Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
Prentis Hemphill, host of the Finding Our Way podcast, launches a new series called Becoming the People. The podcast features conversations with thinkers, creators, and doers about how to change as a species, create relationships for collective transformation, and heal. It aims to uncover the path to becoming the people of our time.
Episodes
[Bonus] Marc Lamont Hill in conversation with Prentis about
Visit another powerful stop on the What It Takes to Heal book tour. Author and activist, Marc Lamont Hill, interviews Prentis about their book at the Library and Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C. Together, they explore the threads of generational trauma, Prentis' practice of 'cry dates' and how allowing feeling helps us arrive in the present moment. They also discuss t
[Bonus] W. Kamau Bell interviews Prentis about What it Takes to Heal
In this bonus episode, the seats are turned as W. Kamau Bell interviews Prentis about their book What it Takes to Heal. These two dig into the complexities of being a middle child, why healing is often dismissed as "soft" or seen as an individualistic pursuit, and make the case that real healing is rooted in community. They also talk candidly about shame versus guilt, actual accountabili
[Bonus] Prentis in conversation with adrienne maree brown Live from Brooklyn - What It Takes to Heal Book Tour
This bonus episode is a throw-back to the launch of Prentis’ What it Takes to Heal book tour. This summer marks the two year anniversary of the book’s release and we wanted to share the intimate conversations that happened across the country while Prentis was on tour.This is a live recording from Brooklyn, where Prentis sits down with their friend adrienne maree brown. The two discuss what it mean
Question Your Answers with Pastor Kristian A. Smith
This week, we’re diving into faith and doctrine and how it shapes our worldview. Pastor Kristian A. Smith – public theologian, Spiritual Humanist, and digital pastor of The Faith Community Virtual – is here to share about his journey of deconstructing his theology and what can be fruitful and reorganizing when we have the courage and community to ask the big deep questions about faith.Follow Krist
The Wild Edges of Sorrow with Francis Weller
Prentis is joined by Francis Weller - writer, therapist and soul activist. He wrote the Wild Edge of Sorrow and so eloquently shares about the collective responsibility of grief. Prentis and Francis talk about the hero's myth, the emptiness of whiteness and how grief rituals and communal ceremonies help reconnect us to the deep echo chamber of the soul.Check out Francis’ book the Wild Edges o
All That Mattered with Megan Falley
Poet and writer Megan Falley joined Prentis to share about the life of her late partner Andrea Gibson, and generously offered her learnings on how we can live our lives as richly and fully in the time given. Watch “Come See Me in the Good Light” on AppleFollow Megan on Substack: Things That Don't SuckCheck our her book Drive Here and Devastate MeSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast
Mini Episode: An Outdated Model of Leadership
This week, Prentis shares their assessment that the leadership model in our culture feels outdated. They share the concept of two leadership qualities that we could begin to possess on the individual or collective level -- will and surrender. And ask the questions-- How do we start to practice fluidity along the continuum of will and surrender to embody new ways of being leaders? And where can we
Courage Amidst Collapse with Norma Wong
Teacher, author and Zen Master, Norma Wong, is here to talk about her new book, Who we are becoming matters: the courage wisdom and aloha we need in the time of collapse. Norma helps us see further than we can see on our own and asks the question, who do we need to become to meet that horizon? Follow NormaCheck out her book: Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in a
Fierce Vulnerability with Kazu Haga
Prentis is joined by their friend, author and activist Kazu Haga, to explore his new book Fierce Vulnerability. Kazu asks us to consider a new type of courage, and together they converse about the value of deep interdependence, collective trauma, and how the “us vs. them” binary worldview is at the heart of what is destroying our relationships and our planet. Follow Kazu on InstagramCheck out his
Mini-Episode - Grief is a Teacher
Prentis has returned to the pod after a short bereavement leave from the passing of their father. They are sharing how grief and time are pairing up to teach them how to bring more fluidity and honesty to their presence to allow more to be here now.They are also sharing a sweet story from their drag king past.If you’re enjoying this season, please support the podcast over on Patreon.Support the sh
