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
Seasons Over Schedules — How I Built a Life That Works in Chapters
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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 actually looks like to build a life by design rather than by default. Drawing from her own experience working across different industries, disciplines and creative seasons, this is a conversation about giving yourself permission to live in chapters — and building a business that supports that.
This isn't about lack of consistency. It's about a deeper, more intentional kind of rhythm.
In this episode:
- Why working seasonally is a feature, not a flaw
- How to stop measuring yourself against people on a completely different timeline
- What "life by design" actually means in practice — and what it costs to ignore it
- How to build income streams and creative projects that flex with who you are
This one is for you if you've ever felt guilty for not being "on" all the time, wondered why the traditional 9-to-5 or even the hustle-all-day entrepreneur model has never felt right for you, or if you're craving a life that actually fits.
This is the permission slip episode. Press play.
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