Self-Compassionate Professor

About Self-Compassionate Professor

helping academics and former academics find wellness, meaning, purpose, and freedom

Publisher

Danielle De La Mare, PhD

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jan 2020

Latest episode

22 May 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 202 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   214. Let your life speak with Dr. Chris Johnson

   Host Dr. Chris Johnson interviews himself, exploring how to let your life speak through big questions, deep listening, and personal triumphs during career and life seasons.

2. 

   15 Oct 2025

   213. The gifts of the inverse academic career with Dr. Melanie Peffer

   In her third appearance on the podcast over a five-year period, Dr. Melanie Peffer tells us about the gifts of the “inverse academic career trajectory” where she moved from tenure-track faculty, to lecturer, and again to adjunct. While from a traditional academic perspective, she explains, this may look like an unsuccessful career. Yet, as her business has grown, she has found great success in entirely unexpected ways: We discuss her new biology textbook coming out in January 2026, her work as a consultant and freelance writer, as well as her love for teaching. She explains that her unconventional career trajectory allows her to set her own benchmarks for success, enjoy her work, take care of and spend time with her family, enjoy her hobbies, and tend to her values and calling. She also discusses identifying with the term, “neuro-spicy,” explaining that while it has its challenges, her unique brain allows her to make observations and connections helpful to carving out her own unique career path. Find Melanie at https://www.biologyeverywhere.com/

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   8 Oct 2025

   212. Room to breathe with Tyler Martin

   Tyler Martin shows that despite institutional demands and limitations placed on higher ed faculty, it is still possible for faculty to feel grounded in purpose, clear about personal values, and strong in their own sense of agency. He argues that as we allow ourselves to experience the tensions we all feel in relationship to our institutions as well as express and co-witness these challenges in community, we can begin to peel back the layers that keep us behaving outside of our integrity. And in this “apprenticeship within conversation,” we find both small and big ways to inch our way back to ourselves. This practice, as Tyler points out, is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring great commitment to self, community, and society. Find Tyler at https://goodpainco.com/goodpain-podcast/.

Inside a recent episode

214. Let your life speak with Dr. Chris Johnson

Published 22 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Listening for the voice of vocation is the subtitle. So I guess what I was starting to say there was that when people turn down the chatter in their minds, all the voices that tell us who to be, and listen for the voice of true self, the deepest, innermost... voices of true self we can in Parker's phrase Quaker phrase we can let our lives speak he writes I think it's in that book or I've heard him say it in other settings instead of asking or struggling with a question like, what should I do with my life? He says, invites us to tip it on its head a little bit and say, what is it that my life wants to do with me? […]

Who has been a guest on Self-Compassionate Professor

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

• Chris Johnson
• Dr Lennart Nacke
• Dr Jen Harrison
• Henny Flynn
• Su Sol

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

53 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

74

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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