Office Hours With Dr. Lacy

About Office Hours With Dr. Lacy

I help doctoral students finish their dissertations in 12 months or less so they can graduate and become DOCTOR!

Publisher

Marvette Lacy, PhD

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Aug 2017

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 312 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why You Can Write Everything Except Your Dissertation

   Dr. Marvette Lacy explains why dissertation writers get stuck and offers strategies to move from writing to revision for academic success.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Trying to Be the Perfect PhD Student Made Me Fail

   Dr. Lacy shares how letting go of perfectionism and building support systems transformed her PhD journey, offering practical strategies for a sustainable dissertation writing routine.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Doctoral Students Silently Give Up

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Inside a recent episode

Why You Can Write Everything Except Your Dissertation

Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The hours that you spend looking through citations and outlining, those are real. The meeting with your chair is real. Right. What we need, though, is you putting words on a page and letting those words on the page be good enough. So that you can get to the next step, what is most likely happening is that you are acting like you are the student, the chair and the dissertation committee all in one. You're trying to work ahead and be like, I wrote this and I must be the one who determines if it's good enough to get through when we separate. the work from the results, you then realize your only job is to put the words on the page. […]

Who has been a guest on Office Hours With Dr. Lacy

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Danielle McArdle
• Dr Girsea Martinez
• Dr Michelle Rascon-Canales

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

44

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

27 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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Quality

62

Social presence

97

YouTube

63

Engagement

85

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