For the Love of Creatives

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Heartfelt appreciation is the fuel of creative connection.

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“One of my greatest challenges is sharing my ideas in a simpler way.” -Sean Patrick Maher

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When owners exit, new creators rise. Blake Serrano’s strategy of buying out retiring shops and suppliers is bold, smart, and full of potential.

#048: From Corporate Chains To Quilter’s Gold: How Blake Serrano Built A Fabric Business With No Money Down What happens when an ultra-competitive systems thinker walks away from a comfortable tech career and decides to build something real, messy, and human? Blake joins …

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Before you leap, learn the ropes from someone already nailing it. Blake reminds us to get paid to learn and prep for our own big moments.

#048: From Corporate Chains To Quilter’s Gold: How Blake Serrano Built A Fabric Business With No Money Down What happens when an ultra-competitive systems thinker walks away from a comfortable tech career and decides to build something real, messy, and human? Blake joins …

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Being ultra competitive and supportive at the same time is possible. Blake Serrano’s mindset helps communities thrive and excel.

Who is your creative motivator?

#048: From Corporate Chains To Quilter’s Gold: How Blake Serrano Built A Fabric Business With No Money Down What happens when an ultra-competitive systems thinker walks away from a comfortable tech career and decides to build something real, messy, and human? Blake joins …

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Timing, vision, and action matter. Blake’s creative leap happened because he stayed ready and clear about his dreams. Your moment could be next.

Inspiration: Don’t build in a bubble. Listen locally, launch globally. Every creative breakthrough starts with a real problem that needs solving. #CreativeCommunity

#016: The Art of Breaking Free: Amber Goodwin's Journey from Cultural Expectations to Creative Liberation When 12-year-old Amber Goodwin discovered glass painting in Pakistan, she couldn't have known her creative journey would require breaking free from cultural expecta…

Bring your story.

Let’s build a space where creativity and compassion meet.

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What if letting go is a creative act?

Forgiveness liberated Amber Goodwin from months of self-doubt.

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"Community keeps me right-sized."

Berend McKenzie drops truth on For the Love of Creatives podcast.

You're not looking to be the worst or best in the room. You're looking for a place where you belong.

#047: Hara Allison Chose Art Over Chemo And Found Peace What if your creative practice wasn’t a side note, but the reason you get out of bed? We sit down with Hara Allison—graphic designer, photographer, and founder of D…

"We can all have gone through hard things, but we don't have to stay there."
Her mission: help others not waste the time she lost.
Rise above. You can.
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"Don't waste any time buried in your trauma thinking you can't rise above it."
Hara Allison didn't address her childhood sexual abuse until 50. She stayed buried for 45 years.

#047: Hara Allison Chose Art Over Chemo And Found Peace What if your creative practice wasn’t a side note, but the reason you get out of bed? We sit down with Hara Allison—graphic designer, photographer, and founder of D…

Not toxic positivity. Just choosing to see what's still beautiful alongside what's hard.
The sunsets. The light. The moments.
That's where life actually happens.
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"Pay attention to the sunsets and the way the light's hitting something. Take in all the little moments."
Hara Allison survived divorce in her 30s with two young kids by noticing small beautiful things when everything else felt overwhelming.

#047: Hara Allison Chose Art Over Chemo And Found Peace What if your creative practice wasn’t a side note, but the reason you get out of bed? We sit down with Hara Allison—graphic designer, photographer, and founder of D…

Now you SEE everyone's "wins" 24/7.
"Social media is wonderful, but it's not the whole picture."
What's behind your highlight reel?
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"My house was in foreclosure but people congratulated me for doing so well because I was self-promoting my work."
Hara Allison on the highlight reel problem.
The younger generation lives in constant comparison with everyone's curated best moments. Previous generations only had internal struggles.

#047: Hara Allison Chose Art Over Chemo And Found Peace What if your creative practice wasn’t a side note, but the reason you get out of bed? We sit down with Hara Allison—graphic designer, photographer, and founder of D…

This conversation about choosing what truly matters:
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Hara Allison's dream board: "Make love and make art"
That's what she wrote when facing terminal cancer at 57. She chose living out loud over more chemo. Chose Dream Studio over fear. Chose community over isolation.
"If I die doing those two things, I'll be good."

Virtual connections that became real community.
Andrea Lamarsaude built bonds during lockdown that blossomed when doors finally opened.
Proof that authentic community doesn't wait for perfect conditions.
Podcast episode exploring how creativity thrives through connection, even in crisis.

#046: What If The Work Isn’t What You Do, But Who You Become With Maddox & Dwight What if the most powerful upgrade to your creative life isn’t a new tool, but a new identity? We’re expanding our platform with a third pillar—becoming—and opening …

compassion + liberation = becoming 💙
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Dwight's closing wisdom:
be kind to yourself for how you got here
(you did what you needed to do)
AND
remember you're not limited by the box others want to put you in
(if there's a dream, pursue it)

#046: What If The Work Isn’t What You Do, But Who You Become With Maddox & Dwight What if the most powerful upgrade to your creative life isn’t a new tool, but a new identity? We’re expanding our platform with a third pillar—becoming—and opening …

if you don't feel safe somewhere (emotionally, creatively, professionally):
→ change it
→ leave it
→ build something new
you're far more empowered than some want you to believe
agency isn't always easy but it's always available 💪
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what got you here won't get you there

who you are right now = where you are right now

who you need to become = where you want to be

stop trying to reach the next level as your current self

it won't work

identity evolution first 💫

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#046: What If The Work Isn’t What You Do, But Who You Become With Maddox & Dwight What if the most powerful upgrade to your creative life isn’t a new tool, but a new identity? We’re expanding our platform with a third pillar—becoming—and opening …

The spiral staircase theory of creative growth 🌀

When that lesson shows up again, you're not failing—you're ready for the deeper version.

Same position, higher floor, expanded perspective.

This is what conscious evolution looks like.

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