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4.40 Why you should body double and how to do it well
Jun 1, 2026
29m 10s
4.39 Nine things I learned about academia from watching reality competition shows
May 25, 2026
33m 59s
4.38 How to get through the next steps post-thesis submission (A double coaching episode!)
May 18, 2026
1h 04m 23s
4.37 How do I stop beating myself up in hindsight
May 11, 2026
30m 30s
4.36 How do I know if my work is good enough
May 4, 2026
30m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/1/26 | 4.40 Why you should body double and how to do it well | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Body doubling is where you get in a room or virtual space with another person, with the intention of getting something done in a way that is more productive or pleasant than doing it alone. Originally developed by the disabled community, and especially those with executive functioning challenges, body doubling can be live or online, synchronous or asynchronous, and can be for any tasks that you want support in getting done. In this epi... | 29m 10s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | 4.39 Nine things I learned about academia from watching reality competition shows | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! If you think you would do better work if you had more time, or you wonder whether to push back against or accept feedback, or you get envious of the success of others, then this is a great episode for you! Having spent more time than I like to admit watching reality competition shows, I started spotting parallels with the things I was hearing in coaching. So in this episode I ramble my way through nine specific and hopefully useful exa... | 33m 59s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | 4.38 How to get through the next steps post-thesis submission (A double coaching episode!) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Handing in our thesis can be such a pivotal moment that we can forget there is more to do afterwards! In this double coaching episode, I chat with Lekhana and Lena who are both post-submission about the new challenges that they are facing. Lekhana discusses how the wait for her viva is affecting her motivation, whereas Lena (who is post-viva) describes the difficulties of getting changes done while navigating the transition out of acad... | 1h 04m 23s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | 4.37 How do I stop beating myself up in hindsight | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! It’s so easy to look back and beat yourself up about things you feel you “should” have done earlier, differently or not at all. That can lead to a spiral of self-criticism that’s not only unfair to past us, but that also makes it really difficult to move forward for fear of experiencing the same regret in the future. In this episode, I discuss a philosophical model I came across called the Justied Decision Perspective and in what ways ... | 30m 30s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | 4.36 How do I know if my work is good enough | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! “Is my work good enough” is the million dollar question running through most PhD students’ (and many academics’) mind! In a sector famous for high, yet very poorly defined, standards, it’s no wonder many of us spend a lot of time worrying about whether our work is good enough. In this episode, I chat about why this concern is totally understandable (spoiler - it’s not your fault!) and why it can also be so debilitating. I suggest inste... | 30m 01s | ||||||
| 4/27/26 | 4.35 What to do when you don’t stick to your systems | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! So many people set up new to-do list systems, or decide to time block, or come to one of my workshops about how to review your week, and then don’t stick to the system. We then often beat ourselves up, declare it a fail, and never go back to it. In this episode, I give you a much more productive way to figure out what to do when you don’t stick to your systems. We identify WHY you might be finding it difficult, and WHAT you can do to u... | 36m 44s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | 4.34 How to understand your own procrastination (a special coaching episode) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! If you think you are the only person in academia struggling with procrastination, then you need today’s episode! Hear from Susie and Zareen, two students in my PhD Life Coach membership, as we discuss hiding from the big scary thing, never feeling ready enough to start, and shiny object syndrome.You’ll hear real coaching, with real students, and get some specific tips to help you with your procrastination. If you liked this epis... | 1h 03m 42s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 | 4.33 How to cope in academia with menstrual dysfunction (a double coaching episode!) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! In the second of my April coaching series, we hear from Til and Alex who both experience pre-menstrual dysfunction that impacts their ability to work on their PhDs. We discuss how they’re affected (including how it exacerbates their ADHD) and coach around the tricky balance between achieving their goals and looking after their health. This is a must-listen for everyone, whether you have these symptoms yourself or you care about and/or ... | 57m 23s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 | 4.32 How to do tasks you’ve been putting off (a special double coaching episode!) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! This is the first in a series of live coaching episodes, where I work with students currently in The PhD Life Coach membership on issues that affect their academic lives. This week we’re starting with an old favourite - procrastination! Thoko and Deb are at different stages in their PhD journey but both struggle with procrastination and focus. We discuss why we often procrastinate planning, how we avoid working on tasks that involve ac... | 42m 31s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | 4.31 How to get going on work without external accountability | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! One of the hardest things in academia is the lack of accountability for the most “important” work. We know we must write, but there’s rarely external deadlines and so many other things feel more urgent. One of the PhD Life Coach membership students asked how to get going on a task without external accountability and this is an extended version of my answer to her. I’ll discuss why external accountability helps, how we can put these fra... | 25m 11s | ||||||
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| 3/23/26 | 4.30 How to write when you’re confused | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Writing can feel like you’re banging your head against a wall sometimes. Trying to craft sentences, when you’re not entirely sure where you’re going, and then spending hours working and ending up with nothing to show for it. In this episode I unpick the self-talk that makes this more painful than it needs to be, I introduce the concept of “thinking writing” and give you some specific tasks to experiment with. I don’t promise to stop yo... | 23m 03s | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | 4.29 Why you shouldn’t wait for a polished draft | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! One of the most annoying phrases I hear is “my supervisor only gives feedback on polished drafts”. This is usually accompanied by stories of wasting weeks stressing about whether the work is polished enough, only for the supervisor to later declare it “missing the point” or other such criticisms. In this episode I discuss (ok, I rant about) why waiting for a polished draft is a fundamentally flawed policy and what we should do instead.... | 25m 22s | ||||||
