hello powerful
one!
I didn’t start out in the world of coaching.
I started in law. A profession that rewarded logic, performance, and keeping everything perfectly together.
My turning point wasn’t a single dramatic moment. It was
a slow accumulation of quiet truths. Nudges about what I like, what I want to do, and who I am.
I realised I was living according to (my own) expectations, performance of who I thought I should be, and people-pleasing.
I switched gears, and got a sales job.
Around that time,
I’m Petra
i said yes to walking across fire.
I completed certifications in NLP, business coaching, team coaching, studied shadow work, radical honesty
and emotional intelligence.
In 2015, after a couple years of part-time, I became a full-time trainer and facilitator, and over the years led hundreds of people through intense two-day personal development experiences. Often standing with them as they confronted their fears, limits, or lifelong patterns… and then walked them over 400-degree hot coals.
I spent several years training sales teams, leaders, and professionals across major organisations.
Toastmasters became a huge part of my life. I competed, won awards, and eventually helped our club become the best in the world for education and leadership development.
Both changed my career.
Public speaking taught me
how to hold a room.
Shadow work taught me
how to hold a person.
Relationships, life & business change when you do.
And my life kept shifting too.
Marriage, divorce, several international moves. Each chapter stripped away another layer of who I thought I “should” be and brought me closer to who I actually am.
I launched my signature program, Love Your Demons, in 2022 and coached women around the world through the deep inner conflict that affects everything: confidence, boundaries, relationships, leadership.
By now I’ve coached more than 3,000 people across 40+ companies, from big four firms to global corporates, creatives, tech, manufacturing, and finance. I’ve worked with teams drowning in unspoken tension, leaders carrying emotional loads they never admit to, and women who’ve spent decades being capable, agreeable, or “the strong one” at their own cost.
Today, my work is the integration of everything I’ve lived and everything I’ve studied.
Law gave me clarity.
Shadow work gave me depth.
Communication training gave me voice.
Leadership development gave me presence.
And luckily, I have courage (most days) to use it.
I help people build confidence from the inside out. The kind that comes from self-trust, emotional clarity, boundaries, and honesty.
Whether I’m working with a woman who’s outgrown her “Good Girl” identity or a leadership team navigating conflict, my work is always the same at its core:
Every person wants to be seen, heard, and accepted.
When you give it to them, miracles happen.
that create better relationships and results
Healthier boundaries
and steady self-leadership under pressure
Clearer decisions
and presence in every room
you walk into
Stronger communication
In a nutshell,
you aquire
Nina Grunewald
Before coaching with Petra, I felt confused about where I was. I had been blocked myself from keeping moving forward in business. I felt like I didn't know HOW to do it and was looking for the next shiny strategy.
Petra went much deeper than behavioural coaching. She helped me breakthrough a subconscious limit, and peel back an old layer I was holding onto.
Coaching with Petra has opened me back up to creativity, motivation and momentum and I have been moving forward ever since, creating a new community and feeling so much freer!
For you to follow your dreams with empowerment!
“
Remona Moodley
Before, I used to feel scattered. Constantly on edge. Feeling like I'm behind.
Coaching with Petra was a transformative experience! I changed the way I look at myself and others.
I’m grounded, confident and self assured now. I’m more resilient and less reactive.
My big win was that I was feeling alive and 100% myself on the stage at the semifinal of the World Championship of Public speaking.
What I appreciated the most was Petra's intuition around what I needed and felt. The balance between inner exploration and tactical action planning.
I changed the way I see myself
“
Too many people, and particularly women, have built entire lives around who they thought they had to be.
The calm one, the capable one, the peacemaker, the achiever. And somewhere along the way, we lost connection with ourselves.
I do this work because I want us all to feel like ourselves again. Free. Confident in who we are. Brave to speak it.
Not smaller. Not nicer. Not what’s expected.
When a woman remembers who she is and leads from that place, she becomes someone who changes her own life, and often the lives around her.
That’s the kind of work that matters.
