You don’t need a different life. You need a few months to remember what yours could be.
The complete guide to planning, funding, and actually taking a sabbatical — built from six months across eight countries, with the real numbers, scripts, and decisions nobody tells you about.
You’re not unhappy. That’s the strange part.
The job is good. The money works. On paper, there’s nothing to fix. And still, the question keeps surfacing on a Sunday evening: is this all it’s going to be?
You’ve done the maths in your head a hundred times. You’ve pictured it. And every time, you’ve talked yourself back down with reasons that sound responsible — not the right time, maybe next year, once things settle.
But things never quite settle. And the pull doesn’t go away. If anything, it gets louder every time you come back from a holiday just as you’d started to feel like yourself again.
You don’t need someone to tell you to quit and “follow your dreams.” You need to know whether this is actually possible — and how people like you make it work without blowing up everything they’ve built. That’s what this is.
The problem isn’t that you can’t. It’s that no one handed you the map.
Here’s what usually happens when the idea gets serious. You open twelve browser tabs. You search flight prices. You read a few breathless blog posts about quitting everything. You start a spreadsheet, get overwhelmed by everything you don’t know — visas, insurance, what to tell your employer, how much it really costs, what happens to your career — and quietly close the laptop.
The information is all out there, technically. But it’s scattered, contradictory, and written either by people selling a fantasy or by people who never actually did it. None of it answers the questions that actually keep you up: Can I afford this? Will my job survive it? What do I come back to?
So the plan stays a someday plan. Not because you couldn’t do it — but because no one handed you the map.
I know that loop because I lived in it for two years.
I’m Hannah. I had the career, the salary, the sensible life — and the same quiet question. In 2022, my partner and I finally stopped researching and went: six months, eight countries, from Indonesia to Australia and most of Southeast Asia in between. We left as two people who were “good on paper.” We came back engaged, clearer, and certain it was the best decision we’d ever made.
The fears that almost stopped us turned out to be far smaller than they looked from the inside. The money was a plan, not a miracle. Our careers didn’t collapse — they were waiting when we got back. And “what will people think” mattered exactly as much as we let it.
But I also made expensive mistakes, wasted weeks on the wrong research, and learned half of it the hard way. So I wrote down everything I wish someone had handed me before we left — every number, every script, every decision — so your version can be smoother than mine was.
What’s inside The Sabbatical Blueprint: the plan, the funding, and the way back
A 123-page field guide that takes you from “could I?” to “I’m going” — and back home again, with your life intact.
The full journey, in eight chapters:
- What kind of sabbatical you actually want — a self-test, so you design the right break, not a generic one
- Making the decision — the worksheets that turn “maybe” into a clear yes or no
- The employer conversation — a word-for-word script and worksheet (it works for the self-employed too)
- Planning your route — how to build a trip you actually want, not a checklist
- The money — exactly how to fund it, whatever your starting point
- Admin & life before you go — the unglamorous list that saves you from disaster
- On the road — staying healthy, sane, and on budget
- Coming home — the part almost no one prepares for
Plus the tools I built for myself:
- A Trip Budget & Savings Calculator that tells you your exact savings target and timeline
- The Employer Worksheet & Script for the conversation you’re dreading
- A Pre-Departure Checklist so nothing slips through
- Our real, tracked numbers — what six months actually cost, line by line
- Our worked Southeast Asia + Australia itinerary as a ready-made example
What you’re really getting is the answer to “how” — the part that takes most people months of research, a financial planner’s hours, and a career coach’s fee to piece together. Here it’s one guide.
Who this is for
This is for you if:
- You have a stable career and the question still won’t leave you alone
- You want a real plan, not motivational quotes
- You’d rather learn from someone who’s done it than guess
- You’re willing to save toward it, even if the timeline is longer than you’d like
This is not for you if:
- You want someone to tell you to quit your job tomorrow
- You’re looking for a luxury-travel brochure
- You want a guarantee that nothing will feel uncertain (nothing worth doing comes with that)
If you read the first list and recognised yourself, you’re exactly who I wrote this for.
The three things standing in your way: the money, the job, the after
“I can’t afford it.” Almost everyone can — the difference is the savings timeline, not whether it’s possible. The guide shows you exactly how to calculate your number and reach it, whether that takes eight months or two years. “Too expensive” is usually a feeling, not a figure.
“My job won’t allow it.” Most jobs survive a conversation you haven’t had yet. Chapter 3 gives you the exact script and the worksheet to prepare it — including how to frame it so your employer sees the upside, not just the absence.
“What happens when I come back?” This is the fear nobody plans for — and the reason I dedicated a whole chapter to coming home. You don’t return to nothing. You return clearer, and with a plan for re-entry that most people never make.
One guide. Yours forever.
Piece this together yourself and you’re looking at a financial planner’s hours, a career coach’s fee, and weeks of your own research — easily several hundred euros and a great deal of time.
The Sabbatical Blueprint is €99. One payment, yours forever, every update included.
And because this is the first release, the first 100 founding readers get it for €79. No fake countdown — just a real thank-you for being early, until the first hundred copies are gone.
Read it, use it, and if it doesn’t help — get your money back.
Try the Blueprint for 14 days. If it doesn’t give you genuine clarity and a real plan, email me and I’ll refund you in full. The risk is entirely mine, which is how it should be — you’re trusting someone you’ve only just met.
The real question was never “can I?”
You already suspect you can. The real question is: what is it costing you to keep waiting?
Another year of Sunday evenings. Another holiday that ends just as it starts to work. Another version of the conversation where you say “someday” out loud and watch someone else go instead.
The freedom you have right now — to plan, to save, to actually go — is wider today than it’s likely to be later. The Blueprint won’t make the decision for you. But it will make it possible.
You’ve spent long enough wondering. This is how you start planning.
Questions- answered
You will receive a 100+ pages PDF including the guide and all worksheets. The calculator and Travel Update List will be given out as Excel Sheets- all contained in a ZIP folder.
Yes. The principles — funding, time off, planning, coming back — work for any sabbatical, wherever (or whether) you travel. The itinerary is an example, not a prescription.
Yes. The employer chapter includes guidance for those without a traditional boss, and the money and planning chapters apply to everyone
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