Managing Your Mindset Episodes
Dec. 25, 2020
Week 52: Bon Voyage
If you are about to begin your career break in the coming year I want to wish you a heartfelt Congratulations! And I encourage you to savor this moment. For those of you who've been listening and cheering from the sidelines, ...
Dec. 19, 2020
Week 51: Intrepid is as intrepid does
Sometimes we rely on our surroundings to find our bearings, but don't allow your doubts or nerves or the expectations and concerns of others to pull you off course. As you're getting ready to step into World of Away, stand ta...
Dec. 12, 2020
Week 50: Pack and Play
This week you roll up life as you know it and clear a path for your career break. For some that means packing things up and for others it may mean letting go to make room for something new. Some packing lists to get you start...
Nov. 21, 2020
Week 47: What to expect when you're expecting
This week you update everybody's expectations, including your own.
Nov. 6, 2020
Week 45: Unlocking Conflict
This week we talk with Catherine Morrison, executive coach, consultant, and law professor specializing in conflict management and negotiation who has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Penn State University. Catherine is ...
Oct. 30, 2020
Week 44: Reasonable Doubt
This week we talk with Dr. Kerrie Smedley about the reasonable doubt you may have after you've decided to take a career break and how to feel at ease about your commitment to World of Away. Here are some additional resources ...
Oct. 24, 2020
Week 43: Playtime
How can you playfully approach the things you have yet to do for World of Away?
Oct. 9, 2020
Week 41: With a Little Help From My Friends
This week you accept and request a little help from your friends. Virtual Assistants or On-Demand Task Help: Task Rabbit People Per Hour UpWork Coworking and Coaching: Focusmate Regus Coach.me WeWork
Sept. 26, 2020
Week 39: Back to the Future - Taking a slice of your retirement pie
What if you could reorganize time and reach into the future to steal a few of your treasured retirement days to spend on a career break now? Would you do that? Because you know you can, and you won't even get caught.
Sept. 18, 2020
Week 38: A meditation on well-being
This week we meet Dr. Terrah Keck-Kester and discuss stress and burnout and explore some ways to relight your fire. UMass Center for Mindfulness - website and minfulness resources, books, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reductio...
Sept. 11, 2020
Week 37: Seeing is Believing - Some Strategies to Help you Stay Faithful to Your World of Away
This week we consider how to maintain the mindset you need to reach World of Away. Hidden Brain You 2.0: The Mind's Eye Clearer, Closer, Better : How Successful People See the World by Emily Balcetis And you can leave Shaun a...
Aug. 22, 2020
Week 34: The Debate
This week we tackle the great debate best summarized in the immortal words of The Clash: should I stay or should I go?
Aug. 8, 2020
Week 32: Point of Departure
This week you decide what will be your last day at work before your career break begins and what projects you'll aim to finish up before you bid your colleagues adieu.
July 18, 2020
Week 29: Action plans that secure your World of Away
Having the right action plan helps shield and protect your career break from events beyond your control that could interrupt or even cancel World of Away. Travel Insurance World Nomads SafetyWing
July 3, 2020
Week 27: Trial runs
This week it's time for some unscripted movement as you continue working on your tasks. Set aside a few hours to try out experiences you've planned for World of Away, just so you can feel what's like.
June 19, 2020
Week 25: Juggling all the jobs to do to get ready for World of Away
As you ease into the second half of this trek towards your World of Away, you'll be doing more and planning less. We look at strategies to help focus on completing the little jobs that are imporant for your career break, whil...
June 13, 2020
Week 24: Making the ordinary a bit more extraordinary in World of Away
It is time to give some thought to the daily chores and errands you'll be doing during your career break because these every day tasks are what hold the rest of life together, but they can be easy to overlook, even if you're ...
May 29, 2020
Week 22: The Company You Keep in World of Away
This week you consider who you want to visit you while you're in World of Away.
May 22, 2020
Week 21: Staying Healthy in World of Away
This week you take a look at ways to stay healthy while you're doing what you have planned for World of Away.
May 16, 2020
Week 20: Key Ingredients for your World of Away
This week we take a look at how you have arranged your goals, itinerary, finances, network, and housing for World of Away.
April 10, 2020
Week 15: How to plan for a career break when so much of life is up in the air
Leaning on the wisdom gleaned from our last three guests, we review the landmarks to follow to help get to World of Away
And here is an interesting TED Talk by Stefan Sagmeister, graphic designer and founder of Sagmeister Inc...
March 27, 2020
Week 13: What is an academic sabbatical and how do you fit it into your career?
This week we talk with an Academy insider, a tenured professor who serves on a University sabbatical review committee and has taken several career breaks of his own.
March 13, 2020
Week 11: Hit Pause...Take a Break
It can be hard to predict how your professional peers will react to your career break plans so before you initiate a formal conversation at work, we review some options for how to configure your break within the context of yo...
March 6, 2020
Week 10: Family, Friends and Fans
If you're on track to launch your career break by the end of this year that puts you at 42 weeks from departure, about 10 months away. You have time to get everything done, and you need to start recruiting help to get everyth...