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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 our time: What will it take for us to change as a species? How do we create relationships that lead to collective 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. Find out more on www.prentishemphill.com
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music by Mayadda
51 Episodes
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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 t...
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 Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast Come practice with us at The Embodiment Instit...
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...
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 ...
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 Fo...
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 Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter T...
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 Follow us on Instagram @fin...
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 Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast Stay up to date on P...
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 violence and child sexual abuse. If you are triggered by that, please be choiceful how you listen to t...
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 - @Prentishemphill Support the show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda
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 InstagramQuestion Culture websiteCommunity Healing plan Support the show The Becoming the People Podca...
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 show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda
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 @ciaosamin This season, I’m amping up my Patreon page -- come be part of these conversations and help resource the podcast @Pren...
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: @Prentishemphill Support the show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Edi...
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 Support the show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Productio...
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 Follo...
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.theembodimenti...
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 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 ne...
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.theembodimentins...
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 Follow us on Insta...
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Hello! Unfortunately Kazu's audio isn't included in this version of the episode. It's only Prentiss.
potent and beautiful, as always. thank you.