Hey everyone, this is Elise Hugh, continuing our TED Audio Collective Fridays, something a little different today, an episode from our podcast, Work Life with Adam Grant, on navigating turbulence in your career.

Whether it's your job, workplace, or entire industry that's undergoing change, how do we resist the urge to fight

that change and learn to be flexible instead? If you enjoy this episode, find Work Life with

Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. When I was a little, little kid, I was a four

years old on my first airplane ride. And we got to go up front in the

cockpit, you know, because you could kind of do that back then. And it was totally dark, no moon

over the Atlantic Ocean. There was like a billion stars in the sky. And I went back and told my mom,

I wanted to be a stewardess. And my mom, to her credit, she looked at me and goes,

honey, you might want to think about being a pilot.

And there you go.

That's what I wanted to do from then on.

Sharon Pressler has flown lots of different kinds of airplanes since then,

including fighter jets.

She was the first woman in the U.S. Air Force to fly the F-16.

It's just always been the coolest-looking airplane.

That bubble canopy and the big engine inlet.

It has the highest G-tolerance, which is nine times the force of gravity on the Earth,

which is significant.

It can do anything.

Sharon's had an extraordinary career spanning more than three decades.

But recently, after 14 years as a pilot with Southwest Airlines,

she hit a particularly bad patch of turbulence.

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