Review: ‘KIM KARDASHIAN OPENS UP About Insecurity, Healing Your Pain, & Finding HAPPINESS | Jay Shetty’

By Mia Sandoval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I482TBLEzc

Podcaster, motivational speaker, and British author, Jay Shetty had a sit-down podcast interview with Kim Kardashian on his ‘On Purpose Podcast’. This podcast dates back to May 22, 2023, when Jay spoke with Kim about parenting, relationships, justice reform and happiness. Watching this episode you get to hear about who Kim is as a person, how she describes herself, a glimpse into what she values in life and what she has learned about herself along the way. 

Jay discussed many topics with Kim, which included self work, justice reform, parenting, relationship, and lessons learned throughout her life. A valuable point Kim made was about the realization of understanding that life isn’t really about you but instead helping as many people as you can. Also, her example of what self work means to her is blasting music in the car alone after she dropped her kids off at school or her morning workouts. Another example which stood out to me was when she spoke about the internal changes she saw in herself when she started doing justice reform. She was very judgmental at first and thought that if someone was behind bars for so long it was because they just had to be guilty. She took the time to hear about people’s cases, their history and the back stories, and realized that some of these people never had the opportunity to be better. She described her level of empathy now being different and that’s why she fights so hard for people to have a second opportunity. Throughout the episode, they spoke on lessons she has learned from her mom that she would pass down to her kids, mom guilt, what parenting has taught her, in relationships. Someone who believes that you can tell a lot about a person depending on how they’re able to maintain long-standing relationship relationships she describes it as stability. An example which she stated was when she’s looking to hire someone she looks at how long they have been at the role and if they value long-standing relationships with employers or family. Jay, after his conversations, he finishes them up with the ‘final five’. One of those five questions for Kim was what she would do if she had to restart, she answered this confidently saying she would focus on being a lawyer, a full-time  attorney. 

A lot of the statements that Kim made throughout the podcast episode were backed up with examples that she would give about either her friendships, her family, her kids or experiences she had growing up. For example, when she spoke about her life as a mom, but also her kids, she happily said that she always knew she wanted four kids because she grew up with her parents who also had four kids and she enjoyed having a big family. Jay also brought up the question of what her version of what parenting was going to be like vs. what it’s actually like. She described it as “the days are long and the years are short”. Meaning that to her it’s the best chaos when in the morning she helps do her daughter’s hair and it has to be perfect. Helps one with his shoes, cooking and a lot of running around. Kim also says that parenting has taught her a lot about herself and that being that it’s very challenging. She advises that nothing prepares you to have children, it doesn’t matter what you’re putting first before you choose to have kids because there’s nothing that prepares you for that experience. When she spoke about herself, I liked it because I noticed things in common when it came to her describing herself as compassionate, caring and at some point being a people pleaser, which are things I can relate to. Compassion and care was discussed and Kim defined it as pace, meaning being patient with someone's pace when it comes to evolving, which I believe I do with the people around and with myself. Another point you take away from this podcast is Kim’s not a complainer, she feels that worrying won’t change the outcome. She prefers to come up with a solution, communicate the problem and move on. “Not taking things seriously, not taking yourself seriously is a little key to happiness”. I do feel that concrete answers were given when she would be asked about questions like the ones just mentioned or others. 

Most if not all of Jay's podcasts are  mainly a two person conversation, Jay is sitting facing the guest, which in this case is Kim, and they speak on struggles, relationships, healing, etc. Listening to both speak I would describe it as very calm, comfortable, and relaxed. When both would speak and give their statements, it was very clear to understand what Jay spoke about with Kim asking and being able to connect with what Kim was speaking on, her delivery was clear. Jay has a distinct style when it comes to interviewing, his content is mainly about motivation, mental health, growth and healing. Which are topics he discusses with not just Kim, but all his guests. 

You can tell Kim and Jay had a very meaningful conversation between the two. Jay mentioned to Kim how he can sense her energy, which reflected peace and contempt. He was able to tell that she is at a point where she is at peace. I will say that if I had to point out a weakness, it would have to be that there were a lot of cuts made that were obvious when the podcast was being edited. I was able to notice this, especially at the beginning of the episode where a lot of the cut outs or edits were very noticeable and distracting, in my opinion. 

During this sit down interview I like that we get to know who Kim is, and understand where she’s at in her life at the moment. Watching the episode, you can sense that when she speaks on any of the topics presented in the podcast, she’s coming from a genuine place, as someone who lives in front of the camera constantly, but also has children, a family and who’s also growing and learning. I would definitely recommend this episode to anyone who enjoys listening to other people’s experiences and who are interested in knowing a bit more about people who we see inconsiderate, just celebrities at the end of the day they are people just like us. I also think women, especially, can connect a lot with someone like Kim, moms, working moms, people in general who are surrounded by relationships, which is something that is mentioned a lot in this episode.