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#38 Sky High Dreams: Captain Wendy Yawching Breaking Barriers Trinidad's First Female Airline Captain
What happens when you refuse to let others define your limits?
From being the first female captain of Trinidad's airline to hiking Everest Base Camp, Captain Wendy Yawhing proves barriers can be broken. Listen to her remarkable journey on our latest Pulse of the Caribbean podcast episode!
"The journey might be a challenge, but don't lose sight of the destination." - Captain Wendy Yawching
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Wendy Yaching was the first female captain of Trinidad and Tobago's National Airline, the first Trinidadian woman to hike the trail to Mount Everest Base Camp and the first master feng shui consultant in Trinidad and Tobago.
Speaker 1:Today she is our guest on the Pulse of the Caribbean podcast. Welcome to the Pulse of the Caribbean podcast. I'm Keisha. Welcome to the Pulse of the Caribbean podcast. I'm Keisha. Wendy Yachting was the first female captain of Trinidad and Tobago's National Airline, the first Trinidadian woman to hike the trail to Mount Everest Base Camp and the first master feng shui consultant in Trinidad and Tobago. Oops, and the first master consultant. Oh boy, that got messed up. Hi, welcome to the Pulse of the Caribbean podcast. I'm Keisha. Wendy Yachting was the first female captain of Trinidad and Tobago's national airline, the first Trinidadian woman to hike the trail to Mount Everest Base Camp and the first master feng shui consultant in Trinidad and Tobago. Today she is our guest on the Pulse of the Caribbean podcast. Today we'll learn more about this exceptional Caribbean woman and trailblazer who continues to inspire others, and with that we say welcome to Captain Wendy Yaching.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me, Keisha. It's my honor to be here.
Speaker 1:It is my honor to have you here Now. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Certainly, we know that you develop an interest in aviation and that led you to do groundbreaking things to be the first Trinidadian woman to captain Trinidad and Tobago's national airline. Tell us about developing that interest. Where did it begin? How did you start? And the road to becoming a pilot, keisha, we'd be here forever, yes, but there's always a beginning where it started.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was just a little girl. I was just a little fat my nickname was Fatso, by the way a little fat Trinidadian girl eating mangoes under the tree. And I looked up and saw the airplanes go by, which I'd seen many times, and for some reason that just suddenly got me. I just decided I wanted to do that and from then on my life changed because that desire, that love, that passion never went away, in spite of being rejected by everyone in my life. That dream of mine. In those days girls didn't do things like that. Girls did girl things and boys did boy things in Trinidad, and so my dream of being a pilot was laughed at, scorned, rejected. I was told, you know, all kinds of negative messages, not only my family, who loved me, but they wanted me to do other things, and my friends, my besties and my school and my counselors. I actually lost my belief that I could be a pilot because of those messages, lost my belief that I could be a pilot because of those messages and then yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's why my message now is to women particularly is yes, you can, yes, you can. Anyway, that's jumping ahead. So it took me many, many years of following the better, what people consider the normal path for a Caribbean young lady who had a certain amount of intelligence and good schooling, et cetera, to break out of that. I learned that I could do anything I wanted. Only when I left Trinidad and went off to Canada to study in university and I was surrounded by females who were then just doing things that everybody could do men did, women did without thinking about it and I realized no, it's not the world, it's just Trinidad that believes those things. And so after four and a half years of university, my mindset was changed, and I thank you Canada for that, because had I stayed in Trinidad and maybe gone to university there at that time, perhaps I would have chosen differently. So at the mature age of, say, 26, I realized I could do anything. So you're talking from 10 to 26, 16 years, of being programmed in the way that girls were programmed with their best interests at heart, surely in those times, to do what girls should do. And 16 years later, the light bulb came on and I went why not me? And that's when my pilot journey started, and it was a long, hard journey because I had no support, no money. I had to make my own way. It took me a long time but then, eventually, I got my first flying job and I went from there.
Speaker 2:I lived in other places, I flew for other airlines and then I made my way to BWIA in Trinidad, got back to Trinidad and started my journey there as the first jet pilot not captain jet pilot and within 10 years I was the first female captain. And, of course, of course, going back to Trinidad as a completely changed female. With this job, I had to deal with cultural norms, flying with men being, you know, the management was all male. I had to carve my niche, I had to prove myself, I had to be really, really good, which I was, and I had to make it so that when they thought of a female pilot, they would also accept that, yes, she could.
