Growth, Grief and the Courage to Heal w/ Dr King Jay Barnett
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Today, Crystal Renee welcomes Dr. Jay Barnett, licensed therapist and advocate, to discuss his transformation from a professional athlete to a leading voice in mental health. Barnett shares his powerful personal story of overcoming depression, surviving suicide attempts, and finding purpose through faith and therapy. This candid conversation covers the stigmatization of therapy among Black men, the impact of parental divorce, and the paths to healing and emotional intelligence. Barnett also touches on the role of spirituality in his life, the importance of being vulnerable, and the challenges of navigating relationships while pursuing a higher calling. With deep honesty, both Hayslett and Barnett reflect on their personal journeys, the significance of seeking help, and the power of prayer and stillness.
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| 0:00.0 | Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm your host Chris Renee Hazett and this is the Keep It Posit Sweetie Show. |
| 0:08.0 | Licensed therapists and just-heel host, Dr. J. Barnett, has built a national platform around healing and accountability. |
| 0:18.0 | His story from athlete to advocate shows that faith and emotional intelligence |
| 0:21.9 | can thrive together. Today he joins us to talk about growth, grief, and the courage to heal. |
| 0:28.9 | Kids family, please give a very warm welcome to King J. Barnett. Finally. Finally, we got you here. |
| 0:36.5 | Listen, we've been talking about this for about, what, a year? A year now, yeah. Yeah. And so I know you was filming and both of our lives are busy, but I feel like it's purposeful busy. It is. That's what I have to tell people. Like, you got so much going on, but it's all purposeful, baby. Yes, it is. It's purpose, man. You've been, I looked at your stories this week alone. I'm like, is he going to make it to Atlanta? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. purposeful, baby. Yes, it is. It's purpose, man. You've been, I looked at your stories this week alone. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm like, is he going to make it to Atlanta? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | Oh, yeah, I was coming, Crystal. I was coming. I was coming. I was coming. So, yeah, I started out. I haven't been home in like three weeks. Wow. So I was in Detroit for, no, I was in New York because it started, I did the Breakfast Club for World Mental |
| 1:13.8 | Health Day and brought Joel with me. |
| 1:17.3 | And then Taraji had her mental health weekend. |
| 1:19.4 | So I keynoted for her. |
| 1:22.0 | And then after that, I was in Detroit, then Canada, seven days. |
| 1:26.0 | And then Costa Rica and now here. And then I'm in Toronto. So after this. Good Lord. So, but I'm going to take a break after after this, though. You have to take a break. I got to get this book done and I got to settle down. So. Awesome. Awesome. I love that. Well, Jay, you took the world by storm on the internet. And I first saw you on social media, really giving men a safe space to even have a voice, to be vulnerable, and to start healing. |
| 1:51.9 | And I feel like for black men, therapy has been so stigmatized. |
| 1:55.4 | And you've taken that stigma off and allowed black men to just be themselves and speak their truth and really like head face on with their trauma. |
| 2:03.9 | But that did not come without healing of your own. |
| 2:06.7 | Yes. |
| 2:07.2 | So I want to talk about that. |
| 2:08.5 | You've been very open about when football was over, you hit rock bottom. |
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