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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Create & Elevate Podcast
The Plateau is Poison
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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 talented, widely respected in their lane — and quietly, privately, desperately unfulfilled.
You didn't mean to stop. But somewhere between the bookings and the reputation and the identity people projected onto you — you did. And now the box that was built around your one great thing feels less like a home and more like a ceiling.
In this episode, Makeda speaks directly to the creative who has plateaued. Not because they ran out of talent. Not because the opportunities dried up. But because somewhere along the way, they stopped believing there was more — or stopped giving themselves permission to want it.
This episode will challenge you. It may even trigger you. Good. That means it's working.
In this episode:
- Why plateaus aren't about talent — they're about permission
- The difference between being put in a box and staying in one
- How comfort quietly becomes a cage — and what it costs you to stay
- What it looks like to outgrow an identity that no longer fits
- Why the people around you will sometimes resist your evolution — and why that's not your cue to shrink
- The first honest question you need to ask yourself if you're ready to move
This one is for you if people know you for one thing, that thing no longer sets your soul on fire the way it used to, and some part of you already knows there's a next level — you've just been waiting for someone to say it's okay to go there.
It's okay. It's more than okay. It's necessary.
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