A review by dogmomirene
Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly by Evy Poumpouras

5.0

Listened to the audiobook read by the author, a former Secret Service agent.

While it's mostly a book focused on helping you develop your own resilience, figuring out how to read people, and learning how you can influence others, and how they influence you, it's also part memoir as Poumpouras recounts some stories from her time with the Secret Service.

There's good information in here. If you've read about reading body language, psychology studies, self-protection, and the like, there's probably nothing earth shattering. But it's a great primer for someone who wants to learn about these topics.

By far, I preferred listening to her Secret Service stories, and how she tied those stories to the skill she was highlighting. Her section on being Presidential was my favorite.

Poumpouras does a great job narrating her own book. When she's educating her reader, her delivery is consistently clear, and for her stories, her tone varies appropriately. Hearing her voice the marchers in a Pride Parade where she was protecting Hillary Clinton was worth rewinding. She's quite funny.