85: The Biggest Hurdles Pre-Tenure

My super-star writing coaches, Rocío Caballero-Gill and Gina Robinson, are taking over the podcast to talk about the pre-tenure period and many of the issues, fears, hopes, accomplishments, and successes they see with our Amplify clients. If you’re pre-tenure, I’m betting you will recognize yourself in this episode, and get a feel for whether this program and these fantastic coaches are a fit for you.

Key points discussed:

• The challenges that our Amplify clients face when they are coming into the program: 
• • Negative, unsure mindsets
  • Isolation, amplified in competitive departments and institutions
  • Self-doubt and fear
  • Lack of community and resources, fear of asking questions
  • Lack of time, systems, and sustainable practices
• Impacts Amplify has had for our clients
  • Immediate like-minded community 
  • Vision creation and implementation with structured steps, tools and systems
  • Gaining confidence and implementing change
  • Creating a mission allowing clients to trust themselves, recognize what matters and find time for it
  • Recognizing their own wisdom and power
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• Specific client results
  • Publications completed using peer review, co-writing and support, including stubborn revise-and-resubmits, and languishing or difficult projects
  • Completed books and deciding to write books
  • Funding secured
  • Getting tenure, promotion, and new jobs
  • Skills gained to continue with a sustainable writing practice and strong mindset
• Main hesitations about applying for Amplify
  • Money: the importance of investing in yourself, and a good return on investment
  • Time: how a time commitment is also investing in yourself, and balancing time needs with the value of the program
• What our coaches enjoy most about the program
  • The people. Watching clients come into the program unsure, frustrated, unclear and leave with vision, a mission, and a way to get there
  • Seeing the achievements clients make while part of the program, and hearing back from them later on continued success

Key Quotes:

• “As soon as you come into the Amplify program, you’ve got this automatic community.” -Gina Robinson
• “Once you have a mission, that helps to deal with a lot of the time issues.” -Gina Robinson
• “You do the job because you’re trying to make some kind of impact.” -Gina Robinson
• “Going through the program allows you the space to refine that writing process in a way that you can sustain it for later.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill
• “We’re not competing against each other, we’re doing things together for the better science, better academia, better everything.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill
• “That’s our goal, is for it to not be such a rare feeling that you are actually in charge of your career.” -Gina Robinson
• “You can’t think about your career trajectory or your career success without thinking about everything else around it.” -Gina Robinson
• “We help each other create time.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill
• “Sometimes, as an adult, building connections and friendships can be difficult.” -Gina Robinson

There are just a few slots in the only 2021 enrollment group for Amplify! Applications close August 25, so don’t wait. Go to cathymazak.com/amplify to apply.

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This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode85.