Anything great that you’re going to want to accomplish is going to involve fear and discomfort, and making other people uncomfortable,” she says. “Bu… - Carey Lohrenz

I wanted to fly fighters because those pilots were the cream of the crop,” she says. “I thought to myself, Well, it takes about two years to get through this program. So maybe by the time I’m done, they will have lifted the law.”

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,

Those of us who grow up in a system thinking, ‘All I have do is perform, and my performance will speak for itself’ can actually be left behind,