Designing with Love

The fastest way to kill a good learning goal is to blame the format instead of fixing the design. We’re kicking off a new series on myths in instructional design and education by taking on one of the biggest, most stubborn claims out there: online learning is less effective than in-person learning.We get why this belief sticks. A lot of digital learning has felt disconnected, confusing, passive, or overwhelming, especially when people experienced emergency remote teaching that was rushed and under-supported. But a bad online course doesn’t prove online education fails. It proves the learning experience wasn’t designed for that environment. When we stop diagnosing the medium and start diagnosing the learning, we see the real levers that drive outcomes.We also ground the conversation in evidence-based practice, including insights from the U.S. Department of Education’s “Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning.” The takeaway isn’t “online is better” or “in-person is better.” The takeaway is that performance depends on factors like time on task, instructional elements, collaboration, and the overall quality of the instructional strategy.Then we get practical. We walk through what strong e-learning and digital learning design actually require: clear navigation, meaningful activities, interaction with purpose, timely feedback, and accessibility and learner support. You’ll leave with a simple “myth reset” challenge and a set of questions you can use to audit one lesson, module, or training and make one small improvement right away.Subscribe, share this with a fellow educator or instructional designer, and leave a review if it helped. What’s one online course you’ve seen that could have been great with better design?🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Myth Reset Case File: Online Learning EffectivenessU.S. Department of Education: Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online LearningHow Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose et al. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Accessibility doesn’t have to feel like a mountain you climb alone. Jackie sat down with accessibility advocate Maxwell Ivey to turn big ideas into small, repeatable steps that make your website and content welcoming to every user. Instead of chasing every rule at once, we focus on process over panic: define the user problem, choose the smallest next fix, and build momentum.We start with the highest‑impact moves. Headings become navigational landmarks for screen readers, so a clean H1 followed by a logical H2/H3 structure instantly improves flow. Then we tackle readability—plain language, short sentences, generous spacing, and high color contrast—so people with low vision, dyslexia, ADHD, or anyone skimming on mobile can engage without friction. On images, Max lays out how to write alt text that carries meaning, not fluff, and why buttons, icons, and linked images must have accessible names that describe purpose, not just appearance.We wrap with a mindset shift that might surprise you: smaller, user‑obsessed teams often outpace big brands on accessibility because they iterate fast and listen closely. You don’t need a massive budget to make a difference—you need intent and a habit. Your challenge this week: fix your homepage headings and link text so every visitor, including screen reader users, can scan and act with confidence. 🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Maxwell Ivey’s website and social media links below.Maxwell Ivey’s WebsiteMaxwell’s Facebook PageMaxwell’s LinkedIn PageMaxwell’s Instagram PageMaxwell’s X PageMaxwell’s Pinterest PageMaxwell’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: Want to learn more or work with Maxwell? Visit The Accessibility Advantage to explore his latest accessibility content and reach out about consulting, training, or support. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI tools are getting faster, louder, and harder to ignore, but that doesn’t mean your growth has to feel chaotic. We wrap the AI-Ready Designer Series with a clear 90-day plan that turns experimentation into a repeatable practice you can actually defend, document, and share. If you’ve been learning a little here and there but still feel scattered, this roadmap is built to help you move with intention.We start with the mindset shift: AI readiness isn’t about attending one webinar, collecting prompts, or chasing every new platform. It becomes part of how we analyze performance problems, design practice, create assets, review quality, protect data, collaborate with stakeholders, and measure impact. And we keep the main truth front and center: our value is not the tool. Our value is instructional design judgment, the human decision-making that defines what “good” looks like.Then we lay out three common traps that quietly derail progress: random skill building, random tool adoption, and having no proof of growth. From there, we replace chaos with a simple structure for the next 90 days: Skills (what we practice), Systems (what we make repeatable with templates, QA checklists, prompt libraries, and knowledge vaults), and Proof (what we document with metrics, before-and-after examples, and portfolio-ready artifacts). We finish with a practical 30-60-90 timeline and a final challenge you can complete in minutes.Subscribe, share this with an instructional designer who needs a clear path, and leave a review to help more designers build AI confidence the responsible way.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!90-Day AI-Ready CompassSend Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if your best presentation didn’t just earn applause—it moved people to act? Jackie sat down with Dr. Danny Brassell to map a clearer path from inspiration to conversion, blending hard-won classroom lessons with decades on the stage to show exactly how to make talks that stick, spread, and sell without feeling salesy.We start with the only scoreboard that matters: how many listeners take the next step with you. From there, Danny breaks down his Five Cs—clarity, connect, content, call to action, and close—so you can design every moment with intention. You’ll learn why defining audience and problem first prevents drift, how RAP (relatable, authority, purpose) builds trust in five minutes, and why a service-first mindset beats pushy pitches. We dig into the one-ask rule, the Trader Joe’s effect on choice, and practical ways to make your message visual so the mind can grab it and keep it.To make this actionable, Danny shares quick upgrades you can use this week: build a personal story bank, rehearse like an athlete, and study short formats like award speeches to sharpen connection and timing. If you’re an educator, coach, creator, or leader who needs your words to turn into real-world outcomes, this conversation gives you a proven framework and tools you can put to work right away.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Danny Brassell’s website and social media links below.Danny Brassell’s WebsiteDanny’s Facebook PageDanny’s LinkedIn PageDanny’s Instagram PageDanny’s X PageDanny’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: As a quick thank-you, I want to point you to Danny’s free resource, “The Storytelling Blueprint: 5 Steps to Craft a Compelling Business Narrative.” It’s a practical guide for shaping a message that earns attention, builds trust, and helps your presentation move people to action. It’s a great companion resource to use throughout this mini-series.Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can make instructional design feel faster overnight, but speed is the easiest thing to celebrate and the easiest thing to misunderstand. When leaders ask whether AI is truly helping learning and development teams, “We used it a lot” is not an answer. In this episode, Jackie walks through how to prove AI impact with credibility using lightweight workflow metrics that tell the real story, including where AI saves time, where it adds risk, and where it quietly creates extra work.We start by naming the traps that derail AI measurement in L&D: vanity metrics that look impressive but mean little, overclaiming time savings without a fair comparison, and invisible costs like fact-checking, brand edits, stakeholder alignment, and security review. From there, I share a simple AI impact snapshot across five practical areas you can track without building a massive measurement system: time, quality, rework, consistency, and team confidence. These metrics map directly to what matters in instructional design and performance outcomes, not just tool activity.If you want practical AI governance, better QA, and clearer proof of value for your L&D team, subscribe or follow, share this with a fellow designer, and leave a review so more instructional designers can measure AI with honesty and confidence.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!AI Impact Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Ever watch a promising writing class lose steam by midterm? We’ve been there, and we built this conversation to flip that script using the ARCS model—Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction—as a practical blueprint for motivated, higher-quality writing across live and online courses. With award-winning author and curriculum developer Ruth A. Douthit, we unpack what actually keeps students engaged, why “busy work” backfires, and how to design assignments that feel purposeful from the first hook to the final draft.Ruth closes with before-and-after assignment makeovers and shares where to connect with her books and A Writer’s Day podcast. If you’re ready to replace disengagement with momentum and help students produce writing they’re proud to share, this episode will give you the scripts, structures, and confidence to start.Enjoyed the conversation? Follow and share the show, leave a thoughtful review, and send this to a colleague who’s redesigning a writing course. Your support helps more educators find actionable ideas that work.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Ruth Douthitt’s website and social media links below.Ruth Douthitt’s WebsiteRuth’s Facebook PageRuth’s LinkedIn PageRuth’s Instagram PageRuth’s X Page📢 Call-to-Action: If today’s episode helped you rethink motivation in writing instruction, try redesigning just one writing activity using ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) and see what shifts for your learners.Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI tools can make learning design faster and more creative, but the moment a tool touches prompts, uploads, learner responses, employee information, or system integrations, approvals can feel like a hard stop. We talk through the real shift many instructional designers are living right now: AI tool selection is no longer only a learning design decision. It’s also a technology decision, a security and data privacy decision, and a procurement decision tied to contracts, licensing, and long-term support.We walk step-by-step through what IT, security, and procurement actually care about, and how to stop showing up late to the conversation with vague requests. You’ll hear four common traps that turn approvals into frustration, plus a simple reframe that makes collaboration easier: bring clarity before you bring urgency. We also keep the instructional designer’s core responsibility front and center, connecting any AI tool to learning purpose, performance, practice, feedback, and transfer so “shiny” doesn’t outrank “useful.”To make it practical, we share a one-page AI approval brief you can use before you recommend, request, or pilot a tool. It covers five essentials: the use case, the audience, the data involved, the risk tier with guardrails, and the value with a clear evaluation plan. We also point you to the AI Approval Compass companion resource and end with a checkpoint challenge you can complete in minutes. Subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review if you want more AI-ready workflows that stay human and responsible.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!AI Approval Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Accessibility isn’t a box to tick at launch; it’s the backbone of products people actually trust. Jackie sat down with Maxwell “The Blind Blogger” Ivey—founder of The Accessibility Advantage and longtime advocate for inclusive digital experiences—to unpack how small, thoughtful changes can eliminate friction, reduce support costs, and open doors to more learners and customers.Max shares four moves you can make this week: highlight the main tasks, simplify design, cut clutter, and build keyboard-first. Along the way, we talk about turning complaints into collaboration, testing with real users, and creating advisory loops with customer service to catch issues early. If you’re leading an organization or building courses, websites, or services, this conversation gives you a roadmap to reduce friction, meet real needs, and unlock accessibility as a competitive edge.Enjoyed the conversation? Follow and share the show, leave a review to help others find it, and send this to a teammate who can champion accessibility with you.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Maxwell Ivey’s website and social media links below.Maxwell Ivey’s WebsiteMaxwell’s Facebook PageMaxwell’s LinkedIn PageMaxwell’s Instagram PageMaxwell’s X PageMaxwell’s Pinterest PageMaxwell’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: Want to learn more or work with Maxwell? Visit The Accessibility Advantage to explore his latest accessibility content and reach out about consulting, training, or support.🎧 Next Episode: Part 2: Practical ways to make websites and learning materials accessible for everyone (tools, workflow, and quick wins).Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

A bot can sound warm, responsive, and confident, and still teach the wrong thing. That’s the tension we dig into as we explore AI tutors, AI coaches, and practice bots through the lens that matters most to instructional designers: practice design that improves real performance, not just chat transcripts.Jackie walks through why AI can absolutely help us scale practice, create interactions faster, and give learners more chances to rehearse, reflect, and try again. But Jackie also draws a hard line: a conversation is not automatically learning, and “AI tutor” does not automatically mean “good feedback.” We break down what never changes in learning design, including clear goals, realistic scenarios, feedback tied to a standard, and a safe path back to real-world application.Then we get practical with four predictable risk areas (inaccurate feedback, generic responses, overtrust, and sensitive use cases like HR, legal, medical, mental health, or private data). From there, I share where AI is usually a best fit, plus five design requirements you can use to build better guardrails, including human escalation. You’ll also get a simple decision framework I call the Help Fit test: Helpful, Evidence-based, Low risk, Protected, along with a concrete customer service role play example to show what “good architecture” looks like.If you want to use AI in training responsibly, this is your roadmap. Subscribe, share the episode with a fellow designer, and leave a review if the framework helps you design smarter practice.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!AI Practice Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Training that doesn’t change behavior is just content, and content alone won’t move a business metric. Jackie sat down with Dr. Steven Linley, a learning strategist and adult learning expert, to unpack how to turn “we need training” into performance that lasts. From the first stakeholder request to the final coaching touchpoint, Steven shows how to investigate like a detective, separate red herrings from root causes, and design solutions that fit the real constraints of work.If you’re ready to move from order taker to strategic partner, this episode gives you the questions to ask, the levers to pull, and the system to build. Subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review to tell us: what’s the one shift you’ll make this week to turn learning into performance?🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Steven Linley’s website and social media links below.Steven Linley’s WebsiteSteven’s LinkedIn Page📢 Call-to-Action: This call-to-action link directs listeners to the FōKUS website, where they can explore practical learning solutions designed to improve performance—not just deliver training. The site is especially valuable for leaders and teams looking to strengthen customer service, frontline performance, and professional development through well-designed, human-centered learning systems. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can generate outlines, scripts, quizzes, scenarios, and slide drafts in minutes. That sounds like freedom, until you realize the real danger is volume: more content, more assets, more “resources” that don’t actually change what learners do. We’re making the case for a different kind of value in the AI era of instructional design and learning experience design: becoming the learning architect who decides what belongs, what gets left out, and what actually supports performance. We break down the content factory trap, the pattern where deliverables become the goal and practice gets squeezed out. When everything feels important, learners get overwhelmed and the experience loses clarity. We reconnect to what still matters no matter how fast generative AI gets: structure, a clear learning path, meaningful practice, timely feedback, and support after training ends. You’ll get three core architecture decisions to use on every project: the performance decision (what learners must be able to do), the experience decision (how they practice and build confidence), and the support decision (what helps them apply skills later). Then we make it practical with a simple learning architecture map you can use before you build anything: Outcome, Experience, Support, Evidence. If you want AI-assisted course design to lead to better results, not just faster production, this framework keeps you grounded in strategy. Subscribe, share with a fellow instructional designer, and leave a review to help more designers build learning that works.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Learning Architect Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if assessment made thinking visible and turned AI into a learning partner instead of a shortcut? Jackie sat down with Hamza Sami to close our series by unpacking practical ways to design for real understanding—where reasoning, judgment, and context take center stage.We start by reframing purpose: assessment is for learning, not just measurement. That lens leads to formative moves that build trust and invite responsible AI use. Hamza breaks down how to set clear AI norms, teach limits and risks, and require transparent acknowledgment with screenshots, links, and prompt logs. From there, we get tactical: in-class AI critiques, compare-and-verify exercises, and concise reflections that reveal what the model did well, where it failed, and how students adapted outputs to their goals.For summative checks, we spotlight formats that hold up with AI in play: presentations with Q&A, reflective blogs, portfolios of evidence, capstones grounded in authentic problems, and open-ended scenarios that demand justification. Hamza also shares three quick wins any instructor can deploy next term—explain-your-thinking checkpoints, brief peer feedback moments, and explicit AI process citations—plus one culture shift: stop letting assessment end at submission and bring learning to life through dialogue.Subscribe, share this episode with a colleague who’s redesigning a course, and leave a review to help more educators find the show. What’s the first assessment move you’ll try next?🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Hamza Sami’s website and social media links below.Hamza Sami’s WebsiteHamza’s LinkedIn Page📢 Call-to-Action: Need a hand bringing your learning ideas to life, whether curriculum design, instructional strategy, or even creative production? Reach out on LinkedIn, and let’s explore how we can make learning more engaging together.Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can help you generate course content in minutes, but if you’ve ever looked at the output and thought, “This doesn’t sound like me,” you already know the hidden cost: inconsistency. When tone changes, terminology drifts, and structure varies across modules, your work stops feeling recognizable and trustworthy even if the content is technically correct.We walk through a simple fix that doesn’t require a massive system or 100 documents: an Instructional Design Knowledge Vault. I explain why the real risk isn’t AI, it’s using AI without a home base for your voice, your standards, and your repeatable design patterns. We name the three predictable problems that show up without a vault (brand drift, duplicate work, and the rework spiral), then build a practical four-folder setup you can keep in whatever tool you already use: Voice, Standards, Patterns, and Proof.You’ll leave with a starter list of assets you can create quickly, including a five-bullet voice guide, a QA scan focused on facts, fairness, and voice, prompt templates for spec, critique, and variations, plus a single gold-standard example to guide future drafts. Most importantly, we share one rule that turns “random output” into consistent output: every time you prompt, attach one vault item. If you want AI speed without losing your quality bar, this is the workflow to try next.Follow or subscribe for more practical, human-centered instructional design strategies, and if this helped, share it with a fellow designer or leave a review so more people can find the show.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!ID Knowledge Vault Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Curiosity turns into clarity when a seasoned teacher names the practices that work. Jackie sits down with Caroline Amberson, a K–12 demonstration teacher who completed her M.S. in Instructional Design at Grand Canyon University, to unpack how research transformed instinct into intention. She walks us through the moment Mayer’s multimedia principles gave her a common language, how UDL and cognitive load theory run alongside them, and why the Kirkpatrick model finally made evaluation feel practical across classrooms and PD.What makes this conversation sing is the translation layer. Caroline shows how she rebuilt project-based learning into nimble microlearning and scenario-based experiences that her students ask for, using Genially’s branching paths and embedded audio to differentiate without chaos. We get specific about tool choices—when linear, streamlined content suits Canva and when interactive decision-making calls for Genially—so listeners can pick the right medium without overloading learners.If you care about creating learning that actually works—clear, accessible, and grounded in evidence—you’ll find practical steps you can use today. Subscribe, share this conversation with a colleague who designs learning, and leave a review to help more educators discover it. What’s one design choice you’ll rethink this week?📢 Call-to-Action: After listening to this episode, take a few minutes to jot down one way you’d like to grow as a learning designer this year—whether that’s exploring a graduate program, updating your portfolio, experimenting with microlearning, or trying a new strategy in your classroom. Then, choose one small step you can take this week to move in that direction and put it on your calendar. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI output isn’t mysterious; it’s measurable. When we prompt like we’re chatting, we get content that feels generic and unpredictable. When we prompt like instructional designers, with audience, outcomes, constraints, and a definition of “good,” the same AI tool starts producing drafts you can actually reuse.In this episode, Jackie walks through a simple mindset shift that changes everything: a prompt is a mini design document. From there, we name the three biggest reasons one-off prompts fail (vague goals, missing context, and no quality target) and replace them with three repeatable prompting patterns you can use across onboarding, microlearning, scenario design, job aids, and eLearning outlines. You’ll get a clear spec prompt formula for fast first drafts, a critique prompt to evaluate and rewrite with intention, and a variations prompt to create multiple options without starting over.We also turn the patterns into a five-minute “prompt pack” you can keep in a notes app, plus one rule that prevents chaos in your AI workflow: change one thing at a time. Subscribe, share this with a fellow designer, and leave a review so more instructional designers can make AI feel like a skill instead of guesswork.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Prompting Patterns Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Ever feel like your tools change faster than your lesson plans? Jackie sat down with tech translator and founder Charly Leetham to unpack a calmer, smarter way to work with technology—one that starts with first principles, respects human limits, and favors preparation over firefighting. From story-rich field experience to practical classroom routines, this conversation is a guide to making tech serve the teaching, not the other way around.If you’re ready to replace panic with process and guesswork with clarity, this conversation is your blueprint. Subscribe for more practical tech strategies, share this episode with a colleague who’s drowning in updates, and leave a review to help others find the show. What’s the one routine you’ll adopt this month?🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Charly Leetham’s website and social media links below.Charly Leetham’s WebsiteCharly’s LinkedIn PageCharly’s Facebook PageCharly’s Instagram PageCharly’s X PageCharly’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: If today’s conversation sparked ideas about simplifying your tech, visit Charly’s website to explore her resources on making technology more manageable. Choose one current course or project you’re working on and use one of Charly’s tips or takeaways to clean up, streamline, or stabilize the tech behind it this month. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can write training content that looks flawless, sounds professional, and still quietly mislead your learners. That’s the problem we tackle today, along with a practical fix you can use immediately: a fast QA scan that keeps AI speed while protecting trust, accuracy, and credibility.In this episode, Jackie walks through three failure modes that show up again and again in AI-generated eLearning and microlearning drafts: accuracy issues like invented details or wrong policy claims, bias that slips into scenarios through assumptions or stereotypes, and brand drift where the tone turns generic, overly corporate, or inconsistent with your organization’s voice. If you design learning for compliance, safety, HR, legal, or any high-stakes topic, these risks aren’t theoretical; they can impact people’s well-being, employment, and your organization’s reputation.You’ll leave with a simple, repeatable method: run three quick passes on any AI draft facts, fairness, and voice. I share the exact questions to ask, the red flags to watch for, and an easy checklist to keep next to your keyboard. If you found this helpful, follow or subscribe, share the show with a fellow instructional designer, and leave a review so more designers can build AI-ready workflows without quality surprises.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!AI QA Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if the clearest path to your calling is simpler than you think? Host Jackie Pelegrin sits down with artist, pastor, author, and motivator Daniel Bernabe for a candid look at how grief, faith, and relentless practice can turn raw potential into enduring impact. From a teenage moment of loss to the steady drumbeat of “seek first,” Daniel charts the habits and heart postures that helped him become a painter, publisher, and encourager who serves from his strengths without burning out.We dig into the first principle of purpose—be yourself—and why identity precedes strategy. Daniel breaks down the difference between a job that funds life and the deeper work that fuels it, offering practical ways to spot your gifts by tracking passion, energy, and voluntary effort. Then we get tactical: how to nourish talent with focused inputs, design a personal learning plan, and cut the noise so your voice grows clear. If you teach, train, or build learning experiences, you’ll hear how specialization and collaboration raise quality—think engineers and tires on a car—and why trying to be “good at everything” undermines excellence.If this episode sparks something in you, follow and share the show, leave a review to help others find it, and pass it to someone who needs a nudge toward their gift today.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Daniel Bernabe’s website and social media links below.Daniel Bernabe’s WebsiteDaniel’s LinkedIn PageDaniel’s Facebook PageDaniel’s Instagram PageDaniel’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: Enjoyed this conversation with Daniel? Keep growing in your calling. If today’s episode encouraged you to lean into your God-given gifts, take the next step by connecting with Daniel and exploring more of his work. You can listen to his Daniel Bernabe Daily Inspirational Quotes podcast for short, scripture-based encouragement to obey God’s Word and serve others through your gifts, and check out his books, art, and ministry updates through his online platforms. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can crank out a draft in minutes, but if the audience is wrong, the tone is off, or the facts don’t match policy, you’ll lose every “saved” hour in rework. In this episode, Jackie breaks down the shift she keeps seeing in instructional design teams: the new bottleneck isn’t creating content, it’s creating trusted content. That’s why human-in-the-loop review isn’t an extra process. It’s the difference between fast and frustrating.Jackie walks through a simple four-step workflow you can apply to almost any training asset: Draft, Verify, Refine, and Approve (DVRA). We talk about where rework really comes from, how to stop verification from happening too late, and why “verify before you beautify” protects your time and your credibility. Jackie also shares practical checks for SME accuracy, compliance alignment, learner job context, and accessibility basics so your training is clear, safe, and usable.To make this immediately actionable, Jackie gives you a four-question review tool you can run before anything ships, plus a tiny definition of done you can paste into your next project. If you found this helpful, follow or subscribe, share the episode with a fellow designer, and leave a review so more instructional designers can find it.