Defend, Publish & Lead Podcast

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley describes why writing sessions are so complicated and explains the 16 pieces that make up an individual writing session. Slides from Episode Episode Resources  Join us for The Writing Session Makeover   (use PODCAST for free admission). Check out our DPL playlist "Writing Strategies to Try" for help in getting more out of your...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley describes the four signs that you are not as productive as you could be in your writing sessions. Episode Resources  Join us for The Writing Session Makeover   (use PODCAST for free admission). Check out our DPL playlist "Writing Strategies to Try" for help in getting more out of your writing sessions.   DPL Resources Set your...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley describes the five most popular writing strategies that really resonate with clients.  #5 – Sort revision feedback into four categories Episode 130 – Categorizing Revision Tasks Episode 46 – Using a Asana to Manage a Big Revision #4 – Know what role your sources are playing Episode 62 – Reasons for Source Support #3 – Use car...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley describes the best elements of a closing note at the end of a writing session that lead to better writing in the next session.  Helpful Past Episode: Episode 164: Closing a Writing Session DPL Resources It's not too late to join our Fall 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $60 for 15 weeks and sessions are recorded. Email...

We are opening up the podcast vault this week to bring you a fan-favorite  Encore episode! Whether you missed it the first time around or just need a serious productivity reset, this timeless strategy is exactly what you need to kickstart your momentum. In this replay, you'll learn: What the  Rule of 5s is and how to apply it today from the book Making Time to Write How to find and protect time fo...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley discusses the process of categorizing revision tasks before tackling them and making a battle plan for a book revision. Episodes Mentioned: Episode 130: Categorizing Revision Tasks Resources Mentioned: It's not too late to join our Fall 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $60 for 15 weeks and sessions are recorded. Email...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley explains what to do when your boomerang projects come back around and interrupt what you are currently working on. Episodes Mentioned: Episode 130: Categorizing Revision Tasks Resources Mentioned: It's not too late to join our Fall 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $60 for 15 weeks and sessions are recorded. Email chris...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode host Christine Tulley explains clear decision making through writing project management. She discusses looking at the ebb and flow of a semester such as specific semester nuances, then months within the semester, and then days to choose what projects to work on and when. Episodes Mentioned: Episode 293 - Matching Your Writing Project Mix to the Sem...

In this Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast episode , host Christine Tulley explains her "right now to-do list" strategy for the chaotic first week of the fall semester, when standard to-do lists become useless due to sheer volume. Rather than planning days or weeks ahead, she advocates writing down just the few things that must get done in an immediately available time block  Episodes Mentioned: Ep...

In this episode of Defend, Publish, and Lead , Christine Tulley argues that the most productivity happens when writing projects are matched to the nuances of the semester and offers strategies for making decisions about what projects to work on. Episodes Mentioned: Episode 108 - Your Writing Project Mix Resources Mentioned: Join our Fall 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $60 for 15 weeks an...

In this episode of Defend, Publish, and Lead, Christine Tulley argues that writing project management isn't separate from the scholarly writing process but an essential part of it, since standard "writing process" models (drafting, revising, publishing) only look at a single project in isolation and ignore how projects interact. She lays out four reasons why writing project management is a built i...

In Episode 291 of the Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast, host Christine Tulley describes a useful short exercise to find out why it is taking so long to start writing when you sit down to write. Slides from this Episode Resources Mentioned: Join our Fall 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $60 for 15 weeks and sessions are recorded. Register here Episodes Mentioned Epis ode163: Opening a Writ...

In episode host Christine Tulley describes "zombie writing projects" - projects that remain perpetually on to do lists but are never completed. The episode covers how to identify zombie projects and four actions to take to finally clear them from your writing backlog. Slides from this Episode Resources Mentioned Free Fall 2026 Planning Webinar - Free Fall 2026 Planning Webinar - Monday, July 27 •...

In this episode, host Christine Tulley describes how to conduct a 6-month review of your writing productivity to see if you are on track to meeting your writing goals and how to adjust the remaining months to close out the year with a focus on completion. Resources Mentioned: Free Fall 2026 Planning Webinar - Monday, July 27  •  11 AM - 12 PM ET   Join our Summer 2026 Writing Accountability Group...

In Episode 288, host Christine Tulley describes a variety of ways to start a writing session and encourages self-study of starting processes with strategic questions. Resources Mentioned Five Entry Points to Writing free webinar!   Join our Summer 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $25 for entire summer and sessions are recorded - email me if you want to join us every Monday ( christine@defe...

In Episode 287, host Christine Tulley describes how she's planning for her upcoming office move and the decision-making process for what stays and what goes. Resources Mentioned Five Entry Points to Writing free webinar!   Join our Summer 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $25 for entire summer and sessions are recorded - email me if you want to join us every Monday ( christine@defendpublish...

In Episode 286 of the Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast, host Christine Tulley describes five tasks to update everything from your CV to your ORCID ID. Resources Mentioned Five Entry Points to Writing free webinar!   Join our Summer 2026 Writing Accountability Group - just $25 for entire summer and sessions are recorded - email me if you want to join us every Monday ( christine@defendpublishlead.c...

In Episode 285 of the Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast, host Christine Tulley tackles the anxiety of being scooped, when another scholar is about to publish something strikingly similar to your work-in-progress. She offers four practical strategies: carefully examine the competing project to assess how it truly differs from yours; consider whether the overlap signals a hot topic with room for mul...

In Episode 284 of the Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast, host Christine Tulley interviews productivity author Laura Vanderkam about her newly released book Big Time . In this book, Vanderkam centers on the idea of viewing time as abundant rather than scarce. She introduces the concept of "golden hours", the four to five hours between work and bedtime on weeknights,  arguing that these underutilize...

In this episode host Christine Tulley builds on Episode 281 to walk listeners through the transition from finishing one writing project to launching the next. She introduces the idea of thinking in two buckets: short-term, temporary projects (like an upcoming conference presentation) and the next substantive writing project, and shows how she maps both onto a Summer 2026 Project Progress Tracker u...

  In Episode 282 of the Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast, host Christine Tulley interviews Dr. Bryan Alexander about how AI is reshaping textbook and academic publishing. Alexander is a futurist, Georgetown senior scholar, and keynote speaker for the TAA Summer Institute. He offers a broad, forward-looking view, beginning with the larger forces already destabilizing higher education: shifting dem...

In Episode 281 of the Defend, Publish, and Lead podcast, host Christine Tulley shares a practical post-project workflow for academics who have just completed a major writing project — drawing directly from her own experience of turning in a book manuscript days earlier. She outlines five key steps. First, genuinely celebrate and resist the urge to immediately dive into the next project. Second, wr...

In Episode 280 host Christine Tulley interviews Dr. Greg Lewbart, a veterinarian and board-certified zoological medicine specialist at NC State, about his three-decade journey as a textbook author and editor. Lewbart traces his path from working as a corporate fish veterinarian in the 1980s to publishing his first book on fish clinical cases in 1998 — now in its third edition — and editing contrib...

In Episode 279 of Defend, Publish, and Lead , host and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley tackles one of the most common struggles for faculty: the summer that gets away from you. With the best intentions but little structure, academic summers often slip by before meaningful writing or scholarship gets done. Christine explains exactly why that happens, from kids home from school to family tr...

In Episode 278 of Defend, Publish, and Lead, host Christine Tulley talks with Dr. Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Dr. Jenna Morton-Aiken about their co-edited book, Parenting While PhDing (Rutgers University Press). The book tackles a topic largely ignored in academic literature — what it's really like to become a parent while pursuing a PhD. Jackie and Jenna speak from personal experience. Their book...