Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill podcast

05.14.2024

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...

04.29.2024

[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...

04.22.2024

[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...

04.15.2024

[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...

04.08.2024

[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...

04.01.2024

[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:...

03.25.2024

[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...

09.26.2022

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...

09.12.2022

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...

08.29.2022

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...

08.15.2022

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...

08.01.2022

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...

07.18.2022

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...

07.04.2022

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...

06.20.2022

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...

07.12.2021

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...

07.05.2021

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...

06.28.2021

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...

06.21.2021

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...

06.14.2021

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...

06.07.2021

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...

05.31.2021

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...

05.24.2021

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...

05.17.2021

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...

05.10.2021

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...

05.03.2021

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...

04.26.2021

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...

04.19.2021

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...

11.02.2020

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...

10.19.2020

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...

10.05.2020

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...

09.21.2020

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...

09.07.2020

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...

08.24.2020

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...

08.10.2020