Taking a Career Break: Sabbatical Planning and Career Break Strategy

Katrina McGhee

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led career-transition show focused on intentional career breaks, burnout recovery, and professional reinvention, with external guests primarily sharing candid first-person transformation stories. Suitable pitches include mid-career professionals, former executives, and career-transition clients with compelling break, burnout, or reinvention journeys; booking difficulty is very low because guests are accessible professionals rather than high-profile public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 93

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

takingacareerbreakwithkatrina@gmail.com

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Host

Katrina McGhee - Career-break expert and coach who helps mid-career professionals plan intentional time away from corporate work, recover from burnout, and redesign their professional and personal lives.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Firsthand experience taking a career break, leaving a demanding career, recovering from burnout, or creating a new professional direction; guests should be able to share a candid and practical transformation story.

Required Achievements:

Leadership or substantial experience in a previous career, A meaningful career transition or reinvention, Development of a flexible business, creative practice, or new vocation

Recent Guest Discussions

Jessica O'Neill - Leaving An Exhausting Leadership Role, Planning A Career Break, Burnout Recovery, Travel, Equine Healing, And Building A New Career Through The Twinergy Method.

Elly Hanauer - Burnout, Leaving A Respected Career Without A Plan, Professional Identity, Rest, Writing, Public Service, And Becoming A Stay-at-home Mother.

Heidi Leal - Leaving A Secure Career, Experimenting During A Career Break, Finding Flexible Work, Medical Interpreting, Structure, And Career Reinvention.

Kisha Ward - Corporate Burnout, Career-break Planning, Money, Writing, Consulting, And Creating A Flexible Work-life Model.

Recent Topics

Career Breaks, Burnout, Career Change, Reinvention, Work-life Balance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Taking a Career Break: Sabbatical Planning and Career Break Strategy

Announcing the BreakSpace Backstage Pass: Inside the Community with Katrina and Lyndall

October 07, 2026

Episode 80 - Announcing the BreakSpace Backstage Pass: Inside the Community with Katrina and LyndallIn this special crossover episode, Katrina welcomes special guest and business partner Lyndall Farley to announce the Breakspace Backstage Pass. The hosts introduce the podcast and dive into the inspiration behind creating a curated, two-hour immersive live event designed to open the doors to the Breakspace community.The conversation covers a high-level walkthrough of what attendees can expect,...

How to Evaluate a Career Break When You’re Close to FIRE

September 30, 2026

Episode 79 - How to Evaluate a Career Break When You’re Close to FIREAre you close to achieving your FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) goals, but feeling completely burned out, exhausted, and ready to quit? You are not alone.In this episode of Taking a Career Break with Katrina, career break and sabbatical coach Katrina McGhee and producer James Hammond dive into the intersection of the FIRE community mindset and taking a purposeful career break. While saving aggressively and striv...

Hitting the Career Break Wall? Don't Fall For This Midpoint Trap

September 23, 2026

Episode 78 - Hitting the Career Break Wall? Don't Fall For This Midpoint TrapFeeling the urge to pack it in and go back to work right in the middle of your career break? You aren't alone. In this episode, Katrina McGhee and James Hammond dive deep into the hidden "trapdoor" that trips up high achievers around the midpoint of their break.Once the initial bucket list items and big adventures are checked off, a wave of discomfort, existential questioning, and the familiar urge ...

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