Do you enjoy a good work-life balance?

Americans leave over 600 million hours of vacation on the table every year – plus we get less vacation time than workers do in any other developed country.

Kitty and I find this pretty appalling, and we’re trying hard not to be part of these statistics.

The problem is, it’s hard to overcome earlier Puritan-work-ethic conditioning. . .

It seemed like the right thing to talk about in our final episode of 2018. So enjoy this discussion, and some of the strategies we employ for keeping a good work-life balance. (Or at least, trying to.)

We’ll be back after the holidays.

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Episode Resources

These are the articles we referenced in the podcast.

• Most Productive Countries in the World
• 15 of the World’s Most Productive Countries
• How to Get Over Your Vacation Guilt and Enjoy Your Time Off
• Why Americans Feel Guilty About Using Vacation Benefits

Resources Page

Check out our new mega-resources page at anywhereist.com/resources.

Basically, it gives you everything we use to make our Anywhereist lives easier, simpler, more fun, or to save us money. It can do the same for you.

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Episode Music

Thanks for the great music! Our theme music is provided by SoundCloud, and we re featuring artist ItIs Leanne, playing Corta-Jaca tango brasileiro.

Follow Your Co-Hosts

Your co-hosts are Susanna Perkins (Anywhereist) and Kitty Navias.

Susanna s a serial solopreneur, blogger, freelance writer, WordPress maven, and all-around portable career enthusiast. She developed her Anywhereist lifestyle in an act of desperation following the US financial meltdown in 2009. Since 2012 she s moved 7 times, and worked from hundreds of locations at home and abroad.

Kitty s a millennial with a lot of creative pursuits she s a musician, photographer, and writer. She s traveled extensively, with plans for a lot more. On the show, Kitty provides us with tips and resources to keep our lives under control and moving in a forward direction as we become Anywhereists.

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