DJ DiDonna on why sabbaticals are for everyone

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sabbaticals, it turns out, aren’t only for people in academia. Jessi sits down with DJ DiDonna, founder of the Sabbatical Project to talk about what he learned from his own sabbatical experience and to get advice for all of us on how to plan for - and take - time away from our work. Follow Jessi Hempel on Linkedin Follow DJ DiDonna on Linkedin Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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0:16.4	LinkedIn News.
0:22.4	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:31.2	Summer's almost here and it's just in time, isn't it?
0:35.2	I don't know about you but I'm just still so tired.
0:38.6	Sometimes I even feel tired of things I know I love doing and that feeling it surprises me.
0:44.9	It surprised our guest today too when he felt it nearly a decade ago.
0:49.6	Today we have DJ D'Donna on the show. He's founder of the sabbatical project.
0:55.9	DJ came to this after a first career as an entrepreneur.
1:00.0	He worked on access to finance in emerging markets and he loved that work.
1:04.5	I mean he really loved it right up until the moment that he didn't.
1:08.6	After about 70 years I was feeling burnt out and I think
1:14.0	burnout now is a little bit easier to talk about than I think it was even five years ago.
1:20.0	And the concept of burning out from your dream job was completely foreign to me.
1:24.5	I thought that you burned out from your banking job or consulting or something like that.
1:29.5	Today you're going to hear about why DJ ended up taking a sabbatical.
1:33.6	How that changed his thoughts on work and how he thinks you should think about sabbaticals.
1:38.8	No matter what stage of life or career you find yourself in.
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