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Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

S2 Ep5: What We Choose to Embody with Prentis

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

Prentis Hemphill

Society & Culture

51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this season's first solo episode, Prentis explores questions brought on by this moment of continual rupture. What do we do when the people and institutions in which we've given trust fail us? What opportunities are presented in rupture? And in these times, what can we choose to embody?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Finding Our Way.

0:16.2

So we promised this season that we would occasionally dip in here to do some solo episodes where

0:24.2

I or we reflect on things that are happening in our lives and the world things that we're

0:29.4

thinking about and we wanted to bring one of those episodes to you and hopefully it's

0:35.7

a place of pause there's been a lot of juicy learning so far this season and this can

0:43.1

be a space of kind of pause and reflection what has been working on you through you just

0:49.6

in the episodes and the conversations we've had so far.

0:53.2

I think I said it on the top of the season in the intro episode that we saw this season

0:57.8

as more of a challenging season that we were working in our shadows a bit that felt

1:03.1

like the theme of things at least what we're kind of considering and pondering together.

1:09.8

You know when we started this podcast I think we've mentioned this before but the premise

1:14.4

was we're trying to find our way in these uncertain times and these times of so much

1:20.6

rupture and upheaval and uprising.

1:23.6

In one of our episodes this season bio a Kamalafe mentioned staying with the trouble a book

1:29.5

by Donna Haraway that's a really powerful book about how we might orient be live in this

1:36.4

time of so much change and unknown and I think that's so much of what's at the center for

1:41.3

us and it's not just about how do we get to the other side of things but what does this

1:47.4

change and upheaval reveal to us about who we are?

1:53.0

Reveal to us about who we want to be and how we want to live these lives.

1:57.6

A lot of what I've been talking with people about is that our compulsion or desire to return

2:05.5

to some kind of normal makes sense and yet there is an opportunity to stay with this trouