Academic Writing Amplified

If you are mid-career, you are holding up a lot of people, from students to research partners to co-authors to family members. How can you build legacy from that leadership? This episode is a re-release of episode 105 of the podcast and is a sneak peek into my private, seven-episode mini-feed called “7 Steps to a Legacy Building Career”. This episode is Step 6: Leading for Legacy. Head here if you want access to the rest of the feed. For full show notes, visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-149.  

    Have you ever wondered what you might be able to get out of investing in one of our programs such as Elevate? Wondering if it might be a good use of your time and money? Want to hear firsthand from someone who’s been on the inside? Elevate graduate Lauren Braun-Strumfels is sharing her amazing story on this episode of the podcast. Her journey has been full of ups and downs, twists and turns. It’s taken her from Fulbright scholar in Rome at the very beginning of the pandemic, to lockdowns and virtual classrooms, and from no publications to journal articles, book contracts, and a vibrant pipeline.  Lauren shares how she navigated loss and grief through community, came back to her writing and herself little by little and created sustainable systems for huge publishing success. We also talk about how a harsh peer reviewer paused her book process, and how coaching through Elevate helped her galvanize her message and navigate through that situation. Our Elevate program is open for Enrollment! Elevate is a coaching program for mid-career scholars to help you ‘up-level your post-tenure career’. We want to know what you’re feeling and experiencing in your mid-career journey and would love to guide you through it all. Elevate begins with our New Year Writing Retreat at the end of January, and enrollment for the Program closes on December 22nd! If you want to examine what you’re creating and how you’re changing your life, your family’s lives, and your university, we would love to see your application for the Elevate Program to see if you might be a good fit!  Check out the application at cathymazak.com/elevate-application/ For full show notes, visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-148.

Do you ever find yourself frustrated and tired in your career? Do you find yourself wondering why you’re STILL feeling this way even though you’ve been in your career for a while? Many people in academia feel the same fatigue you are, which is why we designed the Elevate Program to help you make the change that works for you. In this episode, we're sharing an information session for our elevate mid-career program where we discussed how to thrive post-tenure and reach that next level in your career while looking at our Elevate program components. We introduce you to a few of our Elevate members and share their success stories with you! We’re still enrolling in Elevate, but you have to hurry because enrollment ends on December 22nd! Apply for the Elevate program here! For full show notes visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-147.  

Are you curious as to what the Navigate Program really entails? Are you wondering if it could be the thing that begins to propel your career forward and helps you find freedom and stability in your work? In this episode, we have a sneak peek inside of our Navigate Information Session. I created this information session called ‘Control your Career with Publications: a Look Inside our Navigate Program’ so that anyone interested in the program could really understand all of the parts in the system that work together to help you double your publication output in the next year. For full show notes, visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-146.  

Do you LOVE the planning part of your job? Maybe you love planning your course syllabus or the planning process that comes before the actual writing of a publication. Are you passionate about getting the flow right for these things and making sure everything makes sense? If so, you’re in good company and this episode and webinar inside of it were created just for you! Today, I'm bringing you an audio version of a webinar that I created last year called ‘From Plan to Published: The Three Secrets to an Academic Writing Plan that Leads to Publications’. I crafted this webinar about creating for yourself a publishing plan, so what you’ll hear in this episode is how to make those plans so that you can get those publications out.  If you are on the Navigate Waitlist, TODAY IS THE DAY you can enroll! Today, November 22, 2022, we open our Navigate enrollment to our waitlist! The first 15 people who enroll in the program will get a free ticket to our two-and-a-half-day New Year's virtual writing retreat in January. For full show notes visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-145.

Do you find yourself daydreaming about what your job COULD look like if you could just design it on your terms? Do you have a brilliant idea for what you really desire your working life to look like? In today’s podcast episode, I discuss the ins and outs of career design, or job crafting as it is more commonly called in the academic world. I lay out what job crafting is, how it relates to the academic space, and how we help you craft your ideal job inside of our Navigate program through our 10 systems for getting your publications out the door. If this conversation inspired you in any way, the waitlist is OPEN for our Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® Program. Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® is our year-long writing and publishing program that is going to help you move that backlog of publications out the door! Our goal for you in this program is that you would double your publication output in the year that you're in our program. Enrollment for Navigate runs from November 25th-29th 2022, but you can get in early with a special bonus if you are on our waitlist. For full show notes visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-144.

