Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

In this powerful episode, Prentis is joined by transformative grief activist, movement strategist, writer, Malkia Devich Cyril. Malkia shares stories and wisdom from their personal experience of loss, the possibility that emerges when we attend to our grief, and their insight about how we choose to grieve can determine how we can change the world.

Follow Malkia on Instagram @culturejedi and find out more about the projects they mentioned in this episode:

• Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC)
• Vision Change Win
• Highlander Center
• Political Research Associates
• The 22nd Century Initiative

You can learn more about Prentis’ work below

• Join the Why Feel? Healing Our Lineages + Transforming Our Communities virtual workshop on July 24th + 25th 2024. 
• Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now, and you can find their U.S. book tour dates here!
• Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
• Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

Kai Cheng Thom - MSW, Qualified Mediator, Somatic Sex Educator, performance artist, community healer, award-winning writer, and author of Falling Back in Love with Being Human joins us for this episode. A consummate dreamer and believer in revolutionary potential, Kai brings radical love to her work and this conversation. Join us while Kai and Prentis geek out about exciting and dangerous things like monster-making, harm and revenge, + queerness and love.

• Join the Why Feel? Healing Our Lineages + Transforming Our Communities virtual workshop on July 24th + 25th 2024. 
• Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now, and you can find their U.S. book tour dates here!
• Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
• Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

Follow Kai on IG @kaichengthom and support the projects they mentioned in this episode:

• Trans Pride Toronto
• Maggie’s Toronto
• Red Canary Song

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

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, Vivien Sansour. Vivien shares her profound wisdom with Prentis as they explore the challenges of surviving systems built on the ways of living dead. She shares her prayers for the Palestinian people and how seeds hold the hope and stories of her people amidst atrocity.

• Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now, and you can find their U.S. book tour dates here!
• Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
• Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes

You can follow Vivien on IG @vivien.sansour and support the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library here. 

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editor: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

In Becoming the People’s inaugural episode, Prentis is joined by their dear friend adrienne maree brown. adrienne interviews Prentis about their upcoming book, What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World. These two friends discuss Prentis’ journey of writing this book, the role that transformational characters play in change work, and why we should prioritize healing in this painful moment of history.

You can join adrienne and Prentis in person on June 5th in Brooklyn to kick off the What It Takes To Heal book tour.

• Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is on presale now and comes out June 4th and you can come join Prentis on their U.S. book tour!
• Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
• Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full visual episodes

Follow adrienne's work here and find her on Instagram @adriennemareebrown 

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda

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 moment: What will it take for us to change as a species? How do we create relationships that lead to 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.

The full season drops on June 3rd, 2024.

• Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is on presale now and comes out June 4th. 
• Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips
• Become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full visual episodes

The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music by Mayyadda

email us at [email protected] with any questions!

This is a revisited episode with Richie Reseda from July 18th, 2022.

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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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter

The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Revisit this episode with Alexis Pauline Gumbs which originally aired October 19th, 2020.

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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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter

The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

We are revisting this beautiful conversation with Rowen White from May 24th, 2021.

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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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter


The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

Revisit this conversation between Prentis + Mariame Kaba from July 5th, 2021.
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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.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter

The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design

We revisit this conversation with Kazu Haga about Navigating Conflict. This episode originally aired May 31st 2021.
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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 and enactments of accountability and pose the question, "Who do we become when harm occurs?"

Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter

The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design