Becoming a Badass
From Fearful to Fierce
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Margie Goldsmith
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Margie Goldsmith
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The inspiring true story of writer Margie Goldsmith and her solutions for anyone who has ever felt "less than." Margie 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 US, she divorced and established a successful film/video production company and married a NYC lawyer to celebrities. Tiring 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 at the peak of her career, followed by lung cancer and more complications, she continued to write, travel, and challenge herself to do scary things including learning blues harmonica on stage. Her book is a riveting listen for anyone who has ever felt "less than" and wished for a different existence. You CAN change your life.
©2025 Margie Goldsmith (P)2025 Margie GoldsmothAs a leadership storyteller and host of The Quiet Warrior Show, I read a lot of books about resilience and reinvention. Very few feel as lived in and unvarnished as “Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce” by Margie Goldsmith.
Margie does not present herself as a flawless hero. She begins in the messy garden of a family shaped by mental illness, addiction and loss, and lets us see how those early conditions taught her to feel “less than.” She could have stayed there. Instead, she takes us along as she buys a one way ticket to Paris, learns the language of film, builds and leaves marriages, and step by step discovers that her real compass is curiosity and courage.
What moved me most was the way she writes about fear. Whether she is climbing toward Everest’s Advanced Base Camp, learning harmonica at seventy or sitting in a room hearing the words stage four cancer, she does not posture or pretend. She lets us into the doubt and the dark yet always comes back to a very practical question. What is the next small brave thing I can do.
The garden metaphor that runs through the book is simple and powerful. By naming each family member and herself as a different flower, she shows how we can honour where we came from without letting it define who we become. It is a tool I can see leaders, parents and anyone doing inner work using in their own lives.
If you have ever felt stuck in a role someone else chose for you, if you have ever wondered whether it is “too late” to start something new, this book is worth your time. Margie’s story is proof that badassery is not about age or adrenaline. It is about telling yourself the truth, choosing your own path and continuing to expand, even when fear rides shotgun.
For me, as a reader and as a host, this is a clear five star read and a book I will be talking about on and off the mic for a long time.
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