Erin Callan's Never Going Back

摘要

When Erin Callan, the former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers, moved out of her 6,000-square-foot house in East Hampton, N.Y., in May, she and her husband parked a dumpster out front to collect the overflow of a dramatic downsizing. Callan was five years into a transition from one of the most visible and maligned executives on Wall Street to an unemployed person with regular, human-size living spaces, albeit ones with ocean views. "I had a great career," she says, sitting on the terrace of her small cottage on Shelter Island, N.Y., where she and her husband, Anthony Montella, now live part of the year, when they aren't in Sanibel, Fla. In a sundress and wind-swept hair, she's worlds away from her high-gloss Lehman persona. "It was exhilarat-ing, really. I got to travel the world. I got to meet some incredi-bly neat people from all walks of life. And that's something I've really tried to learn how to hold on to, and not let what was a very troubled last six months overwhelm it."