At the end of the day it's not about me. It's what can somebody do with the lessons that I learned. If there's part of my story that I can share — or if there's somebody who looks at me and thinks, Oh my gosh, maybe I can do that too — then it's worth it,

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I'm like, 'OK, what are your resources? What are your threats?' And then in big jumbo sidewalk chalk I drew this strategic plan for him in under 10 minutes. And he ran in, got a camera and took a picture, Lohrenz says. And next thing you know I'm starting a strategic planning consulting career.

It was big, it was heavy and it tended to be slightly underpowered,” Lohrenz says. “You’re coming across the back end of that aircraft carrier, going about 165 miles an hour, and you slam down on that deck and come to a complete stop in just under 1.2 seconds.”

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When you hear these little comments, whether it's about your fingernail polish or your hair or what you're wearing at the time, it can feel like the slow drop of Chinese water torture, Lohrenz recalls. When you're there to fly this magnificent fighter jet, it chips away at you.

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People think that fighter pilots aren’t afraid of anything, and yet that’s not true,” she says. “It’s that we’ve learned and developed the ability to work through fear, and flip it, and make it actionable, so that it works for us, and not against us.”