PUBLISHING ACADEMIC RESEARCH | Complete Your Scholarship, Thesis, or Dissertation, Maintain Your Mental Health, and Enhance Your Academic Career

Have you ever hesitated to reach out to a potential advisor because you’re worried they will turn out to be a bad fit once it’s too late to change? Do you find yourself vacillating between choosing an advisor that you like interpersonally and the one that’s the most prestigious?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we’re starting a series on how to develop your thesis or dissertation starting with the most important first step: getting an advisor. We’ll talk about how to honestly evaluate your own strengths, name your limits without shame, and choose an advisor not just for their reputation, but for their fit. In this episode, we’ll discuss:
Evaluating your strengths and weaknesses as a researcher
What advisors should and should not do.
Starting off your relationship in the right way.
If you want to finish this project without losing yourself (or years of your life!), this is where the work really starts.
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Have you sat down to write, and before the words arrive, you ask, “Is this safe to say?” or  Is this worth the risk? Have you noticed that you second-guess your prose or are more hesitant with some ideas?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we talk about what it means to keep writing your research when scrutiny feels sharper, stakes feel higher, and self-censorship can quietly replace curiosity. This conversation isn’t about being provocative for its own sake. It’s about writing with intention, clarity, and purpose when the ground feels unstable. We’ll discuss how to:
Name the climate without doom-spiraling.
Understand the cost of silence.
Write with strategic courage.
You’ll hear practical ways to separate discomfort from danger, draft without fear before revising with strategy, and reconnect with the long-term purpose of research that outlives any single moment.
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Have you ever noticed how clear, patient, and intentional you are when you teach and how dense, guarded, or overly cautious your writing can feel? Have you ever wondered why the skills you use effortlessly in the classroom seem to disappear once you open a blank document?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we’re talking about what it means to write research the way you teach. We explore why scholars often abandon their strongest pedagogical instincts when writing for publication and how academic norms quietly push us toward opacity instead of clarity. In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
Translate teaching talents into writing skills
Anticipate reviewer and reader confusion before it derails your draft
Reframe clarity as evidence of expertise, not a liability
If you’ve ever felt like your writing doesn’t reflect how well you actually understand your work, this episode is an invitation to bring your best teaching self back onto the page.
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Have you ever opened an email from a journal, seen the words “Revise and Resubmit,” and felt relief and panic hit at the exact same time? Have you found yourself rereading reviewer comments over and over, unsure whether or how to start revising?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we’re talking about R&R anxiety—that strange in-between space where your work isn’t rejected, but it’s not accepted either. We unpack why R&Rs can feel uniquely destabilizing, how uncertainty fuels overthinking, and why even seasoned scholars struggle to interpret feedback without catastrophizing. You’ll learn how to:
keep momentum without losing yourself in the process.
Manage the emotional whiplash of conditional acceptance
Separate signal from noise in reviewer comments
Creative revision strategies that move your work forward without letting anxiety take over.
Whether you are working with an R & R right now or or still carrying stress from a past one, then this episode is about staying steady, strategic, and humane in your process.
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Have you ever wondered what reviewers actually mean when they ask you to “build on past scholarship”? Have you ever been told that your tone is antagonistic or belligerent?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we’re unpacking what it really means to engage prior research in ways that reviewers recognize as credible, thoughtful, and genuinely contributory. We move beyond the idea that good writing has only one style or tone and instead focus on how you can better position you work through your prose.
In this episode, we break down:
How effective summaries show you know the terrain without falling into laundry lists
What it means to enter scholarly conversations by organizing ideas and how to show you are not just reporting on scholarly debates but actually joining them.
How to develop your prose ways that pushes scholarship into new populations, contexts, or domains and how to frame it in respectful, precise, and evidence-based ways
If you’ve ever struggled to explain how your work fits with past scholarship, then make sure to give this episode a listen!
