Beth McDonough covered high-profile murders, bridge collapses, kidnappings, and riots.
As a hard-hitting journalist for thirty years, she took viewers behind the crime scene tape. Her life ran on achievement, adrenaline, and alcohol.
She reported from ground zero on September 11th, stood in the field the day Jayme Closs escaped her captor. She reported from Paisley Park revealing Prince's sudden death. Beth documented the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd where she was wounded while the camera kept rolling.
Still Standing takes readers there too. And then, to a place even harder to witness: the story she lived while telling everyone else's.
Two DUI arrests. Her mugshots plastered on the news she used to report. A coveted career on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX News: gone. The woman who covered disasters was now living one.
What followed couldn't be called a "comeback." It was more daunting. And more permanent.
Beth inspected her own breakdown the way she investigated every story that came before it: with precision, honesty, and the deeper question she never thought of asking herself:
"What separates the people who rebuild after crisis from the people who repeat?"
Beth spent years probing that question from the inside. What she discovered became the STILL STANDING? Framework. Five structural beams. A practical blueprint. Built from the rubble. Tested by time.
Still Standing is written for anyone who's ever wondered if what broke you can become what rebuilds you.
She speaks from 18 years of deliberate, documented reconstruction.
Beth is an Emmy, Murrow, and duPont-Columbia Award-winning journalist.
