April 6, 2026
489: Take a Break
You can love private club work and still be running on fumes. I’m sharing a straightforward reminder for golf and country club professionals: reward the effort, protect your energy, and make time to be fully present somewhere outside the club.
We talk about what real recovery looks like for hospitality leaders and club managers, especially after holiday stretches and nonstop seasons. Sometimes that means friends and family. Sometimes it means doing something solo. The goal is the same: pick activities that bring you joy, spark creativity, and get your brain out of the constant loop of payroll, debriefs, and member issues. I also dig into why certain hobbies and endurance-style challenges work so well because they demand total focus, the kind that quiets everything else and leaves you feeling reset.
Then I share a “treat yourself” option that blends adrenaline with professional development:
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00:00 - Welcome To Private Club Radio
00:30 - The Case For Taking Breaks
02:45 - Hyper Focus Hobbies That Reset You
02:57 - Adrenaline Meets Education Event
05:34 - Final Reminder To Recharge
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Welcome to the Private Club Radio Show, the show where you get the scoop on life inside private golf and country clubs.
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I'm your host, Denny Corby, and each episode is a real conversation with club leaders, the pros, the people and partners who help clubs thrive.
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We talk leadership, culture, food and beverage, member experiences, member engagement, marketing, governance, and so much more.
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If you want practical ideas, better teams and a club experience, members actually feel and talk about.
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You are in the right place now.
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Welcome to the show
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In this episode, we are talking about taking a break.
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Rewarding yourself, treating yourself you work the holidays, you cover the shifts, you show up, you do the work, you, your team, you as the individual.
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not everybody works the holidays, but a lot of people do.
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So it's just a dumb reminder to just treat yourself.
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Take time for yourself, take time for you, your friends, your family, your, the people who you just care about, or even if it's not even the people you care about, maybe just the things that you care about.
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Forget the people, right?
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Go do some loaner stuff.
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I think I love practicing magic.
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No, but.
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Taking time to enjoy your hobbies, the things that bring joy to you.
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Use your creative side.
00:01:18.084 --> 00:01:21.655
Do some stuff with that side of the brain that gets those juices flowing.
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Try a new activity, Get the, get the synapses moving, this is actually this past weekend that, that this airs, uh, it'll be Easter weekend and this is the first weekend I haven't had off in two months.
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Um, or did I say that right?
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This is my first weekend off.
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This is my first weekend off in two months.
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From conference to Florida, like all over.
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It was just a constant.
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Every weekend just shows travel and doing something, so I get it.
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So we all have to remember sometimes take care of yourself and our selves too.
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Tweet yol, bark and Rec.
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Tom and Donna had it right.
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Seriously though, re reward yourself for the work that you are putting in.
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Take the time to do something that takes your brain.
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Really makes it focus, right?
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I think that's why so many people get into endurance sports and things like that, where it really just takes your focus and because,'cause you have to, right?
00:02:20.375 --> 00:02:26.465
It takes so much mental energy to focus and to really push the body and the limits or whatever it's doing, right?
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Just that super focus.
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Danger things sometimes.
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Always.
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It's always, always fun.
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When your brain is just fully locked in, shuts everything else off, no member complaints, no payroll, no event debrief, just you fully present.
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So that's it.
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Take some time for yourself, and if you really wanna take some time for yourself and really reward yourself for something amazing and you like a little bit of adrenaline and you like a little bit of hyper focus, but you also like education, let me tell you about my event management in motion.
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We did it last year.
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We're doing it again this year.
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We're almost at 50% sold out and it's in September.
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It's at the Monticello Motor Club and it's adrenaline meets education.
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We take BMWM cars.
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We do drifting drag racing auto X high speed laps.
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Hot laps.
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We got go-karting.
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It is so much fun and interwoven in between.
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Everything is the education, but the education is from you, you guys.
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It's.
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Other club professionals coming to talk to you all, and it's in a really intimate setting, only 50 people, and it's about how they take their motion, whatever their motion is, and how they relate that to leadership, and then how that just all translates.
00:03:48.085 --> 00:03:54.625
So the first year I had Joe, uh, Smith and Lou Angio Vannelli, who were like very big car people, and they came and talked.
00:03:54.805 --> 00:03:56.634
I think they're actually coming back again this year.
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Um, to come and, and enjoy the whole whole experience again as, uh.
00:04:01.215 --> 00:04:08.474
An attendee, but uh, this year I have locked in Ed, ed Ronan, and his motion is cycling and scuba.
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Which is really cool.
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Uh, and he also came last year, so he got to enjoy the fun, the craziness, the adrenaline.
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Uh, he actually has one of the best pictures on the, uh, website.
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His hair looks amazing.
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Uh, after, after taking the helmet off and get doing a hot laugh, it was so cool.
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Um, but it's just a really fun day and it's intimate and it's, it, it's a nichey event inside, already A nichey event, right?
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Because, um.
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It's hosted by me.
