Stay ConnectedThe podcast for academic womxn who want to write and publish more while rejecting the culture of overwork in academia.
Cathy Mazak, PhD, helps you create the career (and life) you want by centering your writing. Kick guilt and overwhelm to the curb and amplify your voice to make a real impact on your field–without breaking down or burning out.
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Do you struggle with prioritizing time to write in the midst of your busy days and career? Have you ever considered the things you're leaving on the table when you're not publishing? Not the traditional things we might think of missing out on, but some of the more personal things you're leaving on the table by not prioritizing your publications.
In Episode 155 of the podcast, I talk all about what you're leaving on the table when you're not publishing. I'll share 5 things you're leaving on the table when you're not publishing. These aren't the things we normally think about like not getting a promotion, or losing out on a grant, but they're things you might not have considered when it comes to the things you're missing out on when you're not getting your publications out.
So today, I've got five things that you're leaving on the table when you're not publishing.
For full show notes, visit scholarsvoice.org/podcast/155.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program:We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.
Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Our 12-week Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® program helps tenure-track womxn and nonbinary professors with a disruptive perspective on their field to publish their backlog of papers so that their voice can have the impact they know is possible. Start your Navigate application process here!
Cathy's book, Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing is available in print! Learn how to build your career around your writing practice while shattering the myths of writing every day, accountability, and motivation, doing mindset work that's going to reshape your writing, and changing academic culture one womxn and nonbinary professor at a time. Get your print copy today or order it for a friend here!
Want to train with us for free on your campus? Now you can when you recommend our Scholar's Voice Faculty Retreats to a decision-maker on your campus! Download the brochure with the retreat curriculum and both in-person and online retreat options here.
Do you ever feel like you have too many projects or publications in play at once? Too many things in the works, and then ultimately nothing actually gets published?
Most academics believe that to publish more things, they have to publish everything. In this Bonus Episode, I talk all about a huge misconception in academic publishing: that more equals more. I'm here to show you a new way of being when it comes to publishing, and how less is actually more in the long run.
When we take a 'just publish anything and everything' mentality, we really lose cohesion. When you have your academic mission statement, and everything is in line with that, then your publication pipeline flows much more freely. Publishing off-mission articles, and things that aren't in line with your academic mission are actually going to stop your on-mission articles from coming out. Knowing what is worth your time and focusing on those things really does equal more in your academic career.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Our 12-week Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® program helps tenure-track womxn and nonbinary professors with a disruptive perspective on their field to publish their backlog of papers so that their voice can have the impact they know is possible. Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Cathy's book, Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing is available in print! Learn how to build your career around your writing practice while shattering the myths of writing every day, accountability, and motivation, doing mindset work that's going to reshape your writing, and changing academic culture one womxn and nonbinary professor at a time. Get your print copy today or order it for a friend here!
Want to train with us for free on your campus? Now you can when you recommend our Scholar's Voice Faculty Retreats to a decision-maker on your campus! Download the brochure with the retreat curriculum and both in-person and online retreat options here.
If you've been following along with us, you know that we are currently enrolling for a 12 week pilot version of our core program, which is called Navigate Your Writing Roadmap.
We are looking for women and non binary professors at any career stage who have published at least one article in a peer reviewed journal, and you have too much data for the amount of time that you have to write it up. Or you're sitting on three or more article drafts in various stages of done, one of which is almost (around 50%-80%) done. We also are looking for professors who are looking for an accelerated way to clear their publication pipeline.
We have been looking to update our original Navigate program, so we decided to take that core Navigate content and make it fit into 12 weeks by using the criteria that we want from the original course. Our goal for the Pilot program is for it to be both simple and impactful, the 2 words we are using to guide all of our decisions for our company this year. That means that those participating in this pilot are going to get more attention from more people in the company as we really try to tweak and perfect this program.
We'd love to have you join our team and experience this unique attention and guidance, so check out the links below to submit your application!
Join our Pilot Navigate Program:We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.
Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Our 12-week Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® program helps tenure-track womxn and nonbinary professors with a disruptive perspective on their field to publish their backlog of papers so that their voice can have the impact they know is possible. Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Cathy's book, Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing is available in print! Learn how to build your career around your writing practice while shattering the myths of writing every day, accountability, and motivation, doing mindset work that's going to reshape your writing, and changing academic culture one womxn and nonbinary professor at a time. Get your print copy today or order it for a friend here!
