Finding Our Way is a podcast hosted by writer, healer, teacher, and Somatics practitioner, Prentis Hemphill. Prentis dives into topics of embodiment, boundaries, harm, creativity, and more with people who are working to reshape this world. This isn’t a podcast about answers. It is an exploration into ourselves, and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want. Welcome to Finding Our Way.www.findingourwaypodcast.com
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 adrienne maree brown from our first season. This episode originally aired on August 9th, 2020.
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In this episode, Prentis sits down with podcast host, doula, pleasure-activist, and writer, Adrienne Maree Brown, to discuss the moment in which we find ourselves, the futures that we can make possible, and the gift of satisfaction. Take a listen as these two friends look both inward and outward at the potential for a more just reality.
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
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The Finding Our Way Team includes:
Prentis Hemphill - Host and Producer
Eddie Hemphill - Co-Producer + Editor
devon de Leña - Co-Producer + Visual Design
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 Stay Engaged with us in the Future:
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Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
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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 world.
Episode 7 is out now on #applepodcasts #spotify and all the major podcast platforms.
Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
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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.
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Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.com
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Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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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.com
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
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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.com
Follow us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast
Come practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.org
Stay up to date on Prentis' work by joining our newsletter
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