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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The book detailed the author's year-long sabbatical where he quit his CEO job, pulled his kids out of school, and moved his family to Bali to reconnect with them. The discussion revolved around how the experience changed their lives and the possibility of others achieving a similar perspective shift without radical geographical change.
He's written a book about it and you're going to hear him tell it.
— Episode: Ben Feder, Making Every Day a Sabbatical
Episode: Ben Feder, Making Every Day a Sabbatical
The book detailed the author's year-long sabbatical where he quit his CEO job, pulled his kids out of school, and moved his family to Bali to reconnect with them. The discussion revolved around how the experience changed their lives and the possibility of others achieving a similar perspective shift without radical geographical change.
He's written a book about it and you're going to hear him tell it.
Ben Federer, our guest this week, he is currently an executive at a senior executive at a company called Tencent... Ben left Take 2 in order to go to Bali with his four kids and his wife and he wrote about it in a book called Take Off Your Shoes.
The title of the book comes from a poem by a poet named David White who I don't know bills himself but I've heard him build is kind of like the corporate poet because he speaks a lot about what's in you know the condition of a lot of people in corporations and he wrote a poem called Fire in the Earth in which he invokes the image of Moses at the burning bush and it's about kind of Moses realizing that he has been on holy ground his entire life and he reads his poem in which he talks about how one day he reads his poem in a public setting and somebody comes over to him and says you know the Hebrew word for the that the Bible uses to for take off and as an takeoff issues the Hebrew word for that is the same word that the Bible uses for an animal shedding its skin.
It's called Take Off Your Shoes. Author is Ben Fetter. It's on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and independent bookstores.
Episode: Ben Feder, Making Every Day a Sabbatical
The guest wrote this book about his year-long sabbatical where he stepped down as CEO, pulled his children out of school, and moved his family to Bali. The book discussed his journey, including the role meditation played, and how taking a sabbatical is doable for others by addressing internal opposition.
He's written a book about it and you're going to hear him tell it.
Ben left Take 2 in order to go to Bali with his four kids and his wife and he wrote about it in a book called Take Off Your Shoes.
The title of the book comes from a poem by a poet named David White who I don't know bills himself but I've heard him build is kind of like the corporate poet because he speaks a lot about what's in you know the condition of a lot of people in corporations
I don't know why I wrote the book but the book in many ways is trying to make sense of all of this for me.
It's called Take Off Your Shoes.