[Revisit] Survival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This episode originally aired in August 2024.We gather to honor the luminous legacy of Audre Lorde through the lens of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' radiant new book, Survival Is a Promise. Alexis joins us to unveil the journey of crafting Audre's biography, a tribute to the vibrant pulse and power of Audre’s words and practice. Together, we revel in the profound lessons Audre imparted on us abo
[Revisit] Embodying Existence with Kai Cheng Thom
This episode was originally aired on July 1st 2024.Kai Cheng Thom - MSW, Qualified Mediator, Somatic Sex Educator, performance artist, community healer, award-winning writer, and author of Falling Back in Love with Being Human joins us for this episode. A consummate dreamer and believer in revolutionary potential, Kai brings radical love to her work and this conversation. Join us while Kai and Pre
[Revisit] Conjuring Worlds with Maurice Mitchell
This episode first aired in July 2024.Prentis is joined by the National Director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell. Maurice shares the roots of his organizing; reminds us of our power as a people and inspires us to continue to conjure and build a compelling vision toward the worlds we dream of.Support the organizations that Maurice mentioned in the episode:Working Families PartyMovem
[Revisit] Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril
We won't be dropping a new episode this week, as Prentis is away mourning the passing of their father. To honor this tender moment we are resharing an episode from last season with Transformative grief activist, movement strategist, and writer Malkia Devich Cyril. Malkia shares stories and wisdom from their personal experience of loss, the possibility that emerges when we attend to our grief,
Reverence for Death with Alua Arthur
Death doula, author and trainer, Alua Arthur, is a clear voice of what death could be if we brought it into the center of our lives. Alua brings her profound wisdom from confronting the existential and seemingly unfaceable realities of death. In this episode she breaks down the tastiest five layer fear of death cake and shares what’s possible for all of us when we hold death with reverence.Check o
Mini-Episode: The Practice of Imagination
Prentis addresses the rolling back of the Voting Rights Act and the impacts on our hope and imagination. They remind us of the power and audacity of the visionary ancestors that dared to dream before us, and encourage us to practice recovering our imagination to envision what we want next for our future.Join us on our new Youtube channel for the Imposing Beauty on Our Future Livestream - get your
Holistic Prosperity with Aisha Nyandoro
Aisha Nyandoro is the CEO of Springboard To Opportunities and leader in the campaign to end generational poverty through guaranteed income. She joins Prentis this week to talk about her program Magnolia Mother’s Trust. They also discuss what the true meaning of wealth is and how our institutions shape the idea of who is worthy and deserved. Aisha brings a call of radical resourcing and shares her
Mini-Episode: Traitors to Patriarchy
Prentis is sharing a rageful invitation and calling all Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy. They are sharing their thoughts on how the manosphere manipulates men’s pain for more power, and how we need more traitors to reshape what it means to be a good man.An hour after Prentis recorded this episode about patriarchal violence, they read the news about the man who took the lives of his wife and
Radical Non-Completion with Báyò Akómoláfé
Posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, author and our favorite trickster, Báyò Akómoláfé is on the podcast again. Prentis and Báyò get lost in this episode as they traverse Blackness, radical non-completion, AI, and the second fall of humanity. Check out Dr. Akómoláfé’s new book, Selah Follow Báyò on InstagramIf you enjoyed this episode, listen to Báyò’s first conversation with Prentis from the Find
Mini-Episode: A Non-Contingent Self
This week’s episode is centered around cultivating a relationship with self that is non-contingent. A self that is not tied to or determined by the myths of human beings. They are exploring how to activate a sense of belonging to something bigger to help us build the most powerful, authentic and potent versions of ourselves.If you want to dive deeper into this conversation about the Contingent Sel
Erotic Energy with Melissa Febos
