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Academic Writing Amplified — 369 episodes
Hard Versus Tedious Writing Work
What Is Your Job?
"It's Not a Quick Fix, It's an Anchor"
Finding the Positive Energy in Academia With Jenna Donohue
How Navigate Helped Augusta Williams Submit 6 Articles Last Year
Fall Writing Planning Workshop 2026
Zombie Projects
Transition Friction
How Close To "Done" Is Your Paper?
How to Stop a Reading Spiral
The Role of Reading While Writing
Book vs. Article Writing with Jane Jones, PhD
I need a vacation! Should I do the Navigate Intensive?
"I don't have an almost-done article"
A Terrible Strength: Interview with author Dr. Kemi Doll
How can I make up for the live interactions if I miss a call?
Does Navigate provide accountability?
The magic gift of time
The power of just doing it
A fearless summer
If you're right, you lose
Fear of overwhelm
Fear of growth
Trying a little versus trying a lot
An energizing versus draining calendar
Writing is hard
Self-coaching your emotions and thoughts [Self-coaching series for academics Ep. 4]
Changing the narrative [Self-coaching series for academics Ep. 3]
Key self-coaching questions [Self-coaching series for academics Ep. 2]
What is self-coaching? [Self-coaching series for academics Ep. 1]
304: Meeting Goals Mid Career - Featuring Dr. Filomena Garcia
303: Writing Through Career Pivots And Transitions - Featuring Dr. Lauren Woodard
302: The 3 Biggest Mistakes When Trying to Publish Your Backlog of Papers
301: Welcoming 2026 as a Writing Year
300: Powering Down 2025 And Welcoming 2026
299: Scaling Research Without Grants
298: Confronting Feelings Of Shame, Fear, And Guilt About Writing
297: Cathy's Holiday Book Review
296: [Mid-Career Series] Using Navigate to Plan for Full: Client Case Study with Michelle Espino (Re-Release BONUS)
295: [Mid-Career Series] Leading for Legacy (Re-Release EP 105)
294: [Mid-Career Series] What Academic Leadership Really Means (Re-Release EP 94)
293: [Mid-Career Series] You Don't Have To Do The Mid-career Burnout (Like Everyone Else In Academia) (Re-Release EP 182)
292: [Mid-Career Series] What Got You Tenure Won't Get You to Full (Re-Release EP 97)
291: [Mid-Career Series] Why You're Still Exhausted After Getting Tenure (And What To Do About It) (Re-Release EP 96)
290: [Mid-Career Series] I Got Tenure And Then This Happened (Re-Release EP 90)
289: [Mid-Career Series] 5 Myths About Your Post Tenure Career (Re-Release EP 49)
288: [Mid-Career Series] What Does "Mid-Career Academic" Mean? (Re-Release EP 63)
287: Hot Take: Stop Rewriting Your Grants And Write Papers
286: What If The Hard Work Is Hard?
285: Suffering From Your Own Success
284: Emotions and Leadership
283: Creating An Intentional Writing Season With Dr. Anna Clemens
282: Matching Energy To Tasks with Dr. Abby Hogan
281: "I'm Afraid I Won't Make Time"
280: Increasing Your Capacity For Writing And Publishing
279: Choosing Your Next Season
278: Writing On- and Off- Ramps
277: Summer Writing Check-In
276: [Leadership Series] Avoid Being Sucked Into A Leadership Vacuum
275: [Leadership Series] Leading Yourself Through A Writing Season
274: [Leadership Series] Why Control Of Your Writing And Publishing Is Key For Leaders
273: [Leadership Series] Becoming a Manager is Inevitable
272: [Project Management Series] Writing Problems versus Writing Tasks (Re-Release BONUS)
271: [Project Management Series] Deciding Time to Task (Re-Release EP 210)
270: [Project Management Series] Project Management Skills Versus Tools Part 2 (Re-Release EP 209)
269: [Project Management Series] Project Management Skills Versus Tools Part 1 (Re-Release EP 209)
268: [Project Management Series] How To Approach Your Writing Like A Project Manager (Re-Release EP 3)
Bonus: The Importance Of Navigate In Late Career With Lauren McCubbins
267: Community In The Midst Of Chaos
Bonus: "My Situation Is Unique But Our Problems Are The Same": Finding Community In Navigate
266: You Are Equipped To Meet This Moment
Bonus: Your Relationship With Your Institution In 2025
265: Using Navigate To Transition Out Of Admin And Back To Faculty: Client Case Study With Anne Vo
264: Funding Freezes
263: [Should I Quit Academia Series] Should I Leave Academia Now That T***P Is President?
