HeyJaredSmith Says: Purpose Over Popularity
Smith Says is a weekly podcast hosted by Smith François, founder of Smith Says International LLC. Each episode empowers entrepreneurs, community leaders, and believers to live with purpose, faith, and passion.
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From Nintendo to Twitch: Keisha Go Crazy on Gaming, Streaming & Building a Brand (opens the original)
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🎮 Gaming is more than entertainment it can become a community, career, business, and movement. On this episode of Purpose Over Popularity , I sit down with Keisha Go Crazy to talk about her journey from growing up on Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation and Xbox to stepping into streaming, content creation, tech, and cybersecurity. We get into the evolution of gaming, Twitch vs. YouTube vs. Kick, PC vs. console, GTA 5M, building an online community, branding yourself across platforms, and where she belie
🇭🇹 Raised Haitian in Chicago: Family, Faith & Finding Your Purpose | Family Edition (opens the original)
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What does it mean to grow up Haitian-American in Chicago while carrying the lessons of family, faith, culture, and community into adulthood?On this Smith Says Family Edition, I sit down with my cousin Astrid “Kenny” for a conversation about our family history and the experiences that shaped her life.We talk about growing up surrounded by a Haitian family village, our grandmother’s influence, traveling to Haiti, learning French before English, navigating Haitian-American identity, and why Chicago
She Birthed America: Honoring Black Women, Birth, Legacy & Our History (opens the original)
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What happens when we truly stop and honor the role Black women have played in creating, protecting, nurturing, and carrying generations forward?In this powerful conversation, I sit down with James White and Monique Whipple, The Birth Plug, for an intergenerational discussion about Black women, birth, family, history, healing, education, and legacy.📚 James White introduces his upcoming book, She Birthed America, created to honor Black women and examine their strength and contributions across gene
It’s Never Too Late: Dr. Dwayne Dunbar’s Journey of Purpose & Community Impact (opens the original)
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What does it really mean to believe that it’s never too late to change your life?On this episode of Purpose Over Popularity, I sit down with Dr. Dwayne Dunbar, a Columbus native, community advocate, nonprofit leader, and formerly incarcerated man who turned some of the hardest chapters of his life into a mission of service.Dr. Dunbar opens up about serving multiple prison sentences, changing his mindset while incarcerated, strengthening his faith, becoming intentional about the people around him
From Linden to Purpose: Mama Chito’s Journey of Transformation, Law & Community Impact (opens the original)
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What happens when you take the challenges you've experienced and turn them into a reason to serve others? On this episode of Purpose Over Popularity , I sit down with Renissa Bird Song, also known as Mama Chito , for a powerful conversation about her journey from growing up in Columbus' Linden community to entrepreneurship, education, law, community service, and discovering her purpose. Mama Chito openly shares how she went from being a juvenile delinquent and experiencing arrests as a young per
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