Case study • Program design & facilitation

Redesigning Duchenne Life for a clearer audience experience.

Family, Friends & Duchenne • recurring co-hosting, guest interviews, content preparation, moderation, and live adaptation

Situation

A Zoom support group was also intended to function as a podcast / YouTube program

Diagnosis

Eight to ten rotating voices made continuity and audience familiarity difficult

Recommendation

Use one or two familiar recurring hosts, with guests brought in intentionally

Delivery

Co-hosting, interviewing, questions, complex-information translation, moderation

Learning

Better structure, tone, information quality, and sustainability

From support-group discussion to a more coherent show

The original concept used a large, changing group of participants while also trying to function as a podcast and YouTube program. I recommended a recurring-host model because audiences benefit from familiar voices and clearer structure. The organization adopted the recommendation.

I then served as a recurring co-host, prepared and interviewed guests, developed questions, helped shape and edit content, translated complex information for a general audience, and moderated discussions.

My co-host used computer-based augmentative communication. Live facilitation sometimes required me to fill airtime naturally while he composed speech or dealt with technology. That experience strengthened my ability to manage pacing and collaborate accessibly in real time.

Operational judgment

When the production cadence began competing with quality and sustainability, the team moved toward an every-other-week rhythm. The decision reflected a practical principle I use elsewhere: more output is not automatically better output.

Audience analysisProgram redesignInterviewingFacilitationComplex informationAccessible collaborationQuality control

Historical episode and audience counts are being verified before publication. This case intentionally avoids presenting approximate metrics as confirmed figures.