direction.She’d conquered the skies. Now she wanted to conquer the sea. She took up sailing—seriously, the way she’d approached everything else in her life—and prepared to sail across the Atlantic in her own yacht.Same determination. Same refusal to accept limits. Just a different element.Today, Barbara Harmer’s story stands as proof that your starting point doesn’t determine your destination.She began in a hair salon with no qualifications and ended in the Concorde cockpit traveling at Mach 2.She was rejected 100 times and kept applying until someone said yes.She borrowed £10,000 she couldn’t afford to lose and bet it all on herself.She entered an industry that didn’t want women and became the first female pilot of its most iconic aircraft.Every barrier she faced—lack of education, lack of money, lack of connections,
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