3 Ways to Financially Afford Taking a Sabbatical With Your Partner
My husband and I took a sabbatical from our careers. Together.
Early on in our professional life, my husband Shashank Nigam and I made some key decisions to build financial freedom from scratch. You are financially free when you can choose to live comfortably for a period of time without making a continuous income. And it was this freedom that allowed my husband and me to take a year of unpaid leave from our careers in 2019.
But guess what? It is never too late to build financial freedom that allows you to set off on a journey of a lifetime with your partner — it all starts by creating assets that pay.
Curious how we did it?
Our Sabbatical
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.— Confucius.
In February 2019, my husband and I took tandem sabbaticals to curate educational experiences worldwide for our daughters. We call it (f)unschooling through travelling.
The whole process was curiosity-led. We curated experiences related to the things that they were already curious about. That took us from Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean to Bali and back, over…
