In this episode, host Sarah Olivieri talks with Josh Feldman, founder and CEO of R& R, The Rest of Our Lives. Discover insights into how investing in leaders and promoting rest and rejuvenation can transform nonprofit organizations. Learn about the benefits of sabbaticals, fostering a culture of sustainability, and implementing distributed leadership models. Sarah and Josh share personal experiences, and practical strategies, and discuss the broader cultural shift needed in the nonprofit sector.

Episode Highlights

• The Importance of Rest and Rejuvenation
• Understanding Sabbaticals and Their Benefits
• Implementing Sabbaticals in Nonprofits
• Addressing Burnout and False Urgency

Meet the Guest

Josh Feldman is the founder and CEO of R&R: The Rest of our Lives, a nonprofit focused on the future-of-work, Josh and the team at R&R believe that investing in leaders, improving policies and practices within our workplaces, and inspiring culture change related to the rest and rejuvenation of workers will result in stronger organizations, retention and recruitment of top leaders, and far more sustainable, strategic and creative work environments. R&R's guiding values are core to setting its priorities and help ensure its work is focused on a healthier, equitable, thriving future-of-work for all, not only a lucky few.

Josh walks daily. He watercolors on Zoom calls, and on good days you can find him hiking in the mountains of western MA. He is a master facilitator, coach, and public speaker with 20 years of experience as a nonprofit executive building cohort communities, with experience in design and community building towards social change. He is a creativity evangelist, dirt-digging aspiring gardener, and lifelong student to his three kids. He holds an MA in Education with a concentration in Creativity and Leadership from Prescott College. Josh is also an executive coach with certification from the International Coaching Federation.

Connect with Josh:

• Website: https://restofourlives.org
• R&R on LinkedIn
• Josh is on LinkedIn here.
• R&R’s resource bank on sabbatical resources: https://restofourlives.org/learn/sabbatical
• R&R’s research on sabbaticals
• Article: Thinking about a rest ethic

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