  Realizing the inflationary epoch driven by a pseudo-Nambu Goldstone boson
(pNGB) could ensure the coveted flatness, and the sub-Planckian scales related
to the dynamics of the paradigm. In this work, we have taken the most general
form of such a scenario: Goldstone inflation proposed in \cite{croon}, and
studied the model in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Natural inflation is a
limiting case of this model, is also studied here. The specific form of the EGB
coupling gives ample opportunity to study the rich phenomenology associated
with inflation as well as the reheating epoch. Predicted values of the
inflationary observables, tensor to scalar ratio ($r$), and spectral index
($n_s$) are in good agreement with the recent observations from $Planck'18$
\cite{Planck2018}. Thus, in the framework of EGB one can resurrect the model,
which otherwise needs quite a bit of fine tuning or diversion from the
canonical domain as studied in \cite{Bhattacharya:2018xlw}, to survive in the
standard cold inflationary scenario. Finally, the era of reheating is studied
for different choice of model parameters.