Author Melissa Febos is here to talk about her book The Dry Season - a memoir of her year of celibacy. Prentis and Melissa explore how to build a true understanding of our interiors, erotic energy outside of sex, and what it means to truly hold power in this world.Check out Melissa’s book - The Dry Season and follow her on Instagram @MelissaFebosThe Uses of the Erotic by Audre LordeSupport the sho
Mini-Episode: A Movement that Can Grow
In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis is talking about the kind of movement they want to b a part of. A movement rooted in empathy, filled with curiosity and where we take the risks to traverse the distance between each other. They are addressing one of the crises of our time – our inability to connect with each other and to meet people where they are at. They share their vision for exploring the d
Care is a Lifeforce with Ai-jen Poo
Ai-jen Poo, the Executive Director the Domestic Workers Alliance joins Prentis this week to shareher vision for how care is the foundation to democracy and how we get free.They explore how caregivers are futurists, imagining how human life could be different if care were at the center. Follow Ai-Jen on InstagramCheck our her book The Age of DignitySupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Te
Mini-Episode: Children as Sacred
This week’s mini episode is a love letter to children. Prentis reflects on how they are carrying the greatest weight of cruelty in our time—and why failing to protect them betrays our future. Prentis also shares an invocation to James Baldwin and borrows from his moral clarity to ask what it means to intervene when children are being harmed.Apply for the Becoming the People In-Person Training May
Threads of Connection with Dean Spade
Dean Spade joins the pod this week to discuss his book, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together. He brings a sharp, layered perspective on how we are shaped by the systems around us—and how we can wake up to the patterns of control we’ve internalized. Together, we explore what it means to turn our relationships into spaces for healing, liberation, and
Hallelujah with Sendolo Diaminah
Sendolo Diaminah is here to point us to the pathway of hallelujah! Co-Director of the Carolina Federation and community strategist, Sendolo brings profound wisdom for how we’re abdicating our power, shares how she is guided by prophetic wisdom and offers inspiration for how we can all take more potent action in our lives.- Support Carolina FederationSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast
Mini-Episode: Shock + Innocence
In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis reflects on their time in Minneapolis, what the Epstein files are revealing to us about shame and patriarchy, and how the performance of shock is tied to our own need to be innocent.Join us over on Patreon to watch the full episode and come explore these themes and topics together - @PrentishemphillSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers
Survivor Power with Tarana Burke
Activist, advocate, author, and co-founder of the me too movement, Tarana Burke joins Prentis for this episode. Tarana is sharing the portals that me too has opened and made possible in our culture, her framework on the solvability of sexual violence, and how we shouldn’t believe the lie that we can’t break apart systems of power.CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains conversation of sexual violen
Mini-Episode: Finding Meaning + Action
In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis explores the complexities of burnout and the importance of using our agency to make meaningful action in the world.Join us over on Patreon to watch the full episode and come explore these themes and topics together - @PrentishemphillSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: M
SONGS FROM THE HOLE with JJ'88, Contessa Gayles and richie reseda
The artists and producers from the powerful film, Songs from the Hole, join Prentis for this episode. JJ’88, Contessa Gayles and richie reseda shared their process of making the film about ’88s journey of incarceration, healing, and gaining freedom through a beautiful unfolding of forgiveness.Shownotes:Songs from the Hole on NetflixJJ’88 InstagramContessa Gayles Instagramrichie reseda InstagramQue
Mini-Episode: Acceptance as Ground
Join Prentis for their first mini-episode. They are sharing their thoughts on how to accept the reality of our world right now, so that we can move with our fear towards presence and action.Watch the full video episode and join the conversation on Patreon @Prentishemphill Support the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing:
A Small Good Thing with Samin Nosrat
