Technically Joyful

Technically Joyful podcast cover

Building Change Capacity in the Age of AI

with Gabrielle Kohlmeier

Change is coming faster than ever.
Joy helps us keep up — and shape what comes next.

Trailer August 25, 2026
First three episodes September 1, 2026
Technically Joyful with Gabrielle Kohlmeier
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Launching September 1

The first three episodes.

01Solo

Curiosity Is a Change Strategy
with Gabrielle Kohlmeier

Removing the shame of not knowing — and building AI fluency as the ability to keep learning, rather than a stock of knowledge you’re always behind on.

September 1, 2026
02Guest

The Joy of Exploring
with Anna Gressel

Rigor, curiosity, risk and exploration in a field that will not hold still. What it takes to stay both careful and genuinely adventurous.

September 1, 2026
03Solo

No One Has the Whole Picture
with Gabrielle Kohlmeier

Intelligence lives across people, not inside one head. When you’re stuck, the answer may not be “think harder” — it may be “connect differently.”

September 1, 2026
Coming next
  • Laura Belmont — The Joy of Learning Out Loud
  • A Map Is a Form of Agency — solo
  • Geoff Schaefer — The Joy of Building
The show

You are not behind. You are right on time to build your change capacity and agency.

AI is increasing the velocity of change… and many smart, capable people feel behind.

Fear and anxiety don’t help us catch up. They narrow our attention, discourage experimentation, and slow progress. Hosted by Gabrielle Kohlmeier, Technically Joyful uses curiosity, connection, usefulness, awe and joy to help people build real AI fluency, keep learning, and shape what comes next.

AI fluency isn’t accumulating enough knowledge to finally feel caught up. It’s increasing your capacity to keep learning.
Every episode

See

Notice something differently — or something that was invisible before.

helps you

Understand

Gain a useful distinction, pattern or example — and why it matters.

move

Connect

Relate it to yourself, a person, a team, an organization, or the larger system.

forward

Act

Take one grounded step with greater agency. Every episode ends with a rep.


The core belief

Change is a muscle. Joy helps us build it.

The fear-dominant pattern The Technically Joyful alternative
Certainty as performance
Curiosity as a practice
Isolation and hoarding
Connection and shared intelligence
Shame about not knowing
Experimentation and beginnerhood
Cynicism and flattening
Awe and multidimensionality
Burning platforms and forced urgency
Gentle, disciplined persistence
Passive consumption of change
Agency and deliberate choice
Tool adoption as the goal
Useful human and organizational outcomes

Fear isn’t forbidden here. Fear can be information — and anxiety, grief, resistance and risk all belong on this show. But fear makes a poor engine. Joy is the more propulsive fuel.

Two things to do, not just listen to

Come with your reps and your receipts.

The Transformation Gym

Every episode ends in the gym with one small rep — something you can actually do before the next episode. Small enough to try this week, useful whether you lead ten thousand people or none, and worth something even when it fails.

Full prompts and protocols live in the show notes.

AI Show & Tell

Every guest gets the same first question: what’s something you’ve actually tried with AI lately that was fun, surprising, weirdly delightful — or tragically funny?

Send me yours. Some of them are going to end up on the show. connect@gkstrategic.com

Your host

Gabrielle Kohlmeier

Gabrielle Kohlmeier

Gabrielle has spent her career tackling problems nobody had a playbook for — and helping organizations turn uncertainty into opportunity.

A Big Law antitrust lawyer turned Fortune 30 legal executive, she’s served as a market general counsel, global head of innovation, and leader of one of the largest enterprise legal AI transformations. She earned her Executive Master in Law & AI the month before ChatGPT made it everyone’s problem — and, as she’d argue, also everyone’s opportunity.

Now, as Founder and CEO of GK Strategic Advisory, she helps law firms and legal departments build something rarer than an AI strategy: the organizational capacity to keep changing as technology keeps changing.

On Technically Joyful, she makes the invisible work of transformation visible — and argues that curiosity, connection and joy are far more powerful engines of change than fear.

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