Practical L&D talk from the community floor.
TLDCast Podcast is a community-centered learning and development show built around interviews, showcases, event recaps, and practitioner conversations. It favors usable takeaways over theory, moving from coaching, mentoring, AI, accessibility, visual design, and career transitions into concrete workplace examples.
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TLDCast Podcast is a community show for people building, supporting, and improving workplace learning. It centers on conversations with L&D practitioners, instructional designers, learning strategists, coaches, educators, and community members. The format feels close to a live professional meetup. It is brisk, warm, and usually practical. Episodes use interviews, showcases, event recordings, and recap-style discussions to make the field feel less abstract and more navigable. Coaching and mentoring appear as career tools, with attention to goals, boundaries, communication, readiness, and the difference between guidance for a role and longer-term professional growth. AI is treated as a real workplace shift, not just a trend. The show looks at how tools such as ChatGPT can help create scripts, quiz questions, feedback, and workflow support, while still asking what happens to creativity, judgment, and learner experience. Accessibility and inclusion are recurring concerns, especially in discussions of neurodivergent learners, conference design, and more thoughtful instructional choices. Career movement is another steady thread. Teacher-to-trainer stories, member showcases, and conversations about getting a seat at the table all point toward the same question: how do L&D people grow their influence without losing sight of useful learning? The show also spends time on the craft details that shape real projects, including infographics, data visualization, Canva workflows, visual inspiration, and graphic design for instructional design. Its best moments come when a guest names a familiar workplace frustration and then turns it into something actionable. The talk is casual but not shallow. There are tangents, event announcements, membership notes, and live-chat references, which can make episodes feel more like community records than tightly edited lessons. That is part of the texture. TLDCast Podcast gives listeners access to the ongoing professional conversation around L&D, from AI and conferences to accessibility, business alignment, and peer learning. It works best for practitioners who like hearing how other people in the field are thinking through the same messy, practical questions.
Made for: Best for instructional designers, learning experience designers, workplace learning professionals, educators moving into L&D, and community-minded practitioners who want peer examples as much as expert advice.
What sets it apart: Its live-community roots give the show a working-room feel, with practitioner stories, event energy, chat references, and concrete examples sitting alongside broader conversations about where L&D is heading.
This podcast is the audio-only version of TLDCast, a livestreamed broadcast for instructional designers, learning experience designers, educational technologists, or anyone involved in workplace learning. Some of the audio content is edited for brevity. Learn more at www.TLDC.us.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TLDCast Podcast makes workplace learning practice legible through candid conversations about tools, design choices, organizational influence, and career growth.
TLDCast Podcast turns workplace learning into an ongoing professional conversation. Luis Malbis draws out practitioners on career changes, visual design, conference experiences, coaching, mentoring, and the practical use of AI.
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A grounded look at coaching, mentoring, and why intention shapes the support people receive at work.
Career development becomes easier to navigate when coaching and mentoring are not treated as interchangeable. This episode draws on recordings from a recent L&D event to sort out where the two approaches overlap and where they part ways, with attention to feedback for a current…
A grounded look at where AI helps L&D and where judgment still matters.
Danielle Wallace and Luis Maldus keep the talk grounded in a simple question: what AI actually changes in learning and development after the hype fades.
A practical member showcase on visual design, peer learning, and the move into instructional design.
Leanne Morgan's member showcase stays anchored in her move from nutrition and dietetics into instructional design, and Luis Malbis gives that shift enough room to feel practical rather than abstract.
A candid DevLearn wrap-up that keeps AI, accessibility, and real-world L&D choices in view.
DevLearn 2023 comes into focus through Rebecca's mix of accessibility advocacy, AI caution, and introvert realism, which gives the episode a steady center.
From freelancer to agency leader, Vanessa's conversation turns seat-at-the-table advice into something concrete.
Luis Malvez frames a clear shift in L&D through Vanessa Alzadi's path: once known as a freelancer and YouTuber, she is by 2023 leading a booming agency with a team and has recently acquired Kirkpatrick Partners.
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Clinical CE for busy veterinary teams.
This episode features an interview with a new instructional designer sharing her success story transitioning from teaching to L&D.
TLDCast Podcast's "Coaching and Mentoring in L&D Gathering - Notebook LM summary" centers on Kikalila Emekafor, Christine Duguay, Nicole Latoil, Tara Myers, and Bill Brantley.
Luis Maldus talks with Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist of Beyond the Sky Custom Learning, about the practical use of AI in learning and development.
Luis Malbis introduces Rebecca and sets up a conversation about learning and development.
Luis Malbis opens the showcase with Leanne Morgan.
Luis Malvez catches up with Vanessa Alzadi.
This episode opens the IDEAL 22 conference, welcoming attendees and thanking volunteers for organizing an event focused on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in learning.
This episode explores global differences and similarities in instructional design, including the impact of technology and social media on training.
An interview with a new instructional designer sharing her career transition from teaching to L&D.