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#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 [https://www.fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com/guests/breck-white/] Breck's Website [https://www.love-chimes.com] 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 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454149/support] Book a Discovery Call With Dwight [https://tidycal.com/dwight1] Become a SUBSCRIBER [https://creatives.myflodesk.com/podcast] to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest [https://forms.fillout.com/t/evbkAaWRSdus]? For the Love of Creatives Podcast [https://fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com] Facebook [https://facebook.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] Instagram [https://instagram.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] YouTube [https://youtube.com/@fortheloveofcreatives1/podcasts] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/company/fortheloveofcreatives/] Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1797761105?mt=2&ls=1] or Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5TCAhon0aDIEuMvxHuX781?si=3b6145b2df5a415b]

#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 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454149/support] Book a Discovery Call With Dwight [https://tidycal.com/dwight1] Become a SUBSCRIBER [https://creatives.myflodesk.com/podcast] to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest [https://forms.fillout.com/t/evbkAaWRSdus]? For the Love of Creatives Podcast [https://fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com] Facebook [https://facebook.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] Instagram [https://instagram.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] YouTube [https://youtube.com/@fortheloveofcreatives1/podcasts] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/company/fortheloveofcreatives/] Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1797761105?mt=2&ls=1] or Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5TCAhon0aDIEuMvxHuX781?si=3b6145b2df5a415b]

#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 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454149/support] Book a Discovery Call With Dwight [https://tidycal.com/dwight1] Become a SUBSCRIBER [https://creatives.myflodesk.com/podcast] to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest [https://forms.fillout.com/t/evbkAaWRSdus]? For the Love of Creatives Podcast [https://fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com] Facebook [https://facebook.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] Instagram [https://instagram.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] YouTube [https://youtube.com/@fortheloveofcreatives1/podcasts] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/company/fortheloveofcreatives/] Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1797761105?mt=2&ls=1] or Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5TCAhon0aDIEuMvxHuX781?si=3b6145b2df5a415b]

#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 [https://www.fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com/guests/lizzie-thomas/] Lizzie's Website [https://www.lizziethejazzsinger.com] 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 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454149/support] Book a Discovery Call With Dwight [https://tidycal.com/dwight1] Become a SUBSCRIBER [https://creatives.myflodesk.com/podcast] to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest [https://forms.fillout.com/t/evbkAaWRSdus]? For the Love of Creatives Podcast [https://fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com] Facebook [https://facebook.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] Instagram [https://instagram.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] YouTube [https://youtube.com/@fortheloveofcreatives1/podcasts] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/company/fortheloveofcreatives/] Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1797761105?mt=2&ls=1] or Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5TCAhon0aDIEuMvxHuX781?si=3b6145b2df5a415b]

#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 [https://www.fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com/guests/sarah-lents/] Sarah's Website [https://www.shopfourthelement.com/] 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 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454149/support] Book a Discovery Call With Dwight [https://tidycal.com/dwight1] Become a SUBSCRIBER [https://creatives.myflodesk.com/podcast] to Get Notified of New Episodes Want to be a Featured Guest [https://forms.fillout.com/t/evbkAaWRSdus]? For the Love of Creatives Podcast [https://fortheloveofcreativespodcast.com] Facebook [https://facebook.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] Instagram [https://instagram.com/fortheloveofcreatives/] YouTube [https://youtube.com/@fortheloveofcreatives1/podcasts] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/company/fortheloveofcreatives/] Rate and Review the Podcast on Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1797761105?mt=2&ls=1] or Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5TCAhon0aDIEuMvxHuX781?si=3b6145b2df5a415b]