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Working: Vacation Like a Pro

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4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler dive into all the ways creatives should relax and vacation. Whether it’s splashing in the pool, or breezing through some books, a few days of R&R can be just what is needed to replenish the creative juices. The hosts also explore the many conversations among friends and family that can sometimes jostle loose a new creative idea and recharge your relationships. Do you have a question about creative work? Leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Working Over Time, the bi-weekly advice-focused

0:12.0

rustic campground to working scenic caravan park.

0:16.1

I'm your host, June Thomas.

0:18.3

And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.

0:20.9

So June, other than caravan parks, which I assume are a British thing, I don't know,

0:25.9

what are we talking about today?

0:27.3

Well, funnily enough.

0:29.0

We're taping this episode in July and since I and a lot of my friends and acquaintances

0:34.7

have been on family vacations recently, I wanted to explore how we can use that particular

0:40.8

kind of break in our creative practice.

0:43.6

I'm talking about a very specific kind of holiday here, the kind you take with lots of

0:48.3

family members, multiple generations of them if that's possible in your clan, or perhaps

0:54.2

when a bunch of unrelated people rent a house together.

0:58.6

It's not something I've done very much in my life.

1:01.2

As a non-parent, I usually just go on a trip with my partner, but I did do the Royal

1:06.3

and a Big House thing recently and it was very different and actually kind of useful.

1:12.4

So I wanted to talk about it today.

1:15.2

Isaac, your daughter is still pretty young and your family lives relatively close.

1:21.4

So I'm guessing that you are a veteran, multi-generational family vacation person.

1:27.7

Is that correct?

1:28.7

June, it's interesting that you bring this up because I actually just got back from a huge

1:34.8

multi-generational family trip that my family takes once a year, but it's not only my family,

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