And, the idea that using that using that seventh year at Domain7 to take some sort of sabbatical is something I had always wanted to do. It just happened to line up with taking a parental leave anyway. They might be unexpected, or off the radar, a little bit underground.
I mean, we were just talking about the privilege of taking a break. I think there is this interesting thing that happens for parents, that I wish could happen for everybody. And you can decide to come back pretty quickly if you want. But, at least for a little while, you are usually going to take a break. But maybe it just means that you are actually committed to an excellent life. To being an excellent human being. His TED talk walks through how he distributed his retirement years intentionally throughout his working years. So, every seven years his firm shuts down for the year.
And they take journeys and trips, they stay put.
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What he had been finding is that, in the year leading up to sabbatical, their creative output is starting to stagnate a little bit. And, taking a break was a vital activity to refresh their creative output. And, coming back from these sabbaticals, they find that the next six or seven years of product ideas, of creative breakthrough, are generated from the inspiration and ideas gathered on these sabbaticals.
Getting new ideas, changing the rhythm. If any aspect of your work or life has to do with creative output, or innovation, then there is a case to be made for taking a break, so that your influences can widen. I want to ask you, Kevan, what it was like for you?
But looking at your own personal experience, which is really fresh right now. And something I was saying to our good colleague, Tracey the other day was, I remember coming back from my last mat leave, which was not that long ago, it was last fall. So you, I feel like, still have fresh glasses on. What was it like while you were away? What was that part of it like? Those are great questions. It is interesting coming back.
A readiness and openness. An ability to listen and notice that now I can bring to what comes next. Do you know what I mean? And, I identify certain things that I would have been blind to before. But, before, I was just, I was a fish in the fishbowl. I sat on a beach! And with it comes a bit of, almost insecurity coming back. Like, do I have the traction that I had before? Do I have the insight that I had before? Do people know who I am? Why would I be feeling insecure? Is work giving me a sense of personal identity security? Are there other ways I can find identity and security in this world besides my work output?
Did you feel that intensity while you were away? Or were you on pat leave with your four children in the beautiful hills of Kelowna, feeling some of this? No, I was just present with family. How I can show up. What I can contribute to in ways that are meaningful. And when I see people doing a fantastic job of leading, and leaning into areas where otherwise I might have accidentally been blocking their contribution. But now, new leaders are enabled by my absence, and that just creates an opportunity for a whole new level of game.
And, what area we going to do with that? So there gets to be new things that is a push for having to find the next level of contribution. It just sounds like a really beautiful practice.
And, to imagine an organization that is accustomed to keeping in its collective consciousness, the possible contributions of everybody that is in its employ. And, no one can ever replace anyone else, in terms of what someone brings. But, in order to see what someone brings, you have to really see the person. And then, to work in the right niche for you. How did you find doming back to Domain7 after your leave that ended in the fall? I was trying to think back now. I came back part-time. So I came back two days a week before full year was up, just to ease back in.
And, one of the things I benefited from, if I can say this without flattering. But with sincere appreciation, I worked very closely with you of course, and that you had held that space for me.
So, we had a wonderful person come in and cover my mat leave. Just an amazing writer and researcher. And, she did an excellent job. But I felt like at every stage of my mat leave that I knew that I was waiting to be welcomed back, like that the team was waiting to welcome me back. And, that was very intentional on your part. Like a taking off. And that you yourself retain a bit of presence or engagement with your organization. And, it seems to be a way to just let that person return to being who they need to be, doing what they need to do, with full respect and acknowledgement that as they return, there will be that welcoming back into a present engagement.
And, I gotta say that, in terms of what makes successfully engaged employees. But what better way to grant that, than to let people have a good old, grown-up leave once in a while? Or, at least I felt that way. Well, I would identify with that. But, I wonder how this is going to all shake out, you know?
And to let things go a little bit in terms of knowing exactly what the roadmap is. So I think with my first leave, which was not with Domain7, but I was much more concerned about getting it right.
Like about re-entering the workforce, and about how I was going to model this for my daughter, and how I needed to signal my commitment. And I think with my second one, I just let go a little bit more. I am enjoying where I am at, but I am also experiencing this season of life.
And I am going to experience it fully. And when the moment comes to return, we will meet that moment then. I think there is something to be said for sometimes not knowing, and letting yourself, just be. And, the need to hold that space for you, to have that experience, while still doing the plain old job. Thriving individuals, thriving business. Makes sense, and that needs to be pointed out. The only reason that we do any of this stuff that we do is to build healthy lives, including what our businesses are doing, right? Be a human-centric organization instead.
I feel like that point of view can be really hard to accurately capture and camp out on. Because it goes against so much of what gets preached and modeled in our workplaces. There is something, next generation, that awaits the way our business is organized, that do put the value of people first, and not in an exploitative way. John is utterly lost without Deirdre and is determined to win her back.
Mick having become suspended from his job and low on funds comes up with a scheme involving Lehiff and John. They kidnap Sam and hold Deirdre captive. They force Sam to go to his bank to get money for a ransom. Mick and John flee the scene without their money. Mick, later loses his job after he is wrongfully blamed for the bus crash and he becomes obsessed with taking revenge on the kid behind it.
After chasing Philip down in his car he loses control and is left balancing over the canal. Philip sits on the bonnet and jumps off, letting the car drop into the canal. Detective Lynch chases down and corners Lehiff in an open field, and decides to take him on, while Ben films everything. Unfortunately he miscalculates and Lehiff gets the upper hand and threatens to kill him. Ben snatches at the gun and shoots Lehiff and Lynch covers it all up.
As the credits roll, Noeleen and Sam are shown to have reunited in their house watching television.
She is sitting purposely on the remote control and bullying him into changing the channels by hand. The film was well received by critics. Noted critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film good reviews. Patrick Condren became the first Irishman to be nominated at the Taurus World Stunt Awards following his work in the film.
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