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For the Love of Creatives

Maddox & Dwight

57 episodes

2 days ago

What happens when the thing you love most feels like it might cost you belonging? In this episode, we sit down with Mason Van Katwyk … dancer, coach, and self-described jack-of-all-trades … to talk about the quiet identity work that happens behind the scenes of a creative life. Mason shares what it was like to start dance “late” (at 18), self-teaching in mirrors and YouTube rabbit holes, then finding himself torn between what lit him up and what felt acceptable to his family. We explore the h...

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What happens when the thing you love most feels like it might cost you belonging? In this episode, we sit down with Mason Van Katwyk … dancer, coach, and self-described jack-of-all-trades … to talk about the quiet identity work that happens behind the scenes of a creative life. Mason shares what it was like to start dance “late” (at 18), self-teaching in mirrors and YouTube rabbit holes, then finding himself torn between what lit him up and what felt acceptable to his family. We explore the h...

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Society & Culture

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For the Love of Creatives

#055: How Books Spark Empathy, Community, And Cultural Change With Will Evans

What if a book isn’t just entertainment but civic infrastructure? We sit down with Will Evans—publisher, bookseller, and founder of Deep Vellum—to explore how reading rewires the brain for empathy, how curation beats overwhelm, and why a single bookstore can change the texture of a neighborhood. From the rise of Dallas’s literary ecosystem to the surprising power of BookTok resurrecting Dostoevsky, we follow the threads that connect curiosity, translation, and community. Will shares why phys...

1 week ago

52 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#054: Ross von Rosenberg: What Do We Owe The Art That Wants To Be Born?

What happens when a meticulous planner meets a canvas that refuses to obey? We sit down with painter and creative director Ross von Rosenberg to unpack a bold shift from figurative storytelling to geometric abstraction—and the moment a red painting revealed the truth he was trying to control. Ross takes us inside the push and pull between precision and spontaneity, how tape lines and millimeter decisions became a language for feeling, and why the work started as a design exercise but turned i...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 7 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#053: From Networking To Galleries, Here’s How Artists Get On The Wall With Jennifer Luney

Curiosity brought us together years ago in a networking room; purpose brought us back to talk about how creatives actually get their work on the wall. Jennifer Luney, a private wealth advisor with deep roots in advertising and an even deeper commitment to artists, opens the backstage door to the North Texas art ecosystem and shares a practical playbook for visibility, momentum, and community impact. We trace her journey from print media and radio to championing her husband’s fine art photogr...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 9 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#052: How Improv Mindsets Help You Lead, Collaborate, And Navigate Real-Life Curveballs With Amanda Austin

What happens when you bring improv out of the theater and into the mess of everyday work and life? With Amanda Austin... comedian, educator, entrepreneur, and former owner of Dallas Comedy House... we explore how trust, presence, and play can transform collaboration, decision-making, and creative growth. From leading workshops inside companies to teaching at SMU and navigating a portfolio career, Amanda shows how choosing your energy can be the most practical skill you own. We get real about...

4 weeks ago

1 hour

For the Love of Creatives

#051: What If Freedom Means Loving What You Love, No Matter Who Leaves With CarolLaine M. Garcia

What if the most honest version of you is the one you’ve been avoiding? We sit down with CarolLaine M. Garcia, PhD, coach, and self-proclaimed embodied liberation guide...whose life arcs from early loss and academic rigor to a radical creative rebirth that refuses to live in separate boxes. This conversation moves from hotel rooms and elite consulting perks to long pandemic walks where anger finally had space to breathe, and to a breeze that felt like ancestors saying, we’re with you. CarolL...

1 month ago

1 hour 7 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#050: What If Reinvention Is Not A Crisis But A Calling With Sabrina Labvah

What if the fastest way to heal burnout is to make something beautiful? We sit down with designer and psychiatric provider Sabrina Labvah to trace how a grueling pandemic workload pushed her back to a first love... fashion... and why creativity didn’t pull her away from care, it made her better at it. Sabrina shares a candid roadmap for becoming: reflect on your past, choose readiness over pressure, and use journaling to metabolize what you’ve long suppressed. She reminds us that transformati...

1 month ago

1 hour 2 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#049: Becoming By Subtraction: When Music Rebuilds A Self With Sean Patrick Maher

What if the most profound shift of your life arrived as a single instruction: turn around and face the amp? That’s the moment Sean Patrick Maher describes—when a wave of sound churned grief through his body and out into the open, setting him on a path from musician to creator to founder of SomAlive Technologies. We dive into how sound becomes touch, how intention becomes architecture, and how community brings the meaning that sustains both. Sean Patrick unpacks the Z5, a vibroacoustic platfo...

1 month ago

1 hour 11 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#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 us to unpack how a failed $40k app, a seasonal toy, and one conversation with an 83-year-old shop owner sparked a thriving fabric business built on brand-name textiles, creative financing, and the infinite game of community. We dig into the scrappy playbook: validating demand before spending a cent, pre-selling through social medi...

1 month ago

1 hour 3 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#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 Dream Studio—whose mantra “make love and make art” is both a rallying cry and a roadmap. She talks candidly about living with incurable cancer, why she declined more chemo after it stole a year, and how choosing creativity brought her back to herself. Hara opens up about trauma, responsibility, and the moment she began to parent th...

