5 Concrete Changes You’ll See in Your Life and Business After Your Mini-Sabbatical

(Listen Time: 12 Minutes)

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Let’s get down to brass tacks.

Your brain has you convinced that YOU cannot take a sabbatical.

Other people, maybe, but not you. You don’t have the time, the money, the privilege, or the (insert your reason here) needed to take time for yourself.

I get it. I told myself all of those stories, too. For years. Until a frightening encounter with burnout left me no other choice but to do it.

(Sometimes we leap and sometimes we’re pushed, you know?)

I didn’t even know it was a sabbatical at the time. It just felt like survival. My husband wasn’t working, my business was struggling, and my body felt like it was one strong breeze away from disintegrating in the wind.

On the other side of my four-week emergency break, I felt totally transformed. And I realized, “Whoa — I think I just took a sabbatical.”

Here’s what I’ve learned:

Sabbaticals initiate change.

More specifically, sabbaticals initiate the right kind of change — the kind that pays off long after you return to work.

It’s a strategy to help you clarify what you really want and how to get it.

And with my help, your sabbatical will create the conditions for real, tangible transformation in your life and business.

I see these same results time and again in my own sabbatical practice and in the many clients I have guided and coached through the process.

And when you commit to taking a sabbatical in 2026, I fully expect you to see these results too:

We’re starting with inner changes and moving to external changes.

Regulate Your Nervous System

​(and make better business decisions)

With a month away, you’ll finally have the space to fully downshift out of the near-constant activated state you currently exist in.

A sabbatical gives you a chance to reset your system and feel calm, grounded, present — even after you return to work.

And from this place of steadiness, you’ll reenter your business with the gifts of clearer thinking, more effective communication, and better decision-making at your side.

Recharge Your Batteries

​(so work stops feeling so hard)

Depending on how depleted your energy levels are as you begin your sabbatical, you may spend the first couple of weeks in deep rest mode.

But once you’ve returned to a solid baseline state, you can begin recharging in more meaningful ways.

You’ll surprise yourself with what pops into your head. With what you really want to spend your time on. There will be moments of delight, and rabbit holes of curiosity, and maybe even long stretches of time when all you do is admire the trees as they dance in the wind.

You might even start to feel excitement about your work again — and see this energy ripple into everything that comes next.

Discover Your Alignment

​(and stop leaking energy)

When you step away from your to-do list — like really, truly step away — you start to notice what feels life-giving and what feels draining.

You discover who you are at this moment in your life and are able to start defining what alignment looks like for this season of your life and work.

After your sabbatical, we’ll work together to help you turn that alignment into actionable changes, so that the life and business you step into upon your return feel transformed.

Cultivate Your Next Big Idea

​(and start creating space for what’s next)

Maybe something new is trying to come through for you, right at this very moment, but your life feels too noisy to hear what it is.

Big ideas need space to emerge, and your sabbatical gives you that space.

And while I can’t promise you’ll end this short sabbatical with a fully fleshed out idea for a new book, offer, or direction for your business during your sabbatical, I do feel confident that something will become clear during that time — and it will unlock the door to the next chapter of your life.

These combined changes will lead to financial return on investment.

Now, let’s be realistic, you’re not going to come back from time away and immediately make more money.

But you will come back recharged, focused, and clear about what you want to do next in your business.

You’ll have a new plan and the energy to implement it. That’s magic.

If this feels like the exhale you’ve been needing — but also like something you want to do responsibly — Sabbatical School will show you how.​

This is where we turn the idea of time off into an actual plan that supports your nervous system and your bottom line.

I want to help you design time off that pays you back — not just emotionally, but practically and financially, too.

Early bird discounts expire at midnight on Monday.

Let’s start planning your sabbatical.

Exciting news!

​Sabbatical School is officially OPEN!

If you’ve been craving real time off from your business — not a long weekend, not a “lighter week,” but real spaciousness — this is for you.

I built Sabbatical School because I kept meeting smart, capable business owners who were exhausted and convinced that taking a full month off was unrealistic, irresponsible, or simply not an option for them. (Lies!!!)

Here’s what went into bringing this program to life:

→ 8 years of personal sabbatical practice
​→ 6 years of coaching other people through sabbaticals
​→ 4 years of ideating on my vision for this program

Plus, three solid months of daily attention to create:

→ the Sabbatical School podcast mini-series
​→ the (very comprehensive) Sabbatical Playbook​
​→ the “What kind of sabbatical do YOU need?” quiz​

… and now, the Sabbatical School enrollment page.

Wow.

This has been a labor of love, and I am so excited to share it with you today.

Here’s what’s going to happen next:

Between now and February 5th, I’ll be emailing you more frequently to share practical lessons and resources about how to take transformative time off as a business owner.

Yes, I will also be inviting you to join me in Sabbatical School. That is my deepest desire, and I’m not going to bury that lede!

However, I believe that sales emails don’t have to be salesy. They can (and should) be rich, value-packed, and transformative in their own right.

If you want to learn more about how to…
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​→ heal your relationship with time, energy, and productivity
→ organize your finances so you can pay yourself to take time off
→ use your time off in a way that makes your business better ($$$)

… I would love for you to stick around for these emails!

Even if you’re not interested in joining Sabbatical School.

By the end of this series, you will have a slew of new skills and ideas that you can implement in your business with or without my help.

And if you’re straight up NOT interested in receiving content from me about sabbaticals or transformative time off, you can CLICK HERE TO PAUSE ALL OF MY EMAILS UNTIL FEBRUARY 9TH. That’s when I’ll be back to regular programming. Take care of you, boo!

And now, here’s your first sabbatical lesson:

“I could never take a whole month off.” | How Solopreneurs (Like You) Are Actually Taking Sabbaticals

Listen Here (14 minutes)

I know, the idea of taking a whole month off when you’re the person wearing all of the hats in your business (and maybe in your family too) feels preposterous. Salacious! Maybe even downright offensive.

That’s exactly how you know this is something you should consider.

​This 14-minute episode explains what a sabbatical for small business owners actually entails (hint: it’s drastically different from traditional academic sabbaticals), why 4 weeks off is a magical sweet spot, and a simple first step to begin opening to the possibility of your own sabbatical, even if you’re unsure how it will happen.

Give it a listen. Let me know what you think.

And if you have any questions about Sabbatical School, hit me up right here. My inbox is always open to you.