Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

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The author opens up her book with an account of her experience during the 9/11 attacks and it doesn’t lose its momentum. Evy shares personal experiences from her time as a USSS person, NYC cop, family experience's - all of which are so moving and interesting. But neither I nor my colleagues in the United States Secret Service’s (USSS) New York Field Office had any idea of what was about to happen. This is because they can keep you from enjoying a happy and successful life without significantly increasing your survival rate.

After being raised by a family that restricted many of her choices out of fear (New York was deemed too dangerous), she decided to pursue a career in law enforcement at the NYPD and then in the US Secret Service. This book is rich with the patois of the self-help genre – attitude, positivity, taking ownership, accepting responsibility, never giving up. Poumpouras argues that to become a more resilient person, you need to first understand how fear influences you.

In addition to her incredible knowledge, training, and experience she is battle-tested and proven having stood tall for our country when so many lives were on the line including her own.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Meanwhile explaining techniques from we can and probably learn from: reading people better; taking precautions before head, overcoming oneself. She had something (good) to say about the presidents and First Ladies, and I was all ears when she gave us peeks into their personalities. He told me the day of the ceremony and that Jerry Parr, the agent who had saved Ronald Reagan’s life after he had been shot, had been given that same honor. I still had no idea what was happening, but as the devastation continued unabated, the realization came to me, both fast and slow, that I was going to die.

Inside there were about a dozen or so people, who had managed to escape the worst of the blast of the first tower falling. S. Secret Service Special Agent, Evy has protected numerous presidents and their families, and is the recipient of the Medal of Valor Award for her actions on 9/11. As an activist I’ve been on the other side of the law to her I guess, but I don’t consider myself a criminal or an immoral person, and found a lot of these tips useful in daily life.

Gives a valuable insight into the mentality of someone very intelligent and more importantly incredibly tough and resilient. Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo's Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you are perceived, and live a more fearless life. Also, other minor flaws: to make a point, rather than build the paragraph, she uses and accumulates adjectives, and "outstanding", "enormous", "shocking" and similar terms become constant. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. There's nothing worse than looking at a friend or spouse and thinking, I'm in this shitty situation because of you.

But as she explains in this eye-opening book, we all have the potential for greatness, no matter our starting point. There are also several tips on practical matters like how to protect your home from robbery or prepare for natural disasters. At moments, it's all too much, as when the author explains how to sit in a restaurant to prevent attacks (namely: with the back against a wall and if possible looking at the restaurant's entrance - exactly, too much). We headed back down to the ground floor, the cumbersome kits dragging down our shoulders and cutting into our hands. In addition to security, she also talks about how to build rapport with others and to get people to like you (which is always appreciated!

Strategies for survival, reading people and influencing others, told be a former Secret Service Agent. This includes things like being an individual, trusting your gut-Instinct, knowing your entry and exit of a building. As many of us who have grown up in large cities (as the author did) can attest, it is often better to avoid eye contact, as eye contact is the route a certain sort of predator (or crazy person) uses to get you to stop moving, or to engage, when you really do not want to engage. Shortform note: Though Poumpouras claims there are only two universally recognized innate fears, there is evidence other fears are with us from birth.By developing a tolerance, you can alleviate some of this stress, overcome fears, and improve your ability to perform difficult tasks. This book is about teaching you to become your own hero—to not only recognize when fear is rearing its ugly head, but how to control it, reduce it, and even harness it. In firearm training you're taught that the worst thing to do when getting shot at is to stand still. Her experiences and strategies to cope with the demands and pressures of being an agent in the Secret service as well, were unique and quite interesting to read.