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Human-in-the-Loop Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if AI became your most thoughtful co-teacher instead of a shortcut students hide behind? Jackie had an engaging and insightful conversation with John Williamson, lead curriculum developer at Grand Canyon University and founder of Olive and Rose Education, to map out how generative AI can boost creativity, deepen learning, and give teachers precious time back—without losing professional judgment or student agency.We unpack John’s three-tier framework for responsible adoption: AI-assisted activities that focus on brainstorming and clarity without generating final work, co-creation tasks that let AI help shape outlines or partial drafts, and AI-empowered simulations where students rehearse real-world scenarios and reflect on their decisions. From interviewing historical figures to practicing situational leadership and counseling skills, these designs turn passive assignments into memorable learning experiences. Along the way, we emphasize usage statements that document how tools were used, building transparency and accountability while protecting academic integrity.Ready to design learning that students won’t hand off to machines? Hit follow, share this episode with a colleague, and leave a review with the one experiment you’ll try this week. Your insights help more educators build ethical, creative, and effective AI-powered classrooms.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit John Williamson’s website and social media links below.John Williamson’s WebsiteJohn’s LinkedIn PageJohn’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: Choose one idea from today’s episode and try a small AI-powered experiment in a lesson, module, or project this week. Then, jot down what worked, what didn’t, and what you’d tweak next time. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Training can look successful on paper and still fail where it counts: on the job. We’re digging into the data literacy instructional designers and educators actually need right now, especially as AI tools speed up decisions and raise new privacy questions. If you’ve ever stared at completions, seat time, or quiz scores and wondered, “So what do I do with this information?”, this conversation is built for you.We walk through the mindset shift that makes measurement useful: data is evidence, not the mission. You’ll hear the three traps that quietly sabotage learning measurement and training evaluation, including confusing activity with impact, optimizing for easy-to-track metrics, and sharing more learner or project data than you intended when using AI. Then we break down five practical “data basics” you can apply immediately: inputs vs outputs vs outcomes, leading vs lagging indicators, correlation vs causation, data quality basics, and privacy by design with data minimization and anonymizing habits.To make it actionable, we translate everything into a simple, repeatable workflow: Measure, Interpret, Act. You’ll learn how to pick one metric per layer, ask better “why” questions, and choose the smallest change to test. We also share a concrete example where a 95% completion rate hides the real problem, and how scenario-based practice plus an in-workflow job aid can drive true behavior change. If you want to feel confident talking about impact and still use AI responsibly, hit play, subscribe to the rest of the AI Ready Designer Series, and share this with a colleague who needs clearer metrics.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Data Literacy Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Creativity isn’t extra; it’s how we unlock potential. That’s the heartbeat of this conversation with Austrian‑Californian multimedia artist and creativity awareness educator Michaell Magrusche, whose neurodiversity shaped a human‑centered approach to learning, design, and life. We talk candidly about why people must come before systems, how to balance money, meaning, and voice in design, and the simple habits that make creativity a daily practice instead of a once‑a‑year workshop.Enjoyed the conversation? Follow the show, share it with a colleague, and leave a review to help others find it. Your support helps us keep these human‑centered stories flowing.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Michaell Magrutsche’s website and social media links below.Michaell’s Website HubMichaell’s Facebook PageMichaell’s Instagram PageMichaell’s LinkedIn PageMichaell’s X PageMichaell’s Pinterest PageMichaell’s YouTube ChannelYou can also read the following white papers Michaell has published on LinkedIn: What is Living a Human-Centric vs. System-Relevant Life?DYSLEXIA from SHAME to FAME Part 1: An Introduction to Grasp Dyslexia’s ImpactDYSLEXIA from SHAME to FAME Part 2: Getting a Grasp on DyslexiaDYSLEXIA from SHAME to FAME Part 3: Jobs for Neurodivergent & Disabled Humans Through My 50 Years of Experience 📢 Call-to-Action: Feel free to check out Michaell’s podcast, “THE SMART OF ART – The Power of Art and Creativity” on Spotify and “Humanity Unboxed (Wisdomseekers)” on YouTube Music for more inspiring content! Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI isn’t just a time-saver anymore, it’s a trusted choice. When instructional designers paste the wrong thing into the wrong tool, the risk isn’t abstract: it can touch learner privacy, employee data, internal documents, proprietary processes, and even regulated content. In this episode, Jackie shares a simple way to stop guessing and start using AI with calm, clear guardrails you can actually follow. We walk through three practical AI risk tiers with real examples: Tier 1 public and low risk, Tier 2 internal and sensitive, and Tier 3 regulated and personal data. Then we match those tiers to three AI tool types: public chatbots, enterprise-approved AI tools, and closed internal systems. The big takeaway is simple but powerful: the same prompt can be safe or unsafe depending on the tool and the data you feed it, which is why policies and permissions matter more than ever for responsible learning design. To make this usable in the moment, Jackie teaches the "AI Paste Test," which consists of three fast questions you can ask before you paste anything into an AI tool. I also share a safer prompting workaround that keeps the speed benefits of AI while protecting confidentiality, plus a quick weekly challenge to build the habit. You’ll leave with practical AI governance language you can use with stakeholders and a clearer path to building trustworthy AI workflows in instructional design. If you found this helpful, follow or subscribe, share it with a designer friend, and leave a review so more educators and instructional designers can build with AI safely and confidently.🔗 Episode LinksPlease check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!The AI Guardrails Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Ever wondered how a teacher’s instincts translate into real business value? We sit down with Jessica Smith, a former secondary Spanish teacher turned corporate instructional designer at ADP, to unpack the exact moves that make the leap from education to L&D not just possible, but powerful. From scoping with SMEs to beating scope creep, Jessica shows how to define clear performance outcomes, audit existing materials, and pick formats that fit the workflow instead of slowing it down.If you’re curious about transitioning to corporate instructional design, you will get a concrete seven-day plan: scan job descriptions to map skills, test-drive tools with free trials, build a tiny practice project on a topic you love, and connect with mentors and communities on LinkedIn. You’ll hear why employers often value thinking and process over polish, how to structure stakeholder check-ins to prevent last-minute surprises, and the mindset shift that keeps you adaptable when tools change.Join us for a candid, practical roadmap to modern L&D, rooted in the same core insight that drives great teaching: know what the learner needs to do, then remove everything that gets in the way. If this conversation sparks ideas, subscribe, share it with a colleague, and leave a review to help more educators find their path into L&D.📢 Call-to-Action: Are you thinking of moving from the academic world to learning and design in the private sector? You have transferable skills! Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can generate outlines, quizzes, and scripts in minutes, but that doesn’t mean your learners will do the right thing on Monday. We zoom out to see what AI is really changing in instructional design and what remains stubbornly, beautifully human: context, empathy, trust, and accountability for results.I walk through the pressure many of us are feeling as stakeholders start to assume “content equals training” and “AI equals instant course.” Then we get honest about the risks of moving fast without guardrails, including confident-sounding content that’s wrong, generic training that misses the real barrier, accessibility and inclusion problems, and the credibility hit that happens when learners sense copy-paste learning. You’ll leave with a simple rule you can use immediately: if it’s high stakes, it’s human reviewed, always, especially for compliance, safety, medical, legal, and sensitive HR topics.The best part is the opportunity. As AI makes content production cheaper, learning strategy becomes more valuable, and your role can upgrade from builder to learning architect, from deliverables to outcomes, and from content creator to quality and ethics gatekeeper. I share my three-layer ID stack, Intent, Experience, and Assets, so you can answer “Can AI just make the course?” with clarity: AI can help with assets, but intent and experience are where real learning transfer is designed. Subscribe to the rest of the AI Ready Designer series, share this with an instructional designer friend, and leave a review to help more learning designers find the show.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!The AI-Ready Designer Compass Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Autonomy isn’t about handing learners the wheel and hoping for the best. We explore how freedom becomes fuel—when it’s matched to the stakes, the setting, and the supports. With guest Hamza Sami, we compare college courses where risk is a learning tool and corporate training where performance boundaries are real, then show how to design autonomy that fits both worlds.We dig into the practical differences that shape outcomes: extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation, facilitator versus coach mindsets, and the cost of errors. From semicircle seating to peer dialogue, we highlight small design choices that shift ownership to learners. Using Knowles’ Self-Directed Learning, we build a path of structured autonomy—guided choices, reflective practice, and feedback loops that grow confidence without creating chaos. Vygotsky’s ZPD anchors timing: model, practice, feedback, then fade. We also share simple methods to assess readiness and match scaffolds to cognitive, skill, or confidence gaps.Looking for one simple change with outsized impact? Start by asking better questions: who your learners are, why autonomy matters here, when they’re ready for more control, what choices truly build ownership, and how you’ll scaffold and fade support. If this conversation helps you design with more intention, follow the show, share it with a colleague, and leave a review to help others find it.