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Taking Time Off From a Small Business

Posted on October 1, 2008 by
Elizabeth Pagano

Kim Lucas was in her mid-40s when she took her sabbatical. The owner of a 16-person consulting and assessment firm, Kim worked with a coach to create a careful plan for how she would unplug for three months. During her break, she traveled to Nicaragua with her only child and cared for her mother, who [...]

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Coffee, Anyone?

Posted on May 16, 2008 by
Elizabeth Pagano

After 9/11, Patricia Henry had a “radical change” in her life and took a sabbatical from TIAA-CREF to work with the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. There, she worked with 80 coffee farmers, helping them create their own branded cooperative and work toward organic standards.
Romance ensued. Chris, a forestry volunteer, was just down the [...]

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A Sabbatical in Myanmar

Posted on May 15, 2008 by
Elizabeth Pagano

Billie Madha and her mother left Myanmar (then Burma) in 1976, when Billie was 15. They thought they’d never see their family again. And it was a big family. Billie’s mother was one of 18 children.
More than 20 years later, on her first sabbatical with Arrow Electronics, Billie got to take her mother back to [...]

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