Meet Dillon Dunnagan

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dillon Dunnagan. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dillon below.

Dillon , first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

Overcoming imposter syndrome in the music world, to us, is to be able to take your influences and make them your own. And to be influenced by things that aren’t necessarily your favorite thing. Music is a wide world and a broad spectrum. We just love a little bit of everything and like to incorporate it into what we do. It also comes with time and experience in writing, creating, and playing music.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

We (The Winks) absolutely adore creating, performing, and recording the music we write. We pride ourselves in putting out the best music we can. We want to be original and create something with our hands and instruments, without relying on backing tracks or computer samples to do it.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Perseverance, the hunger to learn and want more, and the humility to know that you’re not the best in the room. Your success has to be earned by the dedication to your craft and how you work with other people.

Any advice we have is pretty much centered around those three things. And also, pay attention to the business side of music. If you care about your art and put the work in, you deserve to see fruits from your labor. Be organized and always be kind to everyone around you. It takes a community to create music, and we can’t do it without everyone that’s involved. From the parking attendants to your band mates.
We’re all in this together.

We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?

Playing on your strengths is obviously a smart strategy in any aspect of life. But lately, we have been putting a lot of effort into aspects of our business and music that have not been so strong in the past.
Your strengths are strong because you have gravitated to them and worked on them most. In order to be the most well rounded you can be, you have to work on the things that give you trouble.
In the past, we really struggled with producing online content. Today, we have sat down with a plan and really focused on how we can organize and strategize on creating and sharing online content.
And it has really paid off for us.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/thewinks

Image Credits

Sean Thiessen
Jessica Weidhass
Dillon Dunnagan