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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited about this because I think we dream

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Speaker 2: about this all the time.

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Speaker 3: A radical sabbatical.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is about taking a break in your life,

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Speaker 2: from your working life and thinking about your health, your lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: Your mental health is your main one as well. But

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Speaker 2: to find out a little bit more about these radical

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Speaker 2: sabbaticals is a lady. She's a broadcaster, author podcast as

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Speaker 2: she's had twenty five years of experienced the magnifism Felicity, Felicity.

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Speaker 1: Hi, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: What a welcome flick. Do you know what it's sort

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Speaker 3: of to me?

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Speaker 4: Your mind runs when you say radical sabbatical because it's

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Speaker 4: like winning lotto in a way, but easier to do.

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Speaker 3: Because I think everyone.

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Speaker 4: Dreams of that moment of thinking what.

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Speaker 3: If I did take a break and what would what

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Speaker 3: would that look like?

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Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I love this whole term radical sabbatical.

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Speaker 1: I think our working life is so long these days.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's between forty or fifty years, and we

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Speaker 1: often do a gap year and then we do we

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Speaker 1: work for fifty years and then it's retirement, and so

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Speaker 1: we don't take time out in the middle of it all.

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Speaker 1: We don't press pause on the daily life. We don't

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Speaker 1: escape the routine, dropping the kids off at school, coaching

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Speaker 1: the footy team, interrupting the basketball coach, whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: We don't press paus, take our family or go by

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Speaker 1: ourself and take time out. Now, a radical sabbatical is

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Speaker 1: really defined of anywhere between four weeks and six months, okay,

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Speaker 1: to press pause on life and go and travel.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take the six months package. Please please forgued

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Speaker 4: to lock that into the radical.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's also because people freak out and I think,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're in our forties, so we come from

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Speaker 2: our parents are a generation where work ethic is number one, right,

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Speaker 2: and you work, you basically work until you're sixty five.

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Speaker 2: You've got to try to set your kids up and

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Speaker 2: your family up for you to feel comfortable to stop working.

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Speaker 2: But you're right, Felicity, sixty five is too old to

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Speaker 2: start traveling. You want to start doing it while you're younger.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And And some research that's been done by a

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Speaker 1: small adventure travel group called Explorers found that actually sixty

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Speaker 1: percent of us are overwhelmed at work. We're fed up

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Speaker 1: and we're stressed. And they've also looked at people who've

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Speaker 1: been on a radical sabbatical and found that seventy six

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Speaker 1: percent of people who have taken one come back and

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Speaker 1: feel renewed, refreshed and just ready to take on life again.

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Speaker 1: Because aren't we all exhausted.

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Speaker 2: Oh you've brought up the right especially you two.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look AT's face. I mean he's really I

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Speaker 3: believe my hand's falling out. I need a radical sabbatical

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Speaker 3: from Whippa. That's what I know. I'll be coming with you.

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Speaker 2: There's a guy that lives on my street, Jared, and

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Speaker 2: for six months I've been watching him convert his van

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Speaker 2: at home into putting a bed in the back. He's

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Speaker 2: put a little kitchen in there as well. And I

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Speaker 2: went up to him one day and I said, so,

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Speaker 2: what's the guy here?

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Speaker 3: What are you doing? He said, mate?

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Speaker 2: He actually said, we're taking a radical sabbatical the family,

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Speaker 2: and we're traveling around Australia for six months.

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Speaker 3: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: Now he's already done. They've just got back from that trip.

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Speaker 2: And I said to him, what was it like? He said,

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Speaker 2: it's it was the most amazing thing that we've ever done.

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Speaker 2: And he goes I know, I understand six months can

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Speaker 2: take a bit out of your savings. But he said,

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad we did it now as a young family,

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Speaker 2: because he said, I would have struggled to do it.

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Speaker 2: There's no way I could have done it when I

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Speaker 2: was older.

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Speaker 3: No way, can I ask too?

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Speaker 4: Do you see in the studies that are done the

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Speaker 4: difference between us and our parents is the way we

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Speaker 4: see investment.

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Speaker 3: So every time I said a dad.

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Speaker 4: We're going on a family holiday, he goes, oh, mate,

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Speaker 4: you can buy some common Wealth Bank shares with that,

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Speaker 4: And I said, no, I can make the best investment

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Speaker 4: ever known to man and take my family away on

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Speaker 4: a holiday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree. I think we're so much

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Speaker 1: more about experiences now, aren't we, and building those memories

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Speaker 1: rather than pushing that money till later on in life,

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Speaker 1: in the retirement where perhaps we're not going to be

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Speaker 1: healthy enough to know hike a mountain or I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm going cycling actually next year with Explore through the Dolomites,

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Speaker 1: also with my sister, and thankfully the husband is all

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Speaker 1: good to stay at home and keep it under control.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Tom.

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Speaker 1: But that's my little radical sabbatical and while it's not

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Speaker 1: four weeks or six months, it's important for me and

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Speaker 1: my mental health and also my relationship with not only

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Speaker 1: my husband but my kids to get to take that

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Speaker 1: time out to focus on me. And you come back

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Speaker 1: and you feel so now you've brought.

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Speaker 4: Up something else that's even more complicated. I'm trying to

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Speaker 4: process this. You're saying, take your sabbatical without your.

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Speaker 2: Loved one, you want to do it. Felicity is somewhere

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Speaker 2: that we can go to give us ideas for radical sabbaticals.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you go to the Explore website, they've

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Speaker 1: actually got this brilliant quiz where you can jump on

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Speaker 1: and it answers all thesearticular questions and which brings out

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Speaker 1: your personality to see what sort of radical sabbatical would

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Speaker 1: suit you. So, actually the Dolomites came up for me,

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Speaker 1: but also the Inca Trail, so that's going to be

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Speaker 1: on my least stage much for you.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so you can jump on there, do the quiz.

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Speaker 1: It's really fun. We all love a quiz, don't we,

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Speaker 1: and find out where you should take your radical.

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Speaker 3: Sas so good.

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Speaker 4: I'm getting a lot of stuff served to me at

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Speaker 4: the moment on Instagram too, where it'll be a guy

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Speaker 4: in a deep voice, and it'll be a montage of

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Speaker 4: photos and I'll say here at the top ten places

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Speaker 4: you need to go before you leave this earth.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that is so good.

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Speaker 4: It's number one, number one. It starts with the fireworks

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Speaker 4: near Zeve, Sydney. Then it went to the cherry blossom

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Speaker 4: season in Japan. Then I think we went over to

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Speaker 4: Italy somewhere, food festival.

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Speaker 2: It just goes.

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Speaker 3: So I've booked all of them in And.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I do want to say is we've

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Speaker 1: all got mortgage pressure, we've all got cost of living pressures,

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Speaker 1: so these things do take planning. It's not like you're

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Speaker 1: going to go tomorrow and do it.

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Speaker 2: This is great if you want to go check out more,

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Speaker 2: Explore Worldwide, dot Com, dot u, Forward Slash, Radical Sabbatical,

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Speaker 2: Felicity Harley, thank you so much for coming in.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you guys all.

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