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This season of Grad School is Hard, But...I'm featuring my awesome colleagues and the greatest hits from the first three seasons while I am out on parental leave! This episode is one of the most streamed about how task managers can help you offload some of the buzz in your brain!

whether you put all your tasks in a notebook, app, or on the back of various receipts, many of us want some sort of system to capture all that we need to do. task managers will do you one better by storing that information, and sending it back to you when you can actually take action on it. simply put, your brain cannot hold it all - so why not give it some help??

learn all about task managers in this week's episode!

mentioned in the show:

bullet journal 

asana

trello

clickup 

todoist

monday.com

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This season of Grad School is Hard, But...I'm featuring my awesome colleagues and the greatest hits from the first three seasons while I am out on parental leave! This week's episode is from the awesome The PhD Life Coach, which host Dr. Vikki Burns describes like: Whether you're a PhD student or an experienced academic, life in a university can be tough. If you're feeling overwhelmed, undervalued, or out of your depth, the PhD Life Coach can help. We talk about issues that affect all academics and how we can feel better now, without having to be perfect productivity machines. We usually do this career because we love it, so let's remember what that feels like!

What do you do when you feel disappointed, stressed or overwhelmed? These are such common emotions in academia yet most of us don't really know how to respond to these emotions. In this episode, I'll guess what you probably do at the moment when you're experiencing an emotion you don't like, and suggest some things you do instead. Emotions are part of the human existence and we can learn how to look after ourselves a little more.

In this episode I mention the emotion wheel. There are loads if you search online but here's one I like - https://www.purewow.com/family/feelings-chart - and get the transcript here! 

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This season of Grad School is Hard, But...I'm featuring my awesome colleagues and the greatest hits from the first three seasons while I am out on parental leave! This episode is one of the most streamed about how not every piece of advice will work for you!

If you have ever taken the advice of your advisor, that productivity book that everyone raves about, or even from a coach like me and it straight up didn't work - this is the episode for you. I'm talking all about why it can be so hard to figure out how other scholars are working, and why what works for them might not work for you. Plus three experiments to help you find some strategies that do work for you!

Read the transcript here, and if you're liking the show, please consider rating and reviewing it to help other people find it!

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This season of Grad School is Hard, But...I'm featuring my awesome colleagues and the greatest hits from the first three seasons while I am out on parental leave! This week's episode is from the awesome Grad Girl Wellness Podcast, a podcast designed to inspire and highlight the stories of women of color in graduate school who are prioritizing their overall health and wellness as they pursue higher education hosted by Angela! Enjoy!

On this episode, we talk with Cydnee aka @cydneeclarke, a third year doctoral candidate in Global Leadership and Change about grief in graduate school. This is a topic many of us have experienced but for which there is little data. While there are studies about the experiences of undergraduates, the is scarce information about graduate students as a whole and even less about underrepresented groups within the grad student population.

On this episode, we discuss:

-What we want from institutions

-What we can do as graduate students to support one another

-Tips on how to advocate for yourself to your institutions

Articles referenced:

Varga, MA. A Quantitative Study of Graduate Student Grief Experiences. Illness, Crisis & Loss. 2016;24(3):170-186.

Varga, MA, Bordere TC, Varga MD. The Holistic Grief Effects of Bereaved Black Female College Students. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. December 2020.

Varga, MA.; McClam, T.; Hassane, S. Grief Experiences Among Female American and Arab Undergraduate College Students. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, [s. l.], v. 72, n. 2, p. 165–183, 2015.

Grad School is Hard, But...is a podcast by Dr. Katy Peplin of Thrive PhD! Stay in touch by signing up for my newsletter and get my free webinar on using templates to jumpstart your writing!

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This season of Grad School is Hard, But...I'm featuring my awesome colleagues and the greatest hits from the first three seasons while I am out on parental leave! This episode is one of the most streamed about how to come back to work after you've been away!

whether it was a vacation you looked forward to all year, or an unexpected break from work, coming back to your desk after time away is not as easy as it sounds. i give you two strategies for combating the dislocation that can happen, all through the lens of jet lag!

resources:

blog post on shut down routines

blog post on unexpected time away

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so, you've realized that your advisor doesn't meet all your needs - now what? 

this podcast has three steps to help you move through the sticky feelings when this important relationship doesn't feel aligned, and how to move through that.

make sure you check out the first episode of season three, building a team of mentors, for practical steps to keep this process going!

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i talk a lot about sustainability - but how do you know if you're working with a sustainable schedule? i give my top warning signs that your schedule will eventually bury you alive, and even better, ways to build in some flexibility and space in this week's episode! get into it!

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i am delighted to welcome back dr. lauren saunders, VP of editing and research at Dissertation Editor, for this bonus AcWriMo episode! this episode, all about what academics can learn from creative writers, is just the jump start i needed to get a little more playful and have a little more fun with my writing. i hope it can do that for you, too!

learn more about the Dissertation Editor's book, PhDone at their book website, or grab a copy for yourself here: Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Amazon, or connect with dr. saunders (Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn)!

Grad School is Hard, But...is a podcast by Dr. Katy Peplin of Thrive PhD! Stay in touch by signing up for my newsletter and get my free webinar on using templates to jumpstart your writing!

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have you ever looked at a word so long that it ceased to have any meaning? has that ever happened to you on the scale of a paragraph, paper, or diss chapter? this week's episode has a variety of resources and strategies to help you make your writing "strange" - to get some distance from it so you can see it clearly. there isn't always someone else around to read our writing - or time for them to do so even if there was - so these tools can come in handy for all of us!

mentioned:

otter ai

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i am so excited to welcome dr. vikki wright to the podcast as a special AcWriMo bonus! this episode is something that i return to all of the time - how to get on with it when that feels impossible. i hope you enjoy it as much as i do! 

from dr. wright: 

We all have times where we need to get on with writing our thesis/paper/promotion materials/grant, but we're not. We procrastinate, we tell ourselves we don't have time, we worry that we're not good enough, when really we want to write it! In this episode, I'll help you uncover the 7 thoughts that are stopping you getting on, and 7 thoughts that you might want to think instead!

Dr Vikki Wright (nee Burns) helps PhD students and academics feel better, get their work done more easily, and build lives they enjoy again. She is a twice-certified life coach, and combines these skills with her insights as an ex-Professor and supervisor with 20+ years experience of academia. She provides one-on-one coaching, online workshops for PhD students and supervisors, and an innovative coaching membership programme for universities. You can get to know her more on Instagram and YouTube (@thephdlifecoach), Twitter (@drvikkiburns) and on her podcast, The PhD Life Coach. When she’s not walking, she loves aerial silks, paddleboarding and walking her rescue Labrador Marley.

Grad School is Hard, But...is a podcast by Dr. Katy Peplin of Thrive PhD! Stay in touch by signing up for my newsletter and get my free webinar on using templates to jumpstart your writing!

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