Peter is also good at pushing and insisting you do better, saying, “Good coaching can change my clients’ careers, their reputations, their income and their lives. So I apologise for not apologising to my clients if I am sometimes tough with them.” Peter’s seismic approach to speaker coaching can make you feel as if there’s earth moving under that once-stable place you were standing. You can view that as a danger, something outside your control, and run away from it. Or you can view it as the early rumblings of your own power as a speaker, and run toward it. As Ursula K. Leguin’s great metaphor for women as public speakers says,”We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” Call me a mountain lion, then. I’m ready.
