In this season of institutional annual reports, let’s focus instead on our lived experiences of academic life this year. In your Shadow Annual Report, we’ll use the framework of empathy, embodiment, and empowerment to dig into the realities of how you showed self-compassion, what it was like to live in your body, and how you expressed your needs and wants this academic year.

Find the Transcript for Episode 11, “Your Shadow Annual Report” here.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Ashley Barnwell, “Aunting as Family Shadow Work,” Journal of Family History 47.3 (2022) 317-331.

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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 Instagram and 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”

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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!

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