During a visit to the Rockstar Suite at Hard Rock Hotel New York, Myles Smith sat down with Mike Adam for an Audacy Check In, offering a look at his life before his success in music, and a preview of his upcoming debut album.

Before the success of “Stargazing” and the the start of Smith’s rise in the music industry, Myles shares that he had started a consulting business, backed by his degree in sociology. “I had my own consultancy in business management, so I used to like help businesses run their management and operations, pretty boring,” he laughs.

There are things that he carries with him through his sociology experience, including the simple yet often hard to grasp concept of how similar we are. “I think it's just like understanding people and like the trends and patterns,” he says. “No matter where we are in the world, just how much we experience life in such similar ways, and it's so beautiful.”

'My Mess, My Heart, My Life.' is the debut album from Myles Smith, and it arrives everywhere on June 19. The final tracklist consists of 10 "brand new tracks" and 5 songs that document his "journey here," which he views as a way to "round off chapter one” of his career.

“The most vulnerable I feel is definitely when I'm writing,” he admits. “There's no real stop gap between my brain and what goes onto a record and I I love doing it that way. I think the more that you try to like polish things or make them sound how you think people want to hear them, the worse the song gets, so I just try and write as authentically as possible.”

To hear more from Myles Smith about collaborating with his favorite artists and what he’s learned from Ed Sheeran, check out the full conversation above.