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Jay Shetty PodcastJOE JONAS ON: If You Want To COMPLETELY CHANGE Yourself In 2023, WATCH THIS! | Jay Shetty
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Joe Jonas on therapy, humility, and daily practices for growth
- Joe Jonas and Jay Shetty describe how a pandemic-era weekly group meditation “Zen Zone” grew from a small friends’ Zoom into a long-running community practice built on consistency and openness.
- Joe Jonas shares that a disappointing response to his solo album led to anxiety, hypochondria-like behavior, and ultimately therapy, which helped him confront emotions he was avoiding.
- He explains how his creative process matured across projects—using outside band experiences, writing for film/TV, and bringing those skills back to the Jonas Brothers with more respect for individual creativity.
- Joe Jonas reflects on humility, groundedness, and accountability coming from family, brothers, and his wife, along with the importance of keeping relationships healthy by making time that isn’t centered on work.
- He outlines practical daily habits—meditation, gratitude lists, language learning, and a “what do you want them to feel?” reminder—aimed at staying present and serving audiences intentionally.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasA professional setback triggered Joe Jonas’ first serious turn toward therapy and self-care.
He described how reading reviews and seeing the solo album not perform as he expected led to intense anxiety and physical symptoms that sent him repeatedly to doctors, until a doctor suggested therapy and it helped him recognize what was really happening.
Avoidance “worked” only temporarily; the feelings came back until he faced them.
He said he initially tried to outrun the discomfort by biking all day as a way to avoid thinking about the album, but the sickness returned as soon as he stopped, which pushed him to address the underlying pain directly in therapy.
He moved from letting “failure” define him to valuing the act of taking a creative risk.
Joe Jonas said he once internalized a headline word like “failure” as his identity, and later reframed the solo project as a courageous leap that he did for himself, independent of how it performed.
Maturity and shared life context shifted the Jonas Brothers’ collaboration from competition to integration.
He explained that the group’s process evolved from arguing over parts and perspective to respecting each brother’s individual writing/producing approach, sometimes working in separate rooms and then combining the best ideas, helped by being in a similar life stage.
Meditation became a portable tool he uses across performance, acting, and daily stress.
He said meditation became practical “in the moment” support—on set, before scenes, on stage, and even for everyday situations—because it helps him reset and refocus quickly.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesAnd it hit me like a, a ton of bricks. And I started feeling, like, physically ill.
— Joe Jonas
I started talking to a therapist and really dove into all of that pain and trauma that I created for myself.
— Joe Jonas
You know, we're all fathers. We're all in this great place where, like, not... It's not like one brother's, like, trying to find the next yacht party and one's, like, tucking the kids into bed. It's like we're really actually living the same place in our lives, and that makes a huge difference when it, when it comes to the music, I think.
— Joe Jonas
I wrote a letter to myself as an adult, but as the eight-year-old self, and I couldn't get through the le- I mean, I'm bawling, crying, trying to write this letter, and I wrote it with my, the hand I'm not strong, I'm, I'm not very strong with.
— Joe Jonas
I think my purpose is to make people feel... hopefully good.
— Joe Jonas
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SPEAKERS
Joe Jonas
guestSinger, songwriter, and actor; member of Jonas Brothers and frontman of DNCE.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host of On Purpose and wellness author/speaker focused on personal growth and mindfulness.
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