Her dream was becoming an air traffic controller. Over the course of 6 years she had put in endless amounts of schooling, 6 hour long tests, and navigated setbacks to even have a chance at making that dream come true when she finally got accepted into the one and only air traffic school.
But after a rigorous training schedule over months of the academy, in the final hour of her final test, she failed.
No redo's. No coming back for another chance. It was over. Within minutes, the dream she had been planning her life around was completely gone.
As you can imagine, she was crushed. As what she lost began to sink in more and more, so did her anger, sadness and sense of purpose.
It was a rough patch that lasted years of feeling lost, uncertain and disappointed, but when you tune into this final interview episode of Season 2, you'll hear about how a mix of more closed doors and tenacity finally opened the one door that explained why all the other ones had been closed.
With everything that's happened this year, I thought Emilie's story was the perfect way to close this Season out as a reminder you're not alone or a failure if you've had your own closed doors and and rugs being pulled from under you. I think you'll also find it uplifting and hopeful that the story isn't over until it's over and there's plenty of opportunity to change the narrative along the way.
AND if you're at all interested in aviation, you're going to hear some interesting behind the scenes of what goes on when you step on your flights!
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