Ep 243 Anna Talks Chickens: Finding Fulfillment Even with Ruffled Feathers

Ready 4 Pushback

Nik Fialka

Business, Careers, Leisure, Aviation

4.8 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Ready 4 Pushback, Anna Fialka—Nick’s wife—takes the mic and reflects on finding creativity and connection amid the structure of aviation and parenting. Using her family’s adventures in chicken care, Anna draws parallels between a pilot’s responsibility to maintain safety protocols and a parent’s duty to nurture and protect. She challenges you to look beyond rigid routines and explore how everyday moments—whether on the ground or in the air—offer opportunities to build relationships, learn resourcefulness, and lead with both heart and discipline.

What You'll Learn in This Episode: How unexpected challenges (even from managing chickens!) can teach you resilience and innovation Why turning the conversation outward—asking questions and valuing others—builds stronger connections There’s always room for personal expression that enriches your life and career How to turn everyday annoyances into opportunities for growth and genuine relationship-building

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Pilot. Oh, hello, Pilot. I'm so glad her here.
0:05.5	Hey, Pilot. Hey, Pilot.
0:09.2	To Nick. I'm not good at starting these things.
0:12.9	Hi, how are you today? I am Anna Fialca. I'm Nick's wife, and I wanted to hop on today and just leave him a little Easter
0:24.1	present of not having to do one episode. And I know you guys have heard him talk about the chickens
0:33.5	that we have. And he views the chickens with so much, I think, sadness and oh my gosh, it's one
0:46.3	of those things that has happened in our family, being chicken owners, that was not his idea.
0:53.3	In addition to what I'm going to talk about today, I just went to
0:58.6	brag on him a little bit that he is on board. I'm going to even say on board, not willing to go
1:05.2	along, but on board with having chickens in our yard. Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation.
1:15.1	They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums,
1:20.8	meaning they are taking huge risk with their livelihood without having all the details.
1:26.0	This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation
1:29.7	industry so you can find your dream job. Let's get ready for pushback. Dr. Becky Kennedy, if you don't
1:38.6	know her, she's awesome. She has a book called Good Inside. I think her podcast is maybe called the same thing. Another great one
1:46.7	to listen to. And she's a parenting guru. She's a psychologist that works with children. And she has
1:55.5	so many helpful things to say. I've heard her often say make this comparison of parenting to a pilot and how a parent's job
2:07.6	is to first and foremost keep their children safe. And often that requires strong boundaries. And she
2:16.6	talks about, you know, if you were on a plane and there was
2:21.6	great turbulence outside or inside the plane, you would definitely not want the pilot to come
2:31.6	on the intercom or, you know, stand in front of you, heaven forbid, and say,
2:37.6	all right, I know this is scary.
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