| 3/9/26 | 4.28 How to manage when your work is interrupted all the time | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Lots of people struggle to get work done because they feel like they’re always interrupted, whether that’s by colleagues, friends or family. In this episode I discuss how we can explore this with curiosity, and give some tangible tips about how to reduce the likelihood of interruptions as well as reducing the impact on your work. There’s some hard truths in here too, so be ready to get called out (in a loving and compassionate way as u... | 36m 37s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | 4.27 How to stop thinking about your academic work | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! It’s easy to feel like our academic work has taken up permanent residence in our brains! Recently a member told me they woke up thinking about their PhD, went to bed thinking about it, and were fed up of not thinking about anything else. In the episode, I help you work out whether it’s a problem that you’re thinking about your work and, if you think it is, you’ll get some concrete advice about how to nudge your brain away from the topi... | 27m 51s | ||||||
| 2/23/26 | 4.26 What to do when you don’t have enough time | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Lots of PhD students and academics feel unable to make decisions about their time management because of a series of beliefs that feel very true. They simultaneously tell themselves “I can’t fit in writing during the day because I have other commitments” AND “I can’t write more in the evenings and weekends because I’m tired” AND “I can’t reduce my commitments during the day because they’re fixed” AND “I have to (and should be able to) f... | 26m 48s | ||||||
| 2/16/26 | 4.25 How to do difficult tasks | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! If you are stuck on a difficult task, then this is the episode for you! So often we get caught up on a task that we’re finding difficult, and then we struggle to see a way forward. Unfortunately we often then start making it mean something about ourselves - that we’re not good enough to be able to do the task, or that other people would find it easy, or that it “should” be achievable and it’s a problem that it’s not. In this episode we... | 21m 59s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | 4.24 How to identify options when making a decision (a coaching episode with Claire!) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! In this coaching episode, podcast listener Claire is exploring career options, but worries she lacks the lateral thinking skills to come up with possible ideas. I am not a career coach, but we use this example as an opportunity to explore how limiting beliefs can prevent you finding solutions and how there are many routes to creative ideas. Listen in as we discuss her situation and identify a path forward. If you want to be on the podc... | 59m 15s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | 4.23 How to manage tasks that are not on your To Do list | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! If you end the week somehow having been busy but not having done the things you intended, then this episode is for you. I’m going to help you make more intentional decisions about how to deal with tasks that land in your lap during the week, so that you can feel more in control and accomplished. I’ll also share why adding tasks to your to do list retrospectively can be a great strategy for your motivation, organisation, and future deve... | 23m 52s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | 4.22 What to do when your task is taking longer than you thought | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Do you have a piece of work that is taking way longer than intended? This episode will help you figure out why AND what to do about it. When things take longer than we thought they would, it throws off our schedule and other tasks, and can lead to us spiralling into a panic. Often we feel like we can’t stop long enough to decide what to do - we “just” need to get it done. In this episode I’ll explain why it’s not that easy, and I’ll gi... | 36m 29s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | 4.21 How much should I work per week in academia | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Everyone I know in academia somehow simultaneously believes that they’re working far too much AND that they’re not working enough to get it all done. That leads to a horrible situation where we feel unsatisfied and exhausted, and we often don’t get to enjoy our downtime because we feel guilty too. In this episode, I answer a very common question - how much should I be working - with a more nuanced answer than you will get from most peo... | 27m 38s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | 4.20 How to manage the critical voice when you’ve got too much to do (a special DOUBLE coaching episode) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! A critical inner voice is one of the most common and difficult experience as a PhD student or academic. In this episode, you get to hear me coaching TWO of my current students in the PhD Life Coach membership, who are both part time PhD students while holding down demanding careers in our National Health Service. It runs like one of our group coaching sessions, where they each get coached AND hear each other get coached on self-talk, p... | 59m 11s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | 4.19 How to pursue goals that you’re not sure are possible | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! It’s a time of year where lots of people are setting goals, worrying about which goals to set, and then beating themselves up if they don’t meet them. In this episode, I answer a question I was asked about how to set goals when you’re not sure they’re possible. I share five ways to evaluate big audacious goals to see if they could be a good fit for you and then share two skills that you’ll need to develop in order to pursue a goal that... | 24m 39s | ||||||
| 12/29/25 | 4.18 How and if you should use a Brick to reduce phone usage | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! I really wanted to cut down how much I use my phone and I bought a Brick! This episode is my honest review of the experience so far, and includes some evidence-based advice about what you can and can’t expect from a product like this. I take you through my ups and downs and the behaviour change approaches that I have applied to my Brick strategy. A must for all habitual phone users! {PS this is NOT sponsored by Brick and I bought my ow... | 26m 06s | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | 4.17 Why I left academia (it may not be what you think) | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! We hear so much about people leaving academia at the moment and it’s easy to make assumptions about people’s reasoning. I realised when talking with a one-to-one client that my story is not necessarily a typical one, but it could be one that it is interesting for people to hear. So, in today’s episode, I share my reasoning for leaving academia. I don’t do so in an attempt to encourage others to do the same, and while telling my story, ... | 23m 24s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | 4.16 Why you should notice the paradox of imposter syndrome | Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show! Imposter syndrome often affects the most high achieving people yet it can still feel so true that you’re “not good enough” and “conning” other people into believing you’re better than you are. In this episode, I discuss a paradox that I see a lot in academics experiencing imposter syndrome - the tendency to simultaneously believe that you are an imposter AND hold yourself to higher standards than you hold other people. I’ll discuss the... | 28m 19s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.