How Lehman Collapse Made Me Thankful and Changed My Life

I had just gone to the doctor with Natalie.  She had to have blood drawn and was very nervous about getting some blood drawn. I met her there to help her relax.  I didn't know what to do so I told her every joke I knew for 45 minutes in the waiting room. 

 She walked me back to my Soho office and on the way, we saw a cyclist killed in the very same intersection I ride through every day. The next day she asked me why I didn't say anything to her about the Lehman collapse.  Even though I left Lehman three years earlier, she knew I'd lost all my executive compensation, pension, stock and my other investments were down my almost half.  Basically, my financial future changed forever.  "In didn't seem relevant at the time.  In the end, what I lost didn't seem to make much difference relative to what that bicycle messenger lost that day."

The Lehman collapse changed my life, my finances and my perspective.  I wrote a piece for The Panelist.  It was picked up by Seeking Alpha and Huffington Post.