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🗓️ 7 April 2025
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Sometimes a two-week vacation just isn't enough - we all might need to leave our jobs for three months, six months or even a year. Taking an extended break can be great for our wellbeing - allowing us to recharge our batteries and reassess our priorities.
But for most of us taking a sabbatical feels impossible - so live at SXSW Dr Laurie asked the advice of sabbaticals expert DJ DiDonna. DJ teaches at Harvard Business School and founded The Sabbatical Project - but in a past life he established a hectic start-up and eventually found he was badly in need of an extended career break.
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0:00.0 | Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1. |
0:09.1 | Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil. |
0:13.7 | I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known. |
0:18.5 | At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer. |
0:21.2 | Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin. Pushkin. |
0:40.3 | Work. It consumes a lot of our time and a lot of our mental bandwidth. |
0:48.3 | I bet you've had moments where you've longed for a vacation, or even fantasized about hitting retirement age. |
0:55.0 | But there's another option for taking a break from the grind, a decision that can help you recharge |
0:59.8 | and reassess. It's called a sabbatical. As a professor, I've had the opportunity to take an |
1:05.9 | academic sabbatical every few years, and I've been very open on the show about just how |
1:10.5 | rejuvenating and important |
1:12.0 | those breaks were. But what if you aren't a professor? Can you still take a months-long break |
1:16.8 | from your job? It may sound like a pipe dream, but more and more workplaces are coming around to the |
1:22.0 | idea that extended employee leaves are a good thing. So to discuss the rise of the sabbatical |
1:27.1 | and its many benefits, |
1:28.2 | I recorded a live edition of the Happiness Lab at the 2025 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, |
1:34.1 | and I got to talk with one of the leading advocates of the modern sabbatical. |
1:39.2 | Hello and welcome to the Happiness Live live here at South by Southwest. |
1:47.2 | I am here in front of a fabulous live audience and we're going to be talking today about the importance of sabbaticals and taking |
1:52.6 | some rest. And I'm excited to introduce my guest today, DJ D.J. Dodona. DJ is senior lecturer |
1:59.0 | at Harvard Business School. In his former career, he was co-founder |
2:02.1 | of EF Global. These days, DJ spends his time thinking about sabbaticals and their transformative |
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