Train wrecks

I’m a presentation coach. But even I have presentations that go, shall we say, “less than ideally” (read: disastrously). I tell myself that having disasters of my own makes me a better coach, because I know what to look out for. 😉

I remember one in particular, in 2019. I was speaking to a group of Romanian entrepreneurs about what questions were on investors’ minds when these entrepreneurs were making pitch presentations.

My speech was so disastrous that Alper (my podcast co-host, who was in the audience at the time) had to come up to the stage and rescue me at the end.

In this episode of the podcast, I submit to another coach and use that disastrous presentation as fodder for his advice on how to pull back from a situation like that…

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