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Scholars Corner: PREPARE FOR A CAREER BREAK · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: If you're thinking about a career break, now that you
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  Speaker 1: know what it is, if you're thinking about asking your employer, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we've got sabbaticals around here. Who's given out sabbatical? If
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  Speaker 1: that's you, Let's go through really step one of the process,
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  Speaker 1: and that's preparing for a career break or a sabbatical.
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  Speaker 1: So as we go into what that preparation is, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember nothing else in today's time, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to remember that whatever you're thinking about doing be it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're done with work completely, Maybe you just need
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  Speaker 1: a longer break, maybe four weeks. Maybe your company does
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  Speaker 1: offer a sabbatical program and you haven't taken advantage of
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  Speaker 1: it before filling the brain reason, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: prepare well. And as you're preparing well, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to take into consideration mindset, how can you be creative?
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  Speaker 1: What societal, generational, or cultural norms might you need to
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  Speaker 1: separate from to help you make those decisions? And who
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  Speaker 1: needs to support you. Deck one is to do your research.
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  Speaker 1: When you're thinking about taking a career break for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: do your research. Google is free or safari thing right,
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  Speaker 1: we don't, we're we're equal opportunity. Search engine folks here right,
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  Speaker 1: whatever your search engine of choices, use it. Start connecting
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  Speaker 1: with your network. Who are the folks in your what
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  Speaker 1: we call them at my company, what we call them
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  Speaker 1: your top five or your trusted ten or your board
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  Speaker 1: of directors. Who are the sponsors, who are the mentors?
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  Speaker 1: Who are the folks that typically pour into you that
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  Speaker 1: you can use as a sounding board that you can
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  Speaker 1: start having these conversations with, And the conversation starts real simply, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about stepping away from work for six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and let those words hang out in the air. Get
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  Speaker 1: used to saying, hey, I think I need to step
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  Speaker 1: away for a month. You know what, my company offers,
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  Speaker 1: a sabbatical. I think I'm going to take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: that and let those words hang out. See what comes
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  Speaker 1: back for your research, See what comes back with your network.
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  Speaker 1: And while you're doing your research, especially if you're in
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  Speaker 1: a more nine to five type situation, get mega familiar
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  Speaker 1: with your HR folks, Get mega familiar with your employe handbook. Now,
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  Speaker 1: prior to executive coaching, running my own business, just setting
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  Speaker 1: across the world, scared with my dramamine in one hand
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  Speaker 1: and my Metallica playlist in the other so I can
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  Speaker 1: have something super distracting on the plane. I also came
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  Speaker 1: from a very strict and stringent corporate environment. Again I
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  Speaker 1: go back to I've been drinking stale breakroom coffee with
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  Speaker 1: an asset managed laptop and a badge since I was nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: so I know how the rules of that road goes.
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  Speaker 1: Also in that corporate space, I was a humble HR practitioner,
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  Speaker 1: so multiple sides of the house, from training and documentation
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  Speaker 1: to employee relations, recruiting, onboarding, talent acquisition, benefits, administration, and
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  Speaker 1: wealth management. If there was a policy in our company,
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  Speaker 1: I knew about it. If there was a handbook to
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  Speaker 1: be written, I absolutely knew about it. I would like
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  Speaker 1: you to take that same level of inquiry, that same
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  Speaker 1: level of research into your prep work. Find out does
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  Speaker 1: your company have a sabbatical program. I have a partner
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  Speaker 1: coach who did her first in person event, and she
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  Speaker 1: brought up the topic of sabbaticals. She knew that the
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  Speaker 1: company that she was working with offered a sabbatical program,
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  Speaker 1: and in the conference room, crazy said, hey, hey, raise
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  Speaker 1: your hand if you know about such and such a
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  Speaker 1: sabbatical program, and like two people raise their hands, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a company thing, like the company offered it,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the one hundred and fifty people
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  Speaker 1: in that room didn't know that their company offered a
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  Speaker 1: sabbatical program. So that's what I'm talking about when we
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  Speaker 1: say do your research. Step two is to really consider
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  Speaker 1: all of the impacts you're considering. You're letting those words
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  Speaker 1: hang out there. You may be doing some math on
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  Speaker 1: the back of a napkin. You're not limiting yourself here,
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  Speaker 1: but you're thinking about all the spaces you being away
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  Speaker 1: from work will impact. And typically the biggest impact is
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  Speaker 1: then pockets. Our money is going to be the biggest
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  Speaker 1: driver of a career break, a sabbatical, or if it's
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  Speaker 1: time to step away from work. So what might that
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  Speaker 1: mean for you? You may be considering your budget here
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  Speaker 1: as a household. You may be considering things that you
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  Speaker 1: may cut out of the budget for a certain period
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  Speaker 1: of time so you can facilitate not being at work
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  Speaker 1: for four weeks six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Six months on an unpaid sabbatical, right a year on
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  Speaker 1: an unpaid sabbatical. But I don't just want you to
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  Speaker 1: think about your take home money or your salary. I
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  Speaker 1: also want you to take into consideration, especially if you
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  Speaker 1: work in a traditional nine to five space, what amenities
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  Speaker 1: and benefits are you not paying into by not earning
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  Speaker 1: a paycheck? Your Social Security? Is it your retirement? Is
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  Speaker 1: it your match? Is it your four oh one K?
