Sabbaticals + Work | 208
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This summer I took a whole month off my work and stepped away from all screens. (Spoiler: it was fantastic!) In this chat with Crystal, I get into both the professional and personal lessons I learned. Crystal is also self-employed (but in a different way), so she talks about the value of knowing yourself really well so you can focus on the right type of work for you. She's learned a ton over the years what's important to her, and thinks we can all benefit from thinking through this stuff.
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| 0:00.0 | This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen writer. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey friends, welcome to the first episode in a while where we are back to our usual routine. |
| 0:16.6 | It was a lovely summer break in series sharing with you my conversations with different women |
| 0:20.8 | about their good lists and like last week when I shared a chapter of my book with you. |
| 0:24.9 | But I am back to chatting with my regular co-host and it feels really, really good. |
| 0:30.0 | So in this episode I am chatting with my friend and co-host Crystal Ellison and as always on the show |
| 0:35.9 | we're talking about what we wrote about this week. I wrote about some of my sabbatical reflections |
| 0:41.3 | what it was like to take last month completely off of my work |
| 0:45.4 | and to step away from screens for a solid month. So in this chat I get into both the |
| 0:49.7 | professional and the personal lessons that I learned. |
| 0:53.0 | If you're not your own boss, don't shy away from this episode. |
| 0:56.0 | There is plenty here for you too. |
| 0:58.0 | And then speaking of which, Crystal is also self-employed, |
| 1:02.0 | albeit differently than in my line of work. |
| 1:04.0 | So her post this week was about the value of knowing yourself really well |
| 1:08.6 | when it comes to picking the right type of work for you. |
| 1:11.8 | What matters so much to you that it's a line in the sand versus |
| 1:15.3 | what you're willing to be more flexible about. As well as if you're choosing to |
| 1:19.1 | launch your own thing, be self-employed, what are your parameters for doing it well but in a way that suits you |
| 1:24.6 | best? That's what we get into in this chat. So we'll get right into it, but first a reminder |
| 1:30.0 | that if the show means something to you, you can become a patron to make it happen. |
| 1:34.4 | I would love to have your support in that way. |
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