Unlocking Joy with Jamir Smith

Are you living on scraps of joy? Why does it seem so hard to live a happy life? Join Johnny G and guest Jamir Smith as they take a deep dive into the buidling blocks for happiness and examine how we wall ourselves off from joyful living. This episode is full of laughter, tips, and solid advice for stepping happily into the future we deserve. Find the YouTube video version of this episode here. Jamir references two books, find links here. We are not compensated for any sales via this link: All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson A Promised Land by Barack Obama You can find Jamir’s podcast, The Jamir Smith Show on Apple Podcasts here, or you can search by name on other platforms like Google Podcasts and Soundcloud. Find him on Instagram @Jamir_Smith For other episodes focused on living an invigorating life, try these: The Courage to Change Careers and Surrender to Greatness. For more information on Refractive, visit RefractiveCoaching.com or RefractivePodcast.com. Find the transcript below performed by automated software; please forgive any errors or misunderstandings by the software. Speaker 0 00:00:01 Ever since you can remember, you felt something in your chest telling you to move, to love, to speak, to try day after day. You pretend you don’t hear calling. Maybe you dismiss it as silliness or worse that it’s there ready for you, and it will wait for you. And as long as you, my name is Johnny G and I invite you to join me on a journey of awakening as we dare to embrace our light. This is refractive. Speaker 1 00:00:47 Hello everyone. And welcome to another episode of refractive podcast today. I am so happy to introduce you to a dear friend of mine named Jamir Smith. And just a bit of his background. Jamir was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, and as an only child, he learned the value of stepping into creativity at an early age. He worked in the luxury fashion and design industry for over 15 years and built some pretty strong relationships along the way. He’s currently a podcast host. You can find the Jamir Smith show podcast on your favorite platform. And it provides an outlook on lifestyle, fashion interviews with entrepreneurs and tastemakers and other people who are leaving their footprints on this world. He has had some really great interviews on his podcast. I highly recommend it to you. It’s positive, uplifting, easy to absorb material. Um, one of his most memorable interviews was with a relative of James Baldwin and digging deep into the experience of knowing such an important playwright, uh, on a deeper level. So Jamir, welcome to refractive. I’m so happy that you’re with us today, Speaker 2 00:02:00 Johnny, I am so excited to be a part of your platform. One, because you know, you touched on a couple of things earlier about having a show that is a lifestyle brand, and that’s how I look at you and yo...