262: [Should I Quit Academia Series] On Writing And Becoming A Book Coach With Jennie Nash
261: [Should I Quit Academia Series] Why Changing Universities Isn't The Answer To Your Publishing Problems (Re-Release EP 163)
260: [Should I Quit Academia Series] Choosing to Leave Academia and Create Something New: An Interview with Jane Jones (Re-Release EP 40)
259: [Should I Quit Academia Series] Higher Ed Is In Crisis - It's Time To Make Your Move [Re-Release EP 56]
258: [Should I Quit Academia Series] You Are Not the Container [RE-RELEASE 50]
257: [Should I Quit Academia Series] How To Know If It's Time To Quit Academia [RE-RELEASE 176]
256: Pipeline + Practice = Flow
255: Writing Retreats Versus Binge Writing
254: Pivoting to Public Scholarship with Dr. Becky Dawson
Bonus: I've Done NCFDD, Should I Do Navigate?
253: Your Relationship to Academia in 2025
Bonus: Humanize Your Approach To Academia
252: How To Set Your Own Due Dates
Bonus: Navigate Info Session Replay
251: Write Your New Year's Story
250: [Writing Practice Series] Why 2 Hours A Week Is Enough Writing Time [RE-RELEASE 197]
249: [Writing Practice Series] When Your Writing Practice Is Resilient You Don't Have To Be [RE-RELEASE EP 191]
248: [Writing Practice Series] How Long Does It Take To Change Your Writing Practice? [RE-RELEASE EP 189]
247: [Writing Practice Series] The Real (More Awesome) Result Of Changing Your Writing Practice [RE-RELEASE EP 184]
246: [Writing Practice Series] Two Writing Practice Extremes And Why They Don't Work [RE-RELEASE EP 183]
245: [Writing Practice Series] Breaking The Binge And Bust Cycle In Academic Writing [RE-RELEASE EP 164]
244: [Writing Practice Series] Everything You Learned About Academic Writing Is Wrong [RE-RELEASE EP 152]
243: [Writing Practice Series] Your Publishing Problem Is NOT Time [RE-RELEASE BONUS]
242: [Writing Practice Series] 5 Clues That Writing Is On The Sidelines [RE-RELEASE EP 67]
241: [Writing Practice Series] Making A Date With Your Writing [RE-RELEASE EP 65]
240: [Writing Practice Series] What Is Writing? [RE-RELEASE EP 58]
239: [Writing Practice Series] What Makes A Writing Practice Sustainable? [RE-RELEASE EP 21]
238: [Emotions And Writing Series] How To Create A Positive Relationship With Your Writing [RE-RELEASE EP 5]
237: [Emotions And Writing Series] Working Through Overwhelm [RE-RELEASE EP 13]
236: [Emotions And Writing Series] Combating Writing Guilt [RE-RELEASE EP 12]
235: [Emotions And Writing Series] Grief And Writing
234: [Emotions and Writing Series] Motivation and Writing
233: [Emotions And Writing Series] Procrastination Is Actually About Feelings
232: [Emotions And Writing Series] How You Feel About Writing Is Important
BONUS: What If I Fail At Navigate?
BONUS: "Should I Just Spend The Time It Takes For Navigate On Writing?"
231: "I'll Wait Until It Gets Better"
BONUS: Writing Problems Versus Writing Tasks [New To Navigate]
BONUS: Navigate Program FAQs
230: [Co-Authoring Series] Publishing With Students
BONUS: "I've Been Listening To Your Podcast, What More Can Navigate Teach Me?"