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I'm, I'm putting it on.
00:04:34.329 --> 00:04:38.889
Um, and it's just, I just wanted to get fun club people together in a fun setting.
00:04:38.889 --> 00:04:41.439
And Yel, I'm gracious to call him.
00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:51.339
I would say a friend, I don't know if, if he would call me a friend, but I call him a friend and we'd had a great episode on private club radio and I jokingly said to him, oh, I would love to bring a bunch of club managers here and do a fun thing.
00:04:51.339 --> 00:04:54.009
He's like, oh, well I brought in, I brought some, some, some chapters in.
00:04:54.910 --> 00:05:05.079
I was like, no, but I wanna do like education where like they are, you know, it's like people who are in clubs who also just enjoy like adrenaline and cars and talk about how like they maybe relate that into like.
00:05:05.620 --> 00:05:08.605
Leadership and he was like, done and we're doing it.
00:05:08.610 --> 00:05:11.079
It was just one of those, it just happened and it's happening again.
00:05:11.379 --> 00:05:24.759
Um, and expanding on the motion to not just cars being part of the education, but also just different'cause everybody has different motions and how they use those motions to lead and to manage and how they use it to grow themselves personally and professionally and all that.
00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:26.079
So it's gonna be so much fun.
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If you wanna learn more, head on over to denny corby.com/management in motion or just denny corby.com.
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But that's this episode, shameless plug.
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Mixed in with a quick message of just treating yourself.
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Make time for yourself.
00:05:39.910 --> 00:05:43.959
We're all busy, we're all working, and it's important.
00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:50.170
And to take time for yourself, and whether that's with people, without people, pick up a skill, do something.
00:05:50.829 --> 00:05:52.389
Get your creative juice going.
00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:53.410
Get around good people.
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That's this episode.
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I'm your host, Danny Corby.
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Until next time, catch y'all on the flippity flip.
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00:00:27.739 --> 00:00:29.390
00:00:29.690 --> 00:00:30.559
00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:33.600
In this episode, we are talking about taking a break.
00:00:34.636 --> 00:00:45.725
Rewarding yourself, treating yourself you work the holidays, you cover the shifts, you show up, you do the work, you, your team, you as the individual.
00:00:46.026 --> 00:00:49.055
not everybody works the holidays, but a lot of people do.
00:00:50.331 --> 00:00:53.481
So it's just a dumb reminder to just treat yourself.
00:00:53.540 --> 00:01:03.320
Take time for yourself, take time for you, your friends, your family, your, the people who you just care about, or even if it's not even the people you care about, maybe just the things that you care about.
00:01:03.801 --> 00:01:05.150
Forget the people, right?
00:01:05.421 --> 00:01:06.831
Go do some loaner stuff.
00:01:07.161 --> 00:01:08.421
I think I love practicing magic.
00:01:08.421 --> 00:01:10.766
No, but.
00:01:11.356 --> 00:01:15.766
Taking time to enjoy your hobbies, the things that bring joy to you.
00:01:16.246 --> 00:01:17.686
Use your creative side.
00:01:18.084 --> 00:01:21.655
Do some stuff with that side of the brain that gets those juices flowing.
00:01:21.924 --> 00:01:33.094
Try a new activity, Get the, get the synapses moving, this is actually this past weekend that, that this airs, uh, it'll be Easter weekend and this is the first weekend I haven't had off in two months.
00:01:33.635 --> 00:01:35.555
Um, or did I say that right?
00:01:41.855 --> 00:01:43.534
This is my first weekend off.
00:01:44.034 --> 00:01:45.864
This is my first weekend off in two months.
00:01:46.364 --> 00:01:48.885
From conference to Florida, like all over.
00:01:48.885 --> 00:01:50.114
It was just a constant.
00:01:50.144 --> 00:01:54.704
Every weekend just shows travel and doing something, so I get it.
00:01:55.204 --> 00:01:59.825
So we all have to remember sometimes take care of yourself and our selves too.
00:02:00.325 --> 00:02:02.754
Tweet yol, bark and Rec.
00:02:03.254 --> 00:02:04.424
Tom and Donna had it right.
00:02:04.924 --> 00:02:08.194
Seriously though, re reward yourself for the work that you are putting in.
00:02:08.194 --> 00:02:11.025
Take the time to do something that takes your brain.
00:02:11.525 --> 00:02:12.935
Really makes it focus, right?
00:02:12.935 --> 00:02:20.375
I think that's why so many people get into endurance sports and things like that, where it really just takes your focus and because,'cause you have to, right?
00:02:20.375 --> 00:02:26.465
It takes so much mental energy to focus and to really push the body and the limits or whatever it's doing, right?
00:02:26.465 --> 00:02:27.905
Just that super focus.
00:02:28.104 --> 00:02:29.694
Danger things sometimes.
00:02:29.974 --> 00:02:30.425
Always.
00:02:30.425 --> 00:02:31.525
It's always, always fun.
