Carli Rosencranz has competed in triathlons, spent 25 years in corporate, co-founded a startup, and is raising two teenagers.
She also takes a year off every six years.
Not a vacation. A full work sabbath. Structured into quarters. Intentional. Non-negotiable.
She built the framework around a religious concept: if God worked for six days and rested on the seventh, maybe the rhythm applies at a larger scale too. I'm not religious. But I found myself intrigued by the idea.
Because here's what struck me. It seems to me that she needed a framework bigger than herself to give herself permission to stop. And I think most of us do.
We don't rest because we've earned it. We rest when we can justify it. When the work is done, when things are stable, when we've proven enough. Which means most of us never actually rest at all.
What would it look like to build rest into the structure instead of waiting until you've run out of everything?
Link to the full conversation here. Worth your time.