Your Words Unleashed
Your Words Unleashed Podcast, hosted by author and writing coach Dr. Leslie Wang, helps women scholars master their writing habits and publish a book that matters.
Your Words Unleashed
Latest Episodes
Ep. 112 - Bringing Personal Memoir into Academic Writing (with Dr. Georgiann Davis)
Academic writing often asks us to keep ourselves out of the story. Memoir asks us to do the opposite.In this episode, I talk with sociologist and intersex scholar-activist Georgiann Davis about her new book, Five Star White Trash, a rese...
Ep. 111 - The Financial Habits That Support Academic Careers (with Dr. Emily Roberts)
Many academics postpone thinking seriously about money until they have a "real job." But the habits and systems you build long before that point can have a significant impact on the choices available to you later.In this episode, I talk ...
Ep. 110 - Leaving Academia #10: Building a New Career in Public Policy (with Dr. Saher Selod)
Many academics reach a point where they start wondering whether they can continue doing this work in the same way for the rest of their career. But even when those questions start surfacing, leaving academia can still feel almost impossible to ...
Ep. 109 - The Formula for Successful Writing
What helps some academic authors finish their books while others remain stuck for years? In this solo episode, Leslie explores the question she has been pondering throughout her coaching career: what truly creates writing success? D...
Ep. 108 - Expert Strategies for Publicizing Your Book (with publicist Sarah Russo)
In this episode, I’m joined by Sarah Russo, founder of Page One Media, to talk through how these campaigns work and how they differ from what presses are able to do on their own. We discuss what publicity actually involves, how it connects to m...