The Ben & Jamesa Podcast: Lead with Humanity!

• Ep. 162: The End of the Ben and Jamesa Podcast (at least for 2025)

  In this short end-of-season episode, we share why we’re pausing The Ben and Jamesa Podcast for the rest of 2025—and what it means to winter.We explore the wisdom of slowing down, resting, and syncing with the natural world, especially as we enter a season that asks for softness and recalibration. We also talk about why Americans often do the opposite—speeding up, overcommitting, and pushing through the darkest months of the year—and what it costs us.Expect a beautiful nature fact about how the living world winters, a reflection on choosing slowness, and a look at how we’re preparing ourselves and our community for the new year.🎙️ The Ben and Jamesa Podcast explores the deep work of healing, leadership, and community in a world built for disconnection.Support the show

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• Ep. 161 Communities and Workplaces that Give a Damn! Compassion Part Two

  What happens when gratitude becomes more than a feeling — when it turns into a shared responsibility?In this week’s episode, we explore gratitude as a community practice — how remembering what sustains us can become a guide for how we lead, work, and live together. We talk about the real consequences of recent SNAP cuts, the vacuum they’ve created, and the people and organizations stepping up to make sure everyone is still fed. These stories reveal what we call gratitude in action — not just saying thank you, but showing up for one another in tangible, compassionate ways.We also unpack how this lens of collective gratitude could reshape how governments and businesses operate — replacing toxic individualism with mutual care, responsibility, and respect for the many unseen hands that sustain every community and workplace.If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when compassion drives policy, leadership, and daily life — this conversation will give you a glimpse.🌿 Listen to hear:The difference between performative and collective gratitudeReal stories of communities filling the gaps left by policy failuresHow gratitude can guide workplaces toward deeper connection and trustFive ways businesses can lead through collective care🎙️ The Ben and Jamesa Podcast is where we explore the deep work of healing, leadership, and building connection in a world built for disconnection. → Learn more about our coaching: www.benandjamesa.com → Download our Connection vs Control Starter Kit: https://www.benandjamesa.com/link-in-bioSupport the show

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• Ep. 160: SNAP, Decolonizing Gratitude, and Remembering Deeply (Gratitude Part One)

  Gratitude isn’t about counting blessings — it’s about remembering the people, systems, and histories that make our lives possible.In this opening episode of our Gratitude Series, Ben and Jamesa reclaim gratitude from individualism and performance, grounding it instead in interdependence, justice, and care.We explore: 🌾 How gratitude became aesthetic and performative — and how to reclaim it as relational and transformative 🥣 What the threat to SNAP benefits reveals about how our culture has forgotten shared care 🌍 The difference between colonial gratitude and ancestral gratitude 💭 How remembering our ancestors and the land can return gratitude to its roots in accountability and reciprocityThis conversation is an invitation to remember deeply — to practice gratitude not as denial or comfort, but as a quiet act of resistance in a culture that teaches us to survive alone.🎙️ The Ben and Jamesa Podcast is where we explore the deep work of healing, leadership, and building connection in a world built for disconnection. → Learn about our coaching: www.benandjamesa.com → Download our Connection vs Control Starter Kit to learn your control style and receive our bi-weekly newsletter: https://www.benandjamesa.com/link-in-bioSupport the show

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• Ep. 159 It Takes A Village to Work with Anger (Anger Part Four)

  In this fourth and final episode of our anger series, we explore what happens when emotions are treated as private property—and how that belief keeps us isolated, performative, and disconnected.We dive into the idea of toxic individualism—the cultural pressure to “handle your emotions alone”—and how it shows up in colonized therapy models, workplace expectations, and even family dynamics. What would it look like instead to manage anger together—to create communities and workplaces that can hold, process, and transform emotion collectively?Along the way, we share one of the most bizarre natural phenomena on Earth: China’s Qiantang River tidal bore—a massive wall of water that reverses the river’s flow. Communities have learned to face this force together, turning danger into shared wisdom. It’s a perfect metaphor for collective emotional management: when the tide rises, no one faces it alone.🎙️ The Ben and Jamesa Podcast is where we explore the deep work of healing, leadership, and building connection in a world built for disconnection. → Learn about our coaching: www.benandjamesa.com → Download our Connection vs Control Starter Kit and receive our bi-weekly newsletter: https://www.benandjamesa.com/link-in-bioSupport the show

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• Ep, 158: The Neurobiology of Good Trouble: The No Kings Protest and Anger Part Three

  What happens in the brain when we rise up against injustice — and how can anger become a force for clarity, compassion, and creativity rather than destruction?In this episode, Ben and Jamesa explore the neurobiology of “good trouble,” drawing from the wisdom of John Lewis, Greta Thunberg, and the No Kings protest to understand how anger can transform into courageous, values-driven action.We look at what actually happens in the brain when we’re angry — from the amygdala’s rapid-fire alerts to the prefrontal cortex’s capacity for reflection — and how this energy can fuel moral courage, not reactivity.Together we unpack:How the fight-flight-freeze-fawn system processes angerThe difference between reactive, suppressed, and regulated angerWhat neuroscience teaches us about turning outrage into actionReal-world examples of anger as a moral force for justice and connection→ Tune in for a grounded, compassionate look at how we can harness anger as a tool for healing, leadership, and community change.🎧 The Ben and Jamesa Podcast explores the deep work of healing, leadership, and building connection in a world built for disconnection.→ Join our Patreon for insight-driven tools and practices to build authentic community and personal growth: https://www.patreon.com/c/BenandJamesa → Learn about our coaching: www.benandjamesa.com → Download our Connection vs Control Starter Kit: https://www.benandjamesa.com/link-in-bioSupport the show

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