Corey Zehngebot on Why You Too Should Take a Sabbatical and Find Your Mojo

This week I’m joined by Corey Zehngebot. Corey is an urban designer, architect, and planner. She has worked in both government and the private sector. I know Corey from her time at the City of Boston, where she was one of the creative, outside-of-the-box thinkers that I gravitated to. But in this episode, we flipped the script and Corey mostly interviewed me. Corey has recently decided to take a sabbatical of her own. We got to talking about the value of taking this time and how to make the best use of it.

Influencers discussed:

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• Civilla, a non-profit design studio reimagining public institutions https://civilla.org/
• What Is Life Like When We Subtract Work From It? by Joe Pinsker The Atlantic May 23, 2022