TIME OUT WITH…
Stewart Pearce
Stewart Pearce is hands down one of the most respected voice, and presence coaches on the world stage. From famous actors (Michelle Williams! Eddie Redmayne!) to politicians (yes, that was Dame Maggie Thatcher), Pearce has built a sterling clientele by focusing far beyond just the mechanics of the voice.
His process dives deeper into spiritual and metaphysical methods, helping find the “authentic self.” It’s a journey that has won him many fans—none more significant than his most famous client to date: Princess Diana. Two years before her untimely death, she began seeing Pearce in secret as she struggled to find her voice and share her message with the world. “Stewart’s gift is incalculable,” she said at the time. “I knew something profound was coming my way. He helped me personally with such generosity.”
THE CONFIDENCE TO BE YOURSELF
No one ever knew—until now. For the first time, Pearce is describing their shared experience in Diana The Voice of Change. Far from a scandalous tell-all, Pearce’s book is both a story and call to action, detailing how Diana’s legacy broke taboos, opened hearts, and gave people the confidence to be themselves. A presage to the #Me2 movement, the book is also a workbook for women to be the voice of change in their own lives.
“The essence of Diana The Voice of Change urges each woman to rise up, to be a force for change just as Diana intended her mission to be a culture-shaper, particularly during the latter years of her short life,” says Pearce. “Diana’s firm desire was that through her example, the women of the world would find their own authentic voice, fulfilling their unique purpose. In this, Diana was the trailblazer.”
Diana The Voice of Change includes exercises, tips, and ways to stimulate personal presence, persuasive magnetism, gracious charisma, and creative excellence. Pearce shows how the body’s architecture, breath, head movement, signature sound, alchemy, persona, and empowering affirmations can help people find the “song of their soul.
At the time he met the Princess, Pearce wasn’t sure he wanted the high-profile assignment. Hounded by a relentless press, indifferent family, and a coterie of supporters who would leak the most intimate details of her life, she was struggling to find her authentic self amid the chaos that surrounded her life. “Frankly, I had huge reservations about becoming involved, which was based on not wishing to be part of the ‘circus’ that surrounded dear Diana,” Pearce says. “The notoriety that moved alongside the Princess’s public existence was crazy.”
LOVE IS ALL THERE IS
Over the next two years, Pearce and Diana met regularly but secretly. “My role was defined to enhance her presence in the world by building the skills of confidence, persona, passion, persuasion, and physical presence,” Pearce says. “Diana embodied a crucible of peerless human virtues openly, that we may view as the essential moral principles which balance us in times of monumental change. Her principal virtue being that love is all there is.”
From the start, Pearce knew working with a figure like Diana and the media circus that followed her was not going to be easy. “Being exposed to the hostile criticism of the establishment meant that Diana had never felt strong in voice,” he says. “The emergence as a global phenomenon began to shine through the hurly-burly years of her mid-thirties, through the strength and elegance that she radiated. Yet, at the same time, every dismissive word she received was felt like a personal wounding, even though the public attitude was immensely favorable and supportive.”
From the start, Pearce knew working with a figure like Diana and the media circus that followed her was not going to be easy. “Being exposed to the hostile criticism of the establishment meant that Diana had never felt strong in voice,” he says. “The emergence as a global phenomenon began to shine through the hurly-burly years of her mid-thirties, through the strength and elegance that she radiated. Yet, at the same time, every dismissive word she received was felt like a personal wounding, even though the public attitude was immensely favorable and supportive.”
From the start, Pearce knew working with a figure like Diana and the media circus that followed her was not going to be easy. “Being exposed to the hostile criticism of the establishment meant that Diana had never felt strong in voice,” he says. “The emergence as a global phenomenon began to shine through the hurly-burly years of her mid-thirties, through the strength and elegance that she radiated. Yet, at the same time, every dismissive word she received was felt like a personal wounding, even though the public attitude was immensely favorable and supportive.”
And, of course, Diana.
“My fervent intention is to address the very essence of who and what Diana was so that we may all heal the lamentation of her passing which still scores the hearts and souls of many,” he says.
For more information on Stewart Pearce, visit stewartpearce.com