Jama Pantel: Unfiltered
by Jama Pantel
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Taking A Break...Again
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 79 episodes
- Taking A Break...Again · 2 min · Season 3 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail Seventy-nine episodes sounds like a number you can brush past, until you realize it’s almost two years of showing up every single week and telling the truth into…
- A Last Minute Escape To Lake Tahoe · 4 min · Season 3 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail Texas heat has a way of turning a normal week into a survival story, so I finally asked the most honest question possible: where can I go where it’s not 100…
- Human Design Money Line: Control, Abundance, and Letting Go · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail I was parentified before I started school. Cooking meals for seven, getting my sisters out the door, reading the room before I could read a book. That pattern…
- Human Design Sacral Authority: When You Know, You Know · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail When you know, you know. Five words. That is the whole definition of Sacral authority in Human Design and I could not explain it better than that. In this…
- The Power Of Quiet Connections · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail Almost 27 years ago I landed my first job out of college at the Texas Capitol. I stayed human with the people I met. About twelve years ago I needed a job badly…
- Human Design for Beginners: Why I Can't Just Pick One Thing · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 12Send us Fan Mail You're always so busy. I have heard that my whole life. Not as a question, more as a statement. And for the longest time I did not have a good response. I just…
- Why Portrait Photographers Don't Need One Signature Style · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 11Send us Fan Mail I photographed a client in 2022 who said something offhand that stuck with me for three years. This week she showed back up in my inbox out of nowhere. I do not…
- The 11th Percentile · 12 min · Season 3 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail My mom told me to get my bone density checked. I did. And when the results came back, I understood exactly why she said it. The 11th percentile. That is where my…
- Perimenopause Weight Gain: Why I Was Gaining Despite Doing Everything Right · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail I gained fifteen pounds in roughly ten weeks. Not over a year. Ten weeks. And I was logging nearly a thousand miles of running, hundreds of miles of walking, and…
- When Running Stopped Feeling Like Me · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Running was the first place I was ever truly free. In college I had nothing. I ran everywhere...to class, to work, everywhere. Not because I was training…
- Ferritin At Ten · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail I am 48, I have run 23 marathons, and I did everything right. My doctors kept telling me I was fine. So I stopped waiting and got comprehensive bloodwork that…
- Something Was Wrong and Nobody Could Tell Me Why · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 6Send 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…
- The Moment I Realized I Was Building a Business I Didn't Actually Want · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 5Send 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…
- What Scarcity Does to Your Brain Even After You're Not Struggling Anymore · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 4Send 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…
- The Story Behind the Hustle: What Growing Up with Nothing Actually Does to Your Brain · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 3Send 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…
- Why I Changed the Name — and What Jama Pantel: Unfiltered Actually Means · 3 min · Season 3 Episode 2Send 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…
- Jama Pantel: Unfiltered — Official Trailer Season 3 · 1 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send 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…
- Survival Mode: What Happens When You Finally Don't Have to Hustle Anymore · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 7Send 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…
- Why You Feel Fine One Week… and Completely Off the Next · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 6Send 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…
- I Don’t Feel Like Myself Lately: Perimenopause, Fatigue, and Weight Gain in Midlife · 10 min · Season 2 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail I don’t feel like myself lately… and I didn’t know how to say that out loud. Nothing is technically wrong, but my energy, my body, and even my emotions don’t…
