Hello, Everyone! If you’re new to WTF: PhD–Welcome! If you’ve been here for awhile then you know that a core part of my mission is to bring the best PhD coaching advice to as many people as possible. That’s part of why I keep prices significantly lower than other coaches Read more…
Last week I launched a new offer that I’m beyond excited about: Ten Pages Today. It’s exactly what it sounds like: We meet for one day and you leave with ten new pages on your Work In Progress (WIP). There’s several exciting benefits as well! First, if you don’t leave Read more…
Happy Summer, Dear Reader! I hope that you are staying hydrated and giving yourself plenty of time to rest and relax. I can’t believe it but it has been four years since I started abd2phd by taking my first class at Purdue’s entrepreneurial incubator, The Foundry. It would be several Read more…
Hi All, I’ve been working on some blog content for the new year as we transition from what has been an incredibly difficult year for all of us to, hopefully, brighter futures. In the meantime, I had the pleasure of being interviewed about how young folx are reinventing and reclaiming Read more…
Have you ever fantasized about an app that could help you get through grad school? What about an app that could help you write your dissertation. No, I don’t mean a writing app or a productivity app. There are many great versions of both of those things. I mean something Read more…
This post is for my new teachers or teachers newly committed to centering black women’s voices in their classroom. As with all things, let me start by telling you a little story. The day after Donald Trump was elected to lead my country due to our outdated, racist electoral college Read more…
The very first thing you need to know about your PhD coursework is what NOT to do. That’s what we focused on with the first installment of our Making The Most of Coursework webinar series. This upcoming Monday, at noon PST, we’ll have our second installment which will focus us Read more…
Ok, let’s get one thing straight: This is not a shame post. If your anxiety-brain or Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria-brain interprets the title of this post to say that you, specifically, need to keep doing your PhD even though it feels unbearable I want to tell you that this is not Read more…
First, wherever you are at the moment I hope that you and the people you love are well. Like many of you, I spent part of the weekend protesting police brutality in the United States. Like many of you, white supremacists groups have formed in my town and are threatening Read more…
The day after Donald Trump was elected I went to Canada. I was presenting at the National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference which was held in Montreal that year. I had gone to bed early the night before, when polls started to show that Trump was winning, hoping that, while Read more…