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Maddox & Dwight
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Imagine a space where your creative spark is truly seen, your self-doubt is understood, and you do not have to fake confidence to belong. This is a community for heart-centered creatives navigating self-doubt, imposter syndrome, creative burnout, and the search for an authentic creative identity.On For the Love of Creatives, hosts Maddox and Dwight bring you weekly conversations at the intersection of creativity, community, and becoming. As your “connection and community guys,” they hold space for artists, makers, designers, dancers, writers, and everyday creatives who are learning to trust their authentic voice, move through comparison and fear of judgment, and step into the next version of themselves.Through storytelling, real-time coaching, and deep dialogue, Maddox and Dwight speak directly to creatives who feel isolated, stuck in self-doubt, or tired of constantly second-guessing their work. You will hear real stories of navigating imposter syndrome, rebuilding creative confidence, finding supportive creative community, and saying yes to who you are becoming.Expect:Practical insights you can use to quiet self-doubt and create with more confidenceFresh inspiration for your creative process, identity, and voiceReal stories from the worlds of art, design, dance, culinary, and beyond, shared with honesty and heartIf you are a heart-centered creative seeking clarity, connection, and the courage to trust your authentic voice, this podcast is your invitation. Tune in weekly to experience the magic of community-fueled creativity and continue your own journey of creative becoming. This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions such as: Why do I still feel like a fraud even when I am talented? How do I trust my voice as a creative? Why do I keep second-guessing myself? How do I stop comparing myself to other creatives? What does creative becoming actually look like in real life? How do I share my work without fear of judgment? How can I build creative confidence without pretending? What kind of community helps creatives thrive? How do I know if I have outgrown an old version of myself? How do I create consistently without burning out?

  1. #082: The Frequency of Love: Wind Chimes, Grief, and Becoming With Breck White

    4d ago

    #082: The Frequency of Love: Wind Chimes, Grief, and Becoming With Breck White

    What if the sound of your creativity could keep someone’s love alive long after they’re gone? In this conversation, Breck White shares how a tragic loss at fourteen, a grave under a tree, and a chorus of wind chimes slowly turned into Love Chimes—a business rooted in memorials, story, and the frequency of love. Breck talks about becoming the kind of person who trusts her own intuition enough to create what she couldn’t find anywhere else: one-of-a-kind wind chimes that hold ashes, names, life stories, and the everyday sound of someone still being with you. She names the doubts, the naysayers, and the old story that she had no support—and how community, family, and a very patient sister helped her rewrite that narrative. Together, we explore what it means to be “too much,” to keep creating anyway, and to let your art carry love into the world one chime at a time. If you’ve ever wondered who you’d have to become to bring your tender, unlikely idea to life, this episode will feel like sitting under a tree, listening to the wind, realizing you’re not alone in your becoming. Breck's Profile Breck's Website This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    1h 4m
  2. #081: Letting Your Weird Be the Way: Rethinking Imposter Syndrome

    Jun 29

    #081: Letting Your Weird Be the Way: Rethinking Imposter Syndrome

    Have you ever delivered something beautiful, heard the praise… and still thought, “If only they knew—I’m not really that good”? In this solo episode, Dwight sits down as your “Connections and Community Guy” and names the quiet, lonely experience so many creatives carry: feeling like a fraud in the very work that matters most to you. Drawing from the original research on the “imposter phenomenon,” Dwight explores how high achievers and artists twist their own stories—overworking, procrastinating, or raising the bar so high that “enough” is never actually reachable. He walks through the imposter cycle, the imposter profile, and the way childhood roles, perfectionism, fear of failure, and even fear of success shape how you show up to your craft. More than a concept, this is about what it feels like inside your body when the deadline is looming, your heart is on the line, and you’re convinced everyone has picked the wrong person. With gentle metaphors—a flying elephant, a gym spotter, a mirror held up at the right time—Dwight invites you to remember the proof you’ve already created and to imagine moving through the world as someone who is whole, capable, and no longer governed by doubt. This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    25 min
  3. #080: The Creative Journey Framework: Doubt, Awakening, Voice, and Becoming