Samin Nosrat, cook, teacher, and author, joins Prentis to kick off the new season. This is a tender conversation, and Samin shares her journey of family, healing, and how she wants to make a simple and profound offering to the world. Check out Samin’s new book Good Things Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook and follow her on Instagram @ciaosaminThis season, I’m amping up
Welcome back to Becoming the People
We’re back, friends! We continue to dive into the question, how do we become the people of our time? How do we grow up and make connections in this time of isolation, enemy-making and destruction? Come over to Patreon as we connect, grapple and discuss this, and many other questions of how to build a world we want together. Join me here: @PrentishemphillSupport the showThe Becoming the People Pod
Ask Me Anything with Prentis
Prentis is joined by BTP’s Executive Producer, devon de Leña to tackle your questions. We delve into Prentis' book-writing process for What It Takes to Heal, how to find courage in fearful moments, and the power that celebrating our weirdness offers us. A big thank you to everyone who submitted questions, tuned in, and shared our episodes this season. Special thanks to our Patrons for their v
Survival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In this week’s episode, we gather to honor the luminous legacy of Audre Lorde through the lens of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' radiant new book, Survival Is a Promise. Alexis joins us to unveil the journey of crafting Audre's biography, a tribute to the vibrant pulse and power of Audre’s words and practice. Together, we revel in the profound lessons Audre imparted on us about survival, courage,
What It Takes to Heal with Prentis + Ijeoma Oluo
In this special episode, we feature an engaging and thought-provoking conversation from Prentis’ book tour for What It Takes to Heal. Recorded live in Seattle, Washington, acclaimed author Ijeoma Oluo interviews Prentis about the themes from their book.In this lively and insightful dialogue, Ijeoma and Prentis explore the transformative power of healing within organizing movements. They discuss th
Conjuring Worlds with Maurice Mitchell
In this timely episode, Prentis is joined by the National Director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell. Maurice shares the roots of his organizing; reminds us of our power as a people and inspires us to continue to conjure and build a compelling vision toward the worlds we dream of.Support the organizations that Maurice mentioned in the episode:Working Families PartyMovement for Black
Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril
In this powerful episode, Prentis is joined by transformative grief activist, movement strategist, writer, Malkia Devich Cyril. Malkia shares stories and wisdom from their personal experience of loss, the possibility that emerges when we attend to our grief, and their insight about how we choose to grieve can determine how we can change the world.Read the full transcript for this conversation here
Embodying Existence with Kai Cheng Thom
Kai Cheng Thom - MSW, Qualified Mediator, Somatic Sex Educator, performance artist, community healer, award-winning writer, and author of Falling Back in Love with Being Human joins us for this episode. A consummate dreamer and believer in revolutionary potential, Kai brings radical love to her work and this conversation. Join us while Kai and Prentis geek out about exciting and dangerous things l
Tending the Seeds of Aliveness with Vivien Sansour
In this episode of Becoming the People, we ask you to bear witness to artist, researcher, writer, and founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, Vivien Sansour. Vivien shares her profound wisdom with Prentis as they explore the challenges of surviving systems built on the ways of living dead. She shares her prayers for the Palestinian people and how seeds hold the hope and stories of her peop
What It Takes to Heal with Prentis Hemphill + adrienne maree brown
In Becoming the People’s inaugural episode, Prentis is joined by their dear friend adrienne maree brown. adrienne interviews Prentis about their upcoming book, What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World. These two friends discuss Prentis’ journey of writing this book, the role that transformational characters play in change work, and why we should prioritize healing in
Becoming the People Podcast - Trailer
From Prentis Hemphill, the host and producer of the Finding Our Way podcast comes a new podcast: Becoming the People.Prentis is in conversation with the thinkers, creators, and doers who are exploring some of the most relevant questions of this moment: What will it take for us to change as a species? How do we create relationships that lead to transformation, and what will it take for us to heal?
