Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, CLIMBING IN HEELS: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews Elaine Goldsmith Thomas, longtime film and TV producer and agent to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, about her debut novel, CLIMBING IN HEELS, a smart, sexy, and entertaining story about the rise of three secretaries at the hottest agency in 1980s Hollywood. Elaine reflects on her own experience navigating the cutthroat world of Hollywood, her transition from agent to writer, and the wild stories—both real and imagined—that shaped her fiercely ambitious protagonist, Beanie Rosen. They discuss personal reinvention, women’s friendships, the background players in fame, the influence of mothers, and the long journey to owning one's creative voice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
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| 0:44.5 | Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas is the author of the novel Climbing in Heels. |
| 0:49.2 | Elaine began her career at the William Morris Agency and rose by the late 1980s to become the senior |
| 0:54.6 | vice president of the WMA and later the senior vice president of ICM guiding the careers of |
| 1:00.5 | among others Julia Roberts Jennifer Lopez Nicholas Cage and Madonna. More recently, she has |
| 1:06.9 | produced a broad successful slate of films and television series including Made in Manhattan, Mona Lisa Smile, Hustlers, Marry Me, Emily and Paris, The Foster, and many others. |
| 1:18.4 | Welcome, Elaine. |
| 1:19.3 | Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zibby to talk about climbing in heels, a novel. |
| 1:24.8 | Congrats. |
| 1:25.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:28.3 | Thank you. Thank you. This is my first podcast on Climbing in Heels, a novel. Congrats. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:29.0 | This is my first podcast on Climbing in Heels. Oh, my God. So, yeah. You're going to get all the good stories. And then it'll be, well, I already said that. Yeah. I'm going to have to really dig into the treasure chest. You'll just refer everybody back to this episode. As I said in my episode, but you can just highlight that. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm a little obsessed with you. You'll just refer everybody back to this episode. As I said in my episode, but you can just highlight that. |
| 1:46.6 | I'm a little obsessed with you, Zibi Owens. |
| 1:49.0 | I've got to tell. |
| 1:50.0 | I love, I did a little deep dive on you. |
| 1:53.5 | I'm a little obsessed with you. |
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