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  Speaker 1: Is it your HSA?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: What are the things that are also not getting your
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  Speaker 1: money if you step away? And I understand and recognize
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  Speaker 1: that some of those items can be a little daunting
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  Speaker 1: to think about. We work so hard to take care
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  Speaker 1: of ourselves, to take care of our family. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: the car note is paid, make sure the mortgage is paid,
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  Speaker 1: make sure we got a little bit of money to
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe take ourselves out, get hair done, get
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  Speaker 1: nails done, hang with the friends. All that goes into
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  Speaker 1: the impact when you're thinking about your career break and
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  Speaker 1: your sabbatical. Health is another one. If you decide to
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  Speaker 1: make a clean break, maybe post layoff, and you say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually not going to go back into the workforce. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so what does healthcare look like for you? Going back
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  Speaker 1: to bullet point number one, do your research. Once you've
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  Speaker 1: asked all the universe the bigger questions, start to develop
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  Speaker 1: your plan or strategy. It doesn't have to be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: It just has to work for you, right. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be at the income level or the income
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  Speaker 1: bracket of your peer or your mom, or your sore
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  Speaker 1: war or your flat brother from college. It needs to
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  Speaker 1: work for you. And so as you're developing that plan
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  Speaker 1: and strategy draft, have that as a workable document. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you start having those conversations, what are the bullet points?
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  Speaker 1: What are their stops and starts in your plan? With
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  Speaker 1: your network. If you're asking for a career breaker, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to tap into that sabbatical program that your company offers, awesome,
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  Speaker 1: make the ask. Now that you have your data, Now
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  Speaker 1: that you know kind of what the financial impacts are,
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  Speaker 1: what are the family impacts, what are those health impacts,
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  Speaker 1: you can start to have the conversation with your boss,
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  Speaker 1: your leader, your skip level, whoever that may be. Start
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  Speaker 1: to engage your stakeholders. You're thinking about taking a break,
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  Speaker 1: quitting your job, or going on a sabbatical. Who does
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  Speaker 1: that impact within your place of employment? I want to
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  Speaker 1: pause here for the entrepreneurs in the room, especially the
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  Speaker 1: individuals who are true and tried solopreneurs. You are the CFO,
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  Speaker 1: the CEO, you are the sous chef. You are the
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  Speaker 1: janitorial waste compliance person of your company, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the administrative assistant. All these steps still apply to you.
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  Speaker 1: You get to divide your research considering the impacts developing
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  Speaker 1: your planner strategy with the multiple facets of your personality.
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  Speaker 1: Right when you think about your business, are you at
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  Speaker 1: a space to leave the startup role, move into plan
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  Speaker 1: B or move into a session B strap rategy where
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to scale your business? Do you have to
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  Speaker 1: do that before the end of the year. Are there
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  Speaker 1: projects within your business or are there product launches that
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking about that you may want a slow roll,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe take some time off with that long money, and
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  Speaker 1: then come back six months, eight months and maybe be
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  Speaker 1: even a more refreshed, a more gooder entrepreneur when you
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  Speaker 1: come back right, same still applies here if you're running
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  Speaker 1: your own business. Either way, when you're having those communications,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you give enough notice. You decide to step
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  Speaker 1: away for a career break and you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: gone a month, who's doing your work while you're gone?
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  Speaker 1: Who needs to take into consideration some of the productivity
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  Speaker 1: impacts in your place of employment? Do you run a team?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have direct reports that typically come to you?
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  Speaker 1: What's going to be their what's going to be their
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  Speaker 1: level of authority? What permissions might they need while you're out?
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  Speaker 1: What privilege and access do you need to grant them
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  Speaker 1: before you step aside? And keep the receipts. And what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying here is get it all in writing. If
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  Speaker 1: you are going to your employer and you're saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: can I take a career break? This is the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I want to take a career break, and here's
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  Speaker 1: the data behind it, and they say yes, absolutely, La toy.
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  Speaker 1: You can take a career break for four weeks and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you back in a month. Get it in writing.
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  Speaker 1: Even if the conversation is verbal, summarize that conversation via
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  Speaker 1: email and keep all of the receipts, from the time
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  Speaker 1: that you plan and prep to the time you make
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  Speaker 1: the ask, moving on to the time that you take
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  Speaker 1: the break, and what's going to happen when you come back,
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  Speaker 1: if you come back. We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 3: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christineoman, the United Statestary of
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings are
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over one hundred
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally,
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: your next you will be fined nearly one thousand dollars
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will never return. But
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: if you register using our CBP home app and leave now,
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  Speaker 3: you could be allowed to return legally. Do what's right.
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  Speaker 3: Leave now. Under President Trump America's laws, border and families
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  Speaker 3: will be protected sponsored by the United States Department of
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  Speaker 3: Homeland Security,