![[Revisit] Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/gqg0d7gs1kyw77k4pgjkq140ge63?.jpg)
[Revisit] Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda
This is a revisited episode with Richie Reseda from July 18th, 2022._____Music, film, content producer, and founder of Question Culture, Richie Reseda, helps us explore the pyramid of patriarchy, how to respond to harm within our communities, and the impact of shame on our connections with each other.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us
![[Revisit] Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/gtvz07etv0eufshhtg7cjg0acpnp?.jpg)
[Revisit] Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Revisit this episode with Alexis Pauline Gumbs which originally aired October 19th, 2020.___In this episode, Prentis meets with Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, and author of the upcoming book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Listen as Alexis moves us through time to relearn and remember the lessons of those who have brought us t
![[Revisit] Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/h5lptzbxh6dzl5ir2bw8n7qdd04m?.jpg)
[Revisit] Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White
We are revisting this beautiful conversation with Rowen White from May 24th, 2021. _______In this episode, Prentis sits down with farmer, seedkeeper, and Indigenous seed and food sovereignty activist, Rowen White. Rowen is the founder and Creative Director of Sierra Seeds, an organic seed cooperative focusing on local seed production and education. Listen as these two explore how seeds operate
![[Revisit] Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/pztei0z5vjzgolkjoop6rspa3f0r?.jpg)
[Revisit] Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba
Revisit this conversation between Prentis + Mariame Kaba from July 5th, 2021._____In this episode, Prentis sits with activist, organizer, educator, and author, Mariame Kaba, to discuss abolition and its connection to healing work. This conversation asks us to confront difficult truths about our enacting of relationship, our striving for innocence, and how much we might actually draw pleasure from
![[Revisit] Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/29zgscihjxuzdzn44rtabjy7fjlu?.jpg)
[Revisit] Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga
We revisit this conversation with Kazu Haga about Navigating Conflict. This episode originally aired May 31st 2021.______Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective, and the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. In this episode, Prentis and Kazu examine our definitions and enactments of accountability and pose th
![[Revisit] Visioning with adrienne maree brown](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/pfo6mrxk3sm5heb7eq78fez70oni?.jpg)
[Revisit] Visioning with adrienne maree brown
We revisit this conversation with adrienne maree brown from our first season. This episode originally aired on August 9th, 2020.______In this episode, Prentis sits down with podcast host, doula, pleasure-activist, and writer, Adrienne Maree Brown, to discuss the moment in which we find ourselves, the futures that we can make possible, and the gift of satisfaction. Take a listen as these two friend
S3 Ep8: Q&A + Gratitude with Prentis and the FOW Team
Join the FOW team as we wrap up season 3. Prentis will be answering your questions and Eddie and devon join in to share our gratitudes and reflections on what the past three seasons have meant to us. Ways to Stay Engaged with us in the Future:Please keep returning to these episodes and sharing them with your community.Check out the FOW sessions which are 11 pre-recorded practices from our guests o
S3 Ep7: Feeling Whole with Sonya Renee Taylor
Our friend, Sonya Renee Taylor, has returned to grace us with her brilliance in the last guest episode of season 3. Sonya brings her wisdom on integrity, wholeness, and creating the conditions to have our greatest impact in the world.Episode 7 is out now on #applepodcasts #spotify and all the major podcast platforms.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comFoll
S3 Ep6: Building Power with Alicia Garza
In this episode, author, political strategist, and organizer, Alicia Garza, breaks down what power is, how we build it and why we need it in order to build a more equitable society.Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Direct
S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy with Jenny Odell
Join us for some moss talk, discovering the infinite from within our own space and how to resist the attention economy with Jenny Odell.Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and birder whose work attempts to shift our perception of the everyday and cultivate endangered forms of attention. A former studio art instructor at Stanford, she is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the At
S3 Ep4: Aloha ʻĀina with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist, activist, scholar and storyteller joins us for episode four. In this episode Jamaica shares her experience as a kiaʻi, a protector of land and water. She helps us understand how aloha ‘āina is a powerful source of learning, love and relationship. We also explore the tenacious power of Hawai’i and how it exists outside of colonial
