408. Creating A New Future: A Conversation with Prentis Hemphill
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What if healing isn’t about reaching some perfect end point, but about constantly rebuilding relationships—with yourself, with others, and with the world around you? In this episode, I’m talking with Prentis Hemphill, bestselling author of What it Takes to Heal, about how healing is actually a radical, ongoing process. We dive into how healing connects to social change, and how we can start resisting the futures we don’t want while building the ones we actually do.
You’ll hear about tapping into your body’s wisdom, making real change through local action, and practicing who you want to be, rather than waiting for some magical transformation. This conversation will remind you that, no matter how chaotic things get, we hold the power to create the futures we want, one step at a time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host, Cara Lowentile, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New |
| 0:13.3 | Feminist Thub. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life |
| 0:20.0 | on your own terms, one that you're |
| 0:22.0 | truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 0:27.5 | All right, my friends, welcome. I am really excited about this interview today. I'm here with |
| 0:31.8 | Prentice Hemphill, who is the author of what it takes to heal. And I feel like healing is a word that is used, I don't know, |
| 0:40.4 | one of every two sentences in the self-development online world, probably. But like, it means one |
| 0:47.0 | zillion different things, depending on who you're speaking to or what it's about. So I'm really |
| 0:50.1 | excited to get into this topic today and talk about, as you all know, my favorite topic, |
| 0:55.2 | which is the overlap between self-development and social justice work in the world. |
| 0:59.6 | But Prentice, will you please brag about yourself a little bit and tell us kind of who you are |
| 1:04.4 | and how you got to where you are and how you got to writing this book? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, if I were to brag about myself, I would say, you know, I've been teaching |
| 1:12.1 | embodiment for 12, 13 years, something like that. And yeah, it's kind of a path that I stumbled on, |
| 1:20.8 | but I've been encouraged along by my community. So I feel I don't identify as a healer, |
| 1:26.7 | and I think, you know, a lot of people do and that's |
| 1:28.5 | their words. But I'm like, that's not something you can name yourself. That's something your community has to name you, the people that you work with have to name you. I feel reinforced and supported by the folks that I've worked with, the communities that I've been a part of. I write, and I guess I write pretty well. I like writing. If I were to brag, |
| 1:46.6 | I'd say I wrote a beautiful book that's from the heart about all these things, about social change, |
| 1:51.7 | about what it means to actually transform. And I'm a pretty good partner to the person I've been |
| 1:59.1 | with for a long time. I'm a decent and I think a pretty good |
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