Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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.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 Design

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 ProducerEddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editordevon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

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.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 Design

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.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 Design

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.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 Design

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 ProducerEddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editordevon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

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.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 Design

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.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 Design

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.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 Design

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.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 Design