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Hamza Sami’s website and social media links below.Hamza Sami’s WebsiteHamza’s LinkedIn Page📢 Call-to-Action: Need a hand bringing your learning ideas to life, whether curriculum design, instructional strategy, or even creative production? Reach out on LinkedIn, and let’s explore how we can make learning more engaging together. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Switching industries shouldn’t feel like starting over. We walk through a Career GPS for instructional designers that turns uncertainty into a plan: define your core strengths, translate your experience into the right industry dialect, pick an environment that fits your energy, and build a bridge portfolio that proves transfer without rebuilding from scratch. Along the way, we unpack the language differences across corporate, higher education, K–12, healthcare, and tech, so your resume and portfolio speak clearly to recruiters and hiring managers.Ready to map your next move? Grab the ID Career GPS checklist, subscribe for more practical career tactics, and share this conversation with a colleague who needs a clearer path. If this helped, leave a review and tell us which industry you’re aiming for next.🔗 Resources and Related Episodes:If you would like to explore today’s topic further, here are a few resources to check out:📝 Canva TemplateID Career GPS Checklist: A worksheet to help you define your identity, translate your experience across industries, choose the right environment, and target your next role with confidence.🎧 Listen Next: Related EpisodesEpisode 99: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your ID Portfolio: A step-by-step house-style blueprint for building an ID portfolio that highlights your judgment, shows measurable impact, and makes it effortless to find your best work.Episode 101: Networking Tips that Advance Your ID Career: Discover smart, low-stress ways to build connections that can genuinely move your career forward. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if job hunting could feel more like leveling up than burning out? Jackie sits down with language and mindset coach Jade Arthur to explore how AI and game design thinking can transform ESL learning, portfolios, and interview prep, especially for creatives entering the gaming industry. Jade walks us through a clear, repeatable workflow: define your outcomes, prompt ChatGPT for layered outputs, then move everything into Gamma to create a polished, visual resource your learners and job seekers will actually use.We compare the traditional “wall of text” experience to a resource-first approach that scales: short and long versions of content, vocabulary and grammar targets, comprehension checks, and writing prompts—all structured around the ARCS model (attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction). The payoff is tangible. Adult learners stay engaged, candidates can see themselves in role-specific scenarios, and coaches spend less time formatting and more time adding nuance, voice, and context.Motivation gets a serious upgrade as well. Jade shares how gamified tracking, small wins, and vivid metaphors—like “job search villains”—help people push past vague anxiety and take focused action. Whether you teach ESL, build curriculum, or mentor designers and developers, you will leave with practical steps to ship something useful this week: a concise deck, a case study, or an interview prep kit that looks sharp and feels true to your voice. 🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Jade Arthur’s website and social media links below.Jade Arthur’s WebsiteJade’s LinkedIn PageJade’s Instagram PageJade’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: Visit Jane’s website for a free 15-minute Job Search Quest, which is a quick, focused coaching session (like a mini-mission in a game 🎮) designed to give job seekers an immediate win without overwhelming them. Think of it as a “speed boost” rather than a full campaign. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Choosing between freelancing and a full-time role can feel like a high-stakes fork in the road. We take the pressure off with a five–mile marker roadmap that helps you define what matters most right now and match the path to your life, not your LinkedIn headline. Instead of arguing labels, we ask better questions: Do you need stability or flexibility? Variety or consistency? Specialist depth or broad systems thinking? How much risk can you hold in this season—financially, emotionally, and logistically?Before you hit play, grab a notebook. We’ll guide you to write your top three non-negotiables and circle the one that becomes your compass for offers, scopes, and role fit. If this resonated, share it with a designer who’s weighing freelance vs. full-time, subscribe for more practical career design, and leave a review to help others find the show.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resource mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Best-Fit Roadmap: This interactive roadmap breaks down the pros, cons, and “hidden realities” of freelancing and full-time roles—plus bridge paths you can test before making a big switch. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

A frontline nurse turned founder changes how we think about “marketing” by treating it like care extended. David Sanchez, RN, shares how clinical empathy, clear language, and the right tools help healthcare organizations and educators reach the people who need them most. We unpack the journey from ER shifts to launching a recovery program and a patient-first agency, then translate that experience into steps any small team can take to grow with integrity.We go deep on foundations that matter: setting up GA4 and Google Tag Manager so every call, form, and booking is measured; reading customer journeys to see what actually drives action; and editing pages for conversion instead of chasing shiny redesigns. David explains how keyword research becomes education, not fluff: answer the exact questions people ask, reduce jargon, and publish helpful content that boosts dwell time and trust. We connect personas and funnels to message fit, showing how to speak to awareness, consideration, and decision without confusion.You’ll leave with quick wins you can ship this week: a 16-minute usability test with a real ideal patient, one concise educational article that answers a top-searched question, and a clean, prominent call-to-action that reduces friction. If this conversation helps you rethink growth with empathy and evidence, follow the show, share it with a colleague, and leave a review so others can find it too.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit David Sanchez’s website and social media links below.David Sanchez’s WebsiteDavid’s LinkedIn Page Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if networking could feel calm, kind, and effective—without the awkward pitch? We walk through five connection moves that help instructional designers and educators build real relationships: a mindset reframe, tiny weekly actions, breadcrumb visibility, simple follow-ups, and a growth circle powered by mentors and peers. The result is a practical, repeatable system that turns small moments into long-term opportunities.To make it actionable, we close with the Three Connections Challenge: one thoughtful comment, one genuine message, and one reconnection this week. Grab the free interactive flip card toolkit and the recommended networking guide linked in the show notes to keep the habit going. If this approach helps, subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review—then tell us your small win so we can celebrate with you.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!5 Connection Moves Toolkit: Use this interactive toolkit to pick a move that you can try this week.Networking Resource (Bottom Line): A practical guide to networking basics, why it matters, and how to start—plus LinkedIn and informational interviewing tools. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Want a smarter way to work with AI in the classroom without losing what makes learning human? Jackie had an engaging and insightful conversation with academic manager and curriculum designer Hamza Sami to unpack practical ways educators can harness generative AI as a learning partner while strengthening integrity, critical thinking, and authentic assessment.We start by reframing generative AI with simple language students can use: it’s the confident friend who doesn’t always have the facts right. From there, we outline day-one norms that encourage curiosity and set clear boundaries—what’s green-light brainstorming, where caution applies, and when only original work is acceptable. Hamza shares why instructor AI literacy comes first, how to discuss bias and hallucinations in plain terms, and why students’ “I feel like I’m cheating” reactions signal values worth guiding, not suppressing.Looking ahead, we land on the capacity every student needs next year and beyond: moral awareness paired with critical thinking. If the internet went down, could you still perform? Would you hire yourself? Like calculators, AI should sharpen our work, not replace our minds. Subscribe, share this with a colleague, and leave a review to help more educators build classrooms where AI supports deeper, more honest learning.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Hamza Sami’s website and social media links below.Hamza Sami’s WebsiteHamza’s LinkedIn Page📢 Call-to-Action: Need a hand bringing your learning ideas to life, whether curriculum design, instructional strategy, or even creative production? Reach out on LinkedIn, and let’s explore how we can make learning more engaging together.Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Hiring managers don’t want a gallery of artifacts; they want proof you can solve real performance problems. We walk through a clear, house-style blueprint for building an instructional design portfolio that highlights your judgment, shows measurable impact, and makes it effortless to find your best work.To help your work get found, we align language across your site, resume, and LinkedIn, weave in job-aligned keywords naturally, and create a light sharing plan. Add your portfolio to LinkedIn’s Featured section, include the link in your email signature, and send targeted notes that point to two relevant projects. Ask focused questions for feedback—“Is it clear what I do in ten seconds?”—and iterate fast. We wrap with a memorable reminder: start simple, refine early, and improve as you go.If this helped you sharpen your portfolio, follow the show, share it with a colleague, and leave a quick review. It helps more instructional designers find the tools and confidence to land their next role.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Top 7 Principles for a Stand-Out Instructional Design Portfolio: A 15-minute video from Scott Schmitt through Delvin Peck’s ID Bootcamp on how to create a solid ID portfolio using seven key principles.Portfolio House Blueprint: An interactive visual with hotspots for each step that you can reference at any time. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if the key to tomorrow’s lesson lives in what lit you up at age seven? We bring back Tommy Kilpatrick to turn that early spark into practical, compassionate teaching—linking identity, choice, and classroom design. Together, we unpack a simple ten-minute exercise to replay your earliest memories and name the gift you were eager to share. That clarity becomes a compass for lesson tweaks you can implement this month, aligning activities with purpose and giving students a language for who they are becoming.We also explore a set of powerful “forks” that shape behavior: whether you see yourself as a spirit having a human experience, a human seeking herd safety, or a human reaching for spiritual connection. Each choice expands or contracts your field of courage. Tommy demonstrates how educators can coach struggling learners by broadening their perspective, guiding them to choose love over fear, and teaching them to reassess when a path closes. The conversation stays grounded with three concrete practices: a personal habit of gratitude and giving, a classroom move that defuses conflict by affirming and then guiding, and a team ritual that pairs courage with compassion to define maturity.Throughout, we return to a working definition of love—“I give”—and mercy as extreme kindness, turning classroom management into human development. We close by inviting you to sketch your own owner’s manual: a living set of axioms, forks, and practices that keep your teaching aligned with your deepest values.Listen, pick one idea, and put it into motion this week. Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs encouragement, and leave a review to tell us which practice you’ll try first.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Tommy Kilpatrick’s website and social media links below.Tommy Kilpatrick’s WebsiteTommy Kilpatrick’s Facebook Page📢 Call-to-Action: Click the link to obtain a free book and a free 15-minute consultation with the author: Debt Relief Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if your course felt less like a checklist and more like a world your learners return to, level up in, and prove real growth? We walk through a practical framework for building a virtual playground that mirrors the work, builds measurable skills, and motivates through clarity rather than gimmicks. 🔗 Resources and Related Episodes:If you would like to explore today’s topic further, here are a few resources to check out:📚 Virtual Playground ResourcesDigital Playgrounds: Driving Workforce Performance through Play and Experimentation: In this blog post by Jaxon Avery at Ridiculous Engineering, explore how digital playgrounds drive workforce performance through play and experimentation.From Duolingo to Wordle: How Educational Games Are Changing the Way We Learn: In this article by James Lane at NCFE, learn how educational games can help improve knowledge retention by making learning more active and interactive.📝 Canva TemplateVirtual Playground Mission Control Blueprint: A worksheet to help you design a persistent learning world with progression, feedback, resources, and measurable impact.🎧 Listen Next: Related EpisodesEpisode 44: Designing for Everyone: A Guide to Universal Design for Learning: An introduction to UDL principles and how to design from the start with variability in mind, so more learners can access and engage with your experiences.Episode 65: Accessibility in Action: Inclusive Design for Every Learner: Practical strategies for designing with accessibility at the forefront—from structure and media choices to small tweaks that make a big difference for every learner.Episode 85: Gamification Strategies to Improve Learner Engagement: A practical toolkit with five common pitfalls and exactly how to flip them, plus the metrics to improve impact.Episode 91: Navigating the New Realities: Unpacking VR, AR, and MR for Lasting Impact: Practical strategies for how to choose between VR for safe practice, AR for in-the-flow guidance, and MR for complex 3D collaboration. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if the fastest route to clarity is the one we usually skip—where are you, when is it, and who are you—before asking what to do next? In this episode, Jackie sat down with Tommy Kilpatrick to explore his book, Human Occidental Owner’s Manual, and translate big human questions into practical habits for teachers, creators, and lifelong learners. Using a crisp computer setup analogy, we reset our defaults: location determines time, identity shapes action, and context beats assumptions.From there, we unpack communication through vivid sports metaphors that actually change how you host conversations. Conversation plays like tennis with cooperative volleys, debate ranges from elegant fencing to MMA intensity, dialogue becomes chess for co-solving, and discussion moves like rugby with many roles carrying the ball. We also map single-voice modes—lecture, rant, sermon, story—and show how choosing the right mode prevents conflicts and keeps teams, classes, and families aligned.We close with the “first fork,” the early identity choice that silently guides a life. Write one sentence for each of the four essential human questions, choose your fork for the week, and watch momentum return. If this conversation helped you reset your settings, subscribe, share it with a colleague, and leave a review to help others find the show. What’s the first question you’ll answer today?🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Tommy Kilpatrick’s website and social media links below.Tommy Kilpatrick’s WebsiteTommy Kilpatrick’s Facebook Page📢 Call-to-Action: Click the link to obtain a free book and a free 15-minute consultation with the author: Debt ReliefSend Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Ready to move beyond one-size-fits-all courses? We explore a practical path to adaptive learning that uses the content and tools you already have—no massive rebuilds, no mystery AI required. By focusing on three simple levers—sequence, pacing, and practice—we demonstrate how to direct learners to the right support at the right time and convert feedback into fuel for mastery.The goal is simple: design smart checkpoints, not clones, and honor learner differences without inflating complexity. If you’re an instructional designer, educator, or L&D leader looking for higher pass rates, faster time to mastery, and more confident learners, this guide to adaptive learning will help you start small and win early. Subscribe, share this with a colleague who builds courses, and leave a review to tell us which module you’ll pilot first.🔗 Resources and Related Episodes:If you would like to explore today’s topic further, here are a few resources to check out:📚 Adaptive Learning Resource6 Benefits You Should Know About Adaptive Learning in Corporate Training: In this article by Suresh Kumar at eLearning Industry, read about the six benefits of how you can utilize adaptive learning in corporate training to provide custom-tailored learning experiences for learners.📝 Canva TemplateAdaptive Mini-Pilot Map: A roadmap to help you pilot adaptive learning without rebuilding your course. You’ll map a pre-check, two simple pathways (refresh + fast), and one metric to see what’s working.🎧 Listen Next: Related EpisodesEpisode 44: Designing for Everyone: A Guide to Universal Design for Learning: An introduction to UDL principles and how to design from the start with variability in mind, so more learners can access and engage with your experiences.Episode 65: Accessibility in Action: Inclusive Design for Every Learner: Practical strategies for designing with accessibility at the forefront—from structure and media choices to small tweaks that make a big difference for every learner. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Think AI can do everything? We put that assumption under the microscope with AI engineering leader and author Sairam Sundaresan, and walk away with a playbook that’s practical, ethical, and built for real classrooms and design teams. We break down why narrow, well-scoped tasks are where AI shines, how to turn prompting into a repeatable workflow, and what it looks like to treat a model like a new hire you’re onboarding—clear roles, examples, and tight feedback loops.We dig into the big wins for educators and instructional designers: personalized learning at scale, faster feedback cycles, and smarter revisions between sessions. Imagine a 24/7 teaching assistant that adapts to your students’ levels, flags weak spots, and helps you adjust the curriculum without waiting for the next term. Pair that with your human superpowers—reading the room, motivating learners, and connecting dots—and you get a learning ecosystem that’s both efficient and deeply human. Along the way, we share hands-on tips with tools like Notebook LM, Canva, Gamma, and Genially to prototype content, translate assets, and build interactive experiences without months of overhead.Enjoyed the episode? Follow the show, leave a quick review, and share it with a colleague who’s experimenting with AI in education. Your support helps more educators discover practical, ethical ways to use these tools.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Sairam Sundaresan’s website to subscribe to his newsletter.Sairam Sundaresan’s Website📢 Call-to-Action: Want to explore AI in a way that feels clear and approachable? Connect with Sairam Sundaresan and check out his book AI For the Rest of Us. You’ll find practical insights, real-world examples, and guidance on how to use AI responsibly in work, learning, and life. Visit Sairam’s website to learn more and access resources designed to help you confidently navigate the AI era. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

