Candid: With Brandon Clahassey

Instructor: Jordan Holt & Brandon Clahassey

1 hr 32 min | Creative Careers, Pushing Boundaries, Success

Overview

What does it look like to build a sustainable creative life—especially when your dreams don’t unfold the way you expected? In this honest and energizing conversation, Jordan sits down with Brandon Clahassey (aka Beacon Light), a rapper and songwriter whose music has appeared in trailers like Creed III, games like Fortnite, and viral hits like “Enemy” with Tommee Profitt and Sam Tinnesz (which has over 10 billion streams). The two longtime collaborators talk about the messy, meaningful middle ground between calling and career, and how to stay creatively alive when you’re juggling faith, pressure, and the need to pay rent.

Topics we explore:

• The emotional rollercoaster of waiting on big opportunities

• Why trusting God doesn’t mean avoiding risk

• What sync music actually is—and how it funds musicians careers

• What it means to create without being consumed by “success”

• How community sustains creative momentum

• The tension between making money and making meaningful work

• Why the “thing you never dreamed of” might be what God uses most