Sep 22, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
A lot of people tell me that there's no way they could ever go on a big international vacation, because they simply don't have enough vacation days. But when you have that mindset - you're closing the…
And fun fact for you, I took a peek the other day at download numbers for the podcast, and I was able to see which episodes you are loving the most.
Well, aside from the travel style series, which I talk about a ton on the podcast, so it gets a lot of promotion.
But aside from the travel style series, there were two other common themes that I'm seeing.
So as expected, I think the destination feature episodes are very popular, but they are actually beat out by the previous episodes that I've done talking about time, which is kind of shocking to me.
But what this tells me is that you are over here dreaming about where you're gonna go on your next vacation.
And so you're listening to those destination feature episodes to get some ideas, but then you're coming back to reality and saying, Okay, but how am I gonna make it happen when I don't have enough time? And a huge factor to taking a vacation is vacation days, is the days that you're allowed, I'm using air quotes here, but the days that you're allowed to take
And this is especially true for my fellow corporate women who are given or allocated a predetermined amount by your company, and you don't really have a say in how many that you get.
So back on episode 31, which was a super popular episode, by the way, so go and check it out if you haven't.
But I talked about using our precious vacation days, and that episode was centered around our overall view and mindset of our vacation days.
I mean, so there's like the way that we view our vacation days upfront front, like our actual mindset around them of do we have enough? Do I have enough to do something with them? And then there's this like push pull battle that we have with using our vacation days versus spending them.
Because it's like, oh, I don't want to use my days and then not have them later, even though the entire point is to use them right.
But this is the thing that And then there's also this feeling like we can't use our vacation days because of some other thing in our life, like our career or our family.
I talked about that weird push-pull battle that we have with using our days versus saving our days, because yeah, that's just definitely a thing.
And fun fact for you, I took a peek the other day at download numbers for the podcast, and I was able to see which episodes you are loving the most.
Well, aside from the travel style series, which I talk about a ton on the podcast, so it gets a lot of promotion.
But aside from the travel style series, there were two other common themes that I'm seeing.
So as expected, I think the destination feature episodes are very popular, but they are actually beat out by the previous episodes that I've done talking about time, which is kind of shocking to me.
But what this tells me is that you are over here dreaming about where you're gonna go on your next vacation.
And so you're listening to those destination feature episodes to get some ideas, but then you're coming back to reality and saying, Okay, but how am I gonna make it happen when I don't have enough time? And a huge factor to taking a vacation is vacation days, is the days that you're allowed, I'm using air quotes here, but the days that you're allowed to take
And this is especially true for my fellow corporate women who are given or allocated a predetermined amount by your company, and you don't really have a say in how many that you get.
So back on episode 31, which was a super popular episode, by the way, so go and check it out if you haven't.
But I talked about using our precious vacation days, and that episode was centered around our overall view and mindset of our vacation days.
I mean, so there's like the way that we view our vacation days upfront front, like our actual mindset around them of do we have enough? Do I have enough to do something with them? And then there's this like push pull battle that we have with using our vacation days versus spending them.
Because it's like, oh, I don't want to use my days and then not have them later, even though the entire point is to use them right.
But this is the thing that And then there's also this feeling like we can't use our vacation days because of some other thing in our life, like our career or our family.
I talked about that weird push-pull battle that we have with using our days versus saving our days, because yeah, that's just definitely a thing.
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