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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. 3d ago

    #098: Why Asking for Help Feels So Hard, and How to Make It Easier

    Have you ever known exactly what would help—and still stopped yourself from asking? Maybe it was another pair of eyes on an unfinished draft, a little time to think before speaking, or someone willing to work beside you. Before the words came out, another thought arrived: shouldn’t I be able to do this on my own? In this solo episode, Dwight sits with that hesitation. Beginning with a stubborn pair of broken glasses, he explores the distance between quietly wanting support and finding words that give another person somewhere to meet us. Along the way, he touches on grief, the uncertainty of people who want to help, and the vulnerability of saying what we want without first proving we deserve it. There’s room here for the other person’s limits, too: a clear request can still receive a no, and not every difficult situation can be repaired by asking differently. For anyone holding an unfinished idea close, this is an invitation to imagine support as something specific and human. A thoughtful question. A page read with care. A few minutes alongside someone who doesn’t need us to have it all figured out before we begin. 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

    #098: Why Asking for Help Feels So Hard, and How to Make It Easier

  2. Oct 19

    #097: Creative Confidence: How to Find What Helps You Thrive

    Have you ever shared an idea or joined in without second-guessing yourself—then wondered why you couldn’t be that person all the time? There’s a particular ache in remembering how natural it felt, especially when the next opportunity finds you holding back. In this solo episode, Dwight Spencer remembers standing frozen during a mirror-dance exercise at Creative Mornings, carrying old comments about how badly he danced. Then he let himself get silly, and the moment that began in self-consciousness became one of laughter and connection. That memory opens a gentler conversation about confidence: whether it helped us participate, or whether participating helped us feel it. Dwight invites us to revisit a time we felt useful, heard, or able to share—not to demand that we become that person every day, but to notice what made that moment possible. Sometimes it was our willingness; sometimes it was another person’s curiosity, or a little room to be unfinished. There’s space here for the creative who still hesitates, and for the possibility that we can help make showing up feel a little more possible for one another. 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

    #097: Creative Confidence: How to Find What Helps You Thrive

  3. Oct 12 ·  Bonus

    Bonus #096: Neurodivergence: The Cost of Fitting In, the Freedom of Being Yourself With Lisa Richer

    What happens when you become so good at being what everyone needs that you lose touch with who you are? For Lisa Richer, looking capable and holding everything together concealed a growing distance from herself. In this conversation with Maddox and Dwight, Lisa shares what it felt like to move through life with neurodifferences she didn’t yet understand. She could find the middle of an idea before its beginning, but in environments that demanded a different order, she learned to doubt her own way of thinking. Writing and poetry offered another kind of space—one where expression felt good, and her voice had somewhere to go. Her story holds both the exhaustion of burnout and the tenderness of learning to ask for help. A question from her husband interrupted the belief that she always had to be the strong one; therapy helped her begin recognizing what she had carried, and what had never been hers to carry. There’s no tidy finish here. There is a mother trying to give her children the freedom she needed, a woman learning to trust herself, and the possibility of belonging without hiding so much of who we are. Lisa's Profile Lisa'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

    Bonus #096: Neurodivergence: The Cost of Fitting In, the Freedom of Being Yourself With Lisa Richer

  4. Oct 5

    #095: What If You Stopped Fixing Yourself and Started Finding What’s Already Working?

    What if the question keeping you stuck is not “What’s wrong with me?” but “When have I already been more courageous, creative, and connected than I give myself credit for?” For many creatives, self-doubt can become a default language—especially when the work feels unseen, unfinished, or vulnerable to judgment. In this solo episode, Dwight explores appreciative inquiry: a way of meeting creative struggle without pretending it is not real. Rather than beginning with what is broken, he invites us to notice the conditions in which we have felt most alive, capable, and like ourselves—and to let those moments become evidence. This is a conversation for the artist, maker, leader, or quiet creative who is tired of trying to criticize themselves into becoming better. It is an invitation to pause, remember a moment that felt true, and listen for what was present there: belonging, meaning, freedom, experimentation, care. You are not a problem to solve. You are a person with a voice, a history, and more proof of your capacity than you may realize. Maybe the work is not to perform belonging, but to practice it—together. 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

    #095: What If You Stopped Fixing Yourself and Started Finding What’s Already Working?

