#1638: Flying Free & Facing Fears | 51%

December 11, 2020 00:27:28
#1638: Flying Free & Facing Fears | 51%
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#1638: Flying Free & Facing Fears | 51%

Dec 11 2020 | 00:27:28

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Show Notes

Cecilia Aragon is a professor, pilot, computer scientist, and author.  This week on 51% she’ll talk about how flying helped her face many fears. The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a timid child in a small Midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies […]

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