San Antonio, Texas · Good Creative Media
Julie Good.
This is the Good life.
Designer, strategist, educator, and musician who builds with AI. I make the websites, the brand systems, the classroom work, and the records, and I put each one into the world where people can actually use it.
The record, in numbers that are true
Julie Good
2026 contestant
A little airtime.
A lot of possibility.
I’m part of Top Host 2026, a fundraising competition supporting the Ryan Seacrest Foundation. Music, storytelling, and media have shaped my life. This cause brings them together.
Voting: October 5 to December 10, 2026
One free vote every 24 hours during voting, after voter verification. See my official profile for the latest voting information. Sharing the page is welcome, too.
Room to create, even in the hospital. Seacrest Studios bring radio, television, and media experiences to children’s hospitals, with programming reaching patient rooms, too. The foundation builds and sustains these spaces for creativity, connection, and joy.
Discover Seacrest Studios
Voting schedule · all nine rounds
Organizer’s schedule for 2026, subject to change. Advancement determines which rounds a contestant participates in.
- Top 20October 5 to 15
- Top 15October 15 to 22
- Top 10October 22 to 29
- Top 5October 29 to November 5
- Group FinalsNovember 5 to 12
- WildcardNovember 13 to 15
- QuarterfinalsNovember 16 to 25
- SemifinalsNovember 27 to December 3
- FinalsDecember 4 to 10
Free votes and optional donations
Your free daily vote is always free. Donation votes are optional and open to adults 18 and older.
Colossal operates this fundraiser for Action Initiative Team (AIT). Donations go to AIT, which grants funds to the Ryan Seacrest Foundation after 36.5% competition fees and variable costs, including AIT’s 1% retention.
What I do
Several rooms, one way of working.
Strategy, craft, and infrastructure that holds up after I leave it. The work splits into a few rooms, and I am at home in all of them.
01 · Creative
Web & Graphic Design
WordPress sites and brand systems built clean, accessible, and easy to maintain. Design that says what it means and then gets out of the way.
See the work →02 · Systems
AI & Automation
The IMC Machine and AI put to work in real production. I built the whole platform myself with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.
How it works →03 · Creative
Music
Americana recorded and performed as Julie Good and with Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike. The debut album Coffee Conversations is everywhere you stream.
Listen →04 · Systems
Online Presence Report
A true-numbers audit of my own reach, run with the same tools I use for clients. No vanity metrics, no rounding up. Just what the data actually says.
Read the audit →05 · Creative
Good Creative Media
The agency and what it builds: communication systems for organizations, firms, venues, and artists who want a system, not a stack.
Meet the agency →06 · Teaching
About Julie Good
Master Teacher, Quality Matters and Canvas certified, with a master’s from Texas State and a second one in progress at Texas Tech. The longer story, and how to reach me.
Read about me →The throughline
Media production runs under all of it. From a recorded album to AI-directed live event capture inside The IMC Machine, the work is the same craft pointed at different rooms: capture, shape, and ship.
Portfolio lanes
Four rooms, one standard.
I do not separate the thinking from the making. The site, the classroom, the studio, and the stage all ask for the same discipline: make the thing clear, make the thing useful, make the thing hold.
Design
Web and graphic design
Brand systems, WordPress builds, and pages that respect the reader.
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Forrest Good PLLC, The Dakota, The IMC Machine, Good Creative Media, and this portfolio are all live work.
Build with AI
The IMC Machine
A media operations platform I designed, built, and operate at Good Creative Media.
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I built the platform with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini, directed as a production system.
Teach
Digital media in practice
Eighteen courses across seven departments, taught inside real institutions with real students.
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Communication, English, INRW, Information Technology, Marketing, Music Business, and Radio-Television Broadcasting.
Music
Coffee Conversations
The debut album by Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike, recorded in 2000 and released March 13, 2001.
View the Work →
One record, an Americana band rooted in San Antonio, and 20+ streaming platforms through CD Baby.
Buddy
Julie Good’s AI guide