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Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
Hosted by Prentis Hemphill · EN
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 our time: What will it take for us to change as a species? How do we create relationships that lead to collective 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. Find out more on www.prentishemphill.com
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music by Mayadda
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[Revisit] Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril
6d ago00:58:41Tap to summarizeWe won't be dropping a new episode this week, as Prentis is away mourning the passing of their father. To honor this tender moment we are resharing an episode from last season with Transformative grief activist, movement strategist, and 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.Thank you all for your kind wishes and we will be back soon with new episodes.Follow Malkia on Instagram @culturejedi and support the projects they mentioned in this episode:Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC)Vision Change WinHighlander CenterPolitical Research AssociatesThe 22nd Century InitiativeSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Reverence for Death with Alua Arthur
2w ago01:01:25Tap to summarizeDeath doula, author and trainer, Alua Arthur, is a clear voice of what death could be if we brought it into the center of our lives. Alua brings her profound wisdom from confronting the existential and seemingly unfaceable realities of death. In this episode she breaks down the tastiest five layer fear of death cake and shares what’s possible for all of us when we hold death with reverence.Check out Alua’s Book Briefly Perfectly HumanGoing with Grace Death Doula TrainingFollow Alua on InstagramJoin us on our new Youtube channel for the Imposing Beauty on Our Future Livestream - get your tickets here!Support the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Mini-Episode: The Practice of Imagination
3w ago00:33:43Tap to summarizePrentis addresses the rolling back of the Voting Rights Act and the impacts on our hope and imagination. They remind us of the power and audacity of the visionary ancestors that dared to dream before us, and encourage us to practice recovering our imagination to envision what we want next for our future.Join us on our new Youtube channel for the Imposing Beauty on Our Future Livestream - get your tickets here!Listen to the Dunums - Casual Planes AlbumSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Holistic Prosperity with Aisha Nyandoro
4w ago00:48:36Tap to summarizeAisha 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.Notes:Springboard to OpportunitiesSupport Magnolia Motherhood’s TrustSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Mini-Episode: Traitors to Patriarchy
Apr 2200:31:57Tap to summarizePrentis 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.Notes:Listen to Prentis on the 10% Happier Podcast w/Dan HarrisCheck out Prentis’ Child’s Map of the World Support the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Radical Non-Completion with Báyò Akómoláfé
Apr 1500:48:05Tap to summarizePosthumanist 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. Check out Dr. Akómoláfé’s new book, Selah Follow Báyò on InstagramIf you enjoyed this episode, listen to Báyò’s first conversation with Prentis from the Finding Our Way podcast.Support the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Mini-Episode: A Non-Contingent Self
Apr 800:34:44Tap to summarizeThis 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.If you want to dive deeper into this conversation about the Contingent Self - Join the Patreon!RSVP for the free Being the ground: Toolkit for care and connection in crisis response Live call on April 13thMini-Toolkit for Crisis RespondersSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Erotic Energy with Melissa Febos
Apr 100:59:41Tap to summarizeAuthor 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.Check out Melissa’s book - The Dry Season and follow her on Instagram @MelissaFebosThe Uses of the Erotic by Audre LordeSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Mini-Episode: A Movement that Can Grow
Mar 2500:33:46Tap to summarizeIn 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.Shownotes:Being the ground in crisis response - Live Call - April 13th - Available in English & SpanishListen to Prentis on the Movd Podcast with Mariah RooneySupport Black Organizing for Leadership and DignitySupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
Transcribe →Care is a Lifeforce with Ai-jen Poo
Mar 1800:49:49Tap to summarizeAi-jen Poo, the Executive Director the Domestic Workers Alliance joins Prentis this week to shareher 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. Follow Ai-Jen on InstagramCheck our her book The Age of DignitySupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda
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