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Have you ever received an unexpected email from a reader, student, or colleague saying your work helped them think differently, teach differently, or feel less alone? Have you ever paused and realized that a single article can influence ideas in the future in ways you never imagined?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we continue our joy-forward reframing of academic publishing by focusing on what happens after publication. We explore the joy of impact beyond the CV, the often-overlooked pleasure of collective scholarship, and the quiet meaning of leaving a scholarly trace that extends beyond any single project, role, or institution.
In this episode, you’ll reflect on:
How research creates ripples of impact through teaching, practice, and public scholarship.
Why collaboration and co-authorship can be sources of connection, mentorship, and shared celebration.
How publishing allows you to leave a lasting scholarly trace—contributing to conversations you may never see, but that still matter deeply.
If you’ve ever questioned whether your work truly makes a difference, this episode will help you recognize how your scholarship lives through people, ideas, and communities far into the future.
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Have you ever opened an article you published and felt the rush of joy to see your name in print? Does your stomach still get a little flutter when you get an “Accepted” decision?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we intentionally shift the focus onto the joys of publishing academic research. In a field where publishing is often framed as exhausting, stressful, or joyless, it’s easy to forget that there are moments of genuine delight woven into the process.
We explore the pleasure of intellectual discovery, the satisfaction of shaping ideas through writing, and the deeply human joy of becoming part of an ongoing scholarly conversation.
In this episode, you’ll reflect on:
How publishing creates space for intellectual play, curiosity, and moments of genuine discovery.
Why seeing your ideas take shape on the page can feel grounding, clarifying, and affirming.
How publishing connects you to a broader community of scholars across institutions, disciplines, and time.
If you’ve ever wondered why you still feel drawn to research and writing, then this episode will help you reconnect with the quieter, sustaining joys that make academic publishing meaningful in the first place.
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 Hey, co-authors! I'm really excited today because I get the chance to talk with Dr. Danielle De La Mere, who is the founder of Self-Compassionate Coaching and the podcast creator and host of the Self-Compassionate Professor podcast. She has over 200 episodes featuring guests who have paved, creative and self-compassionate career paths, both within and outside of academia after struggle.
Tune into this episode to learn about:
The jump from academic to alt-academic life. 
How to digest your emotions to find your true center.
 How to listen to your inner wisdom.
If it seems like you've hit a rut in your academic career, Dr. De La Mare can help you identify your barriers and find a path to inner growth.
Make sure to connect with Dr. De La Mare! 
Visit her Website!Set up a Coffee Chat! Listen to her Podcast!
 

Have you ever sat down to write and immediately felt your chest tighten, your mind go blank, or your motivation evaporate? Has it seemed like forever since you haven’t had a day of foggy, vague, or unmotivated thinking?
Hey co-authors! In this episode, we explore what’s actually happening in your brain and nervous system when writing (and everything else!) feels a bit overwhelming. We break down how chronic academic pressure can lead to dysregulation, how your brain interprets stress, and why your nervous system treats writing like a threat even when you want to make progress.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why chronic stress pulls your brain into survival mode and shuts down clarity, focus, and decision-making.
How vagus nerve dysregulation loop that keeps you procrastinating, refreshing email, or endlessly “getting ready to write.”
Practical, research-backed techniques to calm the nervous system and generate the small dopamine wins needed to get started.
If you’re trying to write but feeling stressed, stuck, or unsure where to begin then this episode will help you understand your brain, lower the pressure, and finally move forward. 
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Have you ever gotten glowing feedback from a professor or advisor and wondered, “Is this really good enough to publish?” Have you ever hovered over that “Submit” button wondering whether you are ready for what the decision may be?
Hey co-authors, in this episode we break down the most common indicators that your manuscript isn’t quite submission-ready as well as the markers for success. You’ll learn how to spot problems before reviewers do—and how to fix them with confidence.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The most common structural and methodological red flags that signal “not yet.”
Practical steps to strengthen weak sections before peer reviewers ever see them.
How to build your own internal “submission sixth-sense” to improve success rates.
Whether you're polishing your first manuscript or your fifteenth, this episode gives you a practical checklist, sharper instincts, and a clearer sense of when your work is primed for peer review (and when it needs a little more love).
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