Podcasts by The Professor Is In
The Professor Is In answers all your questions about the academic career. Dr. Karen Kelsky and productivity coach Kel Weinhold, with their trademark combination of candor, humor, and compassion (and a healthy dose of critique), tell you the truth about how the academy works, with strategies for reaching your goals while prioritizing your emotional well being. We go where others don
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3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don't Feel Like It from 2022-08-09T18:21:41
We continue with vintage – yet evergreen – recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It’s a natural response to external forces, but you can s...
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Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting from 2022-06-20T18:42:09
Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks–once in Nature, once in the Chronicle — ...
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Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism from 2022-06-13T22:36
Perfection is the enemy of productivity, but almost all academics struggle with perfectionism. How to resist its siren song? Kel shares her coaching insights from her Unstuck: The Art of Productivi...
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Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II - Academia Has It Bad from 2022-06-08T01:01:18
One episode wasn’t enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that burnout is “investing emotionally in a job a...
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Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From from 2022-05-12T22:35:54
Burnout is on everyone’s mind right now. It’s the end of the academic year, and what an academic year it was. Profs and students both are at the end of their ropes. Kel and Karen talk ...
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Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year's Job Market from 2022-05-06T18:38:38
You didn’t get the job this year; what to do? Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of that record, so you can know what to prioritize this summ...
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Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism from 2022-04-27T22:22:26
We dig into the definition of “professionalism,” a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia. Drawing from insights on a recent Twitter thread, Ka...
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Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing from 2022-04-22T17:18:58
We did a survey recently and the message loud and clear was: please give us more advice about just… surviving in academia! So today we are talking about managing your transition into your ne...
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Ep 3:20 What Even Is Sick Leave For an Academic? from 2022-04-10T19:33:40
[Note: Karen and Kel were on vacation in NYC and recording from a hotel room! Please excuse the tinny sound today and next week; it goes back to normal after that!] A tweet went academic-viral rece...
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Ep 3:19 Academic Labor Is Labor from 2022-03-29T19:17:15
We talk about the “capitalist gaze” and how it impacts the creativity of academics. Casting our research outcomes as “products” can be deeply chilling to the imaginative wor...
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Ep 3:18 How Is Academia Like Gardening? from 2022-03-23T00:54:42
When you think about academia like a garden, the analogy clarifies a lot of things. First off, not every plant can thrive in every spot; also, plants need constant resources in terms of water, fert...
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Ep 3:17 Co-Writing As a Productivity Hack from 2022-03-16T19:28:47
Collaborative writing is a great productivity hack when it works. But how to make it work? In this episode Karen and Kel talk to Dr. Julia Hornberger and Dr. Sarah Hodges, who have maintained a wee...
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Ep 3:16 Leaving Academia - All The Cool Kids Are Doing It! from 2022-03-14T02:50:07
It’s the newest trend! Join the thousands who are saying goodbye (and good riddance?) to the academic career! If you spend any time on Twitter, you know that lately, it seems to be packed wi...
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Ep 3:15 Managing Rejection from 2022-03-01T20:44:07
Karen and Kel talk about coping with rejection, moving beyond the typical advice to “take a break, come back to it later, etc. etc.” (which is good as far as it goes!) to discuss the de...
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Ep. 3:14 Imposter Syndrome from 2022-02-22T20:06:34
We talk Imposter Syndrome: what it is, why we get it, how to overcome it. We talk about gendered messages, structural racism, and being told you don’t belong; ie: it’s not Imposter Synd...
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3:13 Lighting Your Fire from 2022-02-16T03:41:16
We are back! Thank you for your patience! Kel and I needed to rethink the podcast; basically we love to talk TO people, and after two years wanted to find a way to make the podcast more of a conve...
