Hi, you're listening to Modern Mentor. I'm your host, Rachel Cook. I'll be back with another

regular episode for you on Tuesday. But today, I'm excited to share a special episode of work life

with Adam Grant, a podcast from the TED Audio Collective. Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist

who takes you inside the

minds of fascinating people to help us rethink how we work, lead, and live. He talks with

professionals from all kinds of industries and covers timely topics, like loneliness at work

and procrastination. I'm a huge fan of Adam Grant and his teachings on motivation and meaning, so I'm thrilled

that work life is coming back for a new season. Everyone's career will hit turbulence at some point,

and the past year has left us all reacting to dramatic change. Instead of pushing harder against

the headwinds, we're sometimes better off off tilting our rudder, charting a new

course. In this episode, hear from people who have taken unusual steps to battle uncertainty,

we thought their approach to finding and landing a job, and reached out for help in unexpected

places, as well as an expert on recessions, who forecasts the future by looking to the past.

If you enjoy this episode and want to hear more, find and follow work life with Adam Grant,

wherever you're listening to this.

When I was a little, little kid, I was a four years old on my first airplane ride,

and we got to go up front in the cockpit, you know, because you could kind of do that back then. And it was totally dark, no moon over the Atlantic

ocean. There was like a billion stars in the sky. And I went back and told my mom I wanted to be a

stewardess. And my mom, to her credit, she looked at me and goes, honey, you might want to think about being a pilot.

And there you go.

That's what I wanted to do from then on.

Sharon Pressler has flown lots of different kinds of airplanes since then, including fighter jets.

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