What gets lost is that we don't have a relationship of curiosity to ourselves.

What is inside of me?

What wants expression?

What wants to be known?

We don't listen very well.

We don't listen very well to each other, but we certainly don't listen very well to ourselves.

A lot of people don't know how they feel, don't know how to feel.

And that feels like such a fundamental aspect of being alive. I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is

Hurry Slowly, a podcast about personal and collective transformation.

My guest today is Prentice Emphill, who is a teacher, an embodiment coach, and a writer.

Prentice is the founder of the Embodiment Institute, which is a training institute and cultural change

engine that has the very beautiful

and necessary mission of developing people and organizations to be agents of transformation

and families and social movements and the environment. Prior to founding the Embodiment Institute,

Prentice was the Healing Justice Director for Black Lives Matter, Global Network, and the lead somatics teacher for generative somatics, as well as bold,

black organizing for leadership and dignity. I discovered Prentice through their incredible

podcast, finding our way, which explores how we can embody the world that we want to live in.

They launched the podcast in the summer of 2020 and have had a really incredible

slate of guests over the course of three seasons, including Sonia Renee Taylor,

Adrian Marie Brown, Patrice Cullors, Lama Rod Owens, Alok, and Alexis Pauling Gums,

among many others.

And if you haven't yet listened to it,

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