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Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point from 2021-12-15T00:39:25
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Ep. 3:11 "White People, Don't Start That Bullshit!" - Interview with Deja Rollins from 2021-11-30T20:31:52
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Ep. 3:10 We Don't Go Back, We Go Forward - Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi from 2021-11-23T01:59:28
Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants from 2021-11-09T19:43:35
Ep 3:7 Quagmire of Failure from 2021-11-01T19:51
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Ep 3:6 Sea of Change from 2021-10-19T17:05:51
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Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible from 2021-10-13T11:21:43
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Ep. 3:4 - Five Reasons Your Work Gets Rejected with Dr. Jane Jones from 2021-10-06T10:27:31
Ep. 3:3 - Play To Your Strengths from 2021-09-28T15:55:07
Ep 3:2 The Chair from 2021-09-23T11:28:27
Episode 3:1 Coming Back from Isolation from 2021-09-14T14:17:21
Ep 2:40 Resisting the Culture of Overwork from 2021-06-07T13:24:53
Ep 2:39 Blk+In Grad School: Grad School Success Summit from 2021-05-25T12:18:16
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Ep. 2:38 This Summer: Be Kind To Yourself from 2021-05-13T18:50:42
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Ep 2:37 "My Dissertation Is About" and Other Grant-Writing Mistakes from 2021-05-05T12:12:47
Ep. 2:36 The Perils of Vocational Awe – An Interview with Fobazi Ettarh from 2021-04-27T17:33:58
We are delighted to host Fobazi Ettarh, who first created the term “Vocational Awe” Listen
Ep. 2:35 Work Won't Love You Back - An Interview with Sarah Jaffe from 2021-04-20T10:19:28
Ep 2:34: How to Get Unstuck from 2021-04-12T16:46:39
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Ep. 2:33: Selling Yourself from 2021-04-06T11:00:11
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Ep 2:32 The Problem With Passion - Interview with Dr. Erin Cech from 2021-03-30T10:59:34
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Ep 2:31 Burnout v. Passion from 2021-03-25T19:00:42
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Ep 2:30 Dealing with Disappointment Part II from 2021-03-16T14:27:28
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Ep. 2:29 Coping with Disappointment, Part I from 2021-03-11T12:15:37
This episode, recorded prior to the pandemic, delves into coping with the inevitable disappointments of the academic life, whether it’s the job, or the grant, or the publicatio...
Ep. 2:28 Leaving Academia - Interview with Dr. Chris Catarine from 2021-03-03T10:31:47
Today we are joined by Dr. Chris Catarine, author of the new book Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide (2020). Karen loves this book so much, it’s the only book she’s ever rev...
Ep. 2:27 Where Do I Start?? Finding Your Map from 2021-02-23T22:16:15
One of the peculiarities of academia is that you have to be able to explain your project before you’ve actually done it. And all projects have to start somewhere–at some level you are ...
Ep. 2:26 Struggling with Imposter Syndrome? An Interview with Dr. Jane Jones from 2021-02-17T12:20:05
Are you struggling with Imposter Syndrome, or are the people in power continually making you feel like an imposter? Black women in particular are told in countless ways you don’t belong. Kel and Dr...
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Ep. 2:25 If You're a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in Academia from 2021-02-09T16:50:51
Responding to a podcast member question, Karen and Kel talk about how to manage sensory overload in academic settings. We discuss how to extract yourself politely...
Ep. 2:24 Not One of Us: The Gatekeepers of Academe from 2021-02-02T10:03:09
Gatekeeping is endemic in the academy, and in some ways necessary as part of the evaluation process, but it doesn’t have to be as cruel, raci...
Episode 2.11 - Hitting Rock Bottom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the COVID collapse of academic hiring, catastrophic weather events, and the appalling slide into fascism in the US, more and more of us are forced to confront realities that we never expected,...
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Episode 2.10 - Rest is Radical from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded while in the middle of catastrophic Oregon fires, this episode departs from advice to talk about coping with the present moment. Instead of lamenting "2020," Karen and Kel talk about "lean...
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2.10 - Rest is Radical from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded while in the middle of catastrophic Oregon fires, this episode departs from advice to talk about coping with the present moment. Instead of lamenting "2020," Karen and Kel talk about "lean...
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Episode 2.9 - Black and In Grad School: Interview with Allante Whitmore from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We are delighted to bring the remarkable Allante Whitmore onto the show. The founder of Black and In Grad School (https://www.blkingradschool.com/), Allante, an Engineering PhD student at Carnegie ...
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Episode 2.8 - Self-Promotion Is Not a Dirty Word from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The academy despises the IDEA of self-promotion while rewarding those who do it in properly academic ways. This is just one of the many classist elements of academia. Those who decide to leave the ...
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Episode 2.7 - Postac Skills: You Have Them from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Moving forward in our discussion of how to build a side hustle in these scary and precarious times, Karen and Kel talk about the challenges for academics in "knowing what you know." The challenge i...
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Episode 2.6 - You're OK from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
COVID has decimated academic hiring and everybody, including the tenured, need to start prioritizing a side hustle asap. The trouble is, academics don't go into academia to be do quick pivots and i...
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Episode 2.5 - Being Native In and Out of the Academy: An Interview with Dr. Deana Dartt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dr. Deana Dartt, Founder and Principal of Live Oak Consulting, PhD in Anthropology and Museum Studies, and enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, joins us today for a conversati...
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Episode 2.4 - Knowing Your Own Value in the Academy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Building on the brand new webinar, Knowing Your Own Value in the Academy, Karen and Kel talk about how to identify and overcome the "never enough" ethos that pervades the academic enterprise. We de...
