Meet Petal

PetalSpeaks Pledge

My Promise:

To always listen to you, hear and see you authentically just as you are, even as we share in your vision of where you want to be.

My Mission:

To educate our community on how to practice Self-Forgiveness. To amplify the voices of mature women; who are in their second and third act of life. Women who are ready to discover and embrace their authentic self. To teach them how to acknowledge their innate resilience and celebrate themselves in a safe and trustworthy space, where they can evolve and thrive.

My Vision:

To create a place for women of a certain age to feel validated and encouraged to embrace and freely express their authentic selves, with much respect and love, for each other and the people whose lives we touch.

Petalgay “Petal” Pennycooke uses her podcast, blog, and coaching practice as vehicles to facilitate the empowerment of women navigating their second and third act of life.

A woman as distinctive as her name, she harnesses the power of her non-linear life story to encourage women who struggle to find meaning and purpose at a time in their lives when they should be thriving and fulfilled.

A proud mother of seven, grandmother of eleven, and recent great-grandmother, Petal has mastered the art of harnessing change and resistance to fuel forward movement. She is a seasoned entrepreneur who was a founding LinkedIn Local Tampa co-host, Executive Right Hand Podcast host, and the former Founder and President of Executive Right Hand, Inc.

For more than 25 years, Petal has enjoyed consistent success within Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries, including luxury retail, hospitality, and financial services. Her psychology lens and rich background inform Petal’s gift of listening to and proactively discerning your needs. It is these gifts, along with a relentless entrepreneurial spirit, that created space for PetalSpeaks.

Petal holds a BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, and an MA in Organizational Leadership & Learning from the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development in Washington, DC; both earned after she turned 50.

As a speaker and facilitator, Petal offers an engaging and witty communication style that is sure to captivate, delight, and inform audiences.