Maeve DuVally: On Becoming a Transgender Woman on Wall Street

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Maeve DuVally, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, tells WSJ's Veronica Dagher how she transitioned while working at a major financial firm and how she found her authentic self.

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0:17.0	Hi, it's Veronica Dagger, the host of the Wall Street Journal's Secrets of Wealthy Women.
0:26.7	The Podcast where Women Share How They Tackle Career, Money, and The World.
0:31.2	Today we're speaking with Maev Duvalley. She's a managing director of
0:34.9	corporate communications for the financial services giant Goldman Sachs. As a public
0:40.4	relations professional, she's spent her career managing the story, behind the scenes.
0:46.8	But last year, she became the story.
0:50.0	In a Wall Street world, traditionally known as a button down boys club,
0:54.0	Maeve came out as a transgender woman and transitioned on the job.
1:00.0	How she did it and how her company helped her along the way.
1:03.7	That's coming up.
1:06.3	Mave, when did your journey start?
1:08.2	My journey to come out at work all started in April.
1:11.0	I went and saw a transgender panel that Goldman Sachs hosted and they just
1:16.9	talked about some of the challenges transgender people face in their professional lives.
1:22.4	And up until that point point I was out in my personal life but I was not out in my work life and
1:27.0	As I watched that panel I made the decision to come out in my professional life. I immediately
1:35.3	contacted some people in our human resources department and we came up with a plan to help me come out at work.
1:43.7	And the day after Memorial Day,
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