Academic Writing Amplified

This is a special bonus episode to tell you all about my re-imagined Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap course, the modules, the freebies, and the sign-up bonuses!   I'm giving you the lowdown on the awesome bonuses you'll receive as one of the first 10 people to enroll when doors open on Black Friday. We're talking about a bonus valued at $2000! And even if you don't end being one of the first 10, th...

The pandemic didn't change the course of academia; it has amplified the issues that were already there. As higher ed systems crumble, it's time for you to decide your own course of action.   As one of my favorite books, "The Slow Professor", explains: the University system is deeply ingrained in the history of capitalism. The path the University is on wasn't created by the pandemic, it simply sped...

We have an opportunity, at any time, but especially at this moment in time, to rise from the ashes of what has come before to remake our careers and our lives as academics.   On the next few episodes of The Academic Womxn Amplified I'm talking about how to rise from the ashes of 2020 to make 2021 the year you take control and redefine your career.    Why does writing often fall to the bottom of th...

Keeping your relationship with writing peaceful and productive means prioritizing it during your most energetic and focused times of day. I'm coining a new term for those times to get us into the right mindset for the work.   Getting writing done is a key component to the academic life, but it doesn't have to be a slog. Creating a positive relationship with your writing while also doing your best...

Dr. Kemi Doll joins me on this episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified, sharing her expertise and advice on everything from how she balances her multidisciplinary career with joy, to power dynamics and privilege to why coaching is so helpful for academics. She shares her own journey to doctor and health academic, and why she decided to add coach to her list of titles.    Key points discussed: Stru...

Making a change in your academic career can be scary, but is it dangerous? On this episode I'm helping you recognize when deciding not to make a change might be the danger.   I'm an avid podcast listener. I recently heard a story on the How I Built This podcast about an investment banker whose doctor told her that if something didn't change, she was going to have a stroke, or a heart attack. Stayi...

Career coach Dr. Carol Parker Walsh joins us to share her path into and through academia, and to dig into something we are both passionate about: career development for women. Carol helps women figure out their next career steps, in order to make their lives and careers more individual and joyful. She shares about big moments in her own life that helped her realize she was on the wrong path, and g...

Your career, your body of scholarly work, is independent of any 'container' through which you do that work, like a university or institution. Have you ever thought about this idea? It's important!   We often look at our career paths in terms of a certain 'container'. We make choices based on things like which grad school has a reputation that will position us well in our fields, which institutions...

Are you wondering what your career will be like once you reach that ultimate milestone of tenure? I'm busting 5 myths about the post tenure experience to give you a realistic picture.   Getting tenure is a goal that most academics have had throughout their entire careers. If you are in the pre-tenure process right now, you may be believing one or more of these 5 myths about what it will be like if...

We get a lot of questions about academic publishing in our 14,000 member Facebook group. On this podcast I'm sharing answers to the top 5 questions we see.   Writing and publishing in academia is paramount. In our Facebook group we get lots of questions about academic publishing, so I'm breaking down answers to the 5 questions we see the most. Let's jump right in.   Question #1: How do I respond t...

Do you constantly feel like there is not enough time, not enough resources, not enough publications, just not enough? This isn't a coincidence (and it isn't the truth). In academia we've been conditioned into a scarcity mindset. An abundance mindset means you feel like there is enough of something: enough time, enough resources, plenty to go around for everyone. Scarcity mindset assumes there is n...

How do you keep your writing going during times of upheaval and uncertainty? It's possible to keep making progress, but you do need to have some tools to draw on.   Uncertainty is a norm in our lives. Some times are rife with upheaval on a large scale, like our current moment in 2020: unknowns and extra stressors due to Covid-19, unrest and striving for change due to a long overdue racial reckonin...

Have you ever looked at your writing projects through the lens of economics? I'm showing you how, and why you should on this episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified. I love listening to podcasts; they're one of my favorite ways to give my brain a little break and think about something other than academics for awhile. This summer I stumbled on a great one that I not only found fascinating, but real...

It's our one year anniversary at the Academic Womxn Amplified podcast! This calls for a giveaway.   This month the Academic Womxn Amplified podcast is having it's one year anniversary! Our fans rave about our podcast, which is chock-full of juicy writing advice for academic womxn. We currently have 80,000 lifetime downloads… but that's not good enough!   To reach more academic womxn who need our m...

Are you believing any of these 5 myths about the tenure prep process? You could be setting yourself up for unneeded stress and worry, so let's bust those myths.   Now that you've landed that tenure track job, it's essential to cut through the clutter of what you think you have to do, kick guilt and overwhelm to the curb, and create a process that works without the burnout. Consider this my permiss...

My guest on this episode is Adrianna Santos, passionate advocate for equity for women, immigrants, and marginalized communities . She shares about many mentors and inspirational figures in her life who led her to Latinx and Chicanx studies, processing trauma through performance and embodiment exercises, having babies during dissertation, and coming full circle to teach in her hometown. Yet another...

When my guest on this episode was young, she was a curious and confident learner. She started higher education in her native Peru, but had to start over in high school when she and her family moved to the United States. Dr. Rocío Caballero Gill shares her story of learning English, following her love of the sciences, and most importantly, keeping her family at the center. We talk about her setback...

Dr. Sandra Soto Santiago has come full circle in her career, finding passion and purpose in helping others with similar backgrounds to access higher education. She talks about being a first generation college student and the first in her family to earn graduate degrees. She also shares her personal story, being raised by a single mother who worked hard and emphasized education for a better life fo...

Dr. Jane Jones has had the "golden ticket" job, and she will be the first to tell you: it's not for everyone. She may have landed a tenure track job her first year on the market, but after 3 years she knew it was not for her. Racial inequity, lack of creative freedom and the constraints of academia led her away from the professor life she had always wanted, and toward her own entrepreneurial ventu...

Cara Gormally joins me on this interview episode of the Academic Womxn Amplified podcast to share her journey from someone who hated math and science, to an academic with a passion for science and science education. She talks about the importance of finding joy in our academic pursuits, her interests in how identity impacts learning and her drive for changing the way we do science education.    Ca...

Sarah Dobson's journey has exemplified the idea that it is not our "container" (the university or institution we work for) that matters in impacting the world, but rather our interests, passions, and drive.   In this interview episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified, Sarah shares about her academic path, and how serious illness during her graduate studies pushed her away from pursuing a PhD, and i...

Dr. Becky Dawson is a public health epidemiologist who has strategically navigated her journey through academia with determination and purpose. Prompting from an early mentor led her to discover her passion at the intersection of environment and health.    Becky shares her path through graduate study, PhD defense (on her due date!), leaving a tenure track job at an R-1 institution to return to her...

For this interview episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified, I'm talking with a member of my own team, whose journey has brought her to the highest levels of achievement in academia… and out the other side.    Gina has always been a passionate learner, at home in classrooms and schools. Her path included travel abroad, where she discovered a passion for languages and cultures. She shares about taki...

On this episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified I'm speaking with Dr. Maira Quintanilha. She shares about growing up in Brazil in a culture where higher education was a given, and the struggle to balance family expectations and her own desires in choosing a field of study. After studying in Canada for a time, she knew she wanted to return; she credits other women academics with helping her find a...

On this interview episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified we are starting our series sharing the life stories of academic womxn to explore how they have created success for themselves on their own terms. Let's bust the myth of a "traditional" path to academia, one story at a time. Dr. Felicia Thomas grew up in the 1970's in Detroit as a talkative, insatiable learner in a close-knit extended family...