S3 Ep3: Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda
Music, film, content producer, and founder of Question Culture, Richie Reseda, helps us explore the pyramid of patriarchy, how to respond to harm within our communities, and the impact of shame on our connections with each other.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on
S3 Ep 2: Continual Becoming with ALOK
Acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker ALOK joins Prentis for our first guest episode of season 3. ALOK and Prentis connect on their mutual Texan roots, the power of practicing self-forgiveness and compassion, and how friendship is the answer to most of the existential questions in the world.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with u
S3 Ep1: Stories from the Precipice
Welcome back to season 3 of Finding Our Way. In this episode, Prentis shares what our team has been up to in our time away and where we are heading this season. We hope you accept the invitation to explore the inner workings and intricacies of change with us. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembo
S2 Ep13: Reflections with Prentis
As we close out this season of Finding Our Way, Prentis reflects on the journey so far, the questions we continue to move with, and what is still to come for season two. The Finding Our Way Team includes:Prentis Hemphill - Host and ProducerEddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editordevon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual DesignSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill
S2 Ep12: Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba
In this episode, Prentis sits with activist, organizer, educator, and author, Mariame Kaba, to discuss abolition and its connection to healing work. This conversation asks us to confront difficult truths about our enacting of relationship, our striving for innocence, and how much we might actually draw pleasure from punishment. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodc
S2 Ep11: Culture and Masculinity with Phil Agnew
In this episode, Prentis is joined by educator, strategist, trainer, speaker, cultural critic, and Dream Defenders co-founder, Phillip Agnew. They discuss his most recent efforts to organize with Black Men Build, the foundational nature of cultural work, and the potential held within the reimagining of our definitions and enacting of masculinity.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www
S2 Ep10: Ask Us Anything with Prentis and Eddie
As we near the closing of season 2, Prentis and Eddie take questions submitted by listeners on this very special Ask Us Anything episode! Listen as they discuss creativity, the lineage of Prentis' work, and what goes into shaping a season. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.
S2 Ep9: Power, Intention, and Gathering with Priya Parker
Priya Parker is a facilitator, strategic advisor, the acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, and one of Prentis' newest friends. Listen as these two reflect on where we've been in the past year, what we have the opportunity to bring forward, and the ever-shifting dynamics of power when two or more people meet.Find the show notes + transcript on our webs
S2 Ep8: Breaking Binaries and Intersex Justice with Sean Saifa Wall
Joining Prentis today is scholar, somatics practitioner, and co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, Sean Saifa Wall. In this episode, Saifa explores the truth of black intersex people's navigation through community, western medicine, and through lineage, exposing the inherent harm of adherence to binary. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome p
S2 Ep7: Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga
Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective, and the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. In this episode, Prentis and Kazu examine our definitions and enactments of accountability and pose the question, "Who do we become when harm occurs?" Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingou
S2 Ep6: Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White
In this episode, Prentis sits down with farmer, seedkeeper, and Indigenous seed and food sovereignty activist, Rowen White. Rowen is the founder and Creative Director of Sierra Seeds, an organic seed cooperative focusing on local seed production and education. Listen as these two explore how seeds operate as gateways to our lineage and how our current disconnection manifests as grief. Rowen inv
S2 Ep5: What We Choose to Embody with Prentis
In this season's first solo episode, Prentis explores questions brought on by this moment of continual rupture. What do we do when the people and institutions in which we've given trust fail us? What opportunities are presented in rupture? And in these times, what can we choose to embody? The Finding Our Way Team includes:Prentis Hemphill - Host and ProducerEddie Hemphill - Co-Producer +
S2 Ep4: Reclaiming Ugly with Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
In this episode, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis goes deep into her own story of confronting a world that told her she was ugly and unwanted, and her emergence on the other side as her freest self. Follow as she takes us through the journey of discovering her own desirability and how to build more radical and magical possibilities for our own lives. This conversation is deeply imaginative and honest while
