Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Raise Your Energy Podcast. My name is Linda Lange, and I'm your Host and Energy Expert. And today, I have to share something with you that might surprise you or just might be of interest to you.
I'm actually going to take a break from my business and from this podcast, so listen carefully on this short explanation of why I'm stepping away for now. Let's do this.
So here we are, I am taking a break. I'm hitting pause on my business and go on a sabbatical for the rest of the year, 2025. And I wanna share with you in this very brief episode why I am doing it, why it's a good idea, and the consequences, for you as well as a listener and as a follower. I really appreciate being with you here and I really enjoyed the last years it's been now I think about four and a half years since I started my business.
It's been years since I started my podcast, and I am at a time where I need to take some time away from it to get a new perspective, to take a break and create a vacuum around myself to see what I actually still wanna do. I plan to actually go through an exercise and evaluate where I'm at and what I still want to do quite recently while still doing my business and my podcast.
And I really struggled with it. I couldn't sit myself really down and point out of what are the things that I still wanna keep, that I enjoy, that give me energy, and what are things that I wanna let go of and what would be the consequences out of it? Right?
So I tried to do that exercise but actually failed, nothing really came to me, and that was a sign for me to dig deeper and see what that means. So shortly afterwards I reflected on this and let things come up. I just sat in silence while driving my car. You know how much I appreciate that time by myself, and I just let things come to me, ideas and thoughts and just let them come to me, but let them go as well.
Certainly if they didn't resonate very deeply with me and then suddenly it happened, the word outside came to me, which means time off or timeout in German as I'm German. And that was a word that started me on the trajectory, and that was literally just six days ago when I had for the first time the idea to take some time off.
And why it really resonated with me so well is because it doesn't mean that I'm completely stepping away, closing my business and letting a door go. No, I am doing it kind of, but leaving the door open for me to come back whenever I want to, whenever I feel inspired to.
But I just love the opportunity of taking some time away, allowing myself actually as well to lead a life again where I don't work all the time and fill all of my time with my business, which I really, truly enjoy; absolutely, it is my passion. It is my baby, but I think I need to create a different kind of scenario for me to actually evaluate what do I actually miss when it's not there? Right?
So you only know what you are missing or what you're loving when it's not there anymore, quite often, right? So that's what I wanna create for myself and this might as well be an idea for you to do something like that in your life with something. Maybe there is something where you are thinking of, is this still the right thing for me? Maybe a job, maybe a career, maybe a business as well, maybe even a relationship, whatever it is.
If you have thoughts like I had about letting it all go, or should I still keep going? Is this still meant for me? Then maybe that's an option for you as well to just take some time away to actually check in with you if it's something that you're actually gonna miss from your life.
So what can happen in the time that I'm gonna be on my sabbatical is that I will realize, oh, I really miss it. I really miss producing my podcast, speaking to you, creating videos for YouTube. Whatever it is. I wanna see if I actually miss it. And then evaluate as well, what are the pieces that are missing from it?
What is it really that I get so much enjoyment out of it and maybe I will come back as well differently. Maybe I have some inspiration coming out of it of how to do it more enjoyable than it already is. And of course what can happen as well is that I take the time timeout and I realize that I'm not missing any of it, and that's a sign too.
And I am okay with it. I invite it in. Whatever happens, happens for a reason. This is happening for a reason. The word outside came to me for a reason and therefore I am following that calling and that message. I'm taking that step and that trust and believe that if I'm supposed to come back and keep going in my business with my podcast and with Energy Academy, then I will get enough signs from the universe.
I already asked the universe to send me the signs, and for sure it will do that. I'm 100% sure and trusted that I will get the signs necessary for me to realize that I want to keep going. And if these signs are not coming, then I know as well what it means that it's time for me to let go of it completely, but it will take some time to clear the space, clear myself out of all of it, and just sit in that emptiness that usually filled my weekends and my spare time with creating the podcast, creating the videos, coming up with new meditations, or creating amazing subliminals.
Over four years. I filled my time nonstop and I truly enjoyed it. But I never really had time to consider if, yeah, that is still the right thing for me to do.
So that's what I'm gonna do now. Maybe this inspires you as well to do something similar in your life for something that you have doubts about. Then listen to your intuition. Listen to yourself and actually be bold. Be courageous to do something a little bit more drastic other than just having these thoughts keep going on in your mind, on and on and on and on, because that it is wasted time and it doesn't get you anywhere.
I've done it now for about five to six weeks and I'm done with it. Thankfully, the answer came to me. So I wanna tell you that everything is gonna be there still for you to use all of my videos on YouTube. The podcast is still gonna be available on all platforms. Even Energy Academy stays just on a slightly different platform for you to get it if you still want to.
Of course it's gonna be a little bit of a different format. I'm not gonna do the monthly Q and A calls for now. But once I'm back, they will be picked up again and you will get the benefit of it. So if you find me while I'm on my sabbatical, you can still get Energy Academy and change your life with it, make it happier, really create a life that you enjoy.
That's what Energy Academy is for. And you still get it, absolutely, even while I'm on sabbatical. And I am, yeah, just so grateful for all the time that we've spent together, even if we, most of the time, didn't see each other. I truly appreciate you. I truly love you, and I wish you all the best in the world.
And yeah, I hope we're gonna see each other again very, very soon. Probably more in the next year. And until then, love you and bye-bye.
