Learn to Love the Turbulence : Flight Lessons on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey

When former broadcast news reporter and motivational speaker Amelia Rose Earhart decided to honor her namesake, aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart, she did it in the biggest way possible—by becoming the first pilot in command of a flight around the world in a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. Her challenges, her obstacles, and her ultimate success taught her invaluable lessons about life. The most important one?

Learn to love the turbulence.

As Earhart chronicles her own journey, she invites you to explore, expand, and even redefine your own. She welcomes you aboard her adventure while she shares life lessons that include how to navigate the holding pattern, plan for emergency procedures, prepare for headwinds, brace for turbulence, and fearlessly explore and boldly embrace life.

Climb into the cockpit and strap in. You’re about to gain permission to enter new airspace. Earhart’s wisdom will uplift you as you make your own best decisions about life, and remind you that nothing binds you, not even gravity. The only plane that never experiences turbulence is one locked up in the hangar—and you were built to soar.

AMELIA ROSE EARHART holds her private, instrument and commercial ratings as a pilot, and in 2014, became an around-the-world pilot, completing a complex, one-of-a-kind flight plan inspired by her hero and namesake, Amelia Mary Earhart. Earhart partnered with Pilatus Aircraft to fly the Pilatus PC-12NG single engine airplane around an equatorial route, inspired by the original flight attempt of Amelia Mary Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937. From 2012 to 2022, Earhart ran the Fly With Amelia Foundation, granting flight training scholarships to young women ages sixteen to eighteen, across the U.S. In 2023, the Fly With Amelia Foundation donated all remaining funds to the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, KS, Amelia Mary Earhart's home town. A former breaking news and traffic reporter in Denver and Los Angeles, Earhart now combines her passion for flying and communicating as an international keynote speaker.

KRISTIN CLARK TAYLOR is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. She is a founding member of USA Today's original creation and launch team and serves on the newspaper's Board of Contributing Editors. She served as White House Director of Media Relations under President George H.W. Bush. She is an ordained minister and a mindfulness practitioner.