About Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce by Margie Goldsmith
Blessed with an indefatigable spirit, insatiable curiosity, and unquenchable zest for life, Margie Goldsmith shares her inspiring journey from humble beginnings to remarkable success, refusing to let fear hold her back from living the life she wanted, never settling for anything less. Goldsmith is a role model for generations of women to live fearlessly.
Having survived a dysfunctional childhood, Goldsmith fled to Paris after college, living a glamorous life and marrying a blacklisted film director. Returning to the U.S., she divorced and established a successful film/video production company and married a NYC lawyer to celebrities. Tired of her corporate wife role, she divorced, rediscovered her twin passions of travel and fitness, and became a sought-after writer. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer followed by lung cancer, she continued to write travel, and challenge herself to do scary things including playing blues harmonica on stage. Her book is a riveting read for those who have felt “less than” and wished for a different existence. You can change your life.
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Author Bio:
Margie Goldsmith, author of her soon to be released memoir, Becoming a Badass: Fron Fearful to Fierce is also the author of two other nonfiction books: Masters of the Harmonica: 30 Harmonica Masters Share Their Craft and Alice Dalton Browne: Nocturnes and Diurnes: Recent Paintings. She is the author of Screwup, a novel.
She has published over 1,500 articles for Business Jet Traveler, Wine, Dine & Travel, Forbes.com, O the Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Pursuits, Robb Report, Saturday Evening Post, Travel and Leisure, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and many others. (See full bio here). She specializes in essays, experiential adventure, luxury travel, lifestyle, and CEO and celeb profiles, including of Francis Ford Coppola, Sean Penn, Harry Connick Jr., Sir Richard Branson, Robert Herjavac, Barbara Corcoran and many others.
Goldsmith’s stories have taken her to 150 countries on seven continents and have earned her 101 writing awards including the coveted Gold Lowell Thomas Travel Award from SATW and three Folio Eddie and Ozzie Awards (the largest awards competition in magazine publishing), Solas Award, NATJA Awards, Emmy Award and many others.
She has written about her experiences participating in an Olympic-distance triathlon in Cuba, climbing to Advanced Base Camp on Mt Everest, and teaching blues harmonica to Pygmies in Uganda and tribesmen of Papua New Guinea. She also writes about her hometown, New York City, especially her oasis, Central Park.
She writes for national and international magazines and newspapers, and her stories appear in anthologies: Traveler’s Tales, National Geographic’s Spiritual Journey, Chance Encounters, and London Essays.
She has written and recorded two albums, Margie Goldsmith and Friends, Parts 1 and 2 in which she also sings and plays blues harmonica,(available on Spotify and Apple Music). When visiting foreign countries, she gives away Hohner harmonicas to school children because, she says. “Music is a universal language, an ideal way to communicate with everyone. It’s my passport to the world.”