Academic Writing Amplified 85: The Biggest Hurdles Pre-Tenure
My super-star writing coaches, Rocío Caballero-Gill and Gina Robinson, are taking over the podcast to talk about the pre-tenure period and many of the issues, fears, hopes, accomplishments, and successes they see with our Amplify clients. If you’re pre-tenure, I’m betting you will recognize yourself in this episode, and get a feel for whether this program and these fantastic coaches are a fit for you.
Key points discussed:
- The challenges that our Amplify clients face when they are coming into the program:
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- Negative, unsure mindsets
- Isolation, amplified in competitive departments and institutions
- Self-doubt and fear
- Lack of community and resources, fear of asking questions
- Lack of time, systems, and sustainable practices
- Impacts Amplify has had for our clients
- Immediate like-minded community
- Vision creation and implementation with structured steps, tools and systems
- Gaining confidence and implementing change
- Creating a mission allowing clients to trust themselves, recognize what matters and find time for it
- Recognizing their own wisdom and power
- Specific client results
- Publications completed using peer review, co-writing and support, including stubborn revise-and-resubmits, and languishing or difficult projects
- Completed books and deciding to write books
- Funding secured
- Getting tenure, promotion, and new jobs
- Skills gained to continue with a sustainable writing practice and strong mindset
- Main hesitations about applying for Amplify
- Money: the importance of investing in yourself, and a good return on investment
- Time: how a time commitment is also investing in yourself, and balancing time needs with the value of the program
- What our coaches enjoy most about the program
- The people. Watching clients come into the program unsure, frustrated, unclear and leave with vision, a mission, and a way to get there
- Seeing the achievements clients make while part of the program, and hearing back from them later on continued success
Key Quotes:
- “As soon as you come into the Amplify program, you’ve got this automatic community.” -Gina Robinson
- “Once you have a mission, that helps to deal with a lot of the time issues.” -Gina Robinson
- “You do the job because you’re trying to make some kind of impact.” -Gina Robinson
- “Going through the program allows you the space to refine that writing process in a way that you can sustain it for later.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill
- “We’re not competing against each other, we’re doing things together for the better science, better academia, better everything.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill
- “That’s our goal, is for it to not be such a rare feeling that you are actually in charge of your career.” -Gina Robinson
- “You can’t think about your career trajectory or your career success without thinking about everything else around it.” -Gina Robinson
- “We help each other create time.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill
- “Sometimes, as an adult, building connections and friendships can be difficult.” -Gina Robinson
There are just a few slots in the only 2021 enrollment group for Amplify! Applications close August 25, so don’t wait. Go to cathymazak.com/amplify to apply.
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This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode85.