We’re looking forward to introducing you to D. A. Springer. Check out our conversation below.
D. A., we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: Have any recent moments made you laugh or feel proud?
Recent moments that I’m proud of, I have made several transitions since we last spoke. Through Creator courses in the Deeper Than the Brand Community I found my natural creative style, and leaned into it.ade a move to start my Substack Publication @Vision2Verse. I have self published three books, been featured in a first edition print Anthology called ‘Roots and Ruins’, and been a guest Writer/Poet on several other Substack publications. Currently in the process of building my authors brand ‘Vision 2 Verse’.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m D. A. Springer, the mind and fire behind ‘Vision 2 Verse’, a creative ecosystem built around poetry, testimony, and transformation. At its core, Vision 2 Verse is where art meets healing, where language becomes a mirror, not just a message.
Through my alter ego, Napalmjax, I write and perform pieces that burn slow, raw, reflective, and meant to linger. Every project, from ‘Virus Verses’ to ‘Can’t Stay Here’ to ‘Deep State Nine’, that carries that same DNA – honesty that hits hard, visuals that pull you in, and storytelling that sticks like smoke in the lungs.
What makes Vision 2 Verse different is that it’s not just poetry, it’s a movement of remembering your fire. I’m building an archive of creative survival, one verse at a time. Right now, I’m deep in the ‘DOORWAYS’ and ‘Deep State Nine’ projects that blend spoken word, visual art, and cinematic sound to explore identity, evolution, and the spaces we walk through to find ourselves again.
At the end of the day, I just want people to feel seen, even in their silence, because that’s where the real verse begins.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before the world told me who to be, I was like a rhythm without a reflection, pure pulse. I was that quiet observer, catching stories in the spaces between noise. A kid with too many thoughts and not enough outlets, writing my way through the chaos before I even knew it was art.
The world tried to hand me labels, safe ones, marketable ones, but poetry became my rebellion. Every verse I wrote was a way of peeling those layers off and getting back to the original frequency of who I was meant to be.
Now, through Vision 2 Verse, I’m not trying to reinvent myself. I’m remembering. I’m reconstructing the voice I had before the noise got loud — the one that spoke truth, raw and unfiltered, even when it cracked.
Because that’s who I’ve always been — not who they told me to be.
What fear has held you back the most in your life?
The fear that’s held me back the most is being too much and not enough at the same time. That contradiction used to live in me heavy, the fear of shining too bright and getting burned for it, or dimming down and disappearing altogether.
For a long time, I played small to stay safe. I let the world’s expectations drown out my own voice, thinking humility meant silence. But truth is, that fear wasn’t protecting me, it was delaying my purpose.
I had to unlearn that safety and authenticity can’t coexist when your calling is disruption. Now, I write from that tension, the fear still shows up, but it doesn’t drive anymore. It just rides shotgun while I steer toward the fire.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
The public version of me is real, just not whole. What people see is the curated version, the part of me that’s learned how to translate pain into purpose and chaos into clarity. That’s real. But there’s always more behind the verse, the quiet, the processing, the rebuilding.
Napalmjax my alter ego is the embodiment of that tension, the version of me that can say what I used to swallow. So, yeah, it’s me… but it’s also armor. It’s truth dressed in fire, performance built from survival.
The private me? That’s where the poems come from. The public me? That’s how they travel. Both are necessary, one bleeds, the other builds.
Like this interview might seem polished, but it’s another layer of who I am, not what I do.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What light inside you have you been dimming?
The light I’ve been dimming most is my permission to take up space, to create loudly, to speak without shrinking, to be seen without apologizing for the impact. Somewhere along the way, I learned how to survive by being adaptable, but not always authentic.
I used to hold my brilliance hostage, afraid that confidence would be mistaken for ego, or that my truth would make people uncomfortable. But that light, the one that burns indigo blue, it’s not arrogance, it’s alignment. It’s the reminder that I was never meant to blend in with the background I was born to illuminate.
Now I’m done dimming. I’m letting that blue flame show, steady and unbothered. Not to outshine anyone — but to remind myself I was built to burn bright and still be whole.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://beacons.ai/daspringer
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/napalmjax
- Facebook: @napalmjax
- Youtube: @Napalmjax
- Other: https://substack.com/@napalmjax
Image Credits
@Napaljax – Vision 2 Verse
