Episode 402: Yohanse Smythe

Freshly Grounded

Faisal & Sam

Muslimpodcast, Freshlygrounded, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Yohan joins Freshly Grounded to share the story of growing up in a Rastafarian-led, God-centred home in West London, stumbling through Catholic pews and Baptist choirs, then finding Islam via a co-worker who prayed at Heathrow before pulling shifts at Caffè Nero. We unpack what actually tipped him over the line to take shahādah, the lonely stretch many reverts don’t talk about, and how fatherhood (now six kids!) and the loss of a brother reshaped his faith and priorities.

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0:00.0	Al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-gounded. Just a quick one before you listen to this episode.
0:03.2	Listen, we are now dropping extra episodes of Freshly Grounded every single week on Patreon.
0:08.9	Do you know the episodes of me and Kaya, me and the team?
0:11.7	We've now called it Freshly Guarded Insider, a video.
0:14.8	It kind of happened, actually.
0:16.3	So if you guys, you know, at Freshly Grra, we're doing more of these episodes at, like classic FG episodes, which are episodes with guests. Stories, today's episode is incredible with Johann, one of the brothers who runs another show on Freshly Grounded. We heard his story about how he was raised in Rastafarian household and became Muslim, you know, and we have guests lined up, we've got some incredible guests line up this month, but We know a lot of you still like the Chinwagon that episode, we're fresher grounded with the team with me and Kaya.
0:54.5	You see... You know, and we have guests lined up. We've got some incredible guests line up this month. But we know a lot of you still like the Chinwagon that episodes with Freshly Grounded with the team with me and Kaya. You're still going to get those every single week at Freshly Grounded on Patreon. So go to patreon.com for such freshly grounded for those episodes. Without any further ado, let's get into this episode with Johanse Smyth.
0:56.1	Did I say that quickly, bro?
0:56.9	Yeah, you did.
0:57.3	Yeah.
0:57.9	Full government.
0:58.8	Ah, he come.
1:08.8	Al-Aa-Qa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-sala. Salam-a-a-a-a-a-a-ohan. Welcome. Freshly-A-Hanid, bro. Jazak, for joining us. Those of you are listening who don't know who Johann is.
1:14.9	Johann is one half of the team who does our second show,
1:16.1	which is now called Two for Two,
1:18.3	which you can see on YouTube if you go to Two for Two for Two. And it's like a great show where Suleiman and Johann basically have talk about,
1:23.9	you know,
1:24.2	loads of different things.
1:26.0	There's Islamic reminders.
1:27.3	There's jokes. There's laughs. There's challenges. But what really makes it incredible is his two brothers who are kind of have just like from the same area in London. Yeah. Both Muslim love Islam. But outside of those two similarities, like just like so many differences.
1:45.0	100, yeah.
1:45.6	And it just makes it so fun to watch.
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