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.

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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 gratitude
• Real stories of communities filling the gaps left by policy failures
• How gratitude can guide workplaces toward deeper connection and trust
• Five 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.

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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 reciprocity

This 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-bio

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