Office Hours With Dr. Lacy

Dr. Lacy

Booking Overview

Office Hours with Dr. Lacy helps doctoral students finish dissertations within 12 months through structured planning, consistent writing, and improved communication with dissertation chairs. It’s a niche, student-success show where occasional guest episodes add real-world dissertation journey insights.

Metrics

Episodes: 272

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Female

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 2.3k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

marvette@marvettelacy.com

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Host

Dr. Lacy - Dr. Lacy is a dissertation-completion coach focused on helping doctoral students finish their dissertations in 12 months or less. Her work centers on practical dissertation frameworks, writing acco...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Doctoral graduates or dissertation experts/mentors—especially those with experience completing qualitative dissertations (or coaching others through the process)

Required Achievements:

PhD completion (often in qualitative research), Demonstrated dissertation-to-defense experience, Experience mentoring/coaching doctoral students or building dissertation-support programs, Credible academic/professional track record tied to dissertation work

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Tasha Wearren - Dissertation Journey (data Collection Through Defense), Community Support, Time Management, And Navigating Qualitative Research While Staying Grounded In Research Questions

Recent Topics

Doctorate, Dissertation, Writing, Academic Success, Research

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Office Hours With Dr. Lacy

How Trying to Be the Perfect PhD Student Made Me Fail

October 07, 2026

Break The Proposal Trap Workshop:https://qualscholars.kit.com/a846c7f948 Your dissertation writing plan looks great on Sunday. By Wednesday, life has happened, you’re behind, and you’re wondering if you have what it takes to finish.I know that feeling. During my first semester in a PhD program, I tried to become the perfect doctoral student overnight. By Thanksgiving, I was burned out. By winter break, I was on academic probation. The next semester, I earned a 4.0. What changed was the suppor...

Why Doctoral Students Silently Give Up

September 30, 2026

Break The Proposal Trap Workshop: ⁠⁠https://qualscholars.kit.com/a846c7f948⁠⁠You did not wake up one morning and decide to quit your dissertation. You missed one deadline, waited until you had better news for your chair, and kept waiting until weeks turned into months.In this episode, Dr. Lacy explains how one missed deadline can turn into four months away from your dissertation. She breaks down how shame keeps doctoral students silent, why calling yourself lazy hides the support you actually...

Why Smart Doctoral Students Never Finish The Dissertation

September 28, 2026

Break The Proposal Trap Workshop: https://qualscholars.kit.com/a846c7f948You know how to work hard. So why can you manage your career, family, and everyone else’s problems but still feel defeated by one dissertation chapter?In this episode, Dr. Lacy explains why the habits that helped you succeed in coursework may be keeping you stuck in the dissertation stage. You’ll learn how reading, planning, and fixing citations can become ways to avoid writing, and why your imperfect draft may be exactl...

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