Whereas many know Garrain Jones right now because the transformational CEO of Artist Energy and his highly effective movies that garner thousands and thousands of views on social media, quite a lot of these folks may additionally acknowledge him as “Steph” Jones, his stage title (and precise center title) from when he was a musical artist in Hollywood within the early 2000s.
As an artist signed to Def Jam with a well-liked underground hit and writing for among the greatest names in music, Jones was secretly struggling below the floor from the darkish sides of the trade that many artists should not prepared to confront publicly.
When Steph Jones exited the leisure trade (and reclaimed his given title) following struggles that have been unbeknownst to many on the time, Garrain underwent his personal private transformation journey that paved the best way to his life right now because the founder and CEO of profitable multi-million greenback corporations, a famend world thought chief and a loyal husband and father.
Now Garrain is sharing facets of his experiences in leisure and the trials and tribulations that led to a rebirth of his total life.
In leaving the leisure trade, did you are feeling extra free to actually faucet into your personal creativity and turn out to be extra genuine to the content material that you simply wished to create?
Garrain: In leaving the leisure trade, I wasn’t really desirous about that as a result of I used to be so misplaced and damaged. I wanted some kind of pause. I wanted a strategy to regroup my thoughts. I wanted to be taught why I didn’t have any cash in my pocket, why I used to be homeless, residing in my automobile, why I pretended to be someone that I wasn’t, all of those main struggles I used to be experiencing. However I used to be surrounded by a bunch of individuals going by means of related issues within the leisure trade too so it simply appeared prefer it was regular. However I knew that there was a unique strategy to dwell life; I simply didn’t know the way. I went on a journey to find how my life bought to the place it was.
After leaving, each mistake I made was a progress alternative. Each e-book I learn was a progress alternative. Each new good friend that I met whereas on that journey led me to a unique a part of my journey, which led to a progress alternative. And I began doing the other of all the pieces that I might usually do in areas of my life the place I wasn’t joyful. That is what despatched me on the trajectory that I’m on proper now.
What catapulted me into the life that I’m in proper now was being on the lowest level of my life whereas I used to be in leisure. I used to be $250,000 in debt, an ex-convict, residing in my automobile for greater than two years and never understanding the place to show and I’m at a fuel station with my final $2, and a “homeless man” requested me for cash. I mentioned, “You’ve gotten more cash than me.” And he mentioned, “Change your mindset, change your life.”
That was a seed that was a complete forest as a result of I began doing the other of all the pieces I might usually do in areas of my life the place I wasn’t joyful. I wasn’t proud of my well being, with who I frolicked with, with my very own perspective, I wasn’t proud of who I used to be relationship on the time, and I simply educated myself to do the other. Now my life is a direct inverse from the place it was. I used to be somebody pretending to be one thing that I used to be not whereas I used to be dying on the within. Now I’m somebody who resides at my fullest and truest expression whereas respiration life again into humanity and instructing different folks methods to do the identical factor. It’s a unique type of music.
Did you obtain any criticism from different artists within the trade whenever you determined to go away?
Garrain: So many individuals known as me loopy, but in addition nobody knew my scenario. Who tells folks that you’re $250,000 in debt if you are additionally on MTV or BET? There are literally so many individuals within the leisure trade which can be struggling in secret like that. That’s why there are all of those psychological well being crises that entertainers undergo.
They don’t even know who to inform as a result of they don’t know who to belief. The have all of those tabloids and blogs in addition to social media channels that smear public figures within the trade, so understandably they’ve nowhere to show. they bought all these folks and media shops and blogs that simply smear folks they usually don’t know what’s happening on the within. Then society wonders why artists commit suicide, undergo drug dependancy, and many others. It’s as a result of we collectively missed all the indicators alongside the best way. You need to keep a sure picture as a result of that brings in cash, that feeds your youngsters, and it secures your future.
However these are actual conversations that individuals are afraid to speak about. You look on Netflix and also you see all these folks popping out with tales. Even with skilled athletes, the critics at all times say issues like, ‘Shut up and play basketball. You’re so fortunate you earn thousands and thousands of {dollars}.’ However really these critics don’t know. Multimillionaires wrestle with the identical issues mentally that a number of different folks wrestle with. Individuals talked about me, however that they had no thought of my story as a result of I used to be afraid to speak. I used to be afraid to inform folks.
I can say from expertise that half the leisure trade goes by means of one thing loopy mentally proper now, however when the general public notices what must be indicators of needing assist, it as an alternative turns into a press story about how this individual seems to be too fats, too skinny, too loopy, and many others. It’s by no means, “Is that this individual okay? Let me test with them. Let me pray for them. Let me ship good vitality to them and their household.” As a tradition we’ve got turn out to be very offended, disgruntled people. And all of this negativity that we spew out is a direct reflection of the negativity that we really feel inside. And it took me to go away the field of leisure to have the ability to see what I used to be in that I allowed to drown my soul.
Did you see a number of different artists scuffling with related identification crises whenever you have been within the trade?
Garrain: Completely. Image a ship that’s sinking and also you all know that you simply’re going to die and everyone’s hanging off the ledge, however everyone’s going to die so it’s extra socially accepted since you’re all going to the identical place. That’s what it felt prefer to me. Take a look at your favourite artist, then take a look at them 5 years later and you may see the change. It’s this factor that individuals simply are inclined to ignore. And I used to be similar to, ‘This is unnecessary to me. All these folks aren’t loopy. There’s one thing that’s driving them loopy.’ Additionally, many individuals within the trade don’t know loads about emotional intelligence and management. They’ve nice expertise and ability, however they don’t choose the proper folks to be round them. Lots of people have a bunch of sure folks round them as an alternative of individuals that may maintain them accountable.
It’s additionally laborious to carry someone accountable the place they’re the face of the entire model. So it’s an advanced downside. Artists want to present folks permission to carry them accountable in order that they are often level-headed. I imagine each artist ought to have some kind of non secular information, someone that teaches them methods to be bodily inclined and a few kind of private progress coach to have the ability to deal with and navigate all the strain, all the issues that include cash and affect.
I do know this as a result of I’m that for high-profile artists proper now and what I’m supporting them with and thru, I’ve skilled so I can communicate their language in order that they really feel protected sufficient to inform me the actual stuff that they haven’t shared with anyone.
What do you concentrate on the state of the leisure trade proper now and the course that the tradition goes in?
Garrain: I’ll say this, I imagine Nikola Tesla had it proper when he mentioned, ‘If you wish to know the secrets and techniques of the universe, assume by way of vitality, frequency and vibration.’ The best strategy to affect somebody is by altering their state. The quickest strategy to change somebody’s state is thru vitality, frequency, and vibration. One of many primary best methods to infuse vitality and frequency and vibration to change somebody’s state is thru music. There’s low vibration and there’s excessive vibrational music. I’ll put it to you this fashion, these which can be in energy have management over the music that’s performed on each radio station everywhere in the world. Those that management the music, management the folks as a result of music controls the vitality, frequency and vibration.
Nearly all of the music that’s common proper now’s low frequency music that mutes out folks’s senses. We’re excessive vibrational, multidimensional beings, and the vast majority of folks which can be listening to common music don’t even notice, as a result of you possibly can’t see the image whilst you’re within the body, how a lot their senses are being numbed from their excessive vibrational state. We weren’t meant to be low vibrational beings, and although we’ve got the vary of high and low vibration within us, we’re meant to be excessive vibrational beings. However proper now, the state of music will not be getting into a course that’s conducive for the elevation of the human spirit.
