• 48 minutes 36 seconds
    Holistic Prosperity with Aisha Nyandoro

    Aisha Nyandoro is the CEO of Springboard To Opportunities and leader in the campaign to end generational poverty through guaranteed income. She joins Prentis this week to talk about her program Magnolia Mother’s Trust. They also discuss what the true meaning of wealth is and how our institutions shape the idea of who is worthy and deserved. Aisha brings a call of radical resourcing and shares her vision for what’s possible if our communities didn’t have to live in scarcity and we actually supported our people to thrive.

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    29 April 2026, 9:00 am
  • 31 minutes 57 seconds
    Mini-Episode: Traitors to Patriarchy

    Prentis is sharing a rageful invitation and calling all Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy. They are sharing their thoughts on how the manosphere manipulates men’s pain for more power, and how we need more traitors to reshape what it means to be a good man.

    An hour after Prentis recorded this episode about patriarchal violence, they read the news about the man who took the lives of his wife and children in Shreveport. The femicide, as Tarana Burke reminds us, doesn't even slow down for us to name it.

    Content warning: Prentis speaks about sexual violence, rape culture and the manosphere, please take care of yourself and come back to it when you feel resourced.

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    22 April 2026, 9:00 am
  • 48 minutes 5 seconds
    Radical Non-Completion with Báyò Akómoláfé

    Posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, author and our favorite trickster, Báyò Akómoláfé is on the podcast again. Prentis and Báyò get lost in this episode as they traverse Blackness, radical non-completion, AI, and the second fall of humanity. 

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    15 April 2026, 9:00 am
  • 34 minutes 44 seconds
    Mini-Episode: A Non-Contingent Self

    This week’s episode is centered around cultivating a relationship with self that is non-contingent. A self that is not tied to or determined by the myths of human beings. They are exploring how to activate a sense of belonging to something bigger to help us build the most powerful, authentic and potent versions of ourselves.

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    8 April 2026, 9:00 am
  • 59 minutes 41 seconds
    Erotic Energy with Melissa Febos

    Author Melissa Febos is here to talk about her book The Dry Season - a memoir of her year of celibacy. Prentis and Melissa explore how to build a true understanding of our interiors, erotic energy outside of sex, and what it means to truly hold power in this world.


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    1 April 2026, 9:00 am
  • 33 minutes 46 seconds
    Mini-Episode: A Movement that Can Grow

    In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis is talking about the kind of movement they want to b a part of. A movement rooted in empathy, filled with curiosity and where we take the risks to traverse the distance between each other. They are addressing one of the crises of our time – our inability to connect with each other and to meet people where they are at. They share their vision for exploring the doorways that help us connect across worldviews and what’s possible when we can meet in contradiction and build a reality together.

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    25 March 2026, 9:00 am
  • 49 minutes 49 seconds
    Care is a Lifeforce with Ai-jen Poo

    Ai-jen Poo, the Executive Director the Domestic Workers Alliance joins Prentis this week to share

    her vision for how care is the foundation to democracy and how we get free.They explore how caregivers are futurists, imagining how human life could be different if care were at the center. 

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    18 March 2026, 9:00 am
  • 19 minutes 49 seconds
    Mini-Episode: Children as Sacred

    This week’s mini episode is a love letter to children. Prentis reflects on how they are carrying the greatest weight of cruelty in our time—and why failing to protect them betrays our future. Prentis also shares an invocation to James Baldwin and borrows from his moral clarity to ask what it means to intervene when children are being harmed.

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    11 March 2026, 9:00 am
  • 52 minutes 31 seconds
    Threads of Connection with Dean Spade

    Dean Spade joins the pod this week to discuss his book, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together. He brings a sharp, layered perspective on how we are shaped by the systems around us—and how we can wake up to the patterns of control we’ve internalized. Together, we explore what it means to turn our relationships into spaces for healing, liberation, and deeper connection.

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    3 March 2026, 9:00 am
  • 44 minutes 22 seconds
    Hallelujah with Sendolo Diaminah

    Sendolo Diaminah is here to point us to the pathway of hallelujah! Co-Director of the Carolina Federation and community strategist, Sendolo brings profound wisdom for how we’re abdicating our power, shares how she is guided by prophetic wisdom and offers inspiration for how we can all take more potent action in our lives.

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    24 February 2026, 10:00 am
  • 44 minutes 34 seconds
    Mini-Episode: Shock + Innocence

    In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis reflects on their time in Minneapolis, what the Epstein files are revealing to us about shame and patriarchy, and how the performance of shock is tied to our own need to be innocent.

    Join us over on Patreon to watch the full episode and come explore these themes and topics together -  @Prentishemphill

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    17 February 2026, 10:00 am
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