AI can feel like a runaway train in classrooms and training programs—powerful, fast, and a little scary. We take the controls and show how to turn generative tools into true co-pilots: clear roles, simple guardrails, and small pilots that free us to focus on coaching, feedback, and real human connection.You’ll hear role-based examples across K-12, higher education, and corporate learning: differentiated reading passages and exit tickets, outcome-aligned case prompts and quiz banks, and realistic scenario practice plus microlearning nudges for on-the-job performance.Want to put this into action? Grab the pilot checklist from the show notes, try one workflow this week, and tell us what changed. If this helped, follow the show, share it with a colleague, and leave a review so more educators and L&D pros can build ethical, effective AI co-pilots.🔗 Resources and Related Episodes:If you’d like to explore today’s topic further, here are a few resources to check out:📝 Interactive ResourceAI Copilot Pilot Checklist: A ready-to-use guide you can copy and adapt to your context. Use this template to plan, run, and debrief a small AI copilot pilot—from choosing one workflow and setting guardrails to defining success and capturing what you’ll keep, tweak, or toss.📊 Research Report2025 AI in Education: A Microsoft Special Report: This research report, produced by Microsoft, provides key insights into how AI is transforming nearly every aspect of our society worldwide. 🎧 Listen Next: Related EpisodesEpisode 54: Beyond Learning Outcomes: Designing for Humans or Learners?: A practical look at human-centered design, focusing on how to move beyond check-the-box objectives and create learning experiences that serve real people, real needs, and real contexts.Episode 79: Top Emerging Technologies Shaping Instructional Design: A tour of five emerging tools, including VR, AR, and MR, and how they’re reshaping the way we design for real-world skills and authentic practice. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if a fifth grader could turn a pile of ideas into a clear, grounded paragraph—every time—without leaning on AI? We bring back dyslexia researcher Russell Van Brocklen for part three of our series to show exactly how: start with a hero, a universal theme, and a villain; distill three good reasons into one-word themes; and anchor everything to a real quote. The result is a body paragraph that’s honest, teachable, and repeatable—plus a writing process students can explain step by step.We also address integrity in the AI era: students must show their process or redo the work, then later use AI as a research coach rather than a shortcut. By the end, you’ll have a clear path to scale from one body paragraph to three, then add a thesis and conclusion that help students pass state tests and feel proud of their writing.If this helped, follow the show, share it with a colleague, and leave a review. Grab the free resources in the notes, and stay tuned for part four, where we break down concrete, classroom-ready examples.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Russell’s website and social media links below.Russell Van Brocklen’s WebsiteRussell’s Facebook PageRussell’s Instagram PageRussell’s LinkedIn PageRussell’s YouTube Channel🆓Free Resource: The 3 Reasons Your Child’s Dyslexia Education Isn’t Working – And How to Fix It Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Forget the headset hype: real learning impact starts with a clear problem, a focused outcome, and a modality that actually fits the job. We dig into how to choose between VR for safe practice, AR for in-the-flow guidance, and MR for complex 3D collaboration—then show exactly how to design the actions, decisions, and feedback loops that change behavior on the job. No fluff, no jargon, just a practical roadmap for building immersive experiences that matter.If you’ve been looking for a practical playbook to design with purpose, not pixels, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a quick review to tell us your top takeaway—and which modality you’re testing next.🔗 Resources and Related Episodes:If you’d like to explore today’s topic further, here are a few resources to check out:📝 Interactive ResourceImmersive Modality Navigator: Explore a short, self-paced course that walks you through four key steps, making sure to choose the right modality, designing meaningful interactions without overwhelming learners, and planning how you’ll measure impact and pilot your first immersive experience.📊 Research ReportAR | VR | MR | XR | Metaverse | Spatial Computing Industry Statistics Report 2025: This report, compiled by Horacio Torrendell, the founder and CEO at Treeview, shows how the spatial computing industry is experiencing strong growth across multiple market segments. 🎧 Listen Next: Related EpisodesEpisode 28: What is Cognitive Load and Why is it Important?: A practical guide to Cognitive Load Theory and why it matters in instructional design, with tips for managing mental effort so learners can focus on what truly counts.Episode 44: Designing for Everyone: A Guide to Universal Design for Learning: An introduction to UDL principles and how to design from the start with variability in mind, so more learners can access and engage with your experiences.Episode 65: Accessibility in Action: Inclusive Design for Every Learner: Practical strategies for designing with accessibility at the forefront—from structure and media choices to small tweaks that make a big difference for every learner.Episode 79: Top Emerging Technologies Shaping Instructional Design: A tour of five emerging tools, including VR, AR, and MR, and how they’re reshaping the way we design for real-world skills and authentic practice. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Want to design learning that actually sticks—and gets you hired? Jackie sits down with Connie Malamed, publisher of The eLearning Coach website and podcast, author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers, to unpack how newcomers can skip the noise, master the essentials, and build a portfolio that proves real instructional design skill. We dive into the mindset shift from “make e‑learning” to “design for how people learn,” then get tactical: reducing cognitive load with white space and alignment, using dual coding without redundancy, and making accessibility a default through color contrast and non‑color cues.Whether you’re transitioning from K‑12 or pivoting into corporate learning, this conversation gives you a focused path: design with empathy, keep visuals purposeful, and ship polished work that respects learners’ time. If this helped you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so others can find the show. What’s one change you’ll make in your next project?📢 Call-to-Action: Get The eLearning Coach free monthly newsletter: The eLearning Coach NewsletterLearn how to elevate your visibility with a free 8-lesson crash course sent by email: Free 8-Lesson Crash CourseLearn about having a career in instructional design with a free 12-lesson course about the career: Breaking Into Instructional DesignJoin a eLearning community with 15+ courses on instructional design topics and media: Mastering Instructional DesignSend Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Projects stall when one expert carries the content, decisions, and approvals. We flip that script with a clear, usable playbook for building a stakeholder highway—bringing sponsors, learners, frontline leaders, operations, tech, and compliance into the right moments so training actually lands in the real world. You’ll hear why SME-only pathways create bottlenecks and blind spots, how to map the roles that matter, and when to loop each voice in across discovery, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.Roadblocks happen: the ghost SME, conflicting leader feedback, or last-minute compliance asks. Jackie shares practical responses, from clarifying who decides versus who advises to offering trade-off options that protect timelines without sacrificing quality. A quick scenario shows the reset in action—expanding beyond one overbooked SME to include a frontline manager, operations, tech, and a learner pilot—so the course is accurate, feasible, and ready for day one performance. Close with one task: sketch a one-page stakeholder highway for your next project, add two new partners, and watch momentum return. If this approach helps you, subscribe, share it with a colleague, and leave a review so more designers can build learning that sticks.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Ask a Trainer: Time Slade on Working With Difficult Stakeholders and Subject Matter ExpertsStakeholder Highway ChecklistSend Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if your classroom could adapt to each learner without handing their data to the cloud? That’s the promise we dig into with technologist and founder Sebastien Fenelon, whose journey from scarce resources in Haiti to building privacy-first, edge AI tools reframes what “future-ready” really means for educators and instructional designers.We start with the power of resilience—how self-taught coding, late-night study sessions, and community support can outpace limited infrastructure—and move into practical strategies for teaching code with clarity and context. Sebastien shares why AI should compress project timelines, not critical thinking, and offers a simple “100-hour” ramp to acquire new languages fast. From K–12 to higher ed, we outline how to design small, visible wins that build confidence while using AI to scaffold learning rather than replace it.We close with a playbook for staying adaptable: keep learning in focused sprints, plug into communities that share what works, and seek mentors who reveal the path behind the skills. If you’re ready to personalize learning, protect student data, and keep your curriculum uniquely yours, this conversation offers a clear blueprint. If it resonates, follow and share with a colleague, and leave a quick review to help more educators find thoughtful, practical guidance on AI in the classroom.