Ep 247 Suck Your Thumb or Get After It!
Ready 4 Pushback
Nik Fialka
4.8 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Host Nik Fialka shares a motivational solo episode, challenging pilots to take control of their aviation careers by becoming action-takers rather than sitting back and feeling discouraged. Drawing inspiration from a conversation with Tron Williams, Nik emphasizes the power of consistent effort, courage, and embracing discomfort to achieve success in aviation. Whether you're striving for your first flying job or aiming for a captain’s seat, this episode is a wake-up call to take ownership of your goals and start making incremental gains.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
Why being a “doer” is important in aviation How taking action, even in small ways, leads to major progress
The dangers of comfort and excuses in career growth
Why courage is built through action, not waiting
How successful pilots embrace discomfort to achieve greatness
Why making excuses can stall your progress
How to build confidence through failure, learning, and repetition
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, pilot, welcome back to Ready for Pushback. |
| 0:06.1 | It's another solo show. |
| 0:08.5 | We're here today. |
| 0:09.8 | We're ready to crush. |
| 0:11.0 | And you are here to have a little wisdom from me, Nick Fialca. |
| 0:16.2 | So here we go. |
| 0:19.2 | Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation. |
| 0:24.6 | They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums, |
| 0:30.6 | meaning they are taking huge risk with their livelihood without having all the details. |
| 0:35.6 | This podcast was created to help you understand |
| 0:39.3 | the aviation industry so you can find your dream job. Let's get ready for pushback. Here's your host |
| 0:46.7 | and my dad, Nick Fialca. Today's conversation is about you and getting after it. I was having a conversation with |
| 0:58.3 | Tron Williams, my good friend, my mentor, my sage, the guy who owns Spitfire, and also |
| 1:05.1 | gives me all the wisdom that I need that I just carry on into solo shows. And we were talking about the state |
| 1:13.7 | of the union right now, the state of aviation and how it feels tricky and there's difficult |
| 1:20.0 | things in front of you. And he said to me, you know what? Opportunities are out there. What are you |
| 1:25.5 | going to do? Are you going to suck your thumb or are you |
| 1:28.4 | going to get after it? And that really resonated with me. And I want to talk to you about that because |
| 1:35.3 | you need to decide for yourself. Are you a dreamer or are you a doer? Because you can sit on the |
| 1:41.0 | sidelines and complain all day or you can get into that game and change your life. |
| 1:45.7 | You can be the one that makes things happen for yourself, and it's incremental gains. |
| 1:50.0 | It's not big, huge things that you can do that make a massive difference. |
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