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Award-winning travel writer and bestselling author, Margie Goldsmith at 81 years old

Austin Tang — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:00:35 +0000

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Award-winning travel writer and bestselling author, Margie Goldsmith? At 81 years old, she’s still going strong – traveling the world, boxing for sport and interviewing a long list of celebrities, chefs, athletes, musicians and more.

In her new memoir, Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce (Booklogix, September 30, 2025), Margie is a testament to the adage “no one is going to make your life for you.” Her story is one of adventure and resilience. It’s about living life on your terms and living it fearlessly. She speaks to anyone looking to overcome a sense of powerlessness in any given situation, whether that’s a dysfunctional family, a marriage/relationship, or a career, and to anyone who has ever felt “less than.” In an interview, Margie Goldsmith can talk about:

Her move to Paris after college, living a glamorous life and marrying a blacklisted film director
Her love of travel — becoming a travel writer and visiting 150 countries on seven continents, including Uganda, The Marquesas, South Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Oman, Cuba, Tibet, Nepal, Borneo, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Easter Island, Croatia, Namibia, the Arctic and Antarcticat
How the Outward Bound program changed her life: Physical activity is her passion and she has completed marathons and Olympic distance triathlons, summited Mount Rainier, and climbed to Advanced Base Camp on the north face of Mount Everest
Learning to play the harmonica and recorded two albums with America’s most award-winning blues band
Coming from a family of suicide (her father), incest, schizophrenia (her sister Kathy), manic depression and alcoholism (both parents) and how that has shaped her life
Surviving stage four pancreatic cancer and later, lung cancer

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Margie Goldsmith is a New York City-based adventure, luxury, lifestyle and profile writer. She is a contributor to Business Jet Traveler, Wine, Dine & Travel and Food & Travel. Her articles appear in Forbes.com, Travel + Leisure, Robb Report, National Geographic Traveler, Coastal Living, Virtuoso, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Garden and Gun, Organic Spa, Ultimate Experiences and others.

She is the author of four books: Screw-Up; Alice Dalton Browne: Nocturnes and Diurnes; Masters of the Harmonica: 30 Harmonica Masters Share Their Craft (#1 bestseller on Amazon). Her newest book is her memoir, Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce. Her essays appear in Travelers Tales, The Walker Within, In Search of Adventure, National Geographic’s Spiritual Journeys, GoNomad’s London Reader, and Chance Encounters.

Goldsmith has won 101 writing awards including the coveted Lowell Thomas SATW Gold Award, Lowell Thomas Bronze Journalist of the Year Award, four Eddie and Ozzie Folio Awards, and multiple honors from ASJA, NATJA, the Solas Award, Travel Classics Award, and OWAA. For more information, please visit https://margiegoldsmith.com/.

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Mastersoftheharmonica

#MargieGoldsmith

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Thought for the Day…03/06/26

Austin Tang — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:29:45 +0000

Good morning friends.

” Stay Strong

When life gives you a hundred reasons to break and cry, Show life

That you have a million reasons to smile and laugh.”

Have a great day. Stay blessed always. Keep Smiling and Laugh with positive attitude.

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Thought for the Day…07/10/24

Austin Tang — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:01:47 +0000

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Michael Strong is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States & Georgia Nomikos Humanitarian

Austin Tang — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:28:18 +0000

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Michael Strong is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States. His projects include a public school program in which minority female students gained four years’ worth of critical thinking gains in four months (on the Watson-Glaser). He later went into Montessori secondary school program design at The Judson Montessori School (San Antonio), The Emerson School, and Hacienda School. He created The Winston Academy, where middle school students passed AP exams, making it the most academically advanced school in the country at the time.
Another of Michael’s projects, Moreno Valley High School, a Paideia charter high school, was ranked the 36th-best U.S. public high school by Newsweek. More recently he co-founded KoSchool in Austin, Texas, which combined his high-performance approach to AP coursework and SAT score gains with a focus on entrepreneurial and creative projects. KoSchool, in turn, became the original model for The Academy of Thought and Industry, the high school model for the largest Montessori network in the United States.
Students from Michael’s schools have been admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, Smith, Bard, Bennington, McGill, UT-Austin, University of Colorado, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Parsons School of Design, Quest, St. John’s and many dozens of other post-secondary institutions.
He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.

