Meeting Your Goals Episodes
April 3, 2020
Week 14: Career break as an opportunity to transition into the next phase of your career
Today we talk with a mid-career IT professional who has already had one career break and is in the process of planning her next one.
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...
Feb. 28, 2020
Week 9: Build Demand for Your World of Away
Energize your desire to go to World of Away into a demand to make the experience happen. If you want some ideas for designing your World of Away here are some links to companies and organizations that sponsor extended travel ...
Feb. 21, 2020
Week 8: Fitting Your World of Away Finances Together
This week you pull together the financial pieces you have been developing in Weeks 5 thru 7 and you assemble your World of Away budget.
Feb. 14, 2020
Week 7: What path will lead you to and through World of Away?
This week you consider how travel will facilitate and contribute to World of Away and you incorporate this final piece into the budget you've been assembling these past few weeks. Some companies to consider to help schedule a...
Feb. 7, 2020
Week 6: The Dollars and Sense of World of Away
This week you explore the cost of living in World of Away, building the second part of your budget. Tools to help you out: Cost of Living Calculator (U.S.) Cost of Living Calculator (International)
Jan. 31, 2020
Week 5: Counting coins and cutting costs
This week you spend time saving money. Additional resources to help with budgeting The Budgetnista Be The Budget Best Travel Savings Account (USA Edition) Sabbatical Calculator
Jan. 24, 2020
Week 4: This is my story and I'm sticking to it
This week your World of Away ideas turn into a narrative describing your career break.
Jan. 17, 2020
Week 3: Where on Earth and when will you be in World of Away?
This week, we gather up those lists of goals and activities you tabulated last week and use them to help guide your selection of where to place your World of Away.
Jan. 10, 2020
Week 2: Whacha Wanna Do?
This week you begin writing down your ideas for World of Away - the exciting, scary and even the crazy ones - write them ALL down. Or take dictation, create photographs, paint pictures, record videos. Use whatever idea genera...
Jan. 3, 2020
Week 1: A Place of Promise
This week listeners shore up their determination for taking a career break, going to World of Away, by making a promise that they really will do it, including writing it down and signing it. It may feel a little odd to write ...