Flying High with Nushin Elahi

Coach and pilot, Nushin Elahi took to the skies as a trainee pilot in midlife and found herself gaining not only her pilot’s licence, but a new perspective on life!
Join us as we talk about feeling invisible, moving outside our comfort zones, the challenges she faced in joining what was essentially, a “Boys’ club” and how learning to fly mirrored her personal development journey.

Nushin can be contacted via her Reframe Coaching website: https://re-frame.coach/ Reframe Coaching
Buy Nushin’s book “Find your Wings and Fly: Life Lessons from the Cockpit” here**: https://amzn.to/46Uao2O
For more information on the book in Nushin’s own words, scroll down.
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About this Podcast.
Like all transitions, midlife can be messy and sad and glorious all at once, leaving many midlife women feeling rather alone and somewhat invisible. But what does this transition we are experiencing lead to?

I'm Jo Blackwell, a photographer, author and coach for women who want more from their lives post 50 and I'm here to remind you that if we manage our health and embrace it, growing older can lead to one of the greatest periods of growth and transformation of our lives.

My aim is to help women step into a starring role in their own lives - whatever that means to you. The Midlife Movement was created to change minds about midlife and growing older, one story at a time. Because we only become invisible when when we stop seeing ourselves.
email jo@joblackwell.co.uk to take part in the podcast or suggest guests.

See The Midlife & Beyond section of my website for more information and resources to help you navigate change with less stress and more joy! www.joblackwell.co.uk

More about Nushin:
"I launched my book, Find Your Wings and Fly: Life Lessons from the Cockpit on Amazon in January this year on Blue Monday, so called because it’s considered the gloomiest day of the year. The book is the story of how I became a pilot, but as one reviewer said, it’s about so much more than flying. It is about the way we learn as adults; a story of adapting to change with hope, optimism and courage.

For me, it’s a dream come true – a dream I have worked so hard to realise, and at times thought would never happen. I kept going because I had promised myself that I would help the woman who felt as lost and dispirited as I did all those years ago, to realise there was a different path. This has been on my vision board for a very long time. Sometimes, though, that goal doesn’t happen in the time frame you had hoped, and you have to accept that and go with what life gives you.

For me, it was lemons, and I couldn’t see how to make lemonade. My son was ill, I didn’t feel like a pilot, I was squarely back in the mum phase. How did I make that authentic in a book where I am telling people they can discover their best life? I

t was actually working with a coach that helped me find the answer. I knew I wasn’t sorry about what I had chosen, even though I was sad I was in a situation where I had to make those choices. “Own it,” she said. And suddenly I knew the answer. We all have bad weather we have to fly around, and I had a downpour. I just had to acknowledge that, and I did so by writing an epilogue, for all the women who find that things aren’t working out quite the way they wished. A parent or a child who needs care, a body that isn’t functioning the way you would like, a job that doesn’t fulfil. Whatever it is, we all face it, some of us many times over. And I found the more compassion I gave myself, the easier it was. So that was one of the lessons I learnt, but not in the cockpit. And now I hope my book will be, as someone wrote, a paper plane that can help other women discover a different future for themselves."

Buy Nushin’s book “Find your Wings and Fly: Life Lessons from the Cockpit” here: https://amzn.to/46Uao2O