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Episode 2.3 - Revisiting "Don't Act Like a Grad Student" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Karen gave the advice, "stop acting like a grad student," she was working from a model grad student in her mind who, it turns out when she gave it a bit more thought, was a white male. In toda...
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Episode 2.2 - Revisiting the Job Search Process from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode, Karen and Kel talk about how searches are run. While Karen wrote chapter four of the book to open up the Black Box (so to speak) of the academic job search, a closer examination re...
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Episode 2.1 - Beginning Again from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen and Kel launch the new project of revisiting our core job market advice with an eye to its gaps around racism and the experience of BIPOC scholars. We begin with the first section of the Prof...
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Episode 26 - Announcing a Short Hiatus So We Can #DoBetter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Episode 24 - Planning Into the Void from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded prior to the #BLM moment, this episode talks about planning for Fall 2020 in the new COVID world. It's almost impossible to plan when everything feels so up in the air, and transitioning t...
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Episode 23 - Gaslighting, Non-Apologies and Other White Nonsense from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Departments, universities and advisors are massively failing the current moment of national crisis around Black Lives and police brutality. Too many remain silent, or issue vague, pitiful milquetoa...
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Episode 22 - #AmplifyingMelanatedVoices from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen and Kel interrupt regularly scheduled programming to amplify the Black writers, scholars, and activists they follow and learn from on a daily basis. Here is the list, with Twitter handles, in...
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Episode 21 - Mastery vs. Perfection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The trouble with academia is, you set out to master a field but you end up demanding perfection of yourself, forgetting that perfection is not possible. Real mastery is not an outcome but a process...
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Episode 20 - Get Out of the Fight: Home Life in a Pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You need to get away from those kids; Homemade pasta - Are you kidding me?; Men: get your fucking shit together; #NotAllHusbands is bullshit and gaslighting; Academic women: you're control freaks!;...
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Episode 19 - Calming Vs. Numbing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the cataclysm of COVID19 and temporary or permanent closure of lines, programs, and whole institutions, academics at every stage, from grad school through tenure, are needing to suddenly conside...
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Episode 18 - Don't Lie from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded prior to the COVID19 outbreak, this episode takes up the question of dishonesty in academia. From the temptation to pad your CV, to misrepresenting your research results, there are many pl...
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Episode 17 - Job Market Collapse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Because of COVID19 and the economic fallout, 2020 academic hiring is dead in the water. Karen created a crowdsource list of hiring freezes in March, and it's up to about 350 right now, and that doe...
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Episode 16 - Productivity Pyramid from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen and Kel talk about a way to look at productivity that focuses on managing energy, rather than time. Working from Physical Capacity through Emotional Capacity and Cognitive Capacity, and endin...
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Episode 15 - Stop Fighting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nothing is normal and you're angry, scared, exhausted...on repeat every day. Karen and Kel talk about our new emotional landscape and accepting where you are right now, in the face of so much suffe...
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Episode 14 - Digital Primer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Suddenly your entire professional life (and tbh most of your personal life) is online. When career stakes are high, like in an online campus visit or job talk, how do you ensure you're making the b...
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Episode 13 - Loss and Grief in a Pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
COVID19 has brought countless losses to academic communities - not just sickness and death, but also the loss of our jobs, our work norms and routines, our campus traditions, our classroom practice...
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Episode 12 - (Non) Productivity In the Apocalypse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen and Kel talk life in the COVID-19 pandemic: nothing is normal, nobody knows what's going on, your family has invaded your space, teaching is overwhelming, writing is probably impossible. Acce...
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Episode 11 - Women of Color Coping with Academic Racism: An Interview with Dr. Roxane Donovan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In our very first guest interview, we host Dr. Roxanne Donovan, Professor of Psychology at Kennesaw State, Co-Founder of WellAcademic, and dedicated coach and consultant supporting women of color i...
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Episode 10 - Sexual Harassment in the Academy: It's Everywhere from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The #MeTooPhD crowdsource survey we did in 2018 showed that sexual harassment is an epidemic in the academy. Karen and Kel break down why academic settings are so conducive to sexual and gender har...
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Episode 9 - What to Do If You Didn't Get the Job (Or the Other Thing You Thought Your Future Depended On) - Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Continuing from Part I last week, Karen and Kel continue sharing 12 strategies for confronting disappointment in a healthy and productive way, targeted to anybody confronting the hard reality that ...
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Episode 8 - What to Do If You Didn't Get the Job (Or the Other Thing You Thought Your Future Depended On) - Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Every winter, lots of folks have to confront the reality that they didn't get the jobs (or grants or publication acceptances) that they'd been hoping for. In this two part series, Karen and Kel dis...
