Welcome!

Welcome to the Good Enough Professor, the podcast that reimagines academic life for overwhelmed professors. I'm your host, Karen Gonzalez Rice, and I am delighted to walk beside you as we navigate our evolving identities as professors, teachers, scholars, and full, three-dimensional humans in this world.

Higher education can feel isolating, but you are not alone. Here at the Good Enough Professor Podcast, we will explore the ups and downs of academic life with all of its wonderful quirkiness and its maddening contradictions and inequities.

At key moments throughout the academic year, I bring you short reflections, and simple exercises to help you connect with what matters most to you. We'll dive deep into tiny but powerful interventions to release academic grind culture and create more ease more satisfaction, and more fun in your everyday life.

Whether you're a seasoned professor or a newly hired faculty member, just starting out, you are good enough just as you are.

Catch every episode by subscribing to the Good Enough Professor on your favorite podcast platform. And while you're at it, consider leaving a rating and a review, which helps me connect with more good enough professors just like you.

So join me on this path as we learn to embrace rest, let go of perfectionism, build networks of support, sustain our research with delight and play, and create space for more fulfillment in our academic lives.

Stay tuned for the first episode of the Good Enough Professor coming soon. Until then, spread the word tell your academic friends! Let's create a more sustainable, supportive and more humane academia together.

Listen the Good Enough Professor Trailer here.