We’re looking forward to introducing you to Teamjohnhill . Check out our conversation below.
Teamjohnhill , it’s always a pleasure to learn from you and your journey. Let’s start with a bit of a warmup: Would YOU hire you? Why or why not?
I would most definitely hire me now. Although the answer sounds very cliche, I find that in the time that I was raised morals, value hard work and relentless finishing is so important to make a pure life for everyone, it has nothing to do with age. It has more to do with the concept of care. Our time is very short here and we only have so much time to set up for the next generation
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
**“I’m TeamJohnHill — a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and creative visionary. My work lives at the crossroads of luxury, soul, and storytelling. What makes my brand special is that it isn’t just about music — it’s about an experience, a lifestyle, a state of mind.
From performing on world stages to creating TeamJohnHill Luxury — a line of sunglasses, fashion, and cigars — everything I do comes from the same place: authenticity, elegance, and emotion. I’m inspired by timeless icons but rooted in modern culture. My goal is to remind people that luxury isn’t about what you wear, it’s about how you carry your story.
What makes this movement unique is that it blends art, music, and style into one narrative — one that celebrates confidence, self-expression, and excellence. I don’t just create songs or products; I create moments that make people feel seen, inspired, and powerful.”**
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
**“Before the world told me who I had to be, I was just a kid with a pen, a melody, and a dream bigger than my surroundings. I was raw — all feeling, no filter — singing stories that hadn’t yet found words.
I wasn’t chasing fame or perfection; I was chasing truth. I was the sound of soul and struggle mixing together — the kind of energy you can’t fake. The world tried to shape me, but I never forgot that the power was always in being real.
Before the world had an opinion, I had purpose. And that purpose was simple: to turn pain into poetry, and vision into something beautiful.”**
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
“Suffering taught me everything success tried to make me forget.
Pain stripped away the applause, the lights, the noise — and left me face to face with the truth. It taught me patience when the world moved too fast. It taught me humility when ego tried to lead. It showed me who was real when the crowd disappeared.
Success will decorate you, but suffering will define you.
Because in those silent nights when nobody’s clapping, that’s when you learn what you really believe in — who you really are when there’s no stage to stand on.
Suffering taught me that peace is more valuable than fame, and purpose is more powerful than validation. It made me grateful, grounded, and hungry for meaning — not just recognition.
Success gave me moments. Suffering gave me wisdom.
And without that pain, there’d be no soul in the music, no story in the brand, no fire in the name TeamJohnHill.”
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
They’re brilliant at solving problems that can be measured and optimized — and disastrously tone-deaf to the things that can’t. We’ve become masters of speed, metrics, and scaling; we still fumble when it comes to meaning, vulnerability, and the quiet work of being human.
Smart people mistake efficiency for wisdom. They streamline processes, cut friction, automate feeling — and then wonder why culture goes numb. Efficiency answers “how fast” and “how cheap”; it rarely asks “is this beautiful?” or “does this heal?” The map of optimization is not the territory of the human heart.
They confuse visibility with value. Viral equals virtuous in today’s scoreboard culture. Loudness is rewarded; depth is invisible. So we chase attention and forget craft. We post the highlight reel and ignore the discipline, the silence, the rehearsal that actually makes something worth remembering.
They worship certainty and treat ambiguity like failure. Data comforts them — until life refuses to fit into tidy spreadsheets. Intuition, nuance, and moral imagination get discounted as soft or “unscalable,” even though they are the soil where enduring ideas grow.
They equate growth with goodness. Bigger audiences, bigger revenues, bigger deals — great. But growth without ethics, without care for the people who make the work, corrodes the very thing that deserved to grow in the first place. Scale amplifies both genius and harm; it’s not a moral upgrade.
They celebrate hustle and forget rest. They glamorize toil while starving the creative self. Burnout becomes a badge of honor, and then they’re shocked when the music stops, the product fails, or the story feels hollow.
So what’s the alternative? Slow down long enough to listen. Build systems that measure human flourishing, not just clicks. Let intuition sit beside analytics. Protect the small rituals — the coffee, the rehearsal, the apology — that keep us human. Treat ethics as a design constraint, not a PR afterthought.
If you want to get it right: be smart and tender. Be rigorous and curious. Scale with conscience. Be loud in your work, quiet in your judgment, and brave enough to change your mind when the scorecard misses the soul.
That’s where the real revolution starts — not with a smarter algorithm, but with a more awake heart.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
I’d stop chasing anything that doesn’t feed my spirit.
I’d stop shrinking myself to fit rooms that were never built for my kind of light.
I’d stop explaining my vision to people committed to misunderstanding it.
I’d stop mistaking noise for momentum, and I’d stop confusing activity with purpose.
I’d stop saying yes to things that don’t make me feel alive — and start saying no like a prayer.
No to ego.
No to fear disguised as logic.
No to waiting for permission to be great.
Because if I’ve only got 10 years left, I’m not spending one more second dimming what God designed to shine. I’d make art that bleeds truth, build legacy with intention, love without armor, and live like every verse, every note, every breath might be the last one somebody hears from me.
I’d stop living for validation — and start living for vibration.
Because the goal was never to last forever — it was to matter while I’m here.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.teamjohnhill.com
- Instagram: @teamjohnhill
- Twitter: @teamjohnhill
- Facebook: @teamjohnhill1
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