Joy Crookes On Mental Health Crisis, Falling In Love & Her Journey From Irish Dancing to Glastonbury

Joy Crookes has come a long way from growing up in London, Irish Dancing for a McDonalds to giving us the songs, 'Feet Don't Fail Me Now', 'When You Were Mine', 'Hurts' and taking to the stage at Glastonbury. On the latest episode of my podcast 'Reign' Joy joins me to look back on her journey and she opens up about a mental health crisis that arose when she was working on her new album, falling in love and the fall outs that that have come along the way. Listen to the full Joy Crookes interview here: #joycrookes #music #interview #reignwithjoshsmith #podcast #mentalhealth #love #relationship Chapters & Topics: 0:00 Intro 0:19 First memories of performing growing up in London 01:50 Finding her voice as a singer & teaching herself to play an Argos guitar 02:50 'Stumbling' into music 03:50 Funny early performance 05:15 Finding self belief 06:43 'Trust issues' in music industry 07:15 Falls outs in music 08:29 Self love 09:50 Music predicting Joy's future?!? 12:00 Performing at Glastonbury 12:48 Pandora ambassador 15.41 Mental health crisis and falling in love Today we are joined by an artist I love SO much, Joy Crookes. Brit award nominee Joy shot to fame with her top five debut album, 'Skin' which gave us the absolute belters ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’ and ‘When You Were Mine.’ Now as Joy prepares for release album two we take a look back at her journey from growing up in South London doing Irish Dancing for a Happy Meal - that’s our gal - to picking up an Argos guitar and finding her way to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. There is so much to take away from this chat, especially Joy’s points around shame but what I found so refreshing about this episode is how honest Joy is about how finding love made her really reflect on herself and started a mental health crisis. This really spoke to me because it isn’t always a honeymoon period when you are truly seen by someone for the first time but it’s so worth it in the end, babes! If you loved this conversation with Joy as much as I did please get in touch - I love a great chat! You can get me on @joshsmithhosts and come back next week for another episode of 'Reign'! Love, Josh x ABOUT REIGN WITH JOSH SMITH: Reign with Josh Smith is a podcast and video series which sees your favourite celebrities open up like never before, talking about the obstacles they have had to overcome in their life and ultimately show they have learnt to Reign. These chats will hopefully make you feel less alone in your problems, inspire you to find your power and Reign in your own life too. Still haven’t subscribed to Reign with Josh Smith on YouTube? ►► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEYO... Still haven't subscribed to Reign with Josh Smith the podcast? It's available wherever you get your podcasts from right here! ►► http://hyperurl.co/i4yxt0 CONNECT WITH REIGN WITH JOSH SMITH Podcast: http://hyperurl.co/i4yxt0 Instagram: @joshsmithhosts Twitter: @joshsmithhosts