Claim OwnershipBecoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
Subscribed: 773Played: 15,292
Subscribe
© 2026 Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
Description
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
78 Episodes
Reverse
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 the role of Transformational Characters and how interrupting patterns in ourselves can alter the path of healing ...
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 accountability, and how belonging has to remain intact for real transformation to happen. This conversation was r...
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 means to write honestly about trauma, why boundaries are really about relationships rather than dist...
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 Kristian on Instagram Check out the Faith Community Virtual Read Kristian’s book: Question...
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 of SorrowSupport the show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devo...
Comments
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States