BONUS: Using Navigate to Feel Connected: Client Case Study with Noor Sayed
229: [Co-Authoring Series] "I Can't Control My Publication Pipeline Because Of Co-authoring"
228: [Co-Authoring Series] Managing Co-Authored Papers
227: Publishing Your Backlog Of Papers [Masterclass Replay]
226: Perfectionism And Self-Editing
225: You Can't Write When You're Mad
224: Recreating Hierarchies When Asking for Feedback with Jane Jones
223: Career Stage 5: Enjoying Your Legacy
222: Career Stage 4: Building Your Legacy
221: Career Stage 3: Planting Your Flag
220: Career Stage 2: Stepping Into Your Own
219: Career Stage 1: Learning/Apprenticeship
218: Stages of The Academic Career [RE-RELEASE EP 190]
217: Getting Stats Help At Any Career Stage with Karen Grace-Martin
216: Publishing for Promotion
BONUS: Choose Your Summer Writing Project
BONUS: Using Navigate to Find Joy and Balance Post-Tenure: Client Case Study with Kirstie McAllum
215: Experiments in Self-Trust
BONUS: Revisiting the Ideal Week
BONUS: Using Navigate to plan for Full: Client Case Study with Michelle Espino
214: Book Review of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
BONUS: Mission-guided Time and Project Management
BONUS: Using Navigate To Build Publishing Power: Client Case Study With Cindy Cordoba-Arroyo
213: How the Sale of Your Attention Affects Your Writing and Publishing
212: Embracing (and Creating) Seasonality
211: Navigate Info Session Replay
210: Deciding Time To Task
209: Project Management Tools vs. Skills (Part 2)
208: Interrupting Default Practices To Create Sustainable Change
207: Your Writing Practice Fuels Your Pipeline
206: The Role of Writing Retreats in the Soaring System
205: My Mission
204: Creating Career Impact Through Writing
203: The Power of Asking
202: Victim vs. Agent In Academia
201: Your Clogged-Up Pipeline Is A Symptom Of A Bigger Problem
200: Revisiting The 90% Awesome Career
199: Book Recommendations For The New Year
198: Project Management Skills Versus Tools
197: Why 2 Hours a Week is Enough Writing Time
196: The Kind Of Binging That Is Good For Your Writing
195: Breaking The Binge And Bust Cycle In Academic Writing [RE-RELEASE EP 164]
194: Relational Drama Of Academia Getting You Down?
193: What To Do After A Sleepless Night
192: On The Other Side Of Mastering Writing And Publishing
191: When Your Writing Practice Is Resilient, You Don't Have To Be
190: The Stages Of The Academic Career (They're Not What You Think)
189: How Long Does It Take To Change Your Writing Practice?
188: You Are Too Precious For A Mediocre Career
187: What The Curated Pipeline Unlocks For You
186: Calming The Vicious Cycle Of Pubs And Grants
185: "But If I Don't Do It, Who Will?" With Guest Natalie Miller
184: The Real (More Awesome) Result Of Changing Your Writing Practice
183: Two Writing Practice Extremes And Why They Don't Work
182: You Don't Have To Do The Mid-Career Burnout (Like Everyone Else In Academia)
181: Why We're Retiring Our Elevate Mid-Career Program
180: The Relationship Between Rest And Writing
179: The Consequences Of Delaying The Right Decision
178: The Good Thing That A Lack Of Publications Is Telling You About Your Career
177: When Your Academic Mission Statement Is Too Broad It's Time To Do This
176: How To Know If It's Time To Quit Academia
175: Making Sure Academia Is Sustainable: Interview With Navigate Client Dr. Megan Evans
174: How You Know It's Time To Revise Your Academic Mission Statement
173: There Are No "Bad" Habits
172: How To Write A Request For Internal Funding For Professional Development
171: How To Unclog Your Publication Pipeline
170: At What Academic Career Stage Do You Need A Coach? (with Gina Robinson)
BONUS: Gina's Birthday Wish
169: I Said I Would Never Do This Again
168: A Letter From Your September Self
167: Join Our Summer Session Of Navigate!
166: How To Plan Your Summer Writing
165: "I've Done Everything To Fix My Writing And Publishing Problem"
164: Breaking The Binge And Bust Cycle In Academic Writing
163: Why Changing Universities Isn't The Answer To Your Publishing Problems
162: "$4500 is too much to spend on professional development"
161: Operating With the Highest Standards is Exhausting
160: How Your Academic Success Can Clog Your Publication Pipeline
