Ben Feder, Making Every Day a Sabbatical

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ben Feder was the CEO of a tremendously successful company, but it was coming at great personal cost. Returning home from his worldwide business travels, he greeted his family, only to realize how disconnected he felt from them. For years he had sacrificed time with his family to focus on his work, but at this moment he decided something needed to change. He embarked on a year-long sabbatical, in a very big way. He gave up his job, pulled his kids out of school and moved his family from New York to Bali. He explains how that journey changed all of their lives. Have a question for Dan? Leave us a voicemail at 646-883-8326. The Plug Zone Website: https://benfederauthor.com/ Author: Take Off Your Shoes https://benfederauthor.com/product/take-off-your-shoes Twitter: @BenFederAuthor Facebook: @BenFederAuthor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:17.6	From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
1:24.3	If you ever had the fantasy, I've had this fantasy many times of just like quitting everything
1:31.2	and running away, maybe not running away, but kind of running away, just absolutely changing
1:37.0	your life, leaving behind your job and a lot of your daily responsibilities to completely
1:44.0	switch it up. You're about to hear the story of somebody who did that, who walked away
1:49.5	from a really high-powered job. He was Ben Fetter is his name and he was the CEO of a huge
1:58.0	video game company. They've done huge video games like Grand Theft Auto. He was the CEO of
2:08.0	this thing and he realized that he didn't have the relationship with his children that
2:14.8	he really wanted and that was really taking a toll on his family as four kids and he decided
2:20.8	he was going to take the kids and his wife. Obviously this wasn't just him deciding. He consulted
2:26.6	his wife and his children before doing this, but they all signed on to go to Bali for a year.
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