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The Good Enough Professor
By Karen Gonzalez RiceEducation
The Good Enough Professor episodes
- Expansive Leadership with Brooke Hofsess
An honest and hopeful conversation with Brooke Hofsess, artist, scholar, and leadership coach. We talk, laugh, and dream about re-making academia, the deep power of choice, the fun of chairing (really!), and finding our brilliance amid the scarcity and burnout of higher education. And I get a mini-coaching session from Brooke
on my own leadership challenges! Bonus: count how many times we say “beautiful”—spoiler, it’s 12.Find the Transcript for Episode 10, “Expansive Leadership with Brooke Hofsess” here.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Join Brooke’s gorgeous newsletter
list here. You can also follow her on Instagramand visit her website.- Lots of good stuff in the “The Good Enough Professor Manifesto”
- The concept of tinkering also came up in the episode “Piecing Ourselves Together: Creativity, Process &
Integration with Mariglynn Edlins”Sign up here to get on the list for my newly-redesigned email newsletter! Connect with me on my
website / Instagram / or LinkedIn.52 min - What To Do When You’re Overwhelmed
What would it be like to approach overwhelming times of the semester with self-compassion? How might we experience overwhelm differently if we supported our basic needs and gently questioned expectations? Today we explore what to do when you’re overwhelmed: how to set aside self-blame, expand our capacity, reduce our obligations, and pause to reflect. Plus, I discuss what I did when I got overwhelmed working on this episode!
Find the Transcript for Episode 09, “What To Do When You’re Overwhelmed” here.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s
Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie- I’ll be sharing my assessment of my own period of overwhelm in this month’s newsletter. Sign up here
to get on my email list!Connect with me on my website / Instagram / or LinkedIn.
21 min - Let's Un-Diet Academia!
Today I’m taking on academic grind culture through the lens of anti-dieting. I explore how we can mobilize the anti-diet critique of diet culture to better understand how the values, promises, and practices of academic grind culture keep us stuck in cycles of overwork. Based on anti-diet principles, I offer three alternatives for creating new ways of being in academia.
Find the Transcript for Episode 08, “Let’s Un-Diet Academia!” here.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Sonia Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not An Apology
- Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
- Health at Every Size® Principles
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website / Instagram / or LinkedIn.18 min - Support for The New Semester
In this episode, I answer your questions about the challenges of the new semester and share my take on how to put your wellbeing and what matters to you first when you are prepping a new course, coping with dysfunctional gate-keepers, feeling like your best-laid plans get derailed by mid-semester, and staying tuned in with yourself.
Find the Transcript for Episode 07, “Support for the New Semester” here.
Mentioned in this episode: Plan Your Semester Pop-Up!
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website / Instagram / or LinkedIn.27 min - Coming Back to Yourself at The End of the Semester
The end of the fall semester is a brutal time for academics. In this episode, I share a process for re-claiming our full selves as we transition to fall break. We’ll reflect on and practice releasing urgency, slowing down, restoring connection, imagining the break, receiving joy, and finally, greeting yourself. Also expect some talk about fluffy dog bellies.
Find the Transcript for Episode 06, “Coming Back to Ourselves at the End of the Semester."
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Wallace Stevens Walk in West Hartford, CT
- Tema Okun on urgency in white supremacy culture.
- NPR LifeKit interview with Devon Price on Laziness Does Not Exist
- Sign up for my email list to get the workbook that accompanies this episode!
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18 min - Piecing Ourselves Together: Creativity, Process & Integration with Mariglynn Edlins
Join me for a thoughtful conversation with Mariglynn
Edlins, academic, artist, social scientist, mother, and amazing human being. Mariglynn reflects on curiosity and creative exploration, the challenges of integrating different parts of ourselves, and what can happen when we focus on process rather than outcomes. We talk about open access as a teaching philosophy and a parenting strategy, how creativity and “thinkering” can support us in times of despair, and ways to bring more creative expression, more making, and more play into our everyday lives.Find the Transcript for Episode 05, “Piecing Ourselves Together: Creativity, Process & Integration with
Mariglynn Edlins” here.Explore Mariglynn’s website www.mariglynn.com and follow her @mariglynn on Instagram and Threads.
Links from our conversation:
- James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
- Monty Python actor John Cleese, “Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
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37 min - Three Annoying Writing Challenges and How to Be Kind to Yourself When You Encounter Them
When you encounter tough times in your writing, how do you respond? In this episode, I discuss three writing challenges that you can expect to pop up: when you feel disconnected from writing, when you are lost in the fire
swamp of anxiety and despair, and when writing feels like a slog. I share a LOT of strategies for connecting with your emotions, your body, and with others during these moments, and I double down on my commitment to experimentation, low-stakes play, and the shameless use of treats in the writing lifestyle. This episode is Part 2 of “The Good Enough Professor’s Guide to the Writing Lifestyle.”Find the transcript for Episode 04: “Three Annoying Challenges and How to Be Kind to Yourself When you Encounter Them.”
Here’s Part 1 of the “The Good Enough Professor’s Guide to the Writing Lifestyle.”
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22 min - The Good Enough Professor’s Guide to the Writing Lifestyle
In this episode, I share my humane approach to an important but troubled aspect of our academic lives: writing. I offer my framework for creating a sustainable writing lifestyle by focusing on three aspects of your Self: your emotions about writing, your embodied experience of writing, and your human need for connection during the writing lifestyle. With attention and care for your feelings, your body, and your social identity, writing can be satisfying, sustainable, and even fun.
Find the transcript for Episode 03: “The Good Enough Professor’s Guide to the Writing Lifestyle” here.
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29 min - The Good Enough Professor Manifesto
In this episode, I share my Good Enough Professor Manifesto and describe what matters to me in higher education. You’ll hear my perspective on the marketing of “academic excellence” in higher ed, the realities of faculty precarity, and its consequences in our daily lives. And I’ll share my conviction that we can make meaningful change in academia, both individually and collectively.
Find the Episode 02 Transcript here.
Artist manifestos mentioned in this episode: Mierle Laderman Ukeles / Claus Oldenburg
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9 min - Introducing the Good Enough Professor Podcast!
What’s “Good Enough”? And who am I? In this first episode, I introduce myself and my concept of “Good Enough” in academic life. You’ll hear about the three influences that shaped how I approach the work of supporting faculty through the rhythms and realities of academic life, and why I think “Good Enough" is important in the do-more, excellence-obsessed culture of academia.
You’ll get a sense of what to expect from this podcast in the coming months, and you’ll have a chance to reflect on what “Good Enough” might mean for you and how to bring a bit of self-compassion to your #professorlife right now.
Find the Episode 01 Transcript here.
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About The Good Enough Professor
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Re-imagining academic life for overwhelmed professors.