  5. Sep 28

    #094: How to Get Quiet Team Members to Speak Up - 3 Ways to Build Psychological Safety

    What happens inside you when you have something to say—but you are not sure the room can hold it? In this episode of Community and Becoming, Dwight looks beneath the silence that can settle over teams, creative communities, and everyday conversations. Sometimes people are not disengaged, unprepared, or lacking confidence. Sometimes they are reading the room, remembering past moments when their difference, early idea, or dissent felt like too much. This is a conversation about the quiet cost of spaces that have not yet earned trust—and the small shifts that can help people feel less like extras in someone else’s show. Dwight reflects on thinking time, shared influence, and the deep human need to see that what we offer can actually matter. Because before we ask people to be braver, it is worth asking whether the room has given them a reason to believe their voice will be received. 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

    #094: How to Get Quiet Team Members to Speak Up - 3 Ways to Build Psychological Safety

  6. Sep 21

    #093: Why Talented People Quietly Disengage

    Have you ever sat in a room where everyone could feel something was off—but everyone kept speaking around it? In creative teams, silence is rarely empty. It can hold the question no one wants to ask, the resentment beneath a joke, the idea someone has stopped offering because it no longer feels safe to bring their full self into the room. And when we keep avoiding what is true, the cost does not disappear. It shows up in stalled decisions, disengagement, burnout, and the quiet loss of trust. In this episode, Dwight reflects on the human reality of creative tension: gifted, well-intentioned people can still find themselves strained by competing needs, limited resources, old patterns, and conversations left unnamed. He shares a simple invitation for moving through those moments: notice the signal, name the real question, and navigate with care. This is not about forcing vulnerability or pretending conflict is easy. It is about creating enough safety for honesty to exist—so people can tell the truth, remain connected, and make something better together. 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

    #093: Why Talented People Quietly Disengage

  7. Sep 14

    #092: Stop Letting Silence Decide What You’re Worth

    Have you ever shared something meaningful—an idea, a proposal, a piece of work, a vulnerable part of yourself—and then heard nothing back? That quiet can feel so personal. Before long, a missing reply becomes a story about rejection, invisibility, or whether you were ever worth listening to in the first place. In this episode, Dwight sits with the space between what happened and what our minds make it mean. He speaks to the old wounds that ambiguity can awaken in creative people: being too much, not enough, overlooked, or somehow outside the room where our work belongs. This is not an invitation to force a happy interpretation of silence. It is a gentler call to let uncertainty remain uncertain—to pause, return to why you made the work, and choose one grounded next step without abandoning yourself along the way. Because your work may need to be seen, known, and heard. But visibility is a practice, not an applause meter. And a quiet response does not get to make your voice smaller, your work less meaningful, or your future narrower. 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

    #092: Stop Letting Silence Decide What You’re Worth

  8. Sep 7

    #091: Creative Burnout and the Courage to Take a Breath

    What happens when the things you care about most all start asking for your attention at once? In this intimate solo reflection, Dwight shares what it has felt like to be in a season of expansion: developing new skills, following his curiosity, deepening his work, and trying new things—even learning to water ski as an adult. But underneath the momentum is a familiar creative tension: the desire to keep growing while realizing the body and spirit have limits. After reaching a point of complete exhaustion, Dwight reflects on the quiet wisdom of listening sooner. He considers the importance of pauses, time in nature, relationships, and the personal rituals that make a full life sustainable—not just productive. This is an invitation to take an honest look at what fills your own “clock”: the obligations, the longings, the work, the people, and the moments that replenish you. There is no universal formula for balance. There is only the ongoing practice of noticing what helps you remain awake, present, curious, and fully yourself. 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

    #091: Creative Burnout and the Courage to Take a Breath
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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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