Wolf Hustle, Cin Fabre
Wolf Hustle, Cin Fabre
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Wolf Hustle
A Black Woman on Wall Street

Author: Cin Fabré

Narrator: Cin Fabré

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom—at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the wolves of Wall Street.

Growing up, Cin Fabré didn’t know anything about the stock market. But she learned how to hustle from her immigrant parents, saving money so that one day she could escape her abusive father and poverty in the Bronx.

Through a tip from a friend, Cin pushed her way into brokerage firm VTR Capital—an offshoot of Stratton Oakmont, the company where the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, had reigned. She was shocked to find an army of young workers, mostly Black and Brown, with no real prospects for promotion sitting at phones doing the drudge work of finding investment leads for white male brokers. But she felt the pull of profit and knew she would do whatever she had to do to be successful.

Pulling back the curtain on the inequities she and so many others faced, Wolf Hustle reveals how Cin worked grueling hours, ascending from cold caller to stockbroker, becoming the only Black woman to do so at her firm. She also discloses the excesses she took part in on 1990s Wall Street—the strip clubs, the Hamptons parties, the Gucci shopping sprees—while reveling in the thrill of making money.

From landing clients worth hundreds of millions to gaining, losing, then gaining back fortunes in seconds, Cin examines her years spent trading frantically and hustling successfully, grappling with what it takes to build a rich life, and, ultimately, beating Wall Street at its own game.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

About Cin Fabré

Cin Fabré is a New Yorker born and raised in the South Bronx and Queens. At the age of nineteen, she joined a brokerage house on Wall Street, eventually becoming a high-earning broker at a top firm, before leaving in search of a more meaningful life. Today, she divides her time between New York City and Europe and enjoys spending time with her four children. Wolf Hustle is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachelle on September 20, 2022

I loved Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabre. This is a non-fiction Cin wrote about her life. The book starts out describing what growing up in the projects was like for a child of Haitian immigrants. She talks about the abuse received at the hands of her parents. At nineteen, she......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on August 09, 2022

Now here's a 'rags-to-riches' story if there ever was one... This is one hell of a great read...from the projects to the boardroom... this book covers the bases... And Cin Fabre is great at telling this story... Just a fascinating read...one of those types of books you can't put down... Highly Recommende......more

Goodreads review by Jamele (BookswithJams) on November 14, 2022

What an amazing memoir! I always love books where the author has an impossibly tough background to overcome and yet somehow does, and Cin Fabré not only has one of the roughest, hardest backgrounds I’ve read about in a while and yet she not only overcomes that but decides to keep going and take on a......more

Goodreads review by Kelly {SpaceOnTheBookcase] on October 12, 2022

Wolf Hustle catalogs the childhood of Cin Fabré, a Haitian-American growing up in New York. After barely getting through high school she finds herself a cold caller for a “Chop Shop” on Wall Street and uses her intelligence and grit to rise within the ranks. In 1990s Wall Street most people don’t lo......more

Goodreads review by John on September 08, 2022

An absolutely inspiring story on how to take on and completely overcome adversity. Cin’s story and tone can be heard vividly by reading. Anyone who ever complained about being held back needs to read this book as it’s a manual on how to take life by the horns and make it yours!......more


Quotes

“What an amazing voice! What a clear-eyed and powerful story! Wow! She takes us back into her Haitian roots, through her life as a young person, and into the bowels of Wall Street to shine a deep and thoughtful light on everything from the Black immigrant experience in America to capitalism. Everyone needs to read this.”
Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone

“Long before the culture of Silicon Valley came to power, the Wall Street ‘bros’ established a business culture that lives for money, prizes excess and debauchery, and excludes women and people of color. In Wolf Hustle, Cin Fabré offers an engrossing and unflinching portrait of surviving and succeeding in an arena dominated by men, adding a welcome and necessary voice to the story of the financial foundation of America.”
Emily Chang, author of Brotopia

“Extraordinary, electrifying and wholly inspiring, Wolf Hustle is a study in untamed audacity. Cin Fabré’s rebellious journey from a working class neighborhood to the peaks of Wall Street is a blueprint on boldly beating odds and daring to defy.”
Zain E. Asher, anchor for CNN International and author of Where the Children Take Us

“Fabré recounts the highs and lows in vivid detail—as with descriptions of the unrelenting sexual harassment she faced—and the author’s exuberance is contagious. . . . The result is as memorable as it is inspiring.”
Publishers Weekly

“In her zesty debut memoir, the author recounts her surprising journey from roach-filled public housing to becoming one of the 'youngest Black female stockbrokers.' . . . A stark exposé of Wall Street’s corrupt underside and an inspiring story of overcoming adversity.”
Kirkus