The Quiet Power of Resilience
There’s a moment many of us women in aviation and aerospace face, though few of us speak it aloud:
👉🏼 Can I keep doing this?
👉🏼 How much more can I take?
👉🏼 Is it time to go?
Maybe that moment comes after the fifth time you’re passed over for a leadership role you’re already doing.
Maybe it comes after years of being the only woman in the room.
Maybe it comes after a sudden layoff, a company closure, or a reorg that leaves you reporting to someone with half your experience.
For me, that moment came last fall.
I lost my job—unexpectedly, painfully, and in a way that felt inhumane—when the startup I’d poured myself into failed. At the very same time, my partner was diagnosed with a life-threatening health condition.
It felt like my professional and personal worlds imploded in the same breath.
Everything I had worked so hard to hold together—my career, my stability, my future plans—crumbled beneath me.
And for the first time in my decades-long career, I truly wondered:
👉🏼 Is this the end of my aviation story?
👉🏼 Have I finally reached my limit?
👉🏼 Do I have the strength to start over—again?
👉🏼 Do I even WANT to start over—again?
The Part They Don’t Tell You About Resilience
We love to talk about resilience like it’s heroic, shiny, Instagram-worthy.
We use words like “bounce back” and “power through.”
But here’s what I’ve learned:
👉🏼 Resilience doesn’t always look strong.
Sometimes it looks like breaking down in the car before walking into another interview.
Sometimes it looks like rewriting your resume between hospital visits.
Sometimes it looks like saying, “I don’t know what’s next—but I’m not done.”
Resilience is not about pretending you’re fine.
It’s not about forcing positivity.
It’s not about staying in the air at all costs.
It’s about deciding what’s worth staying in the air for.
To the Woman Who’s Thinking About Leaving the Industry
Maybe you’re reading this because you’re standing at the same edge.
Maybe you’ve been quietly thinking about leaving—but afraid to admit it out loud.
Maybe the passion that once fueled you feels more like a flicker than a flame.
Maybe you’ve been surviving for so long you’ve forgotten what thriving even feels like.
I want you to know:
You are not weak.
You are not failing.
You are not alone.
Every woman I coach has carried this quiet question in her heart at some point:
👉🏼 “Is staying worth it? Or is it time to go?”
And here’s the truth no one tells us:
Both answers can be right.
Both answers can be brave.
What Resilience Can Look Like Now
Resilience doesn’t mean staying no matter what.
It means staying true to yourself.
Sometimes resilience is:
✅ Choosing to stay and rise anyway
✅ Choosing to leave and protect your peace
✅ Choosing to pivot, shift, or reinvent
✅ Choosing to lead on your own terms
You don’t have to keep flying on fumes.
You don’t have to keep climbing ladders built for someone else.
You don’t have to keep shape-shifting to fit into leadership that was never designed with you in mind.
You get to redefine success.
You get to write a new flight plan.
You get to soar differently.
Your Lift Moment This Week
I want to invite you into a moment of reflection.
Find a quiet space. Just five minutes.
Write your answers to these questions—no censoring, no judgment:
What part of me have I silenced or shrunk to survive in this industry?
If I wasn’t afraid of disappointing anyone, what would I want next?
What would it look like to choose myself—not the version of me they expect?
If these questions stir something in you, that’s not weakness.
That’s wisdom.
That’s the whisper of your next chapter calling.
You Don’t Have to Do This Alone
I created The Elevate Initiative for women just like you:
✅ Women who are brilliant, accomplished, capable—and exhausted.
✅ Women who’ve spent years navigating invisible barriers no one else seems to see.
✅ Women who are quietly wondering if they’ve outgrown the career they fought so hard to build.
I work with women who want:
✅ Space to question what’s next—without shame or pressure
✅ Support in staying—or leaving—with clarity, strength, and strategy
✅ A guide who’s been there, lived it, and come through the other side
You don’t need to keep holding this alone.
You don’t need to figure it all out in isolation.
Let’s Talk. Let’s Plan. Let’s Reimagine.
➡️ Book here
No pitch. No obligation. Just 20 minutes to exhale, tell the truth, and explore what’s possible.
👉🏼 Whether you stay, go, or change course—you deserve support that’s honest, empowering, and built around YOU.
You’ve already weathered storms most people never see.
Let’s make sure your next flight is one you actually want to be on.
Final Thought
Resilience isn’t about proving you’re unbreakable.
It’s about knowing how to rebuild.
It’s about knowing when to rest.
It’s about choosing the sky that calls you forward.
And no matter what anyone has told you—
You’re allowed to want more.
You’re allowed to want different.
You’re allowed to soar.