Advancing Your Career in Academia
A podcast for educators in post-secondary academic institutions throughout North America with host Dr. Loren M. Hill.
Advancing Your Career in Academia
Summer Yay 2025: The Emotional Cost of Excellence
Welcome to the annual Summer Yay episode! 🌞 In this special reflection, Dr. Loren M. Hill explores the emotional cost of excellence and invites high-achieving scholars and professionals—especially BIPOC first-gen leaders—to pause, breathe, and reclaim joy.
You’ll hear:
- Why rest is not a luxury but a necessity
- How burnout hides behind words like “innovation” and “resilience”
- The hidden grief of being brilliant and unseen
- A personal Summer Yay story about flowers, Miles Davis, and mindfulness
- Five joy-centered practices to replenish your nervous system
- A powerful reframe: You don’t need to earn rest. You are allowed to feel joy.
This episode is your invitation to reconnect with your humanity—one breath, one moment of stillness, one joy-filled act at a time.
🎧 Listen in and then tag your joy using #SummerYay2025 or connect at theacclivity.com.
Dr. Loren M. Hill is a licensed clinical psychologist and successful entrepreneur. Additionally, Dr. Hill is an experienced academician with several faculty and administrative positions in academia. She is an American Psychological Association Feminist Academic Leadership Academy Fellow, RAND Corporation Faculty Workshop in Policy Research and Analysis Fellow, and a member of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. Dr. Hill is the Resident Psychologist for the Urban Family Focus Weekly show on KBLA Talk Radio.
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