On September 11th, 2001 Joe Keisling was taxiing his American Airlines Boeing 767 out of Chicago O’Hare for takeoff when Ground Control called and told him there was an indefinite ground stop on all eastbound departures…thus began the day that changed his life and ours forever!
In this interview you’ll get a first-hand listen to what happened that day, especially when you hear Joe talk about something that never happens in aviation, one of the air traffic controllers’ voice cracking when he told them, “God bless you.”
But it didn’t stop there.
For those of you who might be thinking of an airline flying career, Joe pulls back the curtain on the unheard of miracle of how he was hired at American without a college degree. Then he tells us how that happened and how becoming the poster boy in a 1980 Super Bowl commercial for the Army helicopter pilot recruiting program in the latest model of the Army’s Cobra helicopter “punched his ticket” for the rest of his aviation career!
At the end of the interview he talks about his wife, Jill who is a registered dietitian, specializing in the challenges of aviation travel and how she has helped him maintain his health as an International Airline Captain, crossing time zones and all the stresses that go along with 34 years of flying around the world. You can find her website here: truecoursenutrition.com
I have a separate episode coming soon with Jill coming up that will go into detail about helping you work out a nutritional program that will keep you healthy during our often schizophrenic nutritional lifestyle!
Her podcast will address specifically how to know what to eat, how to pack what to eat during your travels and how to stay healthy in the midst of everything that challenges us, especially these days.
Today’s closing song, “Everyday Heroes” is by Dave Carroll who will be one of my guests on an episode later this month!