Meet Greg Howard Jr

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Greg Howard Jr. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Greg below.

Greg, we are so appreciative of you taking the time to open up about the extremely important, albeit personal, topic of mental health. Can you talk to us about your journey and how you were able to overcome the challenges related to mental issues? For readers, please note this is not medical advice, we are not doctors, you should always consult professionals for advice and that this is merely one person sharing their story and experience.

Medication definitely helps haha But there are still days when that little voice in the back of my head makes me question why I still do all the things I do or that nobody is going to consume the content that I put out. On those days, I have to tell myself that even if nobody reads my books or magazines or listens to the podcasts I enjoy doing it and that’s enough.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

Comedian, Podcaster, Author, Actor, Entrepreneur, and Political Commentator Greg Howard Jr is best known as the creator and host of the hit podcasts: Don’t Make This Weird, This is Not An Endorsement, 30 Questions With…, Your Life: The Mixtape, Headliners, Bonus Tracks, & The Mixtape Lounge. He is also a co-host on the internationally charting It’s Like This: A Pop Culture Podcast.

Greg is a co-founder of Rodwarton Productions and Chief Executive Officer of Your Life: The Mixtape Media LLC. Greg co-produces the smash hit podcasts Voice Memos and Unapologetically She for Rodwarton Productions. In July of 2023, Greg launched his newest projects Your Life: The Mixtape Magazine, In The Mix Weekly, and Bugger Queer Quarterly. Three free, digital magazines featuring some of the best and brightest people from around the world.

In addition to this, Greg is a bestselling author. Having released the Amazon Bestselling Memoirs ‘Hi, I’m the Ugly Friend (And Other Tales of Not Living Up to My Potential)’ and ‘Don’t Make This Weird (A Year in the Life)’. In 2022, Greg released his first work of fiction entitled Life, Liberty, and Something Like Happiness and its sequel Not So Self-Evident in 2023. In August 2024, he released his fifth book ‘If We’re Being Honest: Essays, Observations, and Words of Wisdom from a Life Well-Lived’

Greg has a background in community theater, as well as being an acclaimed drag queen in Atlanta in the mid-2010s.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I feel like the qualities that were most impactful in this journey have been my persistence, fearlessness, and ability to know when it’s time to close the chapter on one project and move on to the next. The best advice that I could ever give to anybody is to just go for it. Do that thing, whatever it may be, even if nobody sees it you did it. Everything I’ve ever done has been because I took a chance or tried something new, even if it was a colossal failure there’s a lesson to be learned in every chance.

Who has been most helpful in helping you overcome challenges or build and develop the essential skills, qualities or knowledge you needed to be successful?

I’m lucky to have a support network of people who challenge, inspire, and guide me. Not all my ideas are winners, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but my support network is really good for helping me evolve a project. So shout out to Tracey, Eliann, Jennifer Bush-Harris, Brandon, Myron, Qondi, Ash, Chanel Hardy, and so many others whose names escape me right now.

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