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

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.

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"I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth."

Transcript

A New Name And New Energy

Jama Pantel 0:00

Y'all, I need to tell you something. This is Jama, your podcast bestie, by the way. If you've been here for a while, you may have noticed things look a little bit different now. New name, new cover art, new energy, and I want to tell you

The Original Show And Its Meaning

Jama Pantel 0:14

why. When I started this podcast, it was called Living the Whole Picture. I love that name. It was a play on me being a photographer, but also this idea that I wanted to talk about everything. The whole complicated picture of life.

When Searchability Drives A Rename

Jama Pantel 0:30

But I was told that it wasn't searchable enough, so I changed again eventually to Midlife Reset after an entire year. And honestly, midlife reset was fine. It's where I was in that stage of life, and it did the job, but it never felt completely like me. And it was a short-lived season. Only what seven episodes, I think? I'm not sure. So here's what happened.

The Hard Question Of Who

Jama Pantel 0:54

Last week, I sat down to record an episode, and somewhere in that process, I had a conversation with myself that I probably should have had a long time ago about

Choosing Jama Pantel Unfiltered

Jama Pantel 1:06

what this show is actually for, who it's actually for, and what I actually wanted to say. And I realized something. I have spent most of my life building

The Full Picture Behind The Mic

Jama Pantel 1:17

things under other names. You know, my photography business, my influencer work, podcast, always a different name, always a concept, never just me. And y'all might not know this, but my first uh photography website wasn't even my name. So, anyways, I asked myself, what if my name was the brand? What if I stopped hiding behind a concept and just showed up as Jama? And that's when it clicked. JMA Pantel Unfiltered. That's the show. Not because I'm reinventing anything, but because I'm done performing a version of myself that fits neatly into categories. I'm a photographer, of course, and I'm a runner and a podcaster and a speaker and a Texas girl who grew up where cows outnumber people, and I've run 23 marathons, and I know what homelessness looks like from the inside, and I'm still figuring out what people do when they're not stressed. All of that is the show. Unfiltered means you get the whole picture, the real one, not the highlight

Thanks, Welcome, Start Before Ready

Jama Pantel 2:23

reel. So if you've been here since living the whole picture or midlife reset, thank you. Genuinely. You have been a part of this figuring this out, and honestly, that's what I've been doing from the beginning. And if you're new here, welcome. You found us exactly at the right time. And I will always tell you start before you're ready, and that's what I did with this. I'm Jayma, and I decided to stop performing and start telling the truth. Let's go, y'all.