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It's the Velvet's Edge podcast with Kelly Henderson.

Jill Brown is here.

And before I get into all her credentials, I found part of your story that was so fascinating

to me.

You have a background in aeronautics. You're a pilot. You worked at NASA, so you're a scientist. And so many people say to me, is astrology really real? And I'm like, no, I have the scientist here today. She's here to tell us, this is real. So how did that background for you really play into you getting into evolutionary astrology, which

we'll explain in a minute, too?

Yeah.

So I actually grew up in Alaska.

And one in 45 people in Alaska is a pilot.

It's the highest per capita pilots anywhere, I think in the world, actually.

And so I grew up with all these friends whose parents had planes and a lot of Alaska isn't accessible except for my airplane

in the winter. Oh, right. Yeah. Even like the water freezes over or the road system ends,

etc. So I grew up just hearing the sound of little airplanes around all the time and it just became

fascinated by aviation.

And then funny enough, I went and got a degree in marketing and worked in Los Angeles for

almost a decade. I used to work at Walt Disney Music Group and Disney Publishing. So I was in the music

group at Disney for a long time. Very different. Yeah. Exactly. Very different world. I loved

working at Disney. I loved all the creative people there and I loved, love, love, love music. So that was very cool. But I was spending all of my salary on flying lessons and flying.

Oh my God. I kind of went, maybe I should get into my passion, which is aviation. So I went back to school and got a master's degree in aeronautics and then got an

internship at NASA through grad school that ended up becoming in a full-time position. And so I worked in

drones and unmanned operating systems for a long time. Yeah. You have worked up in space. You've

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