We are deep in interview and grant season and so this episode we devote to the unseen but critical aspect of your candidacy: your ability to quickly and factually articulate yourself as a scholar and expert: what you do, how you do it, with whom … [Read more...] about Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants
The Professor Is In
Ep 3:7 Quagmire of Failure
Part three in our three-part series about getting Unstuck. So much of the academic experience is about feelings of failure. It's central to normally functioning academia (in the sense of job, grant and article rejections), but it's far more relevant … [Read more...] about Ep 3:7 Quagmire of Failure
Ep 3:6 Sea of Change
We continue with the three-part examination of getting stuck and unstuck. Last week we talked about the Island of Perfectionism. Today we talk the Sea of Change (next week, we talk the Quagmire of Failure). The individualism of the (American) … [Read more...] about Ep 3:6 Sea of Change
Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible
It's The Great Resignation, and people are departing their shitty jobs in droves. This includes academics, and not just adjuncts. Tenured and tenure track faculty are proactively departing to a degree never before seen. (Find many of them on the … [Read more...] about Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible
Ep. 3:4 – Five Reasons Your Work Gets Rejected with Dr. Jane Jones
We are joined by Dr. Jane Jones of UpIn Consulting (@JaneJoanne) to talk about 5 reasons that your article manuscripts might be getting rejected, drawn from Kel and Jane's Art of the Article program. Here's the list: 1) not finishing out of fear [of … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:4 – Five Reasons Your Work Gets Rejected with Dr. Jane Jones
Ep. 3:3 – Play To Your Strengths
What do you do when you get stuck? Kel has found that her coaching clients tend to devolve into a spiral of self-loathing. But that doesn't work; it's just not very motivating! So Kel asks: why does the academy tell us we must automatically be good … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:3 – Play To Your Strengths
Ep 3:2 The Chair
Karen insisted that we watch The Chair, and insisted we devote a podcast episode to it. So here it is. At this point in time there are no more "hot" takes to be had, so in this episode we offer our tepid takes. Even so, there is a lot to say. Karen … [Read more...] about Ep 3:2 The Chair
Episode 3:1 Coming Back from Isolation
Karen and Kel are back from their summer hiatus, and they talk re-entry. Re-entry, that is, to a shitshow academic year in a pandemic that, in the US, has been mismanaged to a degree that almost defies belief. Academics are coming back to campuses … [Read more...] about Episode 3:1 Coming Back from Isolation
Ep 2:40 Resisting the Culture of Overwork
An episode recorded pre-pandemic but even more relevant now. Karen and Kel talk resisting overwork, and recovering your joy. The key here is detachment from your work: neither misery nor joy; just a set of tasks. Put another way: it's what you do, … [Read more...] about Ep 2:40 Resisting the Culture of Overwork
Ep 2:39 Blk+In Grad School: Grad School Success Summit
We are delighted to bring back Allante Whitmore, PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, impresario behind the podcast and website Blk+In Grad School, and founder of the 4-years-running virtual Grad School Success Summit, coming up … [Read more...] about Ep 2:39 Blk+In Grad School: Grad School Success Summit