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Precious Williams Went From -$400 and Homelessness to Training Teams at Google

Before she was the '#KillerPitchMaster' training executives at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft, Precious Williams built and lost a company, went through homelessness, and rebuilt her life from a two-year transformation program.

— By Absolute Baller · JUNE 26, 2026 —
Precious Williams, founder and pitch coach

Precious L. Williams’s résumé reads, on its surface, like a straight line: a Spelman College English degree, a Rutgers Law degree, a brief run practicing law, and then a pivot into founding, speaking, and training. The actual path was considerably rougher — and it’s the roughness that makes her current work land differently than the average corporate-training pitch.

Williams’s first venture, Curvy Girlz Lingerie, launched in 2011 with -$400 in her bank account — not a low balance, an actual negative one. What followed included a period of homelessness and a stretch of serious personal difficulty that led her into a two-year life-transformation program. She’s now been sober for more than five years, a fact she doesn’t treat as a footnote to her business story but as inseparable from it.

Out of that rebuild came Perfect Pitches by Precious, her current business: corporate training, professional speaking, and pitch coaching built around a skill she’s demonstrably mastered — she’s a 13-time elevator-pitch champion. The client list backs up the credential. Williams, who goes by the “#KillerPitchMaster,” has trained teams inside Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Harvard, appeared on Shark Tank, and been covered by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. She’s also a four-time #1 bestselling author and was featured in a Mastercard “Priceless” commercial.

What separates Williams from the broader field of pitch coaches is the credibility gap she closes just by existing: most communication training comes from people who’ve never had to pitch their way out of an actual crisis. Williams has more than 200 testimonials on LinkedIn from people who came to her after watching someone survive negative $400 and homelessness to end up training rooms full of Google engineers on how to communicate under pressure.

Follow Precious Williams: perfectpitchesbyprecious.com · Instagram @perfectpitchesp

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