159: Trust Yourself to Do Differently
158: Interview with Client that Embodies Scholar's Voice Spirit: Stacey Anderson
157: A Look at Scholar's Voice Retreats
156: What Scholar's Voice Means to Me with Gina Robinson
155: What You're Leaving on The Table When You're Not Publishing
BONUS: More Does Not Equal More When it Comes to Publishing
BONUS: Join Our New 12-Week Navigate Pilot
154: Making Values-Aligned Decisions
BONUS: A Sustainable Career is Available to You
BONUS: There Are Not Enough Hours in The Day
153: How We Knew We Needed to Change to Scholar's Voice
BONUS: Choose 3 Adjectives To Describe Your Career
BONUS: How To Clear your Publication Pipeline in 2023
BONUS: Your Publishing Problem is NOT Time
152: Everything You Learned About Academic Writing is Wrong
151: Scholar's Voice Origin Story
150: Introducing Scholar's Voice
149: Leading for Legacy [Re-release Ep 105]
148: Overcoming Adversity and Having Your Publishing Take-Off: An Interview with Elevate Alumni Lauren Braun-Strumfels [Re-release Ep 104]
147: The Next Level In Your Career
146: A Look Inside Our Navigate Program [Re-release Ep 120]
145: From Plan to Published: 3 Secrets to an Academic Writing Plan that Leads to Publications
144: Job Crafting Your Way To More Publications
143: "Act Your Salary" in Academia
142: "Quiet Quitting" in Academia
141: How Many Publications Can You Write In A Year? (How To Write and Publish More Next Year) [Re-release Ep 100]
140: Why You're Still Exhausted After Getting Tenure (And What To Do About It) [Re-release Ep 96]
139: Create Your Own Future
138: What Academic Leadership Really Means [Re-release Ep 94]
137: Elevate Panel Discussion: Insights, Takeaways & Investing In Yourself [Re-release Ep 95]
136: Pouring Into Yourself Overflows to Others: An Interview with Elevate member Despina Stavrinos [Re-release Ep 92]
135: Top Hurdles Our Mid-Career Clients Face [Re-release Ep 91]
134: I Got Tenure And Then This Happened [Re-release Ep 90]
133: Recession-Proofing Your Academic Career
132: Why Investing In Yourself Is A Radical Act of Self-Care [Re-release Ep 89]
131: It's a Pipeline, Not a Funnel! [Re-release Ep 88]
130: Enby in the Academy: Authenticity and Alignment with Dr. Christy Randazzo
129: What Success Really Looks Like Pre-Tenure: An Interview with Two Amplify Grads [Re-release Ep 87]
128: Going Up for Tenure with Confidence: Amplify Info Session Replay
127: Pre-Tenure Pivot; an Interview with Angel Kaur, Amplify Superstar [Re-release Ep 86]
126: The Biggest Hurdles Pre-Tenure [Re-Release Ep 85]
125: What Pre-Tenure Should Feel Like [Re-Release Ep 84]
124: Time-saving Teaching with Barbi Honeycutt
123: "A Completely Different Scholar": Transformation Even in Mid-Career with Ronnie Olesker
122: Making Time To Write is Only the First Step [ebook release day!]
121: What Do You Want?
120: Controlling your Career with Publications
119: The Danger of the Twin Scarcities [book excerpt]
118: The Making of Making Time To Write: The Book
117: Collaboration and Connection with Kimberly & Dee
116: Fear of Visibility
115: Public Scholarship with Epidemiologist Dr. Becky Dawson
114: International Women's Day: It's Complicated
113: Working with Self Compassion
112: Avoiding Desk Rejection with Anna Clemens
111: The Role of Self Love in Your Career
110: The Power of Writing Retreats with Dr. Michelle Boyd
109: How to Find Time to Write
108: What's Keeping You from Dreaming Bigger?
107: From Planned to Published [Webinar Sneak Peek]
106: A Fresh Start in 2022
105: Leading for Legacy
104: Overcoming Adversity and Having Your Publishing Take Off: An Interview with Elevate Alumni Lauren Braun-Strumfels
103: The Next Level In Your Career
102: Letting Go of The Final Draft (Book Update #3)
101: 3 Systems For More Publications
100: How Many Publications Can You Write In A Year? (How to Write and Publish More Next Year)
99: There's More For You [Mission Statement Workshop]
98: Sneak Peek of Navigate: The Writing Roadmap Program
97: What Got You Tenure Won't Get You to Full
96: Why You're Still Exhausted After Getting Tenure (And What To Do About It)
95: Elevate Panel Discussion: Insights, Takeaways & Investing In Yourself
94: What Academic Leadership Really Means
93: Career Design Workshop [2 year podcast gift!]
