Grad School Femtoring: Inclusive Grad School Stories, Personal Development, and Productivity Tips for First-Gen BIPOCs

Yvette Martinez-Vu

gradschoolfemtoring@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

An educational and professional-development podcast focused on graduate school success, first-generation BIPOC experiences, productivity, and sustainable personal growth, with mostly solo episodes and occasional interviews with coaches and other practitioners. Credible pitches include graduate admissions and funding experts, academic and career coaches, mental-health and productivity professionals, and scholars or authors focused on equity in higher education; booking difficulty is low because the show features accessible professional experts rather than only highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 378

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.6k followers

Contact Information

gradschoolfemtoring@gmail.com

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Host

Yvette Martinez-Vu - First-generation Chicana, parent, neurodivergent and chronically ill graduate-school and productivity coach, consultant, author, and speaker. She has more than fifteen years of experience supportin...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Coaches, consultants, academics, and other practitioners with direct expertise supporting graduate students, first-generation or BIPOC communities, professional development, productivity, mental health, or sustainable achievement.
Required Achievements:  
Established coaching or consulting practice, Professional experience supporting academics, creatives, professionals, or leaders

Recent Guest Discussions

Camila Lacques-Zapien - Compassionate Accountability, Sustainable Productivity, Burnout, Self-trust, Capacity, Coaching, And Values-aligned Decision-making.

Recent Topics

Graduate School, First Generation, Bipoc, Productivity, Mental Health

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Grad School Femtoring: Inclusive Grad School Stories, Personal Development, and Productivity Tips for First-Gen BIPOCs
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378: Compassionate Accountability for Academics and Creatives with Camila Lacques-Zapien

June 26, 2026

In this episode of the Grad School Femtoring podcast, I sit down with my friend returning guest Camila Lacques-Zapién, a coach who supports academics, creatives, professionals, and leaders. Together, we explore what compassionate accountability really means and why so many first-generation, BIPOC, and community-centered individuals have learned to associate accountability with pressure, shame, or overwork instead of care and self-trust. Drawing from our coaching experiences, we discuss how cr...

377: Graduate PLUS Loans Are Ending: What You Need to Know Before Accepting an Offer

June 19, 2026

In this episode of the Grad School Femtoring Podcast, I discuss one of the most significant recent changes to graduate education financing: the end of Graduate PLUS loans and what this means for prospective and current graduate students. Drawing from years of experience supporting first-generation and BIPOC students through graduate admissions and funding decisions, I explain how this policy change may affect master's, PhD, and professional degree students and why understanding the true cost ...

376: What 100K Downloads Taught Me About Consistency, Success, and Hard Seasons

June 12, 2026

In this episode of the Grad School Femtoring Podcast, I reflect on reaching 100K podcast downloads during one of the hardest seasons of my life as a parent and what that unexpected milestone taught me about consistency, progress, and success. Through my own lived experience and the patterns I see in coaching first-generation, BIPOC, and historically excluded students and professionals, I explore why many of us have inherited definitions of consistency that create unnecessary shame and make it...

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