Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce

Margie Goldsmith

Sep 2025 · BookLogix

About this ebook

Memoir, International Impact Awards Author of the Year Finalist, 2026,

American Legacy Awards, Finalist Nonfiction: Narrative 2026, Literary Titan Book Award, 2026,Winner, 2025 Book Excellence Awards

9.5 out of 10 Rating by The BookLife Prize: "A rich tapestry of valuable lessons, hard-won wisdom, and unexpected journeys."

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 and playing on stage. Her book is a riveting read for anyone who has ever felt "less than" and wished for a different existence. You can change your life.

Ratings and reviews

Becoming a Badass has pulse, nerve, and the weathered warmth of someone who has been through the worst rooms and still wants to tell you there’s a door. I’d recommend it to readers who like candid memoirs about difficult families, women reinventing themselves, late-life resilience, travel, writing, and the messy lifelong work of becoming less afraid. Its final gift is the feeling that fierceness doesn’t mean being unbreakable.

About the author

Margie Goldsmith, winner of the Society of American Travel Writers Gold Lowell Thomas Award and 100 other writing awards, has hiked, biked, climbed, paddled, and luxuriated in 150 countries on seven continents and written about them all for Travel + Leisure, Robb Report, Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, New York Times, and many others. She is a contributing writer for Wine, Dine and Travel, Food and Travel, and Business Jet Traveler. She specializes in experiential travel and interviews with CEOs, celebrities, and musicians, including Francis Ford Coppola, Sir Richard Branson, Gordon Ramsay, Harry Connick Jr., Robert Herjavec, and many others. Goldsmith is a triathlete and marathoner, has climbed to Advanced Base Camp of the north face of Mt. Everest, practices boxing, and plays blues harmonica. As a composer, lyricist, singer and blues harmonica player, she has released two albums: Margie Goldsmith and Friends" Parts 1 and 2. She has written three non-fiction books and one novel.