The Case For Taking A Sabbatical
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves: the case for taking a sabbatical.
Host TK Dutes speaks with author and former television writer Patty Lin on her latest book End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood. Lin worked in some of the most notable writers' rooms like Friends, Freaks and Geeks, Desperate Housewives and Breaking Bad. But when she hit a breaking point, she made a big change and stopped working for an entire year. After that? Her relationship with work–and everything else–transformed.
In Slate Plus: Patty Lin on how her closest relationships changed after going on sabbatical
If you liked this episode, check out: Female CEOs Can’t Save Us
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the waves, sl's Podcasts about Gender, Feminism, and Unapologetic |
| 1:06.4 | Transformative Life Shifts. Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to |
| 1:10.9 | talk about the thing we can't get off our minds. |
| 1:13.6 | And today you've got me, TK DuT test, and I'm on a mission to renew my spirit |
| 1:18.6 | in the face of unchecked capitalism and all the other isms that plague us. |
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