Finding Our Way

Prentis Hemphill

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

  • 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
  • 54 minutes 38 seconds
    Survivor Power with Tarana Burke

    Activist, advocate, author, and co-founder of the me too movement, Tarana Burke joins Prentis for this episode. Tarana is sharing the portals that me too has opened and made possible in our culture, her framework on the solvability of sexual violence, and how we shouldn’t believe the lie that we can’t break apart systems of power.

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains conversation of sexual violence and child sexual abuse. If you are triggered by that, please be choiceful how you listen to this episode. Pace yourself, take breaks, or listen with a friend

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    10 February 2026, 10:00 am
  • 33 minutes 17 seconds
    Mini-Episode: Finding Meaning + Action

    In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis explores the complexities of burnout and the importance of using our agency to make meaningful action in the world.

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    3 February 2026, 10:00 am
  • 49 minutes 31 seconds
    SONGS FROM THE HOLE with JJ'88, Contessa Gayles and richie reseda

    The artists and producers from the powerful film, Songs from the Hole, join Prentis for this episode. JJ’88, Contessa Gayles and richie reseda shared their process of making the film about ’88s journey of incarceration, healing, and gaining freedom through a beautiful unfolding of forgiveness.

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    27 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 25 minutes 59 seconds
    Mini-Episode: Acceptance as Ground

    Join Prentis for their first mini-episode. They are sharing their thoughts on how to accept the reality of our world right now, so that we can move with our fear towards presence and action.

    Watch the full video episode and join the conversation on Patreon @Prentishemphill 

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    20 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    A Small Good Thing with Samin Nosrat

    Samin Nosrat, cook, teacher, and author, joins Prentis to kick off the new season. This is a tender conversation, and Samin shares her journey of family, healing, and how she wants to make a simple and profound offering to the world. 

    Check out Samin’s new book Good Things Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook and follow her on Instagram @ciaosamin

    This season, I’m amping up my Patreon page -- come be part of these conversations and help resource the podcast @Prentishemphill

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    13 January 2026, 9:00 am
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