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Sebastien Fenelon’s website and social media links below.Sebastien Fenelon’s WebsiteSebastien’s Facebook PageSebastien’s Instagram PageSebastien’s LinkedIn Page📢 Call-to-Action: If you’d like to dive deeper, be sure to visit the InthraOS homepage. There, you’ll find resources, guides, and a newsletter that will keep you ahead of the curve on AI and privacy-first technology. It’s a great way to gain practical insights, connect with a growing community, and explore products you can start using right away. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Short doesn’t automatically mean effective. We dig into the craft of microlearning that actually changes behavior on the job, moving past buzzwords to a clear blueprint you can use this week. You’ll hear the green‑yellow‑red fit test, a tight scoping method, and five delivery patterns that make small learning moments do real work without bloating your course catalog.Ready to ship something meaningful in seven days? Try the micro sprint, share your results, and help a teammate build their first win. If this conversation sparked ideas, follow the show, leave a review, and pass it to a colleague who’s drowning in long courses and craving lean learning that sticks.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!8 Secrets to Designing a Successful Microlearning ProgramMicrolearning Beyond the Basics Guide📑 References:Andriotis, N. (2025, October 2). What is microlearning: A complete guide for beginners. eLearning Industry. https://elearningindustry.com/what-is-microlearning-benefits-best-practices Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Thunder cracked over San Cristóbal as Queen Michele told us how a retired teacher, armed with a suitcase and a stubborn sense of purpose, found her soul in Mexico and a mission for the most connected generation on earth. What followed is a story of reinvention, caregiving, and building a mindfulness curriculum that teaches middle schoolers to center before they swipe.We unpack Generation Alpha—kids born into a 24/7 feed—whose attention is shaped by platforms that never power down. Queen shares how 52 Insights for Gen Alpha blends self-awareness, self-management, relationship skills, social awareness, and conscious decision-making into a year-plus sequence that fits alongside math and reading. The anchor is disarmingly simple: 4-4-6 breathing. Inhale four, hold four, exhale six—paired with words like calm, peace, focus, while releasing anger, fear, anxiety. Students lead it. Teachers get their minutes back. Classrooms find a tone that supports learning instead of firefighting.There’s a deeper arc, too: rewriting your personal narrative. Queen explains how stepping off the survival treadmill—and moving ego to the backseat—opened the door to work that actually heals. If you’ve ever wondered how to meet today’s students where they are, build calm into your class in 60 seconds, or bring AI into SEL without losing the human core, this conversation is your map. Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs a sustainable strategy, and leave a review to support more soul-forward learning. What’s the one ritual you’ll try this week?🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Queen Michele's website and social media links below.Queen Michele’s WebsiteQueen’s Facebook PageQueen’s LinkedIn PageQueen’s X PageQueen’s Instagram PageQueen’s YouTube Channel📢 Call-to-Action: View the 16-chapter blog, “My Soul’s Journey Home”Donate monetarily to the non-profit’s missionOrder any of my publications that resonate Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Want learners to finish training, remember it, and use it on the job? We walk through a no-fluff approach to gamification that starts with clear outcomes and ends with measurable behavior change. Instead of throwing points at problems, we show how to pair decision-based practice, tight feedback, and meaningful rewards to build real skill.The heart of the episode is a practical toolkit: five common pitfalls and exactly how to flip them, plus the metrics that prove impact. We cover mastery rate, attempts to mastery, two-week retention checks, opt-in rates for competitive features, branch diversity, and decision quality. Then we map it to a real-world compliance scenario—recasting a static security course into short, branching missions with mastery badges, a mission board, and optional replays that improve outcomes. To help you start fast, we share a lightweight one-week A/B plan and the key events to instrument so you can call success with confidence.Ready to test without a rebuild? Try the simple pilot: add a progress bar, a mastery-tied badge, and a narrative intro with role, mission, and stakes—then compare completion, time on task, and decision accuracy. If this playbook helps, subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review so we can spotlight your results next time.🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!Gamification for Learning: Strategies and ExamplesGamification Pilot Checklist📑 References:Buljan, M. (2025, October 2). Gamification for Learning: Strategies and Examples. eLearning Industry. https://elearningindustry.com/gamification-for-learning-strategies-and-examples Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Most training fails not because the storyboard is weak, but because the learning lands in an environment full of competing priorities and fuzzy signals. That’s the tough-love truth James Gilchrist brings to our mic as we unpack how people-first design—and authentic leadership—turns content into real performance. James’s winding path from actor and musician to L&D leader sharpened skills we often overlook: presence, narrative, and connection. Those talents power the “lightbulb moments” when knowledge becomes action, and they shape the way he builds programs that remove roadblocks and align teams.If the phrase people first, tools second resonates with you, this conversation will give you the language, tactics, and confidence to design for impact and lead with clarity. Enjoy the episode, and if it sparks ideas, share it with a colleague—and leave a review so others can find us. Want more? Connect with James on LinkedIn and tell us your biggest blocker to removing obstacles for your team.📢 Call-to-Action: I’d love to continue this conversation with you. You can connect with me directly on my personal LinkedIn profile here: James’ LinkedIn Page, where I share ideas on leadership, learning, and authenticity in the workplace. You can also follow my Lighthouse L&D Consulting LinkedIn page for updates, resources, and insights from my consulting work. Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

Ever try to squeeze a desktop course onto a phone and wonder why learners bounce? We reframe the challenge and share five essentials that make mobile learning fast, clear, and genuinely useful in the moments people actually have. From finding mobile moments to building microlearning mile markers, we walk through patterns that turn scattered minutes into meaningful progress and show why one crisp outcome per lesson is the antidote to overload.A practical case study ties it together: a 45‑minute compliance module reborn as five six‑minute micro lessons for nurses in the field. With thumb-friendly navigation, fast media, and printable field cards, completion moved into the workday, and documentation errors dropped within a month. We close with ten evidence-backed strategies inspired by SHIFT eLearning, plus a simple five-by-five rule to keep scope sane. Grab the Glove Box Guide checklist to apply these patterns right away. If this helped you design smarter for mobile, subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review—what will you redesign first?🔗 Episode Links:Please check out the resources mentioned in the episode. Enjoy!A Comprehensive Guide to Mobile Learning DesignGlovebox Guide: Mobile Course Checklist📑 References:Cohen, D. (n.d.). A comprehensive guide to mobile learning design - Shift E-Learning. https://www.shiftelearning.com/blog/a-comprehensive-guide-to-mobile-learning-design Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!

What if your greatest creative potential isn't something you need to find, but something you simply need to remember? As a creativity expert, Patrick Williams joined me to reveal how we've all been born with incredible creative abilities that often get suppressed as we grow older.The conversation offers surprisingly simple yet powerful practices anyone can implement: connecting with nature, practicing intentional breathing, keeping creativity journals, and experiencing different art forms monthly. These activities help break through creative blocks and spark innovation in unexpected ways. Patrick emphasizes that creativity extends far beyond traditional artistic pursuits—it's essential for relationships, professional growth, and navigating everyday challenges.For educators, business professionals, and instructional designers feeling creatively stuck, this episode provides both philosophical insights and practical tools to transform your approach to innovation. You'll walk away understanding how to access your creative potential not just for specific projects, but as a way of experiencing your entire life.Ready to reclaim your creative superpower? Listen now and discover how small shifts in perspective and daily habits can unlock extraordinary creative potential you never knew you had.🔗 Website and Social Links:Please visit Patrick Williams’s website and social media links below.Patrick Williams’ WebsitePatrick’s LinkedIn PagePatrick’s Instagram Page 📢 Call to Action: Patrick is available for private or group innovation and creativity consultations and programs. Please email him at [email protected]. He would be happy to answer any questions.Send Jackie a TextJoin PodMatch!Use the link to join PodMatch, a place for hosts and guests to connect.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show💟 Designing with Love + allows you to support the show by keeping the mic on and the ideas flowing. Click on the link above to provide your support.☕ Buy Me a Coffee is another way you can support the show, either as a one-time gift or through a monthly subscription. 🗣️ Want to be a guest on Designing with Love? Send Jackie Pelegrin a message on PodMatch, here: Be a guest on the show🌐 Check out the show's website here: Designing with Love📱 Send a text to the show by clicking the Send Jackie a Text link above. 👍🏼 Please make sure to like and share this episode with others. Here's to great learning!