If Women were meant to fly, the sky would be pink..!!

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I meet the Shell Training Captain/Operations Manager to discuss my Bristow/Shell command, a small ceremony is held to award me my 4 bars, I become A Shell Captain, the first woman to achieve this in Nigeria, And I come up against the bureaucracy that tries to take away what it just gave you.

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Welcome to Pink Sky Inspired conversations with Enid Otun & Lucy Ashby. Today we are talking with Gemma Lea.

 Gemma is fat, 40 and after 30 years of an unhealthy relationship with food and her body, she decided to make the journey down the marvellous yellow brick road that is body positivity.
 Writing under the name Madame Munki, Gemma blogs about what it is like trying to find herself after years of struggling with her self-worth. She also creates illustrations and artwork to promote positive body image, including her first children’s story, ‘Welcome to BoPovia' which was published on her website www.madamemunki.com. During Lockdown she filmed 100 daily vlogs, documenting the challenges and the oddities of this crazy world we find ourselves in.
Gemma wants to share her experiences in the hope that it might just inspire other people to take the journey towards self-love.

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In this episode, I will be telling a side story about a very special Lifesaving flight that I was a part of, early on in my career with Bristow Helicopters. 

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In this episode

My flight rostering goes crazy as I fly as often as I can to build my Left-hand Seat hours, some passengers clutch their pearls as I take control of flights, and I get the opportunity to lend my voice to our Helicopter safety videos for the very first time.

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 I land in Houston for 2 months of intensive training for my ATPL, I am reminded of blatant and institutional racism whilst in the US, and I return to Nigeria with a renewed sense of optimism and excitement as I can almost reach out and touch my command.

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In this episode
I prepare for 2 months in the US to obtain my ATPL, I experience an interesting medical issue that I could only laugh at years later, and political upheaval rocks the country.

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Hello and welcome to the new season of If women were meant to fly, the sky would be pink, season 2 Episode 1, Back On Board - I am Enid Otun.

·     In this episode: I am still uncertain about job offers and leaving for greener pastures, I seem to experience more sexist abuse as I become a more senior crew member, the Lagos Flying Club gains a dedicated and enthusiastic student with just one problem, and I welcome more women pilots into our slow-growing fold.

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Our 20th Episode and the end of season one.

In this episode: Aviation Accidents are on the increase and I lose some very good friends, I am offered another job and a contract is hard to refuse, and I experience my first piranha fish encounter on a company boat trip, which puts me off fish for life.

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IN 2019, having just run a PB in the Cambridge Half Marathon, Suze was pretty shocked to discover she, in fact, had advanced stage 3 bowel cancer. She was only 36, fit and healthy, forced to re-evaluate her life in an instant. 

In an attempt to organise her own feelings and stop other people facing the same dilemma, she began writing about her experiences, first for True Stories Live and then in her very own Blog ‘Let’s talk about poo’. 

During treatment, Suze found that her continued commitment to fitness and exercise had a positive impact on the severity of her chemo side effects and has since added ‘encouraging other cancer patients to exercise through treatment’, to her list of aims for the blog and Instagram account, alongside getting people talking openly about poo.

https://www.letstalkaboutpoo.com/

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In this episode: I am promoted to Senior First Officer, there are more fun and games at the Lagos Flying Club as students learn to fly, and I suffer a series of setbacks on a personal level and fight to be exonerated.

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