2 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#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 up a candid, behind-the-scenes conversation on choosing who you grow into and why that choice changes everything. We unpack the myth of arrival and the trap of quick fixes, then move into the deeper work that actually sustains craft and community. From self love as a daily practice to sharpening the saw for true creative flow, we ...

2 months ago

46 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#045: Sabrina Handal Finds Her Purpose Isn't in Her Head... It's in Her Heart

Ever feel like you're creatively stagnant, pulled in different directions, and overthinking every possible path forward? You're not alone. In this vulnerable coaching conversation, we sit down with Sabrina, a graphic designer searching for greater fulfillment while struggling with perfectionism and the pressure to have everything figured out. The session reveals how many of us approach career decisions like marriage commitments when we should treat them more like trying on shoes... exploring...

2 months ago

52 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#044: The Science Behind Why Everyone Can Create and Thrive With Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

What if everything you thought about creativity was wrong? Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, senior research scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of The Creativity Choice, challenges our assumptions about what it means to be creative. Forget the notion that creativity belongs only to artists, designers, and “creative types.” The biggest misconception limiting our potential is believing creativity equals art. Engineers solving problems, parents inventing dinner solution...

2 months ago

48 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#043: When You Believe in Yourself, Everything Becomes Possible With Laetitia Bouffard-Roupe

From the Paris Opera Ballet School to circus stages and fine art photography, Laetitia Bouffard-Roupe’s path defies convention. Born in France but belonging “to the world,” she shows how saying yes to the unknown can transform your life. At just nine, Laetitia left home to train at the Paris Opera, where strict discipline built resilience but left lasting wounds around body image. After experiencing the darker side of ballet, she took a leap—accepting an acrobatic role with zero experience. T...

3 months ago

50 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#042: Douglas Lewis Struts Past the Haters: When Fashion Becomes Armor

From the confines of his grandmother's office—the very space where his creativity was first nurtured—Douglas Lewis takes us on a transformative journey from bullied youth to fashion revolutionary. Douglas's story begins with childhood memories of assembling photo albums alongside his grandmother, absorbing fashion history that would later become his creative foundation. When thrust from the strict uniformity of private Christian school into public education, Douglas faced merciless bullying ...

3 months ago

52 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#041: Your Creativity Thrives When You Follow What Makes You Happy With David Powell

Creativity rarely follows a straight line, and David Powell’s story proves it. From self-taught web designer to craft cocktail bartender to digital project manager overseeing 20+ bars, his journey is a testament to following curiosity even when it leads to surprising places. David opens up about the fear of sharing work publicly, recalling how his first poetry reading left him physically ill with anxiety. “The hard part for me is never the creating, it’s having the guts to put it in front of ...

3 months ago

52 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#040: Elisha Oliver is Breaking Free From Generational Patterns: How Art Creates Possibility

Elisha Oliver's path from classroom teacher to Executive Director of Texas Folklife offers a masterclass in following creative curiosity. When standardized testing drained her passion for education after nearly twenty years, Elisha found herself at a crossroads that many creatives face: continue the safe, practical path or risk exploring long-buried interests? What followed was a "happy accident" – discovering anthropology as the perfect discipline to embrace her love of cultures, communitie...

3 months ago

54 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#039: Birds, Brushes, and Breaking the Starving Artist Myth With Andrea Holmes

Andrea Holmes didn’t always believe art could pay the bills. After stints in catering, restaurants, and even TV, she embraced her true calling as a muralist. Now known as “the Bird Lady,” she supports herself and her daughter through her art, traveling internationally to paint vibrant murals that spark joy in communities worldwide. What sets Andrea apart is her openness about the business of art. She shares that corporations like Starbucks invest $20,000+ in her murals, breaking the “starving...

3 months ago

52 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#038: Bold Moves, Big Dreams With Imani Black

Boldness opens doors that talent alone cannot. This truth radiates through Imani Black's journey from a tiny North Carolina high school to becoming a multi-faceted creative force in Dallas. With refreshing candor, Imani shares how she transformed from the teenager who boldly announced to her entire school that she was "moving to Dallas to be somebody" into exactly that person – an award-winning photographer, documentary filmmaker, and art curator whose work has been featured on billboards in...

4 months ago

53 minutes

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#037: Curtis Tran's Unique Approach to Creativity That Keeps Him Craving More

What happens when you grow up as "the outcast among outcasts"? Photographer Curtis Tran joins us to share how being one of only three Asian students in his East Texas high school shaped his approach to creativity, community, and belonging. Curtis takes us on a journey through his unique upbringing as a Vietnamese American in Nacogdoches, Texas, where his father—who narrowly escaped execution after the Vietnam War—brought their family to build a new life. This experience of rarely seeing hims...

4 months ago

52 minutes

For the Love of Creatives

#036: Beyond the Menu: Mico Rodriguez Lives a Life Served with Intention

What does it take to build a restaurant empire with heart? Mico Rodriguez reveals the answer through his extraordinary journey from washing dishes at age five to creating Dallas's beloved Mi Cocina restaurants. Growing up in his parents' restaurant, young Mico absorbed invaluable lessons about consistency, customer connection, and the intimate relationship between nourishment and care. His mother's dictatorial but effective management style became both model and counterpoint for his own appr...

4 months ago

1 hour 1 minute