In this episode, Ari Alvarez, a visual thinker, design thinker, and teacher from Mexico City, Mexico, talks about her shift from being an industrial design professor at university into full-time visual thinking and teaching.

She shares how experiencing professional and person burnout led her to this radical change into full-time visual thinking.

This is an inspiring discussion you won’t want to miss!

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Running Order

• Intro: Who is Ari?
• Ari’s origin story
• Dealing with burnout
• Ari’s transition into visual thinking
• Teaching visual thinking to others
• Working with Clubhouse
• Teaching in Spanish
• Ari’s Masters in self-driven learning
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

Links

• Ari’s website
• Ari on LinkedIn
• Ari on Instagram
• Ari on Facebook
• The Sketchnote Handbook
• Mexican Art
• Clubhouse

Tools

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• The best tool will not save a poor visual map
• Copic Markers
• Tombow
• Sakura Micron
• Chameleon Markers
• The Sketchnote Ideabook
• Moleskine Dot Grid
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Noteshelf
• Apple Notes
• Procreate

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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