Want to train with us for free on your campus? Now you can when you recommend our Scholar's Voice Faculty Retreats to a decision-maker on your campus! Download the brochure with the retreat curriculum and both in-person and online retreat options here.
What is that next level thing that's down the road that you're not getting to by staying in old habits that are leading to burnout or old habits that aren't serving you?
Episode 154 is a presentation I made at our annual New Year's Writing Retreat in early January 2023. In this discussion, you're going to hear me very explicitly talk about our company mission, our company values, and how we made program changes aligned with those values. I think you'll find a lot of value in listening to this presentation as a leader and creator inside of academia as you think about your values and how you want to align them with the decisions that you make and the things that you create.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate. There will be more details to come on this in the coming weeks, so make sure you're on our email list to get all the details first!Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
For full show notes, visit scholarsvoice.org/podcast/154.
Continue the conversation:We have been raised inside of our academic institutions with models that only include success through overwork or success through burnout. Inside of this culture that glorifies busyness, it's easy to understand why we don't really believe that we can have a sustainable academic career. Personally, I am not willing to do the amount of glorification of busyness that it takes to be an academic, and decided I just wouldn't do it that way.
We talk about the best way to design a sustainable career that suits your needs inside of our Navigate Program, and we're hosting a pilot version of it starting in February! Check out all the details below.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Have you ever said to yourself, there are just not enough hours in the day? How can you make this feeling NOT true for you?
In this episode, we'll discuss using the best hours of the day for the most important projects and tasks, what the activities are that are going to help you meet your career goals, how to curate your schedule to be able to create enough time in the week to do the most important things to you specifically, and how to say no strategically.
We walk you through how to do all of these things and more in our Navigate Program. We're running a pilot version of the program starting in February, so learn more about it below!
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Do you still have questions on exactly what the turning point was and what the transition from Cathy Mazak LLC to Scholar's Voice was like? We'll walk you through all the details of when the tides started to turn, and why now finally felt like the right time to make it all official!
In episode 153, Cathy and Gina discuss the starting point of their working relationship and how everything since that point has been working toward where Scholar's Voice is currently at. They share everything from how the company grew, and how they knew they needed a bigger team, to how they knew they needed to evolve as a company and what that process of growth has looked like as a team. In this conversation, they explain their new desire for a simplified and more impactful version of their programs and how the Navigate Pilot was born!
For full show notes visit scholarsvoice.org. (New website coming soon!)
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Have you tried several things in order to get the spaciousness you desire in your career? You might be trying to make sure you have the publication results that you know you need in order to keep hitting your goals and to keep making your impact on your field and in the world. People try a lot of things in order to hit these goals, but in order to design a career that you love and serves you best, you need to get clear on what exactly that career looks like for you.
In this bonus episode, I share a technique that you can use to start to shift away from the cultural norms inside of academia and do something counterintuitive. The technique asks you to think of three adjectives you would use to describe your career if you could have it your way. Choosing 3 adjectives to describe your career is a great first step in designing a career you love and that has longevity. Using those 3 adjectives, ask yourself what that kind of professor would do.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:Have you set a goal for yourself concerning your publications this year? Maybe you want to publish more, clear out some old papers, or produce new ideas this year. Some of you might be using a tactic for figuring out what publications you want to work on this year that actually causes you to publish fewer things. So in this bonus episode, I talk about how to clear your pipeline in 2023. The tactic that you really need to use is actually the opposite of what you might have been doing.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
Continue the conversation:In this bonus episode, we'll dive into something that might seem the opposite of what you've been believing all of this time: your publishing problem is not time. If you're a professor and you have a disruptive perspective on your field, and you have a big backlog of papers, and you just haven't been able to sit down and sort through it all to knock them out, your gut reaction might be to think you just don't have enough time. We think that if we just had enough time, we might be publishing at the level we really desire in order to be able to move forward in our careers in a plethora of ways.
Join our Pilot Navigate Program: We are going to offer Navigate as a 12-week program to test out some changes we are considering making. It will run from February 2023- Mid-May 2023. In addition to our core Navigate curriculum, which we are reorganizing, reordering, and revising for this pilot version, what we're looking for is 10 to 20 academics who want to do this new pilot version of Navigate.Info sheet for Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap
Apply for Navigate program here
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