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Episode 7 - Adjuncting Is Bad from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Adjuncts have almost entirely replaced full time faculty positions in the contemporary university system, and most adjunct positions are exploitative. Karen and Kel talk about why adjuncting keeps ...
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Episode 6 - Dealing With Rejection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rejection is inevitable in the academic life, but that doesn't make it any less painful. Karen and Kel talk about how to manage rejection to keep it from derailing you, and turn it into a positive ...
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Episode 5 - Why You Need a 5-Year Plan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Fight for your right to plan! Why? Because planning is taking control of your own vision for your career and your life. It's especially essential in an industry (academia) that takes away your agen...
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Episode 4 - Mastering Your Message for the Interview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kel and Karen surveyed search committees this week and they had a LOT to say about what they wish you, the job seekers, would understand. K and K break it down for you, and give you advice on how n...
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Episode 3 - Resisting the Culture of Overwork from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen and Kel stay on the theme of "never enough"; this week, they talk about how the academy revolves around" competitive overworking," and how to establish healthy boundaries that allow for a wel...
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Episode 2 - Publishing and Toxic Comparison from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Publishing is a core requirement of the academic career that for lots of academics also fuels constant anxiety and comparison with peers and competitors. Karen and Kel talk about how to recognize t...
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Episode 1 - The Academy Is a Cult from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen and Kel talk about the 7 ways the academy resembles a cult and how that creates a debilitating culture of shame around productivity and Imposter Syndrome.
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The Professor Is In - Trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Professor Is In has been the world's leading source of academic career advice for a decade, and in this new podcast academic career coach and author Dr. Karen Kelsky and productivity coach Kel ...
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Episode 2.12 - Who Are You Working For? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded the day after the Breonna Taylor verdict was announced, this episode talks about productivity. if you can’t get your work done right now, it's ok. If you CAN work, why can you work? Why ar...
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Episode 2.14 - A Hard Reset from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode, the final one we record on the Himalaya platform (the podcast will continue, just on a different platform - follow our social media for links) we talk about the need for a hard res...
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Episode 2.13 - Imposter Syndrome When Odds Are Against You from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded the day after the Vice Presidential Debate, this episode delves into Imposter Syndrome and how way too often, women and especially women of color individualize and personalize what are act...
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Ep. 2:23 "You Will Fail" - On Bad Advisors from 2021-01-25T15:03:15
Karen and Kel talk about the things that make a problematic advisor: 1) poor boundaries; 2) excessive molding; 3) forgetting humanity, and 4) not managing your overwhelm. The discussion can ...
Ep 2.22: The Campus Visit from 2021-01-19T12:46:50
Campus visits are hard! Forewarned is forearmed, though, and Karen and Kel continue in the “job market advice” vein and talk about managing the campus visit, mostly focuse...
Ep. 2.21: How to Interview from 2021-01-12T12:47:16
Recorded before the coup, this episode delves into practical advice about interviewing. Mostly focusing on academic jobs, but with insights for intervie...
Episode 2.20: Navigating the River from 2021-01-04T21:10:30
Karen and Kel talk white water rafting as metaphor for your job search. In rafting you can’t fight the river – it’s bigger than you! And you have to find the spaces between the obstacles – li...
Ep. 2.19 You Do Have A Particular Set of Skills from 2020-12-30T16:25:04
We turn to the practical. You have spent years occupying a very narrow space, getting more and more defined by your discipline. In this episode we show you the path out of the academic specifi...
Ep. 2.18: Your Breakup Letter With Academia from 2020-12-22T14:16:29
Part 3 of our Leaving Your Toxic Relationship With the Academy series. Karen and Kel talk about writing a breakup letter with the academy: what would you say? The goal is to move from blame (“...
Ep 2.17 Looking Backward/Looking Forward from 2020-12-15T13:04:30
So many PhDs who didn’t get the job you dreamed of struggle with regret about past decisions, especially the one to do the PhD in the first place, but also choices about programs, or jobs, or ...
Episode 2.16: I Hate My Job! Or Do I? from 2020-12-08T13:48:38
In this episode we share a 2-part practice from Kel and a saying from Karen’s mom, to help you challenge your toxic relationship to the academy and gain clarity about how b...
Episode 2.15 Ready to Stop Digging? from 2020-11-30T21:27:27
First off, it’s our first podcast episode on the new platform and with a new editor, the amazing Stephanie-Blair Watts of Firehouse Visuals in Detroit.<...
Episode 2.6 – You’re OK from 2020-08-28T06:00
COVID has decimated academic hiring and everybody, including the tenured, need to start prioritizing a side hustle asap. The trouble is, academics don’t go into academia to be do quick pivots and i...
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