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For the Love of Creatives#062: What Happens When You Don’t Give Up on the Thing That Won’t Let You Go With Sean DelaneyWhat if the thing you keep trying to walk away from… is actually the thing trying to bring you home?In this conversation, Sean Delaney shares what it’s been like to live a creative life that never quite loosened its grip. From writing poetry as a kid in a small upstate New York town, to falling in love with hip-hop, to joining the Navy, to building a life that looked responsible on paper... music was always there. Waiting. Pulling. Refusing to disappear.Sean talks honestly about the long arc of being a creator... the fals...
2026-02-1658 min
For the Love of Creatives#061: When Life Breaks You Open and Art Is the Only Way Back With Leticia HerreraWhat happens when the version of yourself you worked so hard to become suddenly no longer fits?In this deeply human conversation, Leta Herrera shares what it felt like to lose the life she knew… the identity, the history, the sense of continuity… and how art became the place she returned to when nothing else made sense.Rather than talking about creativity as a career or a skill, Leta speaks from the inside of the experience… the quiet moments alone in the studio, the openness that arrives when the heart cracks open, and the strange truth...
2026-02-091h 00
For the Love of Creatives#060: Dina Elsaid Became a Doctor for Everyone Else… Then Remembered She Was an ArtistHave you ever lived inside a life that looked right on paper… but didn’t feel like you?This week we sit down with Dallas-based artist Dina Elsaid, and her story begins in a place so many creatives quietly recognize… doing exactly what she was “supposed” to do.Dina grew up in a culture where the path was clear and unquestioned. Medicine was honorable. Medicine was stable. Medicine was expected. So she became a physician… even while art waited patiently in the background of her life.And for a long time, she didn’t i...
2026-02-021h 02
For the Love of Creatives#059: When Art Becomes a Mirror for the Parts You Hid With Tammy Nguyen LeeHave you ever felt the quiet ache of wanting to be seen… not for what you produce, but for who you really are?In this deeply moving conversation, we sit with award-winning filmmaker, producer, on-camera talent, and creative Tammy Nguyen-Lee as she shares what it was like growing up carrying stories that had no safe place to land. Stories shaped by culture, silence, expectation, and the longing to be understood.Tammy reflects on how her work slowly became the place where truth could live… even before she had the words for it. We talk about what...
2026-01-261h 07
For the Love of Creatives#058: Bonnie Daneker Finds Herself After a Lifetime of Caring for OthersHave you ever looked up one day and realized you’ve been taking care of everyone… but somehow lost track of yourself?In this deeply tender conversation, we sit with writer and literary guide Bonnie Daneker as she shares how a life shaped by caregiving, loss, and constant responsibility slowly pulled her away from her own inner world… and how writing became the place she could finally hear herself again.Bonnie talks about caring for loved ones through illness, the quiet ways women learn to disappear inside service, and the moment she realized she di...
2026-01-1956 min
For the Love of Creatives#057: Tricia Seymour Shares What It Means to Finally Choose Her Own VoiceWhat happens when you’ve spent your whole life understanding other people… but you’re still learning how to stand inside yourself?In this deeply human conversation, we sit with Tricia Seymour as she gently opens the door into a lifetime of sensing, listening, and holding space for others… and what it’s been like to finally claim her own creative voice. Tricia has worn many identities… psychotherapist, holistic practitioner, lifelong empath… yet when she calls herself an “emerging artist,” there’s something quietly radical about it. Not because she’s new to creativity, but because she’s finally letting hersel...
2026-01-121h 04
For the Love of Creatives#056: “It’s Okay to Be Me” … and the Courage That Took With Mason Van KatwykWhat 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 hidden grief of being asked to shrink yourself to keep the peace … and the turning po...
2026-01-0553 min
For the Love of Creatives#055: How Books Spark Empathy, Community, And Cultural Change With Will EvansWhat 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 physical books still matter in a digital age, explaining how spatial memory and the tactile act of reading fire up the p...
2025-12-2952 min
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 into an emotional map of a life under pressure.The conversation dives into the re...
2025-12-221h 07
For the Love of Creatives#053: From Networking To Galleries, Here’s How Artists Get On The Wall With Jennifer LuneyCuriosity 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 photography, then onward to leadership roles with the Visual Arts Guild of Frisco and the Business Co...
2025-12-151h 09
For the Love of Creatives#052: How Improv Mindsets Help You Lead, Collaborate, And Navigate Real-Life Curveballs With Amanda AustinWhat 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 the difference between urgent and important, why your calendar is a craft, and how a short pause can lead...
