How This Woman Became a Trailblazing Airline Pilot at 50 After Waiting 15 Years
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Why do many people feel it's too late to start a new career?
Hi there friends, I am so glad you're here. Welcome back to the Tamson Show. So there is one question I probably hear t I don't know, twenty-five times a week. Am I too late? Is it too late for me? And I hear it from women in their twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond. Every single day. I've said it myself plenty of times. I think so much of it comes from that invisible clock ticking in the back of our heads, and I hate it. The one tied to our careers, relationships, families, all the milestones that we thought we'd hit by now. Well, unfortunately, it shapes how we feel about ourselves and the decisions that we make in our future. We almost can't help it. But what if you turned the clock off or found a way to quiet the clock?
What if you stopped worrying about whether a dream was realistic and instead started asking, what would it actually take to make this happen? Today's story I think is gonna inspire you in so many ways to do exactly that. I discovered Captain Carol Hobson recently, and her story blew me away. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I reached out to her. Today at 62, she's a United Airlines Boeing 737 captain, an author, a speaker, and founder of the Jet Black Foundation. But she didn't start training to become a commercial pilot the way most pilots do in their twenties. She started at 50 years old. This is a career where women are still dramatically underrepresented. And Carol entered the field decades later than most people would have even considered possible.
She is a complete badass, to say the very least. And I want you to listen closely to how she talks about exactly how she did it. She lays it out, the plan she built, the setbacks she faced, and the people she surrounded herself with along the way. Because no matter your dreams, how big or small they are, today you're going to get the flight plan for building your next chapter from someone who's done it more than once. Real quick, if you have a moment, like 30 seconds, maybe 15 seconds, take time to leave a review. It helps our team, the women who work so hard to build these episodes every week. It helps more than you know, and it truly means everything to us. Okay, let's get into it. Carol, it's nice to have you here.
Well, thank you for having me. I've been a little obsessed with your story, I have to tell you. And but but I'm gonna tell you why. Every probably every day, but definitely every week, I have women that write in and are saying, like, hey, I think I wanna do something different. Is it too late? But it's not women that are fifty. Sometimes these women are thirty years old. Oh man. Oh man, right? I remember then it was really important for me to to get you here and just have a conversation with you about this. What do you tell those people that think it's too late because you're showing everybody the exact opposite? It's
never too late. And not only is it never too late. But I think we always underestimate how much we've gathered. We are definitely a rolling stone, and as you're gathering, right? You say, you know, rolling stone gathers in the moss. Not so. You are getting all sorts of experience as you get older. And there is something in our culture that doesn't like the aging of women. And yet it's that aging of women that gives us the strength. That gives us more knowledge, that gives us hopefully more confidence. And it is that gathering that you bring with you to
the next. I could not agree more. And I and it doesn't hold the same for men. And I know this as we we both have a background in journalism. I was on the T V side of things where you would have a younger woman sitting next to an older man and the man would continue to age and the woman continued to get younger because she'd be replaced over and over again. So it's it's pretty amazing to me. Did you always feel like that?
So let me just say to you, you are absolutely positively stunning. Thank you. You're welcome. I'll take that. I will receive that. Right. And so here's the thing. So often in our culture we say, yes, men get distinguished while women get older.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why do many people feel it's too late to start a new career?
0:06–8:24
2
What deadline turned Carole’s childhood dream of flying into a concrete goal?
8:24–14:39
3
How did Carole financially plan for the massive career change to become a pilot?
14:39–24:32
4
Why did Carole wait until her children were older before pursuing professional aviation?
24:32–33:29
5
What was it like being the oldest person in the flight‑training classroom?
33:29–41:22
6
How did Carole build a personal “board of directors” to support her pivot?
41:22–50:49
7
What pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman taught Carole about possibility and perseverance?
50:49–51:12
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