    Jun 22

    #080: The Creative Journey Framework: Doubt, Awakening, Voice, and Becoming

    Have you ever looked at other artists and thought, “They’re the real creatives… I just dabble”? In this solo episode, Dwight names the inner landscape so many heart-centered creatives quietly live in but rarely language out loud. He walks us through what he calls the Creative Journey Framework: the doubting creative, the awakening creative, the emerging voice, and the authentic creative. Instead of treating these as steps to master, Dwight invites you to notice where you recognize yourself, where you feel grief, relief, or a small inner yes in your body. Along the way, he shares his own seasons of sitting on ideas, feeling like the quiet observer in creative spaces, and slowly allowing this podcast and community to move from journal pages into real life. This conversation is less about fixing you and more about helping you breathe. You’ll hear why doubt doesn’t mean you’re not creative, why awakening can feel both thrilling and destabilizing, and how emerging with your voice is both terrifying and profoundly connective. Ultimately, Dwight reminds you that your creative self is not a luxury, you are not behind, and you were never meant to walk this path alone. This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    23 min
  4. #079: What Happens When Your Inner World Outgrows Your Outer Life With Lizzie Thomas

    Jun 15

    #079: What Happens When Your Inner World Outgrows Your Outer Life With Lizzie Thomas

    What happens when your inner world wakes up… and your outer life refuses to catch up? In this intimate conversation, jazz singer-songwriter and producer Lizzie Thomas shares the story of an awakening that asked everything of her: her marriage, her beliefs, her relationship to patriarchy, and the version of herself she’d been performing for years. Songs began arriving through dreams and meditation, carrying lyrics and melodies that pulled her toward a truer life, even as old structures and expectations clung tight. Lizzie talks about realizing that what was happening inside no longer matched the life she’d built outside, and the grief of setting fire to beliefs inherited from culture, family, religion, and the “American dream.” She names the quiet courage of buying a home alone in midlife, starting over on her own terms, and daring to believe in a self she can’t fully see yet but is committed to becoming. We also explore community, bandmates, and the power of relationships as the real point—not just the backdrop—to a creative life. Together, we wander through grief, deeply feeling, and what it means to let your art be both your spiritual walk and a beacon for others who are still finding their way. This one is for every creative who has felt the lag between who they are becoming and the life they’re still standing in. Lizzie's Profile Lizzie's Website This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    46 min
  5. #078: When Your Husband’s Casual Suggestion Changes Your Whole Creative Life With Sarah Lents

    Jun 8

    #078: When Your Husband’s Casual Suggestion Changes Your Whole Creative Life With Sarah Lents

    What do you do when a “fun little hobby” quietly becomes the truest expression of who you are? In this conversation, Sarah Lentz shares how a throwaway comment from her husband – “you should just make them yourself” – pulled her into a world of wax, wicks, migraines, markets, and slow, deeply human becoming. Sarah doesn’t arrive as a polished brand; she shows up as a woman who loves candles, lives with chronic headaches, and cares enough about other people’s homes and bodies to spend two years perfecting a non‑toxic formula that won’t make them hurt. Along the way, she walks through family business breakdowns, the tenderness of starting over under her own name, and the exhausting hum of a perfectionist brain that just won’t turn off. Together, we explore what it means to embrace flaws in a world obsessed with AI‑level “perfection,” the quiet holiness of etching names and memories into glass, and the courage it takes to admit you’re not for everybody. This is an episode for anyone who has ever wondered if their obsession is “too much,” when maybe it’s just the light trying to get out. Sarah's Profile Sarah's Website This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    1h 3m
  6. #077: Becoming Isn’t Changing... It’s Coming Home To Your Creative Self With Priyanka Khandalkar

    Jun 1

    #077: Becoming Isn’t Changing... It’s Coming Home To Your Creative Self With Priyanka Khandalkar

    What if “becoming” isn’t about fixing yourself, but finally coming home to who you’ve been all along? In this tender, expansive conversation, Priyanka Khandalkar traces her journey from overachieving engineer and burned‑out business builder to soul‑led creative, healer, and mother who finally trusts her own voice. She shares openly about growing up in a toxic home, carrying a deep father wound, surviving childhood abuse, and learning to equate love with performance, over-giving, and people‑pleasing in her marriage, work, and business. When her body, money, creativity, and relationships all started to shut down, a spiritual awakening—through meditation, angel numbers, nature, shamanic work, and ancestral healing—asked her to stop abandoning herself and remember her own power. We talk about the five elements, sacral and solar plexus healing, and how standing in your worth changes the way you create, lead, parent, and run a company. Priyanka’s story invites every creative who has ever felt “too much,” “not enough,” or out of place to see their sensitivity and imagination as sacred design, not a flaw to fix. This episode is a gentle homecoming for anyone ready to create from wholeness instead of from their wounds. Priyanka's Website Priyanka's Quiz Priyanka's Free Gift This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    1h 9m
  7. #076: When Your Own Work Feels Like a Fraud, Even When It’s Working

