulthood plagued by alcoholism. After a decade
in Japan, she returns to the US and prospers as a journalist and bank
communications specialist. Yet throughout, her personal life is in shambles,
leaving two marriages and three children in her wake. At Goldman Sachs in New
York, she ascends to a top communications position before her drinking begins
to encroach upon her work.
Finally,
DuVally hits bottom, becoming sober after a lifetime in and out of AA and
rehab. Clear at last, she begins to understand the source of her lifelong
struggle and takes the bold step to become the woman she is now.