The Ben & Jamesa Podcast: Conversations About Community

The Harmful Habits Podcast team are joined by Lisa (from the Grief episode) and her best friend, Jay, for a very insightful episode. They share with us the hardships they faced as Jay was struggling …

The Harmful Habits Podcast crew discuss the topic of adult friendships. They share some of the challenges they've faced while trying to make friends as adults, and discuss ways that they have built s…

It's another episode of our year of giving up! Jennifer, Jamesa, Ben, and Amine discuss their experiences going a month without complaining and the difficulties they experienced doing so. They also a…

Drive it like you paid a lot of money for it! In this episode, the crew discusses the Car of Experience. This activity helps us demonstrate how we often allow our emotions to dictate our actions and …

In this installment, the Harmful Habits Podcast team engage in the Great Egg Debate to demonstrate that emotions rather than logic tend to dictate the truths we hold dear. Tune in to learn how to mor…

In this episode we continue our year of giving up! Jamesa, Ben, Jennifer and Amine discuss their month of giving up meat, the struggles that they faced in doing so, and whether or not this is a chang…

On this special episode Ben, Jamesa, and Amine are joined by Lisa, whose 8 year old son died in an accident in 2021. Lisa shares the emotions she experiences on a daily basis, as well as the things t…

Have you ever wondered where we learn about the rules of our gender? In today's episode Jennifer, Amine, Jamesa, and Ben discuss gender boxes and the rules that society implicitly and explicitly plac…

Remember playing Rock, Paper, Scissors? Well, in today's show the Harmful Habits team is going to show you why these three objects are perfect representations of the different stages behaviors go thr…

It's our first episode of season 2! Amine, Ben, Jamesa, and a brand new host discuss their month of giving up using their phones for entertainment. In doing so, they introduce the model that is used …

This episode is the first of a monthly segment where Amine, Ben, and Jamesa decide together on a behavior to give up for the month and then report back on how it went, what they learned, and if they …

Dr. Martha Edwards joins Amine, Jamesa, and Ben to discuss how her work as a pediatrician has been impacted by the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experience Study. Join us as she explains how the e…

In today's show, we learn if Jamesa or Amine are Psychopaths or Sociopaths, or if there is even a difference. This is a great episode to see what we can learn about being fully human from those who a…

In this episode, Amine was absent due to the grief he is still processing regarding his favorite soccer team. Ben and Jamesa temporarily replace him with John, a self-identified conservative, to disc…

In this episode, Ben, Jamesa, and Amine discuss the concept of Foxes and Chickens, and how we often allow our harmful habits to  harm the very things we say are our top priorities.
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In this special live recorded episode, the Harmful Habits Podcast visited the owner of The Mercantile, Brittany, to explore the differences between individual and collective change.
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Ben, Jamesa, and Amine sat down with their special guest, Lester Young from Path2Redemption, to discuss his experience serving a life sentence, the harmful habits that lead to it, and what he is curr…

Our very first Harmful Habits special guest! In this episode Amine, Jamesa, and Ben talk with Joan Harris from Safe Passage about her work with victims of violence and what we can all do to improve c…

Jamesa, Ben, and Amine discuss a recent experience with someone in their community flying a Nazi flag in front of their home. They discuss their response to it, the different types of responses they …

In this episode Ben, Jamesa, and Amine discuss the feeling of shame, the need to understand it, and personal experiences they have had in their own lives.
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