00:02:32.025 --> 00:02:43.685
When your brain is just fully locked in, shuts everything else off, no member complaints, no payroll, no event debrief, just you fully present.
00:02:44.185 --> 00:02:44.844
So that's it.
00:02:45.344 --> 00:03:03.025
Take some time for yourself, and if you really wanna take some time for yourself and really reward yourself for something amazing and you like a little bit of adrenaline and you like a little bit of hyper focus, but you also like education, let me tell you about my event management in motion.
00:03:03.594 --> 00:03:04.585
We did it last year.
00:03:05.245 --> 00:03:06.474
We're doing it again this year.
00:03:07.300 --> 00:03:10.509
We're almost at 50% sold out and it's in September.
00:03:10.900 --> 00:03:14.740
It's at the Monticello Motor Club and it's adrenaline meets education.
00:03:15.729 --> 00:03:17.379
We take BMWM cars.
00:03:17.379 --> 00:03:21.460
We do drifting drag racing auto X high speed laps.
00:03:21.460 --> 00:03:22.210
Hot laps.
00:03:22.210 --> 00:03:23.289
We got go-karting.
00:03:23.289 --> 00:03:28.125
It is so much fun and interwoven in between.
00:03:28.125 --> 00:03:32.740
Everything is the education, but the education is from you, you guys.
00:03:33.310 --> 00:03:33.759
It's.
00:03:34.465 --> 00:03:47.965
Other club professionals coming to talk to you all, and it's in a really intimate setting, only 50 people, and it's about how they take their motion, whatever their motion is, and how they relate that to leadership, and then how that just all translates.
00:03:48.085 --> 00:03:54.625
So the first year I had Joe, uh, Smith and Lou Angio Vannelli, who were like very big car people, and they came and talked.
00:03:54.805 --> 00:03:56.634
I think they're actually coming back again this year.
00:03:56.935 --> 00:04:00.775
Um, to come and, and enjoy the whole whole experience again as, uh.
00:04:01.215 --> 00:04:08.474
An attendee, but uh, this year I have locked in Ed, ed Ronan, and his motion is cycling and scuba.
00:04:09.430 --> 00:04:10.270
Which is really cool.
00:04:10.509 --> 00:04:14.919
Uh, and he also came last year, so he got to enjoy the fun, the craziness, the adrenaline.
00:04:15.219 --> 00:04:17.740
Uh, he actually has one of the best pictures on the, uh, website.
00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:18.699
His hair looks amazing.
00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:22.660
Uh, after, after taking the helmet off and get doing a hot laugh, it was so cool.
00:04:22.870 --> 00:04:30.129
Um, but it's just a really fun day and it's intimate and it's, it, it's a nichey event inside, already A nichey event, right?
00:04:30.129 --> 00:04:31.209
Because, um.
00:04:31.629 --> 00:04:32.680
It's hosted by me.
00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:33.970
I'm, I'm putting it on.
00:04:34.329 --> 00:04:38.889
Um, and it's just, I just wanted to get fun club people together in a fun setting.
00:04:38.889 --> 00:04:41.439
And Yel, I'm gracious to call him.
00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:51.339
I would say a friend, I don't know if, if he would call me a friend, but I call him a friend and we'd had a great episode on private club radio and I jokingly said to him, oh, I would love to bring a bunch of club managers here and do a fun thing.
00:04:51.339 --> 00:04:54.009
He's like, oh, well I brought in, I brought some, some, some chapters in.
00:04:54.910 --> 00:05:05.079
I was like, no, but I wanna do like education where like they are, you know, it's like people who are in clubs who also just enjoy like adrenaline and cars and talk about how like they maybe relate that into like.
00:05:05.620 --> 00:05:08.605
Leadership and he was like, done and we're doing it.
00:05:08.610 --> 00:05:11.079
It was just one of those, it just happened and it's happening again.
00:05:11.379 --> 00:05:24.759
Um, and expanding on the motion to not just cars being part of the education, but also just different'cause everybody has different motions and how they use those motions to lead and to manage and how they use it to grow themselves personally and professionally and all that.
00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:26.079
So it's gonna be so much fun.
00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:31.420
If you wanna learn more, head on over to denny corby.com/management in motion or just denny corby.com.
00:05:31.449 --> 00:05:34.060
But that's this episode, shameless plug.
00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:38.800
Mixed in with a quick message of just treating yourself.
00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:39.879
Make time for yourself.
00:05:39.910 --> 00:05:43.959
We're all busy, we're all working, and it's important.
00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:50.170
And to take time for yourself, and whether that's with people, without people, pick up a skill, do something.
00:05:50.829 --> 00:05:52.389
Get your creative juice going.
00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:53.410
Get around good people.
00:05:53.910 --> 00:05:55.144
That's this episode.
00:05:55.644 --> 00:05:56.694
I'm your host, Danny Corby.
00:05:56.725 --> 00:05:58.584
Until next time, catch y'all on the flippity flip.