92: Pouring Into Yourself Overflows to Others: An Interview with Elevate Member Despina Stavrinos
91: Top Hurdles Our Mid-career Clients Face
90: I Got Tenure, Then This Happened
[REPLAY] How to Approach Your Writing Like a Project Manager
[BONUS] A Framework for Going Up For Tenure With Confidence
[REPLAY] Create Your Ideal Week
[REPLAY] Securing Professional Development Funding
89: Why Investing In Yourself Is a Radical Act of Self-Care
88: It's a Pipeline, Not a Funnel
87: What Success Really Looks Like Pre-Tenure: An Interview with Two Amplify Grads
86: Pre-Tenure Pivot; an Interview with Angel Kaur, Amplify Superstar
85: The Biggest Hurdles Pre-Tenure
84: What Pre-Tenure Should Feel Like
83: Interview with Academic Woman Magazine Founder, Dr. Anatu Mahama
82: What the Bros and Dudes Don't Want You to Know About Academia
81: Using Writing As An Organizer
80: Creating a Job that Works for You: An Interview with Danielle De La Mare
79: Book Writing Process Part 2
78: Writing Sprint Breakdown
Bonus: Navigate Case Studies
77: Ten Systems for Radical Change
76: 90% Awesome
75: What Radical Change in Academia Looks Like
74: Controlling Your Career vs. Setting Intentions
73: Accountability vs. Community
72: The Radical Act of Womxn Writing Together
71: Q&A with Qualitative Research Blueprint Creator Maira Quintanilha
70: What to Do When Your Qualitative Article Gets Rejected
69: The Long Road to Publishing Success
68: The Difference in 2021 is YOU
67: 5 Clues That Writing is on the Sidelines
66: Publications as "Currency"
65: Making a Date With Your Writing
64: Using Writing to Design the Career You Want -- A Behind the Scenes Interview with Cathy Mazak
63: What Does "Mid-Career Academic" Mean?
62: How to Plan a Sabbatical or Leave
61: This Year, Plan to be More YOU
60: Behind the Scenes of My Book Project (Part 1)
59: Planning Re-Entry into Writing
58: What is Writing?
57: You're Not Alone: The Biggest Struggles Our Clients Are Facing Right Now
Bonus: Navigate Black Friday Sale
56: Higher Ed is in Crisis-It's Time to Make Your Move
55: Why Writing is the First Thing to Go
54: The Big Reveal: I'm Re-Naming "Tiger Time"
53: Your Difference Makes You Valuable: An Interview with Dr. Kemi Doll
52: Dangerous Versus Scary Career Moves
51: Career Development for Womxn: An Interview with Carol Parker Walsh
50: You Are Not the Container
49: 5 Myths About Your Post Tenure Career
48: Your Top 5 Questions About Academic Publishing Answered
47: Abundance vs. Scarcity
46: Writing in the Midst of Uncertainty
45: The Economics of Writing
Cathy's Podcast to 100K Giveaway! [BONUS]
44: 5 Myths About Your Tenure Prep Experience
43: Embodied Activism in Academia: An Interview with Adrianna Santos
42: A GeoLatina Creates her Path: An interview with Rocío Caballero Gill
41: Back to Puerto Rico: An Interview with Sandra Soto Santiago
40: Choosing to Leave Academia and Create Something New: An Interview with Jane Jones
39: A Positive Grad School Experience Laid the Foundation: An Interview with Cara Gormally
38: Many Containers Through Which to do the Work: An Interview with Sarah Dobson
37: An Epidemiologist in the Covid-19 Spotlight with Becky Dawson
36: Leaving Academia Post-Tenure: An Interview with Gina Robinson
35: A Career in Maternal Health and a Mother During Grad School: An Interview with Maira Quintanilha
34: From First Woman Pastor to "Impossible" Slave Histories: An Interview with Felicia Thomas
33: How to Get Writing Done This Summer
32: Three Academic Writing Mistakes That Are Holding You Back
31: Debunking 5 Common Writing Myths
30: Why You Need a Writing System
29: Hit the Reset Button
28: Five Steps to Sustaining Your Writing Through Crisis
27: Ten Ways to Make Time to Write
26: How to Multiply Your Effectiveness
Bonus: How to Create a Minimum Viable Semester in the Midst of a Global Pandemic
25: How to Stop Working Weekends
24: Three Steps to Achieving Clarity So That You Can Write and Publish More
23: What Academics Get Wrong about Professional Development
22: Types of Writing Help
21: What Makes a Writing Practice Sustainable?
20: The Benefits of Writing Retreats and How to Find One That Works for You
19: Six Strategies for Creating Writing Momentum
18: Disrupting Academic Milestones
17: Five Words I Avoid When Talking About Writing
16: New Year's Resolutions for Academic Writers
15: Book Review Gift Guide
14: Should I Write Over Break?
13: Working Through Overwhelm
12: Combating Writing Guilt
11: When Teaching Takes Over
10: What Happens to My Writing When the Semester Hits the Fan?
9: Three Types of Writing Criticism and How to Respond
8: Resisting the "Catch-up" Mentality
7: Securing Professional Development Funding
6: What it Means to Put Your Writing at the Center
5: How to Create a Positive Relationship with Your Writing
4: Create Your Ideal Week
3: How to Approach Your Writing Like a Project Manager
2: Why You Don't Have to Write Every Day (and What to Do Instead)
1: My Academic Career and What I Want for You as an Academic Woman
Introducing Academic Woman Amplified