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Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Episodes

Ask Me Anything with Prentis

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prentis is joined by BTP’s Executive Producer, devon de Leña to tackle your questions. We delve into Prentis' book-writing process for What It...

Survival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we gather to honor the luminous legacy of Audre Lorde through the lens of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' radiant new book, Survi...

What It Takes to Heal with Prentis + Ijeoma Oluo

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, we feature an engaging and thought-provoking conversation from Prentis’ book tour for What It Takes to Heal. Recorded live ...

Conjuring Worlds with Maurice Mitchell

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this timely episode, I’m joined by the National Director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell (@MauriceWFP). Maurice educates us on th...

Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this powerful episode, Prentis is joined by transformative grief activist, movement strategist, writer, Malkia Devich Cyril. Malkia shares stories ...

Embodying Existence with Kai Cheng Thom

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kai Cheng Thom - MSW, Qualified Mediator, Somatic Sex Educator, performance artist, community healer, award-winning writer, and author of Falling Back...

Tending the Seeds of Aliveness with Vivien Sansour

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Becoming the People, we ask you to bear witness to artist, researcher, writer, and founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, ...

What It Takes to Heal with Prentis Hemphill + adrienne maree brown

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Becoming the People’s inaugural episode, Prentis is joined by their dear friend adrienne maree brown. adrienne interviews Prentis about their upc...

Becoming the People Podcast - Trailer

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

[Revisit] Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a revisited episode with Richie Reseda from July 18th, 2022._____Music, film, content producer, and founder of Question Culture, Richie Reseda...

[Revisit] Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Revisit this episode with Alexis Pauline Gumbs which originally aired October 19th, 2020.___In this episode, Prentis meets with Queer Black Troublemak...

[Revisit] Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are revisting this beautiful conversation with Rowen White from May 24th, 2021. _______In this episode, Prentis sits down with farmer, seedkeeper, ...

[Revisit] Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Revisit this conversation between Prentis + Mariame Kaba from July 5th, 2021._____In this episode, Prentis sits with activist, organizer, educator, an...

[Revisit] Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We revisit this conversation with Kazu Haga about Navigating Conflict. This episode originally aired May 31st 2021.______Kazu Haga is the founder of t...

[Revisit] Visioning with adrienne maree brown

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We revisit this conversation with adrienne maree brown from our first season. This episode originally aired on August 9th, 2020.______In this episode,...

S3 Ep8: Q&A + Gratitude with Prentis and the FOW Team

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

S3 Ep7: Feeling Whole with Sonya Renee Taylor

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 integ...

S3 Ep6: Building Power with Alicia Garza

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy with Jenny Odell

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

S3 Ep4: Aloha ʻĀina with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist, activist, scholar and storyteller joins us for episode four. In this episode Jama...

S3 Ep3: Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Music, film, content producer, and founder of Question Culture, Richie Reseda, helps us explore the pyramid of patriarchy, how to respond to harm with...

S3 Ep 2: Continual Becoming with ALOK

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker ALOK joins Prentis for our first guest episode of season 3.  ALOK and Prentis connect on their mutual...

S3 Ep1: Stories from the Precipice

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

S2 Ep13: Reflections with Prentis

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

S2 Ep12: Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame Kaba

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis sits with activist, organizer, educator, and author, Mariame Kaba, to discuss abolition and its connection to healing work. T...

S2 Ep11: Culture and Masculinity with Phil Agnew

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis is joined by educator, strategist, trainer, speaker, cultural critic, and Dream Defenders co-founder, Phillip Agnew. They dis...

S2 Ep10: Ask Us Anything with Prentis and Eddie

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

S2 Ep9: Power, Intention, and Gathering with Priya Parker

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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&apo...

S2 Ep8: Breaking Binaries and Intersex Justice with Sean Saifa Wall

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joining Prentis today is scholar, somatics practitioner, and co-founder of the  Intersex Justice Project, Sean Saifa Wall. In this episode, Saifa exp...

S2 Ep7: Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Di...

S2 Ep6: Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis sits down with farmer, seedkeeper, and Indigenous seed and food sovereignty activist,  Rowen White. Rowen is the founder and...

S2 Ep5: What We Choose to Embody with Prentis

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

S2 Ep4: Reclaiming Ugly with Vanessa Rochelle Lewis

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

S2 Ep3: Hope, Questioning, and Getting Lost with Bayo Akomolafe

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, author, poet, and professor, Bayo Akomolafe digs into the very notions of activism, hope, and living a life of questioning. This conv...

S2 Ep2: MeToo, Power, and Grace with Tarana Burke

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In our first guest episode of season 2, Prentis sits down with author and activist Tarana Burke. In this far reaching yet personal conversation, Prent...

S2 Ep1: Welcome Back with Prentis and Eddie

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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&apos...

Ep 8: Looking Forward with Prentis

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Ep 7: Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis meets with Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, and author of the upcoming book Undrowned: Black Feminis...

Ep 6: A Radical Anger with Lama Rod Owens

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ep 5: Ask Me Anything with Prentis

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Ep 4: Creativity and Leadership with Patrisse Cullors

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis talks with author, storyteller, artist, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors. Listen to this deeply persona...

Ep 3: Community and Belonging with Mia Birdsong

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis sits down with Mia Birdsong, storyteller, community curator, and author of the recent book, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family...

Ep 2: Visioning with adrienne maree brown

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prentis sits down with podcast host, doula, pleasure-activist, and writer, Adrienne Maree Brown, to discuss the moment in which we fi...

Ep 1: The Body with Sonya Renee Taylor

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In our inaugural episode, Prentis talks with author, poet, and teacher, Sonya Renee Taylor, to discuss the body, our relationship to it, and what a wa...

Ep 0: Welcome to Finding Our Way

21 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Prentis Hemphill, writer, healer, teacher, and Somatics practioner. In this inaugural episode of Finding our Way, Prentis sets the intention for ...