Create & Elevate Podcast
Where vulnerability meets strength, creativity meets business and real conversations, with real people meets your ears. Hosted by Dannielle 'Rhimes' Lecointe, multi-hyphenate business women and multi-disciplinary storyteller for stage and screen brings you weekly topics crossing the realness of life, building dreams and journeying through hardships (that most people avoid)
The Create & Elevate Podcast is about creating the life you desire and elevating regardless of circumstance.
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Episodes
102 episodes
What happens when the circle is getting smaller
The Circle Is Getting Smaller. On Purpose.If your circle has shrunk this year, congratulations. You might be doing it right.In today's episode we talk about false responsibility, and the freedom on the other side of releasi...
Capable & Credited
Capable & CreditedYou've spent years being the most capable person in the room. The one they hand the mess to. The one who delivers. So why isn't your name on the work?In today's episode we talk about being capable and ...
Why Creatives Can't Finish Things
You have seventeen unfinished projects and you've called yourself lazy, scattered, undisciplined.Wrong diagnosis.An unfinished project can't be rejected. It lives in permanent potential: forever brilliant, never tested....
"I Have To Do It All Now" Is Not a Calling
Every creative has said it: I have to do it all now. The show, the business, the book. Now. This year. Before it's too late.We call it drive. We call it purpose.After 25 years watching brilliant people run on that fuel, Dannielle ...
The Fear of Being a Fraud Isn't Imposter Syndrome
You've read the imposter syndrome articles. Done the affirmations. Listed your accomplishments like the internet told you to.And the fraud feeling is still there.Here's why: it's not imposter syndrome. It's something older. Impost...
You Are Not Your Art. Thank God.
You Are Not Your Art. Thank God.Somebody told you to follow your passion. Make your creativity your identity. Your brand. Your whole life. It sounded like freedom.It's actually the most dangerous place you can build fro...
The Universal Law of Polarity
In this episode I share an inside training from my membership Spotlight: The Inner Room. In this training we talk about the Universal Law of Polarity and how when understood you can shift your reality. There are 12 Universal Laws an...
Seasons Over Schedules — How I Built a Life That Works in Chapters
What if your life wasn't supposed to look the same all year round?What if the quiet periods weren't failures — they were part of the design?In this episode, Makeda breaks down the concept of seasonal living and what it ac...
The Multi-Hyphenate Life — Why Doing "Too Much" Is Actually Your Superpower
Have you ever been told to pick a lane? To focus, simplify, specialise — as if everything that makes you you is somehow the problem?This episode is for the creative who has never fit neatly into one box. The one with a portfolio...
The Plateau is Poison
This episode was born from a real conversation. A moment that got uncomfortable — and that's exactly why it needed to be said out loud.This one is for the artist. The performer. The creative entrepreneur who is undeniably tale...
How To Keep Winning In The World of AI
Today's episode is all about how we win in the world of AI. An ever growing and changing industry. Key Points:The lie: “my work should speak for itself”Sales = articulation of value, not manipul...
Why Knowing Sales Is Important for Your Creative Career
Join me as we dig into the importance of sales, beliefs around sales and how it's connected to your visibility Key Points:The lie: “my work should speak for itself”Sales = articulatio...
Ten Questions To Review Your Quarter And Level Up Your Next
Your next level doesn’t start with a new planner or a louder hustle. It starts with a brutally honest look at what you’ve actually done, what you’ve avoided, and what your habits are quietly proving about your priorities.We’re sharing 1...
Living by your principles & Standards
Living by your principles & Standards means embodying your values.Join Dannielle as we tackle profound questions to help you gain clarity on your values and take that next step into integrity. Thinking of joini...
Creativity as Currency (If You Structure It)
Creativity Is Currency (If You Structure It)Talent alone does not create wealth.In this episode, we discuss the shift from being talented to being positioned.Creativity is currency — but only when it is structured, p...
Stop Softening Your Message So Nobody Gets Offended
Stop Softening Your Message So Nobody Gets OffendedThere is a difference between being kind and diluting your truth.In this episode, we unpack the habit of softening your message to protect other people’s comfort — and how that ha...
You've Outgrown the Room
You’ve Outgrown the RoomThere comes a moment when growth no longer feels exciting — it feels uncomfortable.In this episode, I explore what it really means to outgrow your current level. The rooms. The pricing. The conversations. T...
What happened in 2025 and what were the lessons?
2025 wasn’t just a year.It was a reckoning.In this episode, Dannielle reflects on the internal and cultural shifts that changed how she works, leads, creates, and chooses herself.This is a conversation about:
It's 2026 - Now What?
What happens when you stop planning from fear — and start leading from knowing?In this opening episode of Create & Elevate, Dannielle Rhimes Lecointe invites you into a different kind of new year. Not resolutions. Not hustle...
The Power Of Desire
The Create and Elevate Podcast: Candid ConversationsSign up to the Masterclass Here In this episode I share a little on my experience co...
What do you do when "It's not working!"
The Create and Elevate Podcast: Candid Conversations In this episode I share a little on my experience coming out of a marriage and how I stepped into living by design. I would love to here your thoughts
The Pain & Beauty of Surrender
The Create and Elevate Podcast: Candid Conversations In this episode I share a little on my experience coming out of a marriage and how I stepped into living by design. I would love to here your thoughts
The truth about being a multi-hyphenate
The Create and Elevate Podcast: Candid Conversations In this episode I share a little on my experience coming out of a marriage and how I stepped into living by design. I would love to here your thoughts