E32 - Guests: Mandy Hickson, RAF Tornado Pilot, Author, Keynote Speaker

This week's episode was a real joy for me as it is an interview with fellow fast-jet pilot and former RAF Officer, Mandy Hickson. 

Mandy was one of the very first women to go through RAF flying training and was the second female Tornado GR4 pilot.  She had an extremely active 17 year RAF career, and is now the bestselling author of "An Officer, not a Gentleman", and a highly acclaimed motivational speaker whose talents are in demand all over the world.

Unsurprisingly, Many and I have a great deal in common given our shared RAF flying experiences, and this was a hugely enjoyable conversation which covered a lot of ground, but which also touched on a wide range of important areas of leadership.  I really hope you enjoy listening to it as we did making it.

You can find Mandy on LinkedIn here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandyhickson/

In this interview we cover the following topics (starting time in brackets):

• Mandy's career journey (00.02.40)
• Early motivations (00.07.12)
• Being at the front end of female aircrew in the RAF (00.11.53)
• Leadership issues! (00.23.05)
• Advice to a school age Mandy! (00.44.16)
• Giving back as a leader (00.46.46)
• Learning from military transition (00.49.21)
• Role models (00.57.40)
• What would Mandy have done differently? (01.02.11)
• Career high point (01.07.35)
• Career low point (01.10.12)
• Work : life balance (01.14.48)
• The world of motivational speaking ((01.18.51)
• The next steps for Mandy Hickson! (01.24.45)
• Most memorable event! (01.26.34)
• Most difficult question! (01.28.36)

Thank you for listening!

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