Grad School Is Hard, But.....a new podcast from Thrive PhD!
Grad School is Hard, but….is a podcast for everyone who is doing the hard work of being a human AND a scholar. On this show, I share questions to dive deeper into how YOUR brain and body work best, and experiments to try to help you find YOUR way through the hard work of generating new knowledge.
The first episode releases October 11, 2022 - but until then, get your free How to Work (and NOT Work) More Intentionally Toolkit at: https://tinyurl.com/ThriveToolkit
See you soon!
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Welcome to Grad School is Hard, But... a Thrive PhD podcast.
I'm Dr. Katy Peplin and I've spent the last five years helping grad students all around the world figure out how to be humans and scholars. And the reason that I do that, and built Thrive PhD in the first place is because grad school was hard for me and I had to work really hard to do my work and live my life.
On this podcast, we'll talk not just about how hard grad school is -and it is- but things that you can experiment with. Grad school is hard, but there are things that you can try. Grad school is hard, but there is support. Grad school is hard, but you can do this. In these short and sweet episodes. I'll present you with reasons why this stuff is so hard, questions to help you explore how that difficulty shows up for you, and two or three things that you can try that might help.
A cornerstone of the Thrive PhD philosophy is that no one thing works for everyone in every situation. So the only way to know if something is working the way you want it to is to experiment.
I promise that nothing here will be framed as you have to do this or never do that. I'm just gonna give you some options and crucially, I'm gonna give you the information that I have about when they tend to work and when those options really don't. I do all of that so that you can make a call about what you wanna try and what you think might work..
This show might not be for you if you don't like to experiment, because I can't promise that anyone's strategy or tool will work for everyone. You do have to try things out on yourself to see if they work.
If you want strictly academic life hacks, this might not be the show for you. I believe strongly that yes, our scholarship is important. But so are the human bodies and human lives that hold that scholarship. So some of the strategies will be about writing that journal article or figuring out how to store your references, but they'll invariably cross into some of the human things too.
And this show might not be for you if you're looking for a very serious, very academic podcast, I promise you that I will make comparisons to all sorts of things. I'll give you metaphors, pop culture references, and maybe a story or two about my cats. So if any or all of that is a problem, no need to listen a second further.
But this is a show for you if you feel like everyone tells you the same three pieces of advice: protect your time! get up early to write! limit your emails until you're done with all of the hard, deep focus work! If you feel like those pieces of advice get thrown at you every time you ask for support, this is a show for you because we're gonna go a little bit deeper.
This is a show for you if you feel like all of the strategies and advice that you're given are predicated on the assumption that you're able bodied, that you have a neurotypical brain and unlimited time and resources to get through your grad work. If you've felt left out by some of the strategies before, this is the show for you.
And this is the show for you if you wanna try new. Because in order to feel something different, you often have to do something different. And believe me, graduate work is different than any other kind of school that you've done before.
So the first episode drops October 11th, 2022, and in the meantime, you can check me out at thrive-phd.com where you can also get your free working more intentionally toolkit with some of my best strategies and experiments to see how you can work and not work with a little bit more clarity. I'm so excited to have you on this journey.
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