Mental Health in Grad School w/ Susanna Harris

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this week's episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Susanna Harris, a PhD candidate in microbiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the founder and CEO of PhD Balance, a collaborative community empowering graduate students to build their personal and professional resilience. They discuss the pressures of graduate school, including the entrenched institutional racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and othering that often occurs in academia, as well as the ways those struggling with mental health issues can find support. Follow Susanna: @SusannaLHarris.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday
0:16.6	February 3rd 2020 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. I am actually right now in New York City, if I'm doing my
0:27.3	math, right, and about to head out to Kazakhstan to watch a rocket launch, which I'm super excited about but I'm really
0:35.2	freaked out because it's going to be very very cold. Wish me luck. It should be a
0:40.0	lot of fun and of course if you're listening to this right when it drops on
0:43.4	Monday that means that there's an all new brain games coming out tonight on
0:47.8	National Geographic channel so I hope you'll tune in and see what we're up to
0:52.0	this week.
0:53.6	All right, first I want to thank those of you
0:55.4	who have made TalkNurdy possible this week.
0:58.3	Remembering that TalkNurdy is a free service that I provide.
1:01.5	So really, the show is supported through ad sales but I don't always sell ads for example this week there's no ad on the show and so I really do heavily rely on the support from those of you who want to share to help it so that this
1:16.3	show can continue to be on the air. And you know I have some really great
1:20.9	supporters this month, this week specifically.
1:25.0	I want to thank, you know, I'm going to do these in order of lifetime support, I think,
1:30.4	because I have some really top tier like lifetime supporters.
1:33.0	Let me just switch this up so I can do that.
1:36.0	Wow, yeah, Jeffrey Sewall, I think you get a legacy shout out.
1:40.0	You are incredible.
1:42.0	Brian Holden, second lifetime supporter
1:45.0	Gabriel Felipe Hermiel Gonzalez Phil Tibert David J. E. Smith, Juan, Ken Fifer, Christian Jeffrey, David Compton, Juan Gutierrez,
2:01.0	Jacob Rochester, and Doug Petipier.
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