Speaker 2:Because I didn't come back to that. That was not the norm. When I came home, us and never give up on my dreams and I must tell you, keisha, once I had that light bulb moment and I committed to it. I never gave up on my dreams, even in the darkest, hardest hours. So it was a journey of resilience and courage and believing in myself in spite of what the rest of the world might tell me.
Speaker 1:Until one day, I looked around and the world believed in me, but it took a while that is such an awesome message, because it took you a moment, because, as you mentioned, your family, friends, besties and even the culture in terms of where we come from in the Caribbean was like, no, do something else. But you decided, and the inspiration came as well from the environment that you were in, as you mentioned, when you traveled to Canada and you were at university and you saw women doing what they wanted to do and the light bulb went on yes, you could, yes, you can, and you did it and that is so awesome. So we know that there are so many fields becoming the first female captain for Trinidad and Tobago's National Airline. What is your message to women today? Because you know some of that still exists. So what is your message about entering any field that may be male dominated and pursuing your dreams?
Speaker 2:to push barriers. As you've seen when you talked about me, I've continued to do things that are unusual, and my message is still the same Follow your heart. Yes, it may be hard. Yes, you may have people telling you that you can't. Yes, it may be that you get discouraged sometimes. Get up, keep walking, because the answer to it all is yes, you can. Yes, you can.
Speaker 2:So I am very committed now to making sure that women, girls and yes, there are boys and men who need it to believe this for their lives, regardless. I'm not trying to get everybody to be pilots. Regardless of what that passion is inside of you, Don't hide it inside because of the rest of the world. You can. The journey might be not, it might be a challenge. It might not be the journey that you'd like to have, but the destination never. Lose sight of that. If that's in your heart, follow it. Yes, you can. So right now, one of my most joyous and passionate mission part of it is to inspire and motivate people to believe that, and so I spend time working with the secondary schools, I'm looking to expand up the Caribbean women's groups, et cetera. My joy is to make sure that no woman is handicapped the way I was by doubting herself because of what the world is telling her, Whatever her dream is. And no boy same, no young man same.
Speaker 1:So I am so glad that you said that because, yes, for women it is certainly a challenge, but there is also that challenge for anyone, whether you are male or female, where people may not necessarily support you in your goals and your endeavors. So I'm so glad that that message, of course, yes for females, for women, certainly we have a lot to overcome, but certainly there are young men and men as well that need that message as well. So tell us when you became, when you got your wings per se and you were the first female captain. Tell us about that moment, about that feeling, after all that you had done all that you went through, after all that you had done all that you went through. Tell us about that feeling when, per se quote unquote you arrived and you were a captain.
Speaker 2:Okay, so my destination was never to be a captain, my destination was to fly those airplanes. Okay, I had those moments early o'clock from the time I started training in the little, little tiny planes. I had those moments. The planes got bigger and I got my first airline job. I remember I was teaching cadets to fly up in the bush in Northern Ontario for a while when I got my first job with LIAT in Antigua. Every time the airplane got bigger, I had another moment because I was living my dream.
Speaker 2:So being a captain wasn't my dream. Flying the planes was being a pilot. And so then, when I came to BWA, the airplane got significantly bigger and faster and more powerful. Yes, I love that. So the moment of being a captain wasn't that moment for me. I was blessed with having those moments all along, because when you're living your passion, you get them. And so when I became a captain, it was a natural progression for my journey.
Speaker 2:A captain, it was a natural progression for my journey, and I remember that first day that I was, because there's lots and lots of training that goes on. Yes, so it's not something all of a sudden. You're a captain, you have training and you fly with check pilots sitting watching you and monitoring you and guiding you and advising you for ages, it seems like so when I was finally kicked out of the nest and now from being a first officer, which was a previous job to being the captain in charge of the airplane, I remember thinking, oh my God, oh my God, does everybody know this is my first day? Do they know that I'm I? Actually I've never done this before. I've never been in charge of the airplane before. I always had a captain on my side and I thought it was a big sign over me saying newbie. I really thought so and I was getting.
