Climbing in Heels (w/ Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas)
On Display with Melissa Gorga
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3.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
She has been instrumental player in the success of some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and now she’s on the show to share more of her story, spill a few more dirty secrets, and talk about her brand-new book, Climbing in Heels.
This week Melissa welcomes agent, producer, and writer, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, back onto the show to talk about her crazy start in Hollywood in the 80s, the shocking ways that certain execs treated women, why women either banded together or tore each other apart, and how every step in her career led her to writing her new book.
To learn more about how fact meets fiction, grab a copy of Climbing in Heels: A Novel, available now!
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| 0:50.2 | I had to find somebody to hire me who wasn't threatened and didn't care if my wiggle was more waddle. |
| 1:08.5 | Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of On Display. I hope you have enjoyed your week so far. I am super, super so ecstatic to welcome a very good friend of mine today. She's an accomplished producer, writer, and a former agent who has worked with some of the biggest |
| 1:28.6 | names in Hollywood. She's a powerful advocate for telling the female side of the story |
| 1:34.2 | about an industry that wasn't always welcoming to powerful women like herself. And she has a brand |
| 1:41.5 | new book out called Climbing in Heels that is a fictional account of what it's like to be a female in Hollywood in the 80s. |
| 1:49.8 | But knowing her, it's not too far from reality. |
| 1:53.5 | Please welcome my really, really good friend, Elaine Goldsmith, Thomas. |
| 1:58.6 | Hi. |
| 1:59.5 | Hi. Hi. Hi. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be talking to you. |
| 2:04.8 | You are one of my favorite people and I couldn't be happier to have you on the podcast. You know, |
| 2:10.0 | you were one of my first three guests that I've ever had on this podcast. And that was three |
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