Your Words Unleashed

Leslie Wang

leslie@yourwordsunleashed.com

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Booking Overview

An interview-led academic writing and career-development podcast for women scholars, combining solo coaching episodes with external conversations featuring academics and specialized professionals serving them. Strong guest candidates include scholarly authors, publishing experts, academic career-transition leaders, and specialists in finances, policy, or professional development for researchers; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 111

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 30 subscribers

Contact Information

leslie@yourwordsunleashed.com

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Host

Leslie Wang - Author and writing coach who helps women scholars develop writing habits, publish meaningful books, and navigate academic career decisions.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Advanced academic or professional expertise, with a demonstrated connection to scholarly writing, academic careers, publishing, policy, or services for researchers.
Required Achievements:  
Authorship or expertise relevant to academics, Leadership in academic, policy, nonprofit, or professional-services organizations, Successful transition from academia into another career

Recent Guest Discussions

Emily Roberts - Financial Habits, Scarcity Mindset, Money And Personal Values, Financial Literacy, Career Transitions, And Long-term Planning For Academics.

Saher Selod - Leaving Academia, Transitioning Into Public Policy And Nonprofit Work, Burnout, Translating Academic Skills, And Making Research Publicly Impactful.

Recent Topics

Academic Writing, Book Publishing, Writing Habits, Career Transitions, Academia

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Your Words Unleashed
:

Ep. 111 - The Financial Habits That Support Academic Careers (with Dr. Emily Roberts)

July 13, 2026

Send us Fan MailMany academics postpone thinking seriously about money until they have a "real job." But the habits and systems you build long before that point can have a significant impact on the choices available to you later.In this episode, I talk with Dr. Emily Roberts, founder of Personal Finance for PhDs, about the financial challenges that graduate students and postdocs often face. We discuss scarcity mindset in academia, the relationship between money and personal values, ...

Ep. 110 - Leaving Academia #10: Building a New Career in Public Policy (with Dr. Saher Selod)

June 22, 2026

Send us Fan MailMany academics reach a point where they start wondering whether they can continue doing this work in the same way for the rest of their career. But even when those questions start surfacing, leaving academia can still feel almost impossible to imagine.In this episode, I talk with my friend Dr. Saher Selod about her transition from tenured professor and department chair to Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). We discuss the emotional...

Ep. 109 - The Formula for Successful Writing

June 08, 2026

Send us Fan MailWhat helps some academic authors finish their books while others remain stuck for years? In this solo episode, Leslie explores the question she has been pondering throughout her coaching career: what truly creates writing success? Drawing on her experience working with hundreds of scholarly authors, she challenges common assumptions about productivity, motivation, and time management. Leslie shares a practical framework for understanding why writing progress often stalls and w...

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