#201 My Year-Long Sabbatical to Unhook From Biz Culture & Rekindle My Work
This episode is for you if…
You’re uninspired or out-of-alignment in your business
You’re feeling lots of resistance to anything creative and super OVER the way things are done
You feel funky that your business hasn’t caught up to your values
In the past decade, I’ve learned this is usually a cue that I’ve outgrown my current business.
It’s also for you if your simply curious what a sabbatical can look like. :)
I share:
A framework for rekindling fire in our work
The practical - what I put in place in order to go on sabbatical
My vulnerable story of what led to breakdown & need for sabbatical
How removing pressure on my creativity let me unhook from biz culture
Why I couldn’t jump straight to creating — what had to come first
How to go from a funk to creatively flowing (not just for the afternoon, but for the year)
grab your (free) “Rekindle Map” here
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In the fall of 2021, I came home from my honeymoon to a business that hadn’t been tended in a couple of months, and I felt so tired.
I was completely OVER the way my business had been — the biz culture rules followed and the dis-alignment and emotional rollercoaster they created.
Most days I felt hopeless and lacked drive to do anything in my business other than support my clients.
Something had to change.
So with the help of my therapist, kin circles, and mental health meds, I took a brief hiatus that turned into a year-long sabbatical from my business.
At the beginning, I didn’t know where I was going. It was purely survival.
But eventually I realized that I did have a goal:
Remove the Pressure. Reclaim Enthusiasm.
I hoped to kindle my creative fire and express myself and my leadership without the pressure for my actions to convert. To unhook my creativity from having to serve a purpose. (that “purpose” usually being marketing)
I really didn’t know if that would happen, and part of me didn’t believe it could be different.
This sabbatical at once felt SO RIGHT…and also almost too private to share much about publicly. Something to keep close to my chest.
But here’s the thing: Business “success” isn’t always linear, like we’re led to believe.
After all, six months earlier, I was leading a beautiful mastermind, working with copywriting clients doing generative work and co-producing a leadership summit with a mentor I admire.
Having a year that doesn’t look good on paper doesn’t negate previous years of success.
Thinking we need to always look like we’re doing well (whatever that means) is a recipe for exhaustion — and for perpetuating the cycle of others believing that, too.
This is why I felt an inspired nudge to hit record and share some of my messy, vulnerable story with you.
Because I came out of my sabbatical with a framework to unhook our creativity from productivity culture & rekindle fire in our work.
That’s what I share in this episode.
xoxo
p.s. I recommend grabbing The Rekindle Map to go along with this episode — a FREE guide to evolve your work if you’ve lost that fire.
