Course Creation Crap: Learning Design for Business with Dr. Catrina Mitchum

06: BS Breakthrough: 3 Signs It's Time to Cut the Crap from Your Course


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If you've ever looked at your course or membership and thought, "I should probably add more," this one's for you. Dr. Catrina Mitchum breaks down a real design conversation with Amber Cherelle, founder of the Everevolution™ collective, and the counterintuitive lesson that came out of it: more options don't create more engagement. They create more ways to avoid the work.


What We Work Through

  • Why giving learners too many ways to engage actually reduces participation and what decision fatigue has to do with it
  • How to identify the one thing in your learning experience that's actually creating transformation, and build around that instead of on top of it
  • The difference between live elements that earn their place and live elements that just add pressure without adding value
  • Why some of the best support structures are the ones that get out of the way
  • A two-step audit you can run on your own course today: map every engagement option, then ask whether each one supports the main thing or competes with it
  • If your course or program is starting to feel like a pile of good ideas that somehow isn't working, this episode gets at why that happens and what to actually do about it. Go back and listen to the full episode with Amber Cherelle if you haven't, especially if you're building something live and experiential.


    About Amber Cherelle

    Amber is a serial business owner, founder of Everevolution™, and someone who's asking big questions about how we grow, lead, and show up in life. Amber's work sits at the intersection of personal development, leadership, and real-world application, and this work isn't about learning more stuff, it's about becoming different. She creates Living Experiments: immersive, real-life growth experiences designed to move people from insight into embodied change. Her mission? Help people become the change they wish to see — and experience the richness of life that follows.

    • Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ambercherelle/⁠
    • Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ambah.moore⁠
    • Podcast: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1PQkMmQJxFLEbFJtBZmLJj⁠

    • Apply to be a guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/RDHPskg81r3GhSd59⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


      Connect with Catrina:

      ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.cmlearningdesign.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

      LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/catrina-mitchum-learning-design⁠⁠⁠

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      Music credit: Alex Mitchum

      Alex, Catrina's youngest brother, was a jazz guitarist and his family established a scholarship in his name at his alma mater. Please consider donating: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.alexmitchum.com/scholarship⁠

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