Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

Ask Me Anything with Prentis Sep 09, 2024

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 vital support.

You can learn more about Prentis’ work below

Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now
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Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Survival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline Gumbs Aug 26, 2024

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, and love.

Alexis’ new book is available now, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and you can follow her work here @alexispauline

You can learn more about Prentis’ work below

Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

What It Takes to Heal with Prentis + Ijeoma Oluo Aug 12, 2024

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 the critical differences between our reactions vs. responses and delve into how collective healing can pave the way for innovative change.
Special thanks to the Seattle Public Library and Brainfitted Productions for this recording. And big thank you to Ijeoma for joining Prentis on tour!
If you'd like to explore Ijeoma's work - you can click here.

Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Conjuring Worlds with Maurice Mitchell Jul 28, 2024

In this timely episode, I’m joined by the National Director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell (@MauriceWFP). Maurice educates us on the ideological differences between the movements on the left and right, reminds us of our power as a people, and inspires us to continue to conjure joyful and curious movements toward the world we dream of.
Support the organizations that Maurice mentioned in the episode:

Text MOE to 30403 and or click here to support Working Families Party
Movement for Black Lives

You can check out Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now.
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips or become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes!

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril Jul 15, 2024

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.

Follow Malkia on Instagram @culturejedi and find out more about the projects they mentioned in this episode:

You can learn more about Prentis’ work below

Join the Why Feel? Healing Our Lineages + Transforming Our Communities virtual workshop on July 24th + 25th 2024.
Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now, and you can find their U.S. book tour dates here!
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Embodying Existence with Kai Cheng Thom Jul 01, 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 Prentis geek out about exciting and dangerous things like monster-making, harm and revenge, + queerness and love.

Join the Why Feel? Healing Our Lineages + Transforming Our Communities virtual workshop on July 24th + 25th 2024.
Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now, and you can find their U.S. book tour dates here!
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

Follow Kai on IG @kaichengthom and support the projects they mentioned in this episode:

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Tending the Seeds of Aliveness with Vivien Sansour Jun 17, 2024

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 people amidst atrocity.

Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now, and you can find their U.S. book tour dates here!
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

You can follow Vivien on IG @vivien.sansour and support the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library here.

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editor: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

What It Takes to Heal with Prentis Hemphill + adrienne maree brown Jun 03, 2024

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 this painful moment of history.
You can join adrienne and Prentis in person on June 5th in Brooklyn to kick off the What It Takes To Heal book tour.

Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is on presale now and comes out June 4th and you can come join Prentis on their U.S. book tour!
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full visual episodes

Follow adrienne's work here and find her on Instagram @adriennemareebrown

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Becoming the People Podcast - Trailer May 14, 2024

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? We hope this podcast helps us uncover the path of how to become the people of our time.
The full season drops on June 3rd, 2024.

Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is on presale now and comes out June 4th.
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music by Mayyadda
email us at becomingthepeoplepod@gmail.com with any questions!

[Revisit] Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda Apr 29, 2024

This is a revisited episode with Richie Reseda from July 18th, 2022.
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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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

[Revisit] Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs Apr 22, 2024

Revisit this episode with Alexis Pauline Gumbs which originally aired October 19th, 2020.
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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 website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

[Revisit] Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White Apr 15, 2024

We are revisting this beautiful conversation with Rowen White from May 24th, 2021.
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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 invites us to remember and reconnect to our histories, the wisdom of our ancestors, and to the collective as our source of sustenance.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter
The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

[Revisit] Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba Apr 08, 2024

Revisit this conversation between Prentis + Mariame Kaba from July 5th, 2021.
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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.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter
The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

[Revisit] Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga Apr 01, 2024

We revisit this conversation with Kazu Haga about Navigating Conflict. This episode originally aired May 31st 2021.
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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.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

[Revisit] Visioning with adrienne maree brown Mar 24, 2024

We revisit this conversation with adrienne maree brown from our first season. This episode originally aired on August 9th, 2020.
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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.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep8: Q&A + Gratitude with Prentis and the FOW Team Sep 26, 2022

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 over the past three seasons.
Stay connected with us on Patreon, we have visual journals of these conversations with reflection questions.

Show notes:

Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com

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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep7: Feeling Whole with Sonya Renee Taylor Sep 12, 2022

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.com
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep6: Building Power with Alicia Garza Aug 29, 2022

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 Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and is a co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism.
Show notes:
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy with Jenny Odell Aug 15, 2022

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 Attention Economy and is currently at work on a second book.

Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com

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Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org

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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep4: Aloha ʻĀina with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Aug 01, 2022

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 projections.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep3: Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda Jul 18, 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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep 2: Continual Becoming with ALOK Jul 04, 2022

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S3 Ep1: Stories from the Precipice Jun 20, 2022

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep13: Reflections with Prentis Jul 12, 2021

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 Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep12: Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba Jul 05, 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 punishment.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep11: Culture and Masculinity with Phil Agnew Jun 28, 2021

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.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep10: Ask Us Anything with Prentis and Eddie Jun 21, 2021

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.com
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep9: Power, Intention, and Gathering with Priya Parker Jun 14, 2021

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 website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep8: Breaking Binaries and Intersex Justice with Sean Saifa Wall Jun 07, 2021

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep7: Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga May 31, 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 the question, "Who do we become when harm occurs?"
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep6: Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White May 24, 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 as gateways to our lineage and how our current disconnection manifests as grief. Rowen invites us to remember and reconnect to our histories, the wisdom of our ancestors, and to the collective as our source of sustenance.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep5: What We Choose to Embody with Prentis May 17, 2021

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 Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep4: Reclaiming Ugly with Vanessa Rochelle Lewis May 10, 2021

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 challenging us all to look hard at how we treat ourselves and others.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep3: Hope, Questioning, and Getting Lost with Bayo Akomolafe May 03, 2021

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep2: MeToo, Power, and Grace with Tarana Burke Apr 26, 2021

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.com
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

S2 Ep1: Welcome Back with Prentis and Eddie Apr 19, 2021

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 Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 8: Looking Forward with Prentis Nov 02, 2020

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 7: Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs Oct 19, 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 to now and the lineages from which we have come.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 6: A Radical Anger with Lama Rod Owens Oct 05, 2020

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 5: Ask Me Anything with Prentis Sep 21, 2020

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 4: Creativity and Leadership with Patrisse Cullors Sep 07, 2020

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 our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 3: Community and Belonging with Mia Birdsong Aug 24, 2020

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 asPrentis 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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 2: Visioning with adrienne maree brown Aug 09, 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 friends look both inward and outward at the potential for a more just reality.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 1: The Body with Sonya Renee Taylor Jul 27, 2020

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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Ep 0: Welcome to Finding Our Way Jun 20, 2020

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, and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want.
Welcome to Finding Our Way.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter
The Finding Our Way Team includes:

Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

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