Cady North - The Art of Sabbatical: Why Taking a Break Could Be the Best Career Move You Make

Did Cady’s recent book, The Art of the Sabbatical, come from a place that was very personal and meaningful to Cady? If so, what was it that made this project so personal for her?

In Cady’s experience, are many of those hoping to take a sabbatical doing so to just take a break from work or are they in search of a deeper, transformative end goal?

How should one start to think about the financial realities of preparing for a sabbatical and how will they know when they’re ready?

Is there an optimal length of time, on average, for a sabbatical to be?

What would Cady say to someone who fears using FMLA, for reasons of burnout, for fear of stigma or a reputational shift at their place of work?

Why is there such a big stigma around taking breaks from work? Where did the paradigm come from that we should work for decades and then have decades of leisure, rather than a more integrated process of taking breaks throughout our working life?

What are a couple fundamental do’s and don’ts of putting together a successful sabbatical?

What can be done to minimize career harm upon re-entry post sabbatical?

Are there any stories from Cady’s clients’ lives that illustrate really transformative experiences that happened over a sabbatical?

For those with a few weeks vacation time, what might be a productive way of thinking about how to best use that time?