2025-12-081h 00
For the Love of Creatives#051: What If Freedom Means Loving What You Love, No Matter Who Leaves With CarolLaine M. GarciaWhat 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.CarolLaine takes us inside the year she read 135 books and why that avalanche of i...
2025-12-011h 07
For the Love of Creatives#050: What If Reinvention Is Not A Crisis But A Calling With Sabrina LabvahWhat 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 transformation isn’t linear; you may start and stop, then start again, and that rhythm is part o...
2025-11-241h 02
For the Love of Creatives#049: Becoming By Subtraction: When Music Rebuilds A Self With Sean Patrick MaherWhat 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 platform that lets you feel music as pressure and pulse. We talk about brai...
2025-11-171h 11
For the Love of Creatives#048: From Corporate Chains To Quilter’s Gold: How Blake Serrano Built A Fabric Business With No Money DownWhat 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 media, and using content as a growth engine rather than a vanity project. Blake shares how “no money down” inventory deals actu...
2025-11-101h 03
For the Love of Creatives#047: Hara Allison Chose Art Over Chemo And Found PeaceWhat 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 the “little Hara” within. We dive into mirror work, inner child care, an...
2025-11-031h 02
For the Love of Creatives#046: What If The Work Isn’t What You Do, But Who You Become With Maddox & DwightWhat 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 explore how identity-based change helps you make better art, hold you...
2025-10-2746 min
For the Love of Creatives#045: Sabrina Handal Finds Her Purpose Isn't in Her Head... It's in Her HeartEver 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 options before making decisions. Sabrina courageously shares her journey of feeling stuck between staying in a predictable design career and pursuing something that truly lights...
2025-10-2052 min
For the Love of Creatives#044: The Science Behind Why Everyone Can Create and Thrive With Dr. Zorana Ivcevic PringleWhat 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 solutions, and you navigating your day—all require creative thinking. Yet many dismiss their abilities because of a narrow definition of creativity.Dr. Ivcevic Pringle reveals how cr...
2025-10-1348 min
For the Love of Creatives#043: When You Believe in Yourself, Everything Becomes Possible With Laetitia Bouffard-RoupeFrom 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. Two years later, she was winning international circus competitions as both a ground and aerial acrobat.Now...
2025-10-0650 min
MONSTER ATTACK!Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman | Episode 483 Madeline Brumby, Shane Morton, and Mark Maddox join Jim for a look at the film that will be shown during the final Silver Scream Spook Show of 2025 - "Frankenstein Meets The Wolman," starring Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Patrick Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Ilona Massey, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dennis Hoey, Dwight Frye, and Jeff Corey. This sequel to Universal's "The Wolfman," scored big with audiences in 1944 and helped save the studio rom bankruptcy. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
2025-09-291h 02
For the Love of Creatives#042: Douglas Lewis Struts Past the Haters: When Fashion Becomes ArmorFrom 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 for not conforming to early 2000s Black male fashion norms. Rather than shrinking, he made a pivotal choice: "I'm going to tap into this difference." This decision mark...
2025-09-2952 min
For the Love of Creatives#041: Your Creativity Thrives When You Follow What Makes You Happy With David PowellCreativity 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 people,” he admits—a feeling many creatives know well.We explore originalit...
2025-09-2252 min
The Gen-X-istentialistsThe Ignorance Dividend: Why We Trade Civic Literacy for 'Group Think' and Virtue-SignalingIs high school basically a four-year distraction from everything that actually matters in the real world?In this episode of The Gen-x-istentialists, Bunny and Scot spin Mega Wheel the Magnificent to tackle the radical idea of "Comprehensive Relationship Education." Forget bananas and condoms; the boys are talking about the missing curriculum: civics, balancing a budget, and the lost art of talking to someone who thinks you’re full of shit. From the "academic" dryness of Ms. Brown to the STD-horror-stories of Dwight Maddox, this is a raw audit of how Gen-X actually learned the "Facts of Life."...
2025-09-2228 min
For the Love of Creatives#040: Elisha Oliver is Breaking Free From Generational Patterns: How Art Creates PossibilityElisha 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, communities, and artistic expression. Now leading Texas Folklife, Elisha works to make folk arts accessible across the state while confronting the same questions that haunted her mother and gr...
2025-09-1554 min
For the Love of Creatives#039: Birds, Brushes, and Breaking the Starving Artist Myth With Andrea HolmesAndrea 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 artist” myth. Once convinced $100,000 a year as an artist was impossible, she hit that goal—and now sets her sights o...
2025-09-0852 min
For the Love of Creatives#038: Bold Moves, Big Dreams With Imani BlackBoldness 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 Deep Ellum. Her path wasn't linear or obstacle-free. From academic struggles that had her photoshopping grades to avoid being sent home, to...
2025-09-0153 min