    May 25

    #076: When Your Own Work Feels Like a Fraud, Even When It’s Working

    What if every big project you care about secretly feels like a test of your worth, not just your skill? In this intimate solo episode, Dwight takes us inside the lived reality of imposter syndrome for creatives... far beyond the Instagram carousels and fluffy posts. Drawing from Dr. Pauline Clance’s original research on the “impostor phenomenon,” he traces how the imposter cycle shows up in our bodies, our timelines, and our inability to celebrate our own wins. From being “the talented one” in a small pool to suddenly becoming just another face in the crowd, Dwight names the quiet grief and disorientation many creatives carry but rarely say out loud. He shares his own experience as an emerging artist, wrestling with perspective exercises that feel embarrassingly basic while watching other people’s work seem to flow effortlessly from their hands. Along the way, he threads in perfectionism, fear of failure, and the painful habit of not being able to receive praise, even when we’ve done something brave. Rather than offering hacks or fixes, this conversation invites you to notice your own patterns with tenderness. Dwight reminds us that sometimes we need a “mirror to see our own face”... a trusted friend, therapist, or coach to hold a gentler perspective when our anxiety is too loud. If you’ve ever finished a project, skipped the celebration, and rushed straight to the next test, this episode is a soft place to land.What if every big project you care about secretly feels like a test of your worth, not just your skill? In this intimate solo episode, Dwight takes us inside the lived reality of imposter syndrome for creatives... far beyond the Instagram carousels and fluffy posts. Drawing from Dr. Pauline Clance’s original research on the “impostor phenomenon,” he traces how the imposter cycle shows up in our bodies, our timelines, and our inability to celebrate our own wins. From being “the talented one” in a small pool to suddenly becoming just another face in the crowd, Dwight names the quiet grief and disorientation many creatives carry but rarely say out loud. He shares his own experience as an emerging artist, wrestling with perspective exercises that feel embarrassingly basic while watching other people’s work seem to flow effortlessly from their hands. Along the way, he threads in perfectionism, fear of failure, and the painful habit of not being able to receive praise, even when we’ve done something brave. Rather than offering hacks or fixes, this conversation invites you to notice your own patterns with tenderness. Dwight reminds us that sometimes we need a “mirror to see our own face”... a trusted friend, therapist, or coach to hold a gentler perspective when our anxiety is too loud. If you’ve ever finished a project, skipped the celebration, and rushed straight to the next test, this episode is a soft place to land. This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

    21 min

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    Trailer: Exciting New Formats

    Take a quick listen to know what's brewing at the For the Love of Creatives podcast... This is Maddox & Dwight! More than anything, we want to connect and communicate with you. We don't want to think of you as listeners. We want to think of you as community. So, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and click the SUBSCRIBE link. Thank you! Thank you for listening to the For the Love of Creatives Podcast. If you are enjoying the podcast, please scroll to the bottom of the show notes and Rate & Review us. We would SO appreciate it. Support the show Book a Discovery Call With Dwight Become a SUBSCRIBER to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest? For the Love of Creatives Podcast Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple or Spotify

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Imagine a space where your creative spark is truly seen, your self-doubt is understood, and you do not have to fake confidence to belong. This is a community for heart-centered creatives navigating self-doubt, imposter syndrome, creative burnout, and the search for an authentic creative identity.On For the Love of Creatives, hosts Maddox and Dwight bring you weekly conversations at the intersection of creativity, community, and becoming. As your “connection and community guys,” they hold space for artists, makers, designers, dancers, writers, and everyday creatives who are learning to trust their authentic voice, move through comparison and fear of judgment, and step into the next version of themselves.Through storytelling, real-time coaching, and deep dialogue, Maddox and Dwight speak directly to creatives who feel isolated, stuck in self-doubt, or tired of constantly second-guessing their work. You will hear real stories of navigating imposter syndrome, rebuilding creative confidence, finding supportive creative community, and saying yes to who you are becoming.Expect:Practical insights you can use to quiet self-doubt and create with more confidenceFresh inspiration for your creative process, identity, and voiceReal stories from the worlds of art, design, dance, culinary, and beyond, shared with honesty and heartIf you are a heart-centered creative seeking clarity, connection, and the courage to trust your authentic voice, this podcast is your invitation. Tune in weekly to experience the magic of community-fueled creativity and continue your own journey of creative becoming. This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions such as: Why do I still feel like a fraud even when I am talented? How do I trust my voice as a creative? Why do I keep second-guessing myself? How do I stop comparing myself to other creatives? What does creative becoming actually look like in real life? How do I share my work without fear of judgment? How can I build creative confidence without pretending? What kind of community helps creatives thrive? How do I know if I have outgrown an old version of myself? How do I create consistently without burning out?

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