S3 Ep1: Stories from the Precipice

Welcome back to season 3 of Finding Our Way.  In this episode, Prentis shares what our team has been up to in our time away and where we are heading this season. We hope you accept the invitation to explore the inner workings and intricacies of change with us. 

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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

Transcript

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Welcome to Season three of Finding Our Way. I really wanna start by just saying thank you. I wanna say thank you to our listeners over the last two seasons. I wanna say thank you to our Patreon subscribers, the folks that sustain this podcast. And I wanna say thank you to this growing community of people who are engaged in reflection, engaged in changing. From myself, from Eddie, from devon, really from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you so much. Thank you for the sweet messages, for the study groups, for really engaging with what we're exploring here. So we're back, and before I kind of talk about where we're going, I wanna talk about where we've been. We have been doing a lot of things. I had a kid and by the time this airs, I will be a parent to a six month old child who is really amazing and is a light in my life right now. And I'm really lucky that I gotta spend the first few months just looking in their face and watching them grow. And I also, in the last year, started an organization called The Embodiment Institute. And at The Embodiment Institute, we are focused on developing our embodied emotional capacity to have just relationships with one another and with the world around us. So I have been hard at work over the last year, building that organization and hiring a really amazing team of people that are bringing that work to life really beautifully. And one of those people is devon de Leña, who works on this podcast. So devon has been so central to this podcast and how it looks and how it feels to all of you. And she's brought the same magic to The Embodiment Institute and the work there. She just helped us launch a self-guided course; say, if you're interested in, you can check out on our website, theembodimentinstitute.org, or on our instagram page@the.embodiment.institute. One other fun fact about devon is that she, in this last year, has been driving across the country and across the west coast in a van that she converted. She's been surfing. She's been having a good time. So devon is out here, which I think is really cool. And as many of you know, my brother, Eddie is one of the producers on this podcast, and he has been working on another podcast in our time off the podcast, How We Breathe, which is a podcast of BOLD, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. And that podcast is a collection of intimate conversations with black organizers past and present across the country. If you've ever wanted to really look into Black organizing and what's happening on the ground, this is an amazing podcast to check out. So the podcast is called How We Breathe. And it's a podcast of BOLD. Also this past year, Eddie was an associate producer on the HBO Max documentary

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Hallowed Ground, which I was in. You should check it out. But we're really proud of him for his work that he put into this documentary that had current day organizers in conversation about their experience witnessing and being inspired by the original Black Freedom Movement documentary, Eyes On the Prize. So if you haven't checked that out, it is still on HBO Max. You can go back and watch the original Eyes On the Prize and then catch up with Hallowed Ground. It's a really amazing piece. And we're so proud of him for working on that. Now we're back and we're back here on Finding Our Way, and we're really excited to get into it with you this season. You know, it's been an, a real honor, I think, for all of us to cultivate this community, to cultivate this collection of guests, some of whom, you know, but maybe are hearing something different from, in our podcast. And I hope there's a lot of people you don't know, or haven't yet met that you're learning from. So far in the last two seasons, we've gone a lot of different places. We've journeyed from the potential inside of every seed that we grow, to the depths of the ocean, to abolitionist futures and beyond. We really hope that Season Three, and I believe that it will be, is as compelling as Season One and Season Two have been. This season, like the previous ones, we intend to bring stories, ideas, from thinkers, feelers, doers on the precipice. Our hope always with this podcast is that you viscerally engage with it. That when you listen, you notice the places where you disagree, or you notice the places where you get a little freer. We're always trying to have these conversations in a way, and at a pace, where you can feel them, where you can get inspired to share the wisdom that's in you. So this season we are back on the edges. We're learning from the people who are often disappeared in this world. And we're learning, especially this season on the inner workings and the intricacies of change. As I'm recording this right now, we're already several episodes into this season. And I have been honestly feeling so much. I had forgotten how much recording these episodes changed me. We'll start airing the interviews. Until then, I wanna encourage you to re-listen to episodes that maybe you haven't listened to in a while. I wanna encourage you to share this podcast with someone in your life that you care about, who doesn't know about it yet, who could benefit from it and might use this week to catch up. Um, so they can be ready for Season Three. And I also wanna encourage you to become a Patreon subscriber. We do not get any grant funding. We receive no grants for this podcast. We don't have ads. We aren't selling you things on this podcast and to keep really, really need your support. And the best way to support us is to become a subscriber, to make a monthly donation to this podcast so that we can sustain this and sustain ourselves as we create this podcast. I wanna thank you in advance for your support there. I wanna thank you in advance for being with us. And I really hope that you enjoyed this season. Welcome back. Finding Our Way is produced and edited by Eddie Hemphill, co-production and visual design by devon de Leña, assistant editing by Mira Luiz. Please make sure to rate, subscribe, and review wherever it is that you listen to this podcast. You can also find us on Instagram @findingourwaypodcast or email us with questions, suggestions, or feedback at findingourwaypod@gmail.com. You can also help sustain this podcast by becoming one of our Patreon subscribers. You can find us on Patreon at Finding Our Way Podcast. Thank you so much for listening to Finding Our Way.