Author. Master Feng Shui consultant. Keynote speaker on courage, resilience and change. A woman who broke a boundary at thirty and has been breaking them ever since.
Whichever door brought you here, welcome. Choose where you'd like to begin.
At ten years old, Wendy Yawching lay on the grass in Trinidad and watched a jet draw two white lines across the sky. She wanted, more than anything, to make those lines herself. Every adult she trusted told her the same four words. Girls don't do that.
She believed them for sixteen years. Then she stopped.
She became the first female captain of Trinidad & Tobago in 1999, and its first female jet captain in 2004. Since then she has run an adventure travel company for a decade, hiked the trail to Everest Base Camp, explored parts of Antarctica, rebuilt her life after losing her husband and her father within three weeks of each other, become a master Feng Shui consultant, learned the tango in Argentina before trekking Patagonia at seventy, and dived into the study of artificial intelligence at a stage of life when most people have stopped learning anything new.
She also serves as Environmental Director on the board of Tobago's Yahweh Foundation, where she created an environmental programme for secondary school students. Getting young people out into the forest, and letting them see what they are standing in, is the same work as everything else she does. It just wears different clothes.
She does not slow down. She expands.
Whatever door you came through to find her, this page is where you get to see the whole flight path.
Come for the book, the workshop, or the keynote... you will find the same person, telling the same essential truth in three different rooms.
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A memoir and life guide about the ten-year-old who buried her dream for sixteen years, and the woman who dug it back up.
Readers write to her from around the world to say it changed how they see their own lives. The audiobook launches the week of 6 February 2027.
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For organisations, women and youth groups, and schools. In fact, for anyone who wants their people to move, not simply to feel moved.
Four signature talks on resilience, change, and the courage to walk through the door you are standing at. Worldwide, in person or virtual.
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Six years on the board of the International Feng Shui Guild. She launched and chaired its first international summits, and has presented at three of them, most recently in May 2026.
Her signature workshop, New Beginnings: the Ultimate Energy Vision Board Experience, has helped many people change the trajectory of their lives.
Wendy knows her circumstances were not the hardest ones people have faced. But they were real: real cultural resistance, real financial pressure, real fear, and a real choice, made over and over again, to keep going. She is not interested in fixing anyone's situation from a stage or a page. She is interested in reaching something deep within the core of her audience, and helping them rediscover their own capacity to dream, to hope, to deal with change and with challenges, and to find the courage to walk forward.
The pilot story is the hook. The book, the talks, and the Feng Shui work are three different rooms for the same conversation: What would you do, if you finally believed you could?
Live your own life. No one else can live it for you. Yes, you Can. It's never too late to learn, to grow, to change your path. Reach for the stars. Even if you fall, you might just land on the moon. Love. BIG. Dare to Dream. BIG. And… Have the Courage to Fly.
Her story is extraordinary, but it is not simply the story of becoming Trinidad and Tobago's first female jet captain. It is the story of a woman who has continued to challenge the limits placed on her, reinvent herself, and move forward through the different seasons of her life.
In April 2023, WI Global named Wendy Yawching a Living Legend, recognising a woman who opened a door in Trinidad & Tobago that no woman had walked through before her, and who has kept opening new doors ever since.
I would highly recommend Wendy as a speaker for any organisation seeking to inspire, empower and elevate its audience.
Through the poignant and often dramatic storytelling of her book, The Courage to Fly, she connects meaningfully with listeners of every generation, affirming their innate greatness and inspiring them to pursue their dreams.
Wendy believes deeply in the message she shares, and it shows in every interaction. She isn't afraid to forge her own path, and helps others do the same.
Wendy is narrating The Courage to Fly herself. Leave an address and she will tell you the day it goes live. Nothing else, and never anyone else's list.
Or simply email wendy@thecourage2fly.com and she will add you herself.
To dream. To hope. To find the courage to walk forward, no matter what the world has told you. Yes, you CAN.
Podcast hosts, journalists and interviewers are warmly welcome here too. Wendy joins the conversation from anywhere in the world, and travels for the right one. wendy@thecourage2fly.com