S2 Ep3: Hope, Questioning, and Getting Lost with Bayo Akomolafe
In this episode, author, poet, and professor, Bayo Akomolafe digs into the very notions of activism, hope, and living a life of questioning. This conversation with Prentis and Bayo challenges us to investigate perspective and to peak into the cracks of realities ruptured.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute:
S2 Ep2: MeToo, Power, and Grace with Tarana Burke
In our first guest episode of season 2, Prentis sits down with author and activist Tarana Burke. In this far reaching yet personal conversation, Prentis and Tarana explore the impact of the Me Too movement; the ways in which power shapes our reality; and the necessity for grace in the communities we care for. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practic
S2 Ep1: Welcome Back with Prentis and Eddie
In this episode, Prentis and Eddie reflect on season one and what it's been like to create the podcast all while looking forward into what's upcoming in season two. Welcome back to Finding Our Way!The Finding Our Way Team includes:Prentis Hemphill - Host and ProducerEddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editordevon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual DesignSupport the showThe Becoming the People Po
Ep 8: Looking Forward with Prentis
Though this moment is an uncertain one, our path remains the same. In the final episode of season one, Prentis reflects on the journey thus far and looks to the questions that will guide our way forward. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourway
Ep 7: Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In this episode, Prentis meets with Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, and author of the upcoming book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Listen as Alexis moves us through time to relearn and remember the lessons of those who have brought us to now and the lineages from which we have come.Find the show notes + transcript on our websi
Ep 6: A Radical Anger with Lama Rod Owens
In this episode, Prentis sits down with Lama Rod Owens. Lama Rod is an activist, healer, and the author of the recent book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger. Listen as these two explore the power that lies within our anger and its place as a tool in discovering clarity and truth. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us a
Ep 5: Ask Me Anything with Prentis
On this very special episode of Finding Our Way, Prentis is joined by our co-producer, Eddie Hemphill, as they sit with questions from the listeners on our first ever Ask Me Anything episode. Listen in as Prentis dives deep into techniques for boundary settings, lineages of somatics, and practices of hope in our time. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCom
Ep 4: Creativity and Leadership with Patrisse Cullors
In this episode, Prentis talks with author, storyteller, artist, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors. Listen to this deeply personal conversations as these two discuss the role of creativity and imagination in future building, the origins of a movement that has changed the world, and the call to and costs of stepping into your own leadership.Find the show notes + transcript on o
Ep 3: Community and Belonging with Mia Birdsong
In this episode, Prentis sits down with Mia Birdsong, storyteller, community curator, and author of the recent book, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community. Listen as Prentis and Mia explore our longing for, redefinition of, and ever-evolving relationship to the communities we come from and create.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCo
Ep 2: Visioning with adrienne maree brown
In this episode, Prentis sits down with podcast host, doula, pleasure-activist, and writer, Adrienne Maree Brown, to discuss the moment in which we find ourselves, the futures that we can make possible, and the gift of satisfaction. Take a listen as these two friends look both inward and outward at the potential for a more just reality. Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingo
Ep 1: The Body with Sonya Renee Taylor
In our inaugural episode, Prentis talks with author, poet, and teacher, Sonya Renee Taylor, to discuss the body, our relationship to it, and what a way forward guided by radical self-love can look like.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypod
Ep 0: Welcome to Finding Our Way
Meet Prentis Hemphill, writer, healer, teacher, and Somatics practioner. In this inaugural episode of Finding our Way, Prentis sets the intention for this series and gives a preview of what is to come as we dive into topics of embodiment, boundaries, harm, creativity, and more with people who are working to reshape this world. This isn’t a podcast about answers. It is an exploration into ourselves
Recommended
Solved Murders - True Crime Stories
紐約鳥｜New York Aperture
Doctor Zhivago Slow Read
Apple News In Conversation
The Young and Called Podcast .
Jubal Phone Pranks from The Jubal Show
پلی لیست | PlayList
English with Olivia | Slow Conversations & Vocabulary
Bible Tea
TED Talks Daily
Pod Save America
Dateline NBC
