The Leadership Mind How to Deal with Fear from One of the First Female Navy Aviators to Fly in a Combat Jet Squadron
In today's episode, Massimo is joined by Loree Draude, an ICF-certified executive coach, leadership consultant and professional speaker. She is the host of the Supersonic Leaders & Teams podcast, in which she interviews inspirational leaders.
Loree has spent the past twenty years in Silicon Valley, most recently leading a team of content designers at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, she led the online advertisers communities and social media business support teams at Google, where she facilitated training and coaching for diversity efforts focused on women, veterans and underrepresented Googlers. Prior to joining Google, she co-founded a mobile app company, created leadership video case studies for Stanford's Graduate School of Business and led marketing at PayNearMe and Military.com. Previously, she was a management consultant for Bain & Company.
Prior to her business career, Loree served in the US Navy for 10 years and left active duty as a Lieutenant Commander. She was one of the first female aviators to fly in a combat jet squadron in the Navy. Loree completed two deployments to the Persian Gulf and a tour as an instructor pilot, accumulating over 1600 flight hours and 300 carrier landings. She wrote about her experiences flying the F/A-18 Hornet and the S-3B Viking in the book She's Just Another Navy Pilot.
She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of San Diego and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her two teenagers and two cats in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Highlights from today's podcast include:
- Her career as one of the first female Navy pilots to fly combat missions and the thrill of launching off an aircraft carrier.
- Her passion for creativity and inspiring others led her to write and perform in a one-women show off-broadway.
- The relationship fear plays in limiting our ability to innovate, create change, and reach from what we really want to achieve.
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