{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Course Lab: Lessons from Successful Online Course Creators","title":"Building Sustainable Courses (Ali Shapiro)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2065,"description":"What’s the balance between short-term progress and long-term sustainable change for students? Ali Shapiro discusses this and shares her journey from overcoming health issues to pioneering her program. She stresses adaptive change, mindset shifts, and creating community for lifelong transformation.\nAli Shapiro is an integrated health coach, holistic nutritionist, and top-ranked podcast host.\nIn this episode, Ari, Abe, and Ali discuss:Balancing between short-term progress and long-term sustainable change in marketing coursesThe importance of understanding time for meaningful change to build better client relationshipsRoot-cause thinking in sustainable change courses, especially in healthy eating and weight lossDifferentiation by going deeper and providing more value in coursesThe significance of community and listening to previous Course Lab episodes for insightsPlanning for obstacles and objections in course creationHow to identify triggers and using a “second wind” exercise for real transformationThe impact of past educational experiences on behavior and planning for those influencesAdaptive versus technical change and recognizing adaptive challenges for effective coursesDesigning courses focusing on the why behind behavior change and flexible identity definitions\n“You’re teaching them how to tune into themselves and become their own leader, and what the actual behavior needs to be in a situation, rather than focusing on: ‘Okay, here’s what you’re going to do every morning.’” — Ali Shapiro\nGuest Bio\nAli Shapiro is the host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach, and rebel with a serious cause.She's academically, practically, and empathetically aware of how the medical system, diet culture, and body positivity movements all have their own flavor of crazy.\nAli developed TRUCE while in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, where she drew from her 17+ years of working with real life clients and her own...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RrUM3U4aqO18wub7c2UBNsWhOZ9YmgOHMfCFUQ85YtY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNTgz/MWU5Y2EwNjI5YTQy/YmE2NGJjYjFmMmRh/Mjc2Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}