On Purpose with Jay Shetty
ALEX WARREN: The Hidden Battles Behind His Historic Rise - Overcoming Self-Doubt, Healing Childhood Wounds & Learning to Finally Feel Enough
19 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro.
Chapter 2: How did Alex Warren navigate success without losing himself?
We were in the car, like a Rolling Stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.
And I said, what? What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have. I knew something had happened to me in the middle of the night, but I couldn't hold on to what had happened. Listen to Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, friends. Sophia Bush here, host of Work in Progress.
Chapter 3: What childhood experiences shaped Alex's worldview?
This week, we had such a special guest, a mentor, a friend, a wife, a mother, an author, attorney, advocate, television producer, and now she adds podcast host to the list.
Chapter 4: How did Alex learn to parent himself during tough times?
Michelle Obama is here. Sophia, I'm beyond thrilled to be able to sit down and chat with you. Listen to Work in Progress on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeartRadio app, search Work in Progress, and listen now. On this week's episode of The Next Chapter, I, TD Jakes, get to sit down with Oprah Winfrey, a media mogul, philanthropist, and global trailblazer.
I could feel inside myself at four or five years old looking through the screen on the back porch that this is not going to be my life. Listen to the next chapter on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes drop weekly.
I slept in cars. My friends would sneak me into their houses, and I ended up getting shot by my friend's dad. It missed my heart by a few centimeters, and it's stuck in my lung today.
Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose. I am so excited for today's episode because I get to sit down with Alex Warren, Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, whose music has reached billions across the world.
Chapter 5: What lessons did Alex learn from losing loved ones?
Alex's rise has been remarkable, not just for the success, but for the story behind it. a story of deep loss, unexpected love, and transforming some of the darkest moments of his life into songs that heal. Please welcome to On Purpose, Alex Warren. Alex, it's great to have you here.
Thanks for having me, dude. That was a crazy introduction. I love that.
Well, it's true. You've had to live it.
Dude, when I die, you got to give a speech or something. That was beautiful.
I have a feeling from having researched and studied your life for this interview, and even the few moments we've just spent, if that is an honor that you would give me, I will be there. I will receive that very gratefully.
Although I hope that's a long, long way off. We've got to go on a few hikes.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I need to learn a bit more about you. I love it, man. But first of all, I just want to say congratulations. I just saw you were the number one song on Variety's Hitmakers, 25 songs.
Oh my God.
Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick's got like three on there or whatever it is. I'm like, how does that feel?
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Chapter 6: How did living in a car impact Alex's life and music career?
That is incredible. That is huge.
I didn't know that until just now, which is awesome.
Did you not?
Yeah.
I don't look at that stuff. It's something for me. I feel like I just focus on the music itself. And it's been really amazing to be able to have those accolades. I don't know.
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Chapter 7: What role does music play in Alex's healing process?
It doesn't feel real. Like, that's the one thing that kind of, like, it doesn't hit me yet. Every time I play a show and I sing that song, I take an ear out and hope people are singing.
Chapter 8: How did Alex's relationship with Kova change his perspective?
And I get off stage, I go, were people singing the song? And everyone's like, okay, Alex, yeah, shut up. Yes, they were. Like, this isn't cute anymore. I'm like, I'm genuinely serious.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's beautiful. And, of course, I saw you ā did a little share the other day, but Spotify wrapped top 10 albums of the year, number four song in the world, on the globe. I mean, that again, it's just, how does that feel? Like, how does that truly feel? So there's a part of you that goes, I don't look at it. And of course you're like checking to see where the boat, how does that feel?
Dude, it's... I see it, and it's true. There's a warm feeling inside because I've always wanted that. And I think everyone would be lying if they said they didn't love it. I think that's the part about it. I wrote it with my friends about meeting my wife, and that's even more special. That's the song about my wife. It's not some fluff. It's not some pitch song.
It's just a record that we actually believe in.
Yeah, that's so special. It's incredible to think that you've got the people around you that you're writing about. Because I feel like often artists will write a song about someone, but then it's a breakup or someone that they're not connected to anymore. I imagine it's a really rare feeling to actually say, I'm writing a song about the person I love and they're in my life.
Yeah. It's, that's something I never really think about is when people write like a breakup song and it becomes like a hit, like what that relationship is. But yeah, it's just something where I feel like it didn't happen to me. It happened to us. And it's been really cool to be able to have that moment together.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I was going to ask you, you've, I feel like you've spoken about your journey many times before, but I wanted to ask you what's a childhood memory that you have that you feel defines who you are today, that has played such a pivotal role in molding who you are?
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