Episode
Wise as Serpents: How to Deal With the Snakes in Your Life
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- Listen Then Speak
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- Sep 9, 2026
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- 1505
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Summary
You already know their name. The colleague who smiles in the meeting and sharpens the knife in the hallway. The friend who only shows up when you're winning. The leader who mistakes your loyalty for a leash. You've felt the bite, and then spent months telling yourself you imagined the fangs. In this solo episode, Jahmaal names what most people are too polite to say out loud: there are snakes in your life, personally and professionally, and pretending otherwise isn't grace; it's self-abandonment. But this isn't a revenge episode. It's a wisdom episode. Because the goal was never to hate the snake. The goal is to stop feeding it, stop being surprised by it, and stop building your life inside its reach. "Be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." - Matthew 10:16 Jesus didn't tell us to be naive as doves. He told us to be innocent (pure in motive) while being shrewd enough to see what's actually slithering in the room. That tension is the whole episode.