Michael Strong Founder and CEO m: 7033950413
e: michael@socraticexperience.com

The Socratic Experience
www.socraticexperience.com

Georgia Nomikos, founder, and president of Pan Logos Foundation is an “Advocate for Hellenic & Intercultural Dialogue”. Her passion and dedication to giving back to humanity has fulfilled her long life’s dream of establishing Pan Logos Foundation. A mission that unites humanity through education and the eternal ancient Hellenic Ethos and Ideals.

Born in Hellas and raised in New York City, Georgia’s Hellenic values permeate everything she does. She is a strong advocate for universal education and is dedicated to promoting the intellectual freedom that comes with it. {Intellectual freedom, Georgia believes, is a necessary condition for the empowerment that will enrich life for all and foster a healthy sustainable planet for the future.} She actively serves on various boards whose mission runs parallel to her passion, vision, and goals.

In Addition, she is president and founder of Orpheus Luxury Collection Inc. a specialty travel and events company based in New York City, with over 40years of experience.

Georgia is dedicated first and foremost to her daughter and second to the betterment of humanity.

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GoodNewsLetter: 3/22/23 World Water Day VIRTUAL Press Conference 12 Noon, 4/22 Earth & Water Day Times Square

Austin Tang — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:44:42 +0000

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Our Good News is that some special funders/sponsors have joined us and we will be sharing information with you on March 20 Special Newsletter. We still need …$25,000 for our Mother Earth ~ Earth & Water Day Times Square Event. We have a great corporate ROI opportunity for any ESG, CSR, DEI company or PSR (Personal Social Responsibility/Respect) for any person or philanthropist. UNIFY to broadcast, with 130 Million Facebook Reach Followers. 5 Hour LIVE World Wide Broadcast. Other Media to Broadcast as well.

SAVE THE DATE AND TIME: MOTHER EARTH – EARTH & WATER DAY TIMES SQUARE, Saturday April 22, 2023 11am to 4pm.

Here is our latest Sizzle Reel from our International Day of Peace Times Square Event on September 21, 2022. Our Mother Earth – Earth & Water Day April 22, will look exactly like this, same stage and crew, however the subject is Earth & Water Day. http://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2023/01/17/2022-peace-day-sizzle-reel/ Our website once again is: www.pausetheworldforpeace.org

Remember, “A Positive Attitude will take on all challenges.” We, hope that this is everyone’s motto for 2023, you can do it if you focus on your GOALS & PASSION. WE BELIEVE IN YOU. In addition, try to Flow like water & you will find your way through ANY ROCK.

WE ARE BLESSED.

“All we are is what we are with each other.” Zeal

With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth, For Information

Contact:

Paul Sladkus,

Founder, Good News Corporation 501 C 3 212 647 1212

paul.sladkus@goodnewsbroadcast.com

and our Good News and Peace Worldwide Team who make our Peace

Day 9/21 and Good News happen.

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LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

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Thought for the day 03/07/2023

Austin Tang — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:56:49 +0000

SECRET OF MIND

When mind is weak,
Situation is a problem.
When mind is balanced,
Situation is challenge.
When mind is strong,
Situation becomes an opportunity.

Good Morning

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Thought for the Day…02/03/23

Austin Tang — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:57:14 +0000

Be bold enough to use your

voice, brave enough to listen

to your heart and strong

enough to live the life

you’ve always imagined.

#thoughtfortheday #bold #enough #voice #brave #listen #heart #strong #live #life #imagine

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Did you Know? In Life We Have so much to learn..Good News

Austin Tang — Wed, 05 May 2021 16:09:45 +0000

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1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you, Wear nice shoes.
2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there’s a 50% chance you’ll die within the next 3 years.
3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There’s a 9% chance that you’ll meet one of them in your lifetime.
4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.
5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.
6. If a part of your body “falls asleep”, you can almost always “wake it up” b shaking your head.
7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing – Food, attractive people and danger.
8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side.
9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the odour.
10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear form earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.
11. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.
13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.
14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.
15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia.
16. Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!
17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!
18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell!!
19. Stomach acid (conc. HCI) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!
20. SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

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Thought for the Day…

Austin Tang — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:44:12 +0000

Welcome JULY
May this month bring you
satisfaction, peace and joy.
May all the desires of your
heart be granted.
May this be the beginning of
new things in your life.
Stay strong, be positive and
fulfill your dreams
Happy new month friends!

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Wuhan and the Brooklyn community Stay Strong

Austin Tang — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 21:48:12 +0000

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#wuhan #brooklyn #community #stay #strong #coronavirus #china #virus

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