Survival Mode: What Happens When You Finally Don’t Have to Hustle Anymore
A talk for the women who built everything. And are only now learning what it means to actually live.
THE TALK
Most entrepreneurship talks celebrate the hustle. This one tells the truth about it.
Jama Pantel knows what it means to build from nothing. Literally. She knows what homeless looks like from the inside. She knows what it means to never once in her adult life work less than two jobs. And she knows what happens to your nervous system, your identity, and everything you love when survival becomes your only mode.
In this talk Jama gets honest about the thing nobody in entrepreneurship says out loud: what do you do when the hustle worked and you still don’t know how to stop? When productivity has become your proof of worth? When you’ve turned everything you love into a brand and lost the joy of it?
Your audience will walk away feeling seen in a way they didn’t expect. They’ll finally have words for something they’ve been carrying alone. And they’ll leave with a permission slip to want something different. Not less ambitious. Just less attached to chaos.
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MEET JAMA
THE SPEAKER
Jama Pantel will tell you she’s “just Jama.” Don’t believe her.
She’s a portrait photographer whose work was featured in The New York Times. A former member of the Brooks Run Happy Team who has completed 23 marathons. A podcaster and speaker who built a successful business while working two jobs, because for most of her life she didn’t have the option not to.
She hosts Jama Pantel: Unfiltered, a podcast for women who are done performing their lives, and speaks with the rare combination of radical honesty and genuine warmth that makes audiences feel like she’s saying the thing they’ve been thinking but couldn’t find words for.
She’s based in Austin, Texas, and yes, she’ll talk about ice cream.
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