Jama Pantel: Unfiltered

Jama Pantel
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I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth. Jama Pantel: Unfiltered is real talk for women who are done surviving and ready to actually figure out what comes next. If you've spent decades being the dependable one, the overachiever, the fixer, the woman who figures it out while everyone else falls apart, this show is for you. I'm Jama. I'm an Austin-based photographer, speaker, and 23-time marathon finisher who knows what it means to build something from nothing. I know what survival mode feels like from the inside. And I know what happens when life finally shifts and you don't know what to do with the breathing room. Episodes are short, honest, and zero fluff. Because you're busy. And you deserve real.

  1. 4d ago

    Something Was Wrong and Nobody Could Tell Me Why

    Send us Fan Mail For four years, something kept going wrong. Knees in 2022. Shoulder in 2023. Both feet in 2024. A gut crisis in 2025. Every provider gave me an isolated answer. Every single one said the same thing: normal wear and tear, normal for your age. I was 44. This is the story of what my body was trying to tell me for four years, and why nobody, including me, was connecting the dots. Until Valentine's Day 2026. Next week I tell you what we actually found. This week is the mystery. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    11 min

  2. Jun 2

    The Moment I Realized I Was Building a Business I Didn't Actually Want

    Send us Fan Mail You've built the business. You've done the work. But what happens when you realize the business you built isn't actually the one you wanted? This episode is about the exhaustion of explaining your value to people who've already decided it isn't worth it, the moment a cancer diagnosis made everything reorder itself, and what it actually looks like to slowly build toward the right thing instead of sprinting toward the wrong one. If you've ever felt like you were building something that looked right on paper but felt completely wrong in your body...this one's for you. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    9 min

  3. May 26

    What Scarcity Does to Your Brain Even After You're Not Struggling Anymore

    Send us Fan Mail You can completely change your circumstances — and your brain will still act like you haven't. That's what this episode is about. The low hum that keeps running in the background even after life gets more stable. The scarcity wiring that doesn't retire just because the actual scarcity is gone. If you've ever felt guilty resting, checked numbers obsessively, or wondered why success still doesn't feel like enough, this one is for you. This is the third episode in a series. If you haven't listened to the last two, go back. They build on each other. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    9 min

  4. May 19

    The Story Behind the Hustle: What Growing Up with Nothing Actually Does to Your Brain

    Send us Fan Mail Three weeks ago I bought a couch. And what happened in my brain when I bought that couch tells you everything you need to know about what scarcity actually does to a person, even long after the circumstances have changed. I had a budget in my head. The couch was over it. But the second I sat in it I knew. It was down. I had never sat in a down couch before and I did not know I needed one until that exact moment. And I still sat there running every scarcity thought my brain has ever had. I can't afford this. What if something comes up. What if. What if. What if. Even though I could afford it. Even though I had done the math. That moment stopped me in my tracks. Because I realized the circumstances had changed. The brain hadn't. In this episode I get honest about where that scarcity brain actually came from. Growing up watching money cause pain. Leaving for college with almost nothing. Walking and running everywhere crying, telling myself it couldn't be like this forever. Losing everything in an apartment fire. Making a vow with nothing but sheer determination to back it up. That vow saved me. But it wired me in ways I'm only now starting to understand. In this episode we talk about: — The couch that made me realize my scarcity brain hadn't gotten the memo  — What it felt like growing up with money causing constant pain  — Running and crying to multiple jobs in college just to survive  — Losing everything in an apartment fire and starting over with nothing  — The vow I made to never depend on anyone for anything  — What scarcity wires into your nervous system even after you're safe  — Why pushing things way down is my superpower and what it costs you  — Learning that money flows and taking care of that younger version of yourself "You don't have to keep living like she's still in danger." If this one hit home send it to someone who needs to hear it. Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    10 min

  5. May 18 ·  Bonus

    Why I Changed the Name — and What Jama Pantel: Unfiltered Actually Means

    Send us Fan Mail If you've been here a while you may have noticed things look different. New name. New cover art. New energy. In this episode I'm telling you exactly why. This isn't a rebrand for the sake of rebranding. It's what happens when you finally stop hiding behind a concept and just show up as yourself. After Living the Whole Picture and Midlife Reset, I asked myself one honest question: what if my name was the brand? That question changed everything. In this episode we talk about:  — Why I changed the name from Midlife Reset to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered  — What unfiltered actually means and why it matters  — Why I spent years building things under other names instead of just showing up as Jama  — What this show is really for and who it's really for  — Why Season 3 is the season I stop performing and start telling the truth "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth." That's the show. That's the season. That's what's coming. Welcome to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    3 min

  6. Season 3, Episode 1 Trailer

    Jama Pantel: Unfiltered — Official Trailer Season 3

    Send us Fan Mail This is Jama Pantel: Unfiltered — real talk for women who are done surviving and ready to figure out what actually comes next. I'm Jama. Portrait photographer, speaker, and 23-time marathon finisher who knows what it means to build something from nothing. I know what survival mode feels like from the inside. And I know what happens when life finally shifts and you don't know what to do with the breathing room. This podcast exists because I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth. No fluff. No performance. Just honest conversations for women who are done performing their lives. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    1 min

