Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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.comFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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.comFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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.comFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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 Instagram @findingourwaypodcastStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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 us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourwayStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda

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.orgFollow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcastStay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletterThe 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 & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Special Production Support: Jasmine Stine Original Music: Mayyadda