Heard on Other Podcasts: Dr. Catrina Mitchum's Guest Appearances

I've been a guest on a bajillion talking about online course design, learning science, and what it actually takes to create a course that people finish. The playlist above has the top 20 — hit play and browse.

Here's what I've covered across these conversations:

Why online courses fail, and why it's almost never the learner's fault. Bad design creates confusion, friction, and dropout. I've been making this argument on shows like Big Brave Business, nuBeginning, and Healthy Mind Healthy Life, and I'll keep making it until course creators stop blaming their students.

What "good" course design actually looks like. Not prettier slides or more modules but clear outcomes, logical sequence, and activities that require learners to do something with the information. I broke this down on The Pursuit of Freedom, Designing with Love, and Chronically Cozy Business Chats.

The academic-to-entrepreneur transition. I left 16 years in higher education after burnout, chronic illness, and an increasingly loud instinct that the work I was doing inside institutions needed to exist outside them. I talked about that journey on The Joy Revolution, Sharing the Middle, and A Gift from Adversity.

Accessibility as a non-negotiable. Not a feature, not a bonus: a baseline. I covered this on the Empowered & Embodied Show, Big Brave Business roundtables on tech bias, and elsewhere.

The passive income myth. Courses are not a shortcut to the beach. They're a product that requires as much design thinking as anything else you sell. I've been saying this on Marketing Root Work, Profit Your Knowledge, and All Things Connected for a while now.

If you want to go deeper on any of these topics, my YouTube channel (Course Creator Playbook) has the long-form version. Or you can subscribe to my newsletter.