Are you someone in the workforce who is entering into this new trend of ‘acting your salary’ that is coming out of quiet quitting? Do you struggle with overwork and dissatisfaction in your job because of it? How do we engage in a conversation that goes beyond “I am quiet quitting” and “I am just doing my job” to “What do you actually want to do in this world?” In this episode, you’ll hear from 2 of our Academic coaches Thea L. Racelis and Rocío P. Caballero-Gill as they co-host and guide us through a conversation on the concept of “Acting Your Salary” in academia. They’ll discuss all about ​​what acting your salary really means in the academic context, what some of the conversations we may want to have about this are, and also some of the tools we can use around figuring it all out. For full show notes visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-143.

During this month, we are going to reflect on some of the trends in 2022, and how they apply to us in academia. Today's topic is “quiet quitting”. For full show notes, visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-142. Enrollment for Navigate runs from November 25th-29th 2022, but you can get in early with a special bonus if you are on our waitlist. We will open the doors for our waitlist folks on November 22nd. The first 15 people who enroll in Navigate get to come to our 3-day New Years' Writing Retreat in January! This is an incredible 3-day virtual event normally only for our Amplify and Elevate participants, but the first 15 people to enroll in Navigate will be specially invited to attend this year’s retreat for free! So, don’t wait to enroll and go ahead and get on the waitlist for Navigate! Can’t wait to see you all there!    

What determines how much you can publish, and where are our expectations coming from? Is it possible to increase your level of joy in your work as you increase output?  My wonderful coach Gina Robinson joins me on this episode to discuss publication goals and how to increase your capacity for writing and publishing in the coming year. We talk through these concepts as well as share how we determined the parts of our yearlong program, Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap®, and what you need to create sustainable success. If this conversation inspired you in any way, the waitlist is open for our Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® Program. Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® is our year-long writing and publishing program that is going to help you move that backlog of publications out the door! Our goal for you in this program is that you would double your publication output in the year that you're in our program. Enrollment for Navigate runs from November 25th-29th 2022, but you can get in early with a special bonus if you are on our waitlist. We will open the doors for our waitlist folks on November 22nd. The first 15 people who enroll in Navigate get to come to our 3-day New Years' Writing Retreat in January! This is an incredible 3-day virtual event normally only for our Amplify and Elevate participants, but the first 15 people to enroll in Navigate will be specially invited to attend this year’s retreat for free! So, don’t wait to enroll and go ahead and get on the waitlist for Navigate! Can’t wait to see you all there! Today’s episode is a re-release of episode 100 of the podcast. You can find episode 100 full show notes here.    

Are you still exhausted after getting tenure and don’t know why things haven’t changed? Feeling like you’ll never not be tired? I’ve got 3 steps to take to help you take control. If you are exhausted, you are doing too much. You might have thought that gaining tenure would help, but if you’re like so many of the academics I work with, you have probably discovered just the opposite! After pushing so hard, for so long, a lot of people crash after receiving tenure.  You might be grateful for the stability of tenure (and hopefully a raise!) but in order to make a positive change in how your career feels, you’ll need to make some changes in how you approach it. Tenure doesn’t automatically solve your exhaustion problem, but with intention, you can. If this conversation inspired you in any way, go back and watch the replay from the live info session for the next cohort of Elevate! Click here to learn more. This progression of episodes is a series of re-releases of our most popular episodes about the Post-Tenure Experience. Today’s episode is a re-release of episode 96 of the podcast. You can find episode 96 full show notes here. We thought this re-release would be perfect, because we are getting ready to enroll our post-tenure into mid/late career program, Elevate.  Elevate is a 6-month program that runs from February - July, 2023. We want to give you time to find out information about the program and decide if it is right for you, so we are opening enrollment SOON.  Elevate is an application-only program that centers on the 1:1 coaching experience. You’ll experience 1:1 calls, group calls, and workshops in our Elevate program.  Go back and check out the replay of the live info session where we answered so many questions about what the program looks like, how to enroll, what to expect, and more! Watch the Live Replay of the Elevate info session here! For show notes visit cathymazak.com/podcast/episode-140. Connect with me: Website Facebook Page Follow me on Clubhouse: @cathymazak