Let’s Work Together
Helping individuals, companies, and financial advisors make sabbaticals a reality—through speaking, consulting, and training.
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Event Speaker
Jillian speaks on mini-retirements and designing a meaningful life—with insight grounded in lived experience. She equips audiences to take action, shift their mindset, and build lives they don’t need to escape from.
Jillian’s talks spark change. With humor, heart, and hard-won wisdom, she helps people step off autopilot and take bold steps toward freedom.
Corporate
Jillian helps companies design sabbatical programs that boost retention, reduce burnout, and improve engagement. She works with leadership teams to build flexible, effective policies—and shows employees how to make the most of them.
Sabbaticals aren’t a perk—they’re a strategy.
Financial Advisors
Jillian equips financial advisors with the tools, language, and confidence to guide clients through mini-retirements. Through her advisor toolkit and training sessions, she helps you turn big lifestyle dreams into actionable, financially sound plans.
Mini-retirements are a powerful way to deepen client relationships and unlock creative planning strategies.
Jillian Johnsrud
Jillian Johnsrud, author of Retire Often, never expected to be able to retire early, so she hatched a plan to retire often. Inspired by the idea of sabbatical years, she set out to sprinkle our retirements throughout her working life.
At 40, Jillian and her family have taken over a dozen mini retirements. These allowed them to pursue dreams like living abroad, traveling to 27 countries, adopting four kids (plus two biological kids), investing in real estate, and traveling the U.S. in a camper.
Jillian has taught, coached, and wrote about mini retirements for almost a decade. She hosts the Retire Often podcast and is a popular speaker and consultant for mini retirements. She lives in
Montana, where she spends time in her garden drinking tea.
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Event Speaker
Jillian’s speaking experience spans a wide range of settings — conferences, retreats, and community events. She is a popular speaker for events focused on personal growth and intentional living, personal finance, or small business owners and corporate leaders.
Whether she’s speaking to individuals, teams, or professionals, Jillian shows how mini-retirements can transform their personal, financial, and professional lives in powerful and lasting ways.
Corporate Events & Consulting
Forward-thinking companies know that time off isn’t just a perk—it’s a powerful strategy for improving employee well-being, engagement, and retention.
Jillian speaks at corporate events to help teams rethink rest, explore the power of mini-retirements, and learn how to fully utilize sabbatical benefits to recharge, grow, and return with renewed purpose. Her talks help signal a clear message: you care about your employees’ personal and professional fulfillment.
In addition to speaking, Jillian consults with leadership teams to design or enhance sabbatical programs that work. From developing thoughtful pay and benefits structures to aligning the program with your company culture and retention goals, she brings a practical, people-centered approach.
She also offers employee workshops and self-paced training to ensure your team makes the most of their time away—so they come back healthier, happier, and more committed than ever.
Financial Advisor Events & Training
Mini-retirements are more than a dream—they’re a strategic planning tool that can deepen trust and connection between advisors and clients. Jillian speaks at both in-person and virtual client events, helping you highlight the unique value you offer by modeling and supporting mini-retirement goals. Her talks show clients what’s possible and position you as a trusted ally in designing a life they don’t have to wait decades to enjoy.
For advisor teams, Jillian offers “train-the-trainer” sessions to help you confidently integrate mini-retirements into your practice. She provides clear frameworks and practical tools you can use directly with clients—making it easier to recommend mini-retirements at the right time, explain the financial trade-offs, and align the strategy with long-term investment and tax planning. You’ll also learn how to address common fears and concerns, so you can guide clients through these transitions with clarity, confidence, and care.