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“Curiosity and humility are the only things that change toxic workplaces, and they have to come from the top.” Jamie Fiore Higgins
In this episode of 15 with Fosca, I sit down with Jamie Fiore Higgins, former Goldman Sachs executive and author of Bully Market, for an honest conversation about power, ambition, identity, and the quiet damage toxic workplaces can do.
Jamie shares what it was like rising to the top of Wall Street as one of the few women in the room, and how a culture built on silence, fear, and performance slowly reshaped her sense of self. We talk about how environments normalize behavior we never imagined accepting, how money complicates moral clarity, and why leaving can feel more terrifying than staying.
We also explore what it took for Jamie to write Bully Market, the reactions it sparked, and why telling the full truth, including her own complicity, mattered.
This is a conversation about success, survival, who we become inside powerful systems, and what it takes to reclaim your voice after you leave.
Biography
Jamie Fiore Higgins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. One of just 8 percent of Goldman employees to earn the managing director title, she was the highest-ranking woman in her department. An active member of the Women’s Network Committee, Fiore Higgins spent her workdays running the trainee and internship programs, recruiting, and managing top equity clients and $96 billion in stock. Living in New Jersey with her husband and four children, she is a trained coach, working with teens to hone their leadership skills, high school, and college graduates as they begin careers, professionals as they navigate the workforce, and those in midlife looking to reinvent themselves. Jamie was named one of the Financial Times “Top 25 Most Influential Women of 2022!”
Links
https://jamiefiorehiggins.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jamiefiorehiggins/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiefiorehiggins/
https://www.amazon.com/Bully-Market-Story-Misogyny-Goldman-ebook/dp/B09RX3V7XB?ref_=ast_author_mpb
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22209744.Jamie_Fiore_Higgins
https://x.com/JFioreHiggins
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Podcast Producer: Andrew Niklas Curtis
Production Intern: Nicole Stevens
Recording and post-production Lorenzo Maiani, Faminore Sound Agency
By Fosca D'Acierno“Curiosity and humility are the only things that change toxic workplaces, and they have to come from the top.” Jamie Fiore Higgins
In this episode of 15 with Fosca, I sit down with Jamie Fiore Higgins, former Goldman Sachs executive and author of Bully Market, for an honest conversation about power, ambition, identity, and the quiet damage toxic workplaces can do.
Jamie shares what it was like rising to the top of Wall Street as one of the few women in the room, and how a culture built on silence, fear, and performance slowly reshaped her sense of self. We talk about how environments normalize behavior we never imagined accepting, how money complicates moral clarity, and why leaving can feel more terrifying than staying.
We also explore what it took for Jamie to write Bully Market, the reactions it sparked, and why telling the full truth, including her own complicity, mattered.
This is a conversation about success, survival, who we become inside powerful systems, and what it takes to reclaim your voice after you leave.
Biography
Jamie Fiore Higgins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. One of just 8 percent of Goldman employees to earn the managing director title, she was the highest-ranking woman in her department. An active member of the Women’s Network Committee, Fiore Higgins spent her workdays running the trainee and internship programs, recruiting, and managing top equity clients and $96 billion in stock. Living in New Jersey with her husband and four children, she is a trained coach, working with teens to hone their leadership skills, high school, and college graduates as they begin careers, professionals as they navigate the workforce, and those in midlife looking to reinvent themselves. Jamie was named one of the Financial Times “Top 25 Most Influential Women of 2022!”
Links
https://jamiefiorehiggins.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jamiefiorehiggins/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiefiorehiggins/
https://www.amazon.com/Bully-Market-Story-Misogyny-Goldman-ebook/dp/B09RX3V7XB?ref_=ast_author_mpb
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22209744.Jamie_Fiore_Higgins
https://x.com/JFioreHiggins
Share, like, comment, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Podcast Producer: Andrew Niklas Curtis
Production Intern: Nicole Stevens
Recording and post-production Lorenzo Maiani, Faminore Sound Agency