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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 compass...
We continue with vintage – yet evergreen – recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It’s a natural res...
Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple w...
Perfection is the enemy of productivity, but almost all academics struggle with perfectionism. How to resist its siren song? Kel shares her...
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 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...
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 re...
We dig into the definition of “professionalism,” a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia. Drawing f...
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 t...
[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 bac...
We talk about the “capitalist gaze” and how it impacts the creativity of academics. Casting our research outcomes as “products” can be deepl...
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; als...
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 H...
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 Twitt...
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...
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...
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...
We talk breaking points. Kel suggests to anyone feeling they’ve reached the breaking point at the end of the semester: pause, and appreciate...
Today we are joined by the remarkable Deja Rollins, speaking about performative allyship. Deja, a graduate student in Communications at UIUC...
Dr. Samira Rajabi, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at U of Colorado Boulder, joins us for a discussion of navigating ambiguous grief an...
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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...
We continue with the three-part examination of getting stuck and unstuck. Last week we talked about the Island of Perfectionism. Today we ta...
It’s The Great Resignation, and people are departing their shitty jobs in droves. This includes academics, and not just adjuncts. Tenured an...
We are joined by Dr. Jane Jones of UpIn Consulting (@JaneJoanne) to talk about 5 reasons that your article manuscripts might be getting reje...
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...