  7. May 12

    Survival Mode: What Happens When You Finally Don't Have to Hustle Anymore

    Send us Fan Mail I Googled something last week that I'm mildly embarrassed to admit: "what do people actually do when they're not stressed?" And here's the wild part. I garden, I read, I hit 10,000 steps a day, and I've run 23 marathons. By every external measure, I'm someone who takes care of herself. And I still felt like I had no idea how to actually rest. In this episode of Midlife Reset, I'm getting honest about what happens when you've spent your entire adult life in survival mode, always working two jobs, always hustling, always carrying something, and then life shifts and suddenly you don't have to anymore. If you're an overachiever who built her entire identity around productivity, you know the feeling: the moment things slow down, your nervous system panics. Rest feels risky. Quiet feels suspicious. And stopping, even for a week, feels like it could cost you everything. This episode is for the women who grew up knowing what it meant to have nothing, who learned to hustle not because it was trendy but because the alternative was terrifying. And it's for anyone who has ever wondered: who am I when I'm not just surviving? In this episode we talk about: — Why overachiever burnout doesn't look like doing nothing (and why rest can actually feel unsafe) — How survival mode rewires your nervous system around constant urgency — What happens when you turn things you love into a brand, and lose the joy of them — The difference between ambition and chaos with a calendar — Learning to want things for yourself again, not for the algorithm "Rest isn't the opposite of ambition. It's just ambition without an audience." — Jama Pantel If this episode hit home, share it with someone who's carrying more than anyone around them realizes. Follow Midlife Reset with Jama Pantel wherever you listen to podcasts. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

    9 min

  8. May 5

    Why You Feel Fine One Week… and Completely Off the Next

    Send us Fan Mail Last week I was exhausted… couldn’t recover, couldn’t sleep, everything felt off. This week? Energy is back, workouts feel strong… and then I hurt my back moving weights around at the gym. So yeah… how do you make sense of that? If you’ve ever felt completely off one week and totally fine the next, this episode is for you. In this episode, I’m talking about something that doesn’t get explained enough… how inconsistent everything can feel in midlife. From low energy and poor recovery to suddenly feeling strong again, it’s not always a steady pattern you can “fix.” I share what this has looked like for me in real time, including a week of exhaustion, a bounce back into feeling normal again, and then hurting my back doing something as simple as moving weights around at the gym. We’re also talking about how tools like Garmin can reflect what’s happening in your body, even if they’re not perfect, and how metrics like sleep score, HRV, and recovery can line up with how you actually feel. This episode is about learning to recognize the difference between something being broken and something fluctuating… and how that changes the way you approach your body, your workouts, and your expectations. If you’ve ever thought, “why does my body feel different week to week?” this episode will help you make sense of it. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT – Feeling exhausted one week and completely normal the next – The frustration of not knowing what changed – Why inconsistency is harder than being “off” all the time – Workouts feeling heavy vs suddenly strong again – Real-time example: hurting my back moving weights (not lifting) – Why setbacks don’t always mean something is wrong – Running and workout inconsistency  – The “oldest daughter control” mindset and wanting to fix it – Garmin data: sleep score, HRV, and recovery patterns – Feeling “unproductive” for the first time ever  – Dexa scan vs day-to-day experience  – The shift: broken vs fluctuating  – Why your body doesn’t follow a predictable pattern anymore  – Reframing inconsistency in midlife KEY TAKEAWAYS Feeling good one week and off the next is common in midlifeInconsistency can be more frustrating than constant fatigueYour body is not broken, it’s fluctuatingData tools like Garmin can reflect patterns, even if they aren’t perfectSetbacks don’t always mean you did something wrongAwareness matters more than control in this phase Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Jama Pantel: Unfiltered wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a review — it helps more women find the show. 🎙️ Listen and subscribe: https://www.jamapantel.com/jama-pantel-unfiltered/ 📸 Photography: https://www.jamapantel.com/ 📩 Work with Jama or book her to speak: https://www.jamapantel.com/contact/ Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/jamapantel/ "I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

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I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth. Jama Pantel: Unfiltered is real talk for women who are done surviving and ready to actually figure out what comes next. If you've spent decades being the dependable one, the overachiever, the fixer, the woman who figures it out while everyone else falls apart, this show is for you. I'm Jama. I'm an Austin-based photographer, speaker, and 23-time marathon finisher who knows what it means to build something from nothing. I know what survival mode feels like from the inside. And I know what happens when life finally shifts and you don't know what to do with the breathing room. Episodes are short, honest, and zero fluff. Because you're busy. And you deserve real.

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  • Creator
    Jama Pantel
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Jama Pantel: Unfiltered
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