Eileen Isola- Necessary Turbulence
Season 12 He’s Just Finale- Eileen Isola is an international airline pilot, decorated combat pilot, speaker, and 1985 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. She made history as the first woman to serve as an Advance Agent to the President of the United States, flying high-performance jets, training combat pilots and instructors, and delivering humanitarian relief to war-torn regions.
Her story, and the story of the extraordinary military women who helped break the federal barrier of preventing women from flying combat aircraft, has been featured on the front page of The New York Times and in publications across the country.
Today, we talk with Eileen about her new book, Necessary Turbulence: Fifty Years, One Unbreakable Sisterhood Forged in the Crucible of the Air Force Academy: a story of courage, sacrifice, belonging, resilience, and women who refused to let the path end with them.
Because some doors are just too heavy to push open alone.Don’t get it twisted: disruption isn’t always the problem. Sometimes, it’s the force that creates change. Eileen not only opened the door wide open she held it open so others can walk right through That’s the story of Necessary Turbulence.
