Sam Beckbessinger

The best-selling Like a Fucking Grownup series is the brainchild of local Cape Town creative, Sam Beckbessinger. In these self-help books, Sam helps people learn to “adult” better. She advises how to take control of your life by taking control of your money. With both adult and teen editions, Sam explores and explains everything: from black tax and efficient budgeting to investment opportunities, raise negotiations and house hunting. 

Sam was one of the writers on Serial Box and Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing With Fire serialized novel. She’s also written several episodes two animated kids’ TV shows. Additionally, Sam was a Mandela Washington Fellow for Young African Leaders at Yale University in 2014 and is a partner and co-founder of two financial technology businesses: Lettuce and Inves. She is currently co-writing Magpies with Dale Halvorsen; a mystery-suspense novel about missing girls who come back, changed.