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11 - Vicky Gosling OBE - Leadership in the RAF, the Invictus Games, Snow Sports and Mindset
In this episode we cover the following topics and more:
- Why Vicky Joined the RAF
- Studying Languages at Leeds and how that helped her later in her career
- Traveling around the world with the Airforce
- What kind of person would she recommend the military to and how to improve personal leadership skills
- What she would say to people who aren’t sure about joining up and the Reserves
- Training: Fun, fitness, sleep depravation and the transfer from university to the forces
- Resilience and pre-sign up fitness advice
- Planes, weapons and machinery
- Deployment: Cyprus, RAF Benson, Gulf War and day to day operations
- Being asked to head the military executive lead for the Invictus games
- Military life and the return to civilian life
- Important skills and traits for military success
- Military mindset and dealing with putting your life on the line everyday
- Being called to war and would she recommend the military to her children?
- Impressive and Humbling moments at the Invictus Games and working closely with Prince Harry
- Influences - books and people
- Dealing with stress and risk
- Future goals: GB Snowsport, Fintech and the Rugby Centurions
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Bio: My guest today is Victoria Gosling OBE. Vicky studied French and Spanish at Leeds University before dedicating 21 years to the Royal Air Force. After leaving University she went through 6 months training to become deployable. She rose quickly through the ranks to the prestigious position of Group Captain, deploying all around the world. Her first tour was in Cyprus, followed by the Gulf War, finishing her career as the Base Support Commander for a Support Helicopter Base, leading 2000 in Afghanistan. In 2014 she was asked to become the Military Project Lead for the First Invictus Games, which brought together 400 wounded veteran athletes from 14 nations to compete in London. In 2016 she became Chief Executive Officer for Games, again closely working alongside Prince Harry in Orlando, USA. Vicky currently involves herself with many sporting and social enterprises, holding the positions of Chief executive of GB Snowsport, custodian of the Rugby Centurions, Invictus Games strategic Advisor and Board director for a FinTech Business that provides solutions to social issues, based in Manchester.
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By Max WyllieIn this episode we cover the following topics and more:
- Why Vicky Joined the RAF
- Studying Languages at Leeds and how that helped her later in her career
- Traveling around the world with the Airforce
- What kind of person would she recommend the military to and how to improve personal leadership skills
- What she would say to people who aren’t sure about joining up and the Reserves
- Training: Fun, fitness, sleep depravation and the transfer from university to the forces
- Resilience and pre-sign up fitness advice
- Planes, weapons and machinery
- Deployment: Cyprus, RAF Benson, Gulf War and day to day operations
- Being asked to head the military executive lead for the Invictus games
- Military life and the return to civilian life
- Important skills and traits for military success
- Military mindset and dealing with putting your life on the line everyday
- Being called to war and would she recommend the military to her children?
- Impressive and Humbling moments at the Invictus Games and working closely with Prince Harry
- Influences - books and people
- Dealing with stress and risk
- Future goals: GB Snowsport, Fintech and the Rugby Centurions
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Bio: My guest today is Victoria Gosling OBE. Vicky studied French and Spanish at Leeds University before dedicating 21 years to the Royal Air Force. After leaving University she went through 6 months training to become deployable. She rose quickly through the ranks to the prestigious position of Group Captain, deploying all around the world. Her first tour was in Cyprus, followed by the Gulf War, finishing her career as the Base Support Commander for a Support Helicopter Base, leading 2000 in Afghanistan. In 2014 she was asked to become the Military Project Lead for the First Invictus Games, which brought together 400 wounded veteran athletes from 14 nations to compete in London. In 2016 she became Chief Executive Officer for Games, again closely working alongside Prince Harry in Orlando, USA. Vicky currently involves herself with many sporting and social enterprises, holding the positions of Chief executive of GB Snowsport, custodian of the Rugby Centurions, Invictus Games strategic Advisor and Board director for a FinTech Business that provides solutions to social issues, based in Manchester.