From Burnout to 10k Followers: How Erin Schleiden Built The Academic Writing Coach
You've always assumed that niching down will scare clients away, but you're getting it wrong.I know it's counterintuitive, but Erin Schleiden, PhD, is the perfect example of why narrowing your niche i...
3 Sep 30min
4 Signs Your Academic Business Has Outgrown You (and What to Do Next)
You're fully booked with editing or coaching clients. Revenue is good. And somehow you still feel like something's about to fall apart.If that sounds familiar, you haven't done anything wrong—you've h...
27 Aug 56min
The "House Cleaner Theory" of Pricing Your Academic Editing Services
If you're still charging 2 cents a word for academic editing, this episode is going to make you uncomfortable—in a good way.In this episode, I break down the two beliefs that keep editors underpriced ...
20 Aug 52min
Does Leaving Academia Still Feel Like Failure? Reflections on the Last 10 Years
Leaving academia can feel like admitting the whole thing was a mistake. It isn't—and the fear that says otherwise isn't an accident.In this episode, Paulina sits down with career coach Jen Polk (From ...
13 Aug 36min
How to Finish Your PhD and Launch Your Editing Business (with a Toddler at Home)
Thousands of moms around the world are getting their PhD while juggling many (or all) of the parenting responsibilities.In this week's episode, I spoke with Laura Vasquez Bass, of Atlantic Editorial, ...
6 Aug 49min
"There's No Work Out There" Is a Lie: 3 Places to Find Your Next Editing Clients
You keep hearing there's no editing work out there. Let me be clear: That is NOT true—and if your calendar has been empty, the problem probably isn't the market. It's that your ideal clients don't kno...
30 Jul 44min
How to 4x Your Editing Rate without Learning a Single New Skill
You've been editing for an agency since 2020, and you're still making the same 1.5 cents a word you started with.Meanwhile you're staring down another year of barely cracking $40K for work that's eati...
23 Jul 47min
Neurodivergent and Burnt Out? Why Freelance Editing Might Fit Your Brain Better than a 9-5 Job Does
After a Yale University Press internship where a supervisor told her she had "a strange brain," and six months of applications with zero interviews, Hannah Bartlett stopped trying to fit into a system...
16 Jul 43min