Speaker 2:I got myself really psyched up and nervous, walking across the airport with my new captain's outfit and people saying congratulations, congratulations. Walking onto the airplane, flight attendant saying congratulations, captain, so nice to have you, cause they were really the flight attendants really supported me and I sit in my seat and I say, wendy, you can sit there feeling like an imposter because you know how to be a first officer, but you've never been a captain. You can sit there feeling like an imposter or you can get on and be a captain. And I just decided I'm going to be a captain and I never looked back and I was a fabulous captain, if I say so myself, because my love for it was always so clear to everyone my love, my desire for perfection, the way I supported my team, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Speaker 2:But it really wasn't my destination. I had achieved my destination early o'clock just by flying, and, yes, it was a big deal that I was the first lady captain for Trinidad and, of course, therefore, for the rest. You know the islands around and I recognized that, that I became a role model, then an icon and all that stuff, and so it meant that I definitely had to rule the rest of my life so I could live up to that.
Speaker 1:Certainly, and tell us the largest plane, because certainly you may have started with a single engine, perhaps or maybe a twin engine. So tell us where you started in terms of the first plane that you flew to the largest plane that you flew in the fleet before retiring we all start with one engine and two seats where it's just you and an instructor.
Speaker 2:one engine and two seats where it's just you and an instructor. And when you get your first pilot's license, you know your little tiny private pilot's license. You can fly two or four seats, kind of thing. And then I went up, of course, as the years progressed and the biggest plane I flew was the 737-800 at Caribbean Airlines and that is about, you know, approximately 150 passenger seats. But really it was. It was just a beautiful airplane. I had no desire to go bigger. The Caribbean airline didn't have any bigger airplanes at that time for me to go to, but I always stayed away from the bigger because then you had to go transatlantic and I didn't like the long, long, long, long flights.
Speaker 2:I really enjoyed going to New York and Toronto and Miami and Washington and Jamaica and Guyana. I'd enjoy the medium haul flights that was my niche. So even if when we had bigger airplanes, I never chose to go on it, and if we had bigger airplanes when I was a captain, I would have also chosen to stay with the lovely 737-800 and do those routes.
Speaker 1:Yes, you definitely have the spirit of an adventurer. Tell us about being the first Trinidadian woman to hike the trail to Mount Everest base camp. What was your preparation and what inspired you to climb Mount Everest?
Speaker 2:I am a hiker. I'm still a hiker, keisha, and I love mountains. So as long as I can I'll be hiking and hiking mountains. So Mount Everest was just one of the mountains I attempted. Not Mount Everest like the peak Mount Everest base camp. That's a hike. Going to the peak requires climbing skills. I'm not a climber, I'm a hiker.
Speaker 2:So by then I had hiked in the Andes, in the Rockies, in the Swiss Alps. I hiked in New Zealand because, thank God for flying, I got to travel easily. I'd hiked in the Southern Alps in New Zealand. So Mount Everest was just a natural progression and I wanted to take it off my list. So off I went. So I was already fit and strong and used to hiking mountains Again. I'd broken the rules for Trinidadian girls. At that time they weren't doing that kind of thing. They do it now, which is great. There's a lot of adventurous young ladies and old ladies in Trinidad now. So Mount Everest was just another one of those got to go do that one.
Speaker 2:And the trip itself was probably the hardest one I had done because of the altitude. We all suffered from altitude sickness at some point and having to have the courage to keep walking when everything was hurting and then stop walking when altitude sickness threatened to kill you, which it did, which it did threaten several people in my group. So it was a very interesting experience to know how far you could push and where courage and fortitude was involved and where it would have been silly for you to push because you could kill yourself. And I found at one point I had to stop and I had to wait and it was really hard because I'm not a stop and wait kind of person, but I had to listen to my body and I'm glad I did. And then I continued up the mountain feeling better. But it taught me a lot about myself those challenges that I could back off if I had to. I could, I could step down and then, when the situation was right, I would try again. In other words, don't quit but be wise, Be wise and don't quit.
Speaker 1:And certainly after leaving the world of aviation, you've remained actively involved in so many things in Trinidad and Tobago and we understand that you are the environmental director of the Tobago-based Yahweh Foundation, your current project being the implementation of an award-winning environmental program for secondary school students on the island. Tell us about the program and what it means to educate our young people on environmental protection. And just a little note there, I was once also to an environmental educator as well in the US Virgin Islands. So certainly it is. You know something to share about protecting our environment, so tell us what it means to you about educating our people, our young people, about environmental education.
Speaker 2:I'm even more pleased to meet you, Keisha, now that I know you're environmentalist. I have to back up a little bit. My health for the environment started when I was doing all that extensive traveling. I come from Trinidad. Right, I'm based in Trinidad, where people don't or at that time didn't really care about Mother Nature. They took it for granted. And I'm traveling to other countries where I see them making serious steps to protect their environment and elevate their natural resources, you know, and keep them preserved and not mess them up. Especially what springs to mind is New Zealand. I mean, I just love that place because of the approach to the natural bounty. And so I came back from my travels with the feeling that, oh, my goodness, we just don't get it. And so I started an environmental awareness no, environmental adventure company eco-adventure company in Trinidad when I was flying with BWIA, and our mission was then to take people out and show them the value and show them how special Trinidad and Tobago, Florida and Forna was. And part of that I developed an environmental program which I did run 10 schools through in Trinidad in those days with corporate sponsorship. So when I then came to Tobago and realized that Tobago had the same need, through Yahweh. We got sponsorship to present an updated version that suited the current generation who are all on their devices, so an updated version of the environmental program made for the modern day kids. And we had corporate sponsorship to run several schools through it and we are hoping for more because it was such a wonderful success.
Speaker 2:Why is it important? Because the future is in their hands and what we teach them is what we're going to end up. You know the fate of our country is in their hands and what we teach them is what we're going to end up. You know the fate of our country is in their hands and unfortunately, so far that's not been a priority of the curriculums here. So you know, getting high marks in school and doing all these other trades and careers, but taking care of the absolute, magnificent beauty that we've been gifted with has not been high on the priority list.
Speaker 2:So we try to make a difference there, school by school, student by student. And you know what, when we do, the students, the teachers also shift. And I've found that is so amazing and valuable because it's hard to change adults. We're changing the children, but when we take the children out into the forest and we, it's a whole program. It goes on for a couple of months. When we do that, we see the teachers shifting and that is amazing, that's wonderful. So I'm hoping that we can attract the kind of sponsorship we need to continue doing it in Tobago, because it's a sad, a sad. It's a huge, crying need.
Speaker 1:And you know, with that being said, not only in Tobago, and you know, with that being said, not only in Tobago, I think that it is a huge crime need across the region, certainly for our people, the program that you're involved with to teach the next generation. So perhaps the young will lead, as they will be the ones then it will be in their hands to deal with some of the consequences, but certainly also work towards preserving what we have and perhaps maybe even dealing with restoration as well.
Speaker 2:You're so right. The name of the program is really Connect, Preserve and Restore. But first we had to have them connect with it and learn to appreciate it, value it, love it and then teach them the ways to preserve and restore. So, yes, you're quite right, you hit the nail on the head there.
Speaker 1:And now you are the first master Feng Shui consultant in Trinidad and Tobago. Tell our listeners exactly what Feng Shui is and how you became involved in its practice, and perhaps how it has impacted your life.
Speaker 2:Right. So that's a story of a little bit of magic. And apparently I heard recently that there is another feng shui consultant who's been operating in Trinidad for many years, but we never met, so I didn't. I wasn't aware of her. I'm not sure if she's a master consultant, and that's certainly my qualification, but I honor her for having been there, because it's not a place where feng shui is widely known, yeah, and so that makes you feel sometimes so you need some, some company.
Speaker 2:I started feng shui because I wanted to know. When I retired from flying, I wanted to do something that was different, expanded my own, learning my own, developed other parts of my brain and also gave back. And feng shui kept coming across my desk, coming across my emails, coming into my awareness, and so I've started pursuing it. I fell in love with it and I continued my training until I had that certain qualification.
Speaker 2:What feng shui does is for me is if you Google it, you'll find all kinds of different answers. My answer is that feng shui does is for me. If you Google it, you'll find all kinds of different answers. My answer is that feng shui is all about the chi and everything is energy, and by finding the right energy within yourself and supporting that energy by your environment, you can change everything in your life, and so that is my approach to feng shui. So it's not about moving the bed or moving the chair, it's about the energy and everything you do, everything you say, everything you touch is energetic, and if you support that and the right energies, you will find your life unfolds in a different way. I hope I've answered your question.
Speaker 1:So you know that is so interesting. Our environment has so much to do with how we develop or how we go, or our thinking, our being. So certainly, yes, moving a chair or positioning things. But the overarching message about Feng Shui, as you have presented it, it is about our energy, about the environment. It is about our energy, about the environment, and that, to me, also goes back to the energy and the environment that you were in in Canada when the light bulb went off as well, about the energy that was around you. So it's about energies, about our thinking, about the environment and different things around us.
Speaker 1:And you know that also ties into environment as well when you talk about the environmental program that you have been involved and continue to be involved in. So it's about our environment and the energy energy that we we gave off and the energy that we also receive as well. So why did you decide to become a consultant? To take it to that level? Because certainly you know we do have different things that we may do in our lives. But then you took it to another level because certainly it could just be about Captain Wendy and Captain Wendy's environment. So tell us why you decided to become a consultant, and a master consultant at that.
Speaker 2:As again, when I did retire from flying which I did a little earlier than most I decided to do something. I need to do things. I love to be a value and service really, and so I chose to take it to where I could use it to be a value and service. That's really it, and so everything that I do is about that. And so to the environmental awareness program. Just actually applying it to my home, which of course I have, would not have been enough for me. It to my home, which of course I have, would not have been enough for me.
Speaker 2:I want to help other people live the life and understand the importance of that chi we call it. And when you talk about an environment, to me the environment is both your inner environment and your outer environment. So it starts with you, and that's I mean. You're talking to me now and I'm sure you can feel my energy. I'm talking to you and I can feel yours. That's the energy that you bring out to the world is what determines how you see the world, how the world responds to you, and if your environment then supports that, you are nurtured from outside as well as inside. So it all ties together and, if I say so myself, the fact that I'm environmentally inclined. It works beautifully with the feng shui, because it's all about making the right balance and making the right harmony and creating healthy environments inside and outside. It all, to me, is my path is very aligned.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed, yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed. And it is so important that as we walk on our life's journey, our journeys are not just about us, but certainly sometimes we have to go within and encourage and motivate ourselves in those times when we may not necessarily have it around us. So, yes, indeed, it is something both internal as well as external what we think, what we do, and creating that balance and harmony. So it starts within us and certainly we spread and shine that light to our community and the world in which we live. And, as we said at the beginning of this podcast, you are a trailblazer who continues to inspire. You authored the book in 2022, the Courage to Fly. Tell us the synopsis of the book and why it should be a gift or in the library of schools across our region and, in fact, I would say, the world.
Speaker 2:Keisha did I tell you I love you. I agree with you. I think it is A book should be reached. It should be in the hands of every person. But you know, women are my passion. But every person who needs to find the courage to fly on their own wings, who feels stuck, who's afraid, who doesn't think enough of themselves to start walking, that book will help. And so, yes, I think it should be in all the schools. I think it should be in the hands of any person, at whatever age, who is doubting themselves about their ability to make their dreams happen.
Speaker 2:So I was never going to write a book. This is the history of the book. I was never going to write a book. I was happy, living my life and, as you could tell, I've had a full and rich life and I'm always doing something interesting.
Speaker 2:And I was pushed to write the book by people who thought I had stories that should be shared, especially the Captain Wendy story, and then by COVID, because when COVID was going on, I was surrounded by so many people who were seeing the darkness, and I understand that, but they didn. Many people who were seeing the darkness, and I understand that, but they didn't understand that. I saw the light. I understood the darkness, but I chose to see the light, and they kept asking me well, how come? So I said you know what? I obviously have a message that I need to share, and that's when I sat down and wrote the book that people had been harassing me to write.
Speaker 2:So the book is ostensibly a story of the making of Captain Wendy, and it will inspire people just when they go through my journey from being 10 years old to being a captain. But it is actually a book that relates very directly to every single person who reads it. It's very personal. It's a conversation with me. There's a little workbook that goes along that they can journal and do their stuff with, and it shifts you from being stuck and afraid to being willing to start walking on your own road and flying with your own wings over time, and so I think it's an awesome book. It's a small book, it's a quick read, but it's a life changing book and the story is not over. I've been told that I'm supposed to write part two now, because my life keeps evolving, but I am resisting that too.
Speaker 1:Well, with that, with that, we say everything certainly happens in time and certainly it is something that goes, you know, that will be there, that continues to exist and continues to inspire. Now, in 2023, you were honored as a living Caribbean legend by the global community, caricom. Tell us about the feeling of being honored by CARICOM?
Speaker 2:I was honored to be honored, but I don't seek honors, but I am very appreciative of that honor. Yes, go ahead, so you?
Speaker 1:know. The thing about that is that when you're honored, that furthers your message for more people to know about Captain Wendy. Not everyone may be in Trinidad and Tobago, not everybody may have fly BWI or LIAT or Caribbean or Caribbean or Caribbean Airlines. So it's about spreading that message because then more people know about Captain Wendy, more people know about Captain Wendy's story. Everyone has a story and Captain Wendy's story is certainly an inspiring story that should be heard, that should be known. Everybody needs to know about. Captain Wendy's story is certainly an inspiring story that should be heard, that should be known. Everybody needs to know about Captain Wendy.
Speaker 2:I have to tell you I'm spending my flying career being shy and humble and not telling everybody that I was a pilot. But since retirement I've gotten over that and since I published my book I've had to get over that because of course, the book catapulted me in front of a lot of cameras and again, you know, I'm doing motivational speaking and inspirational work and now there's a portrait as you know, that's been painted of me, so I just had to get used to it. But it was never my goal to seek that. Everybody knew about Captain Wendy. But you see, Captain Wendy's message, that's my goal to seek that everybody knew about Captain Wendy. But you see, Captain Wendy's message, that's my goal, Captain Wendy's message. And obviously the story sells the message. So so I have accepted it and I'm embracing it, and that's why I'm talking to you, Keisha.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, and what are some of your other interests? I know that we were. When we were scheduling this interview, you had a prior commitment for dancing, so tell us about the other part of, uh, captain wendy, and that rich, just just awesome life that that you're living I love dancing and I am passionate about ballroom and latin, and there's a competition in j July that I'm going to participate in, so I have to practice.
Speaker 1:Wow. So you've really got to get it down and and you know that's so interesting that you mentioned that it has a competition coming up in July and certainly you are putting in that time and the practice. So tell us about that competition when it is where it is, that you will be a part of this competition.
Speaker 2:I'll put in a plug. Tobago has the premier dance group in Tobago every year put on a dance sport competition and it's a big deal. It's at the National Stadium in Tobago and I always dance and this year is no exception, meaning I compete. So this year is no exception. It's very exciting and it attracts dancers from Trinidad and then they've opened it up to the other Caribbean islands this year. I hope the dancers turn up. So I'm putting in a plug for that dance sport competition, dance sport championships, and it's on July 12th, 19, 2025.
Speaker 2:Yes, this will be our 13th edition and I believe I've danced at most of them. Awesome and you are truly inspiring spirit, with a love for life, adventure and helping others. What is the best advice you've gotten, or words that you live by? I believe if you tap into that, you believe in it and then you extend that outwards, all things are possible, magic is possible, and the answer then?
Speaker 1:to your question is yes, you can. Yes, you can, and if anyone wants to contact you for speaking engagements or any of your services, how do they do so?
Speaker 2:There's several ways. One is through my Courage to Fly website, thecouragetoflycom, where the book is represented, and the other is through my Healing Spaces Caribbean website, which is my feng shui consultancy, and so anyone can contact me there. And, of course, if you Google me, I'm on Facebook and Instagram, et cetera, so not hard.
Speaker 1:Well, Captain Wendy Yachting, not hard. Well, Captain Wendy Yachting, it has been an honor to speak with you. Thank you for accepting my invitation, our invitation here on the Pulse of the Caribbean podcast. And I also want to say a very, very special thank you to Vidya Burkoff, an exceptional Caribbean artist of yellowbutterflystudioscom, for connecting me with you. I met Vidya through my Pulse of the Caribbean Facebook page and I'm so ever grateful. We say congratulations to you, Thank you for being the woman that you are that continue to spread that love, to spread that message in so many different areas and ways through the Trinidad and Tobago community, our Caribbean region and the wider world Certainly, would like to wish you well as you continue to shine your light to the world.
Speaker 2:Thank you, keisha, I've totally enjoyed chatting with you.
Speaker 1:And this is the last thing I'd like you to do for me. I'd like you to just say your name, how you represent yourself, and then say I am the pulse of the Caribbean.
Speaker 2:When you say how I represent myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, meaning like what titles you want to put behind your name. Whether you know, I am Captain Wendy Yashing of. You know, whether it is your website, whether it is, you know, master Feng Shui, artist, first Woman you know, first Captain of Trinidad and Tobago's national airline. However you want you know to. To pin that, just state your name and then ending with I am the pulse of the Caribbean, Cause I know there are many things you can say, but just how you want us to, to basically pin it I am captain Wendy Yashing, and then whatever you want to put there in terms of titles and then say I am the pulse of the Caribbean.
Speaker 2:Let's give it a whirl. This is a new version. I am Wendy Yashing, let's try again. Ready, go right ahead. I am Captain Wendy Yashing, ready, go right ahead. I am Captain Wendy Yoching, master feng shui consultant, adventurer and lover of dancing, and I am the Pulse of the Caribbean.
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