Clinical Psychologist Explains How to Set Boundaries, How to Navigate Family Arguments, Better Parenting Strategies, The Psychological Impact of Doom Scrolling and More...
The Jordan Syatt Podcast
Jordan Syatt
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Jordan Syatt Podcast I speak with the incredible Dr. Josh Smith (IG: @drj.smith) about:
- How to set boundaries
- How to navigate arguments with family
- Better (and more productive) strategies for parenting
- The psychological impact of doom scrolling
- ADHD, neurodivergence, and medication
- And more...
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| 0:00.0 | Today, I'm honored to introduce you to Dr. Josh Smith. Josh is a clinical psychologist |
| 0:05.7 | specializing in chronic illness, pain, relationships, boundaries, and communication. |
| 0:11.5 | More importantly, Josh is a husband to his extraordinary wife, and he is the world's |
| 0:16.0 | greatest father to his beautiful and brilliant daughter and son. |
| 0:20.5 | I met Josh when I was 16 years old because he was one of the chaperones on my first |
| 0:24.8 | youth trip to Israel. |
| 0:26.6 | He immediately became one of my closest friends and mentors, and at this point, he's an |
| 0:31.1 | integral part of my family. |
| 0:33.0 | Josh has helped me through some of the most difficult times of my life, and he exemplifies |
| 0:37.0 | everything it means to be a good man. Josh, welcome to the podcast. No one can hear when you go away from |
| 0:44.6 | the mic. And thank you all. I'm so psyched to be here. This is amazing. It's so fun. It was so |
| 0:51.9 | nice to see the kids. And this is, this is unbelievable. That was a very, very nice intro. |
| 0:56.7 | Who are you? Who am I? I mean, you told me I shouldn't be too long-winded, and you start off with who are you. I didn't say that. I just said you are long-winded. Yeah, that's just accurate. but um i well so i mean i guess from I guess from a professional standpoint, I'm a clinical psychologist. Yeah, I mean, I'm a dad. I got two kids, an adorable dog. You know, and I do... I'm sorry. Oh, please. I don't think Regins is going to be upset about it. But, you know, I do a bunch of different types of work. Like you said, I do chronic pain work and, you know, a lot of chronic illness type stuff. And then I also do individual couples, family therapy, trauma type work. You know, a lot of different things. I've been all over the map. But what misconceptions do people have about you? About me as an individual or about therapy or psychologists in general? |
| 1:45.7 | You as an individual. |
| 1:47.2 | Maybe based on what you think people perceive of you on social media or in general when |
| 1:53.2 | you're working with a patient the first time or early on, like what do you think some |
| 1:57.6 | misconceptions people might have about you are? |
| 2:00.2 | Such an interesting question. |
| 2:01.8 | Honest to God, I don't know. |
| 2:03.6 | There is a time I would have been able to list, I would have been able to immediately get |
| 2:08.2 | into, but that was so much about my own insecurity. |
| 2:10.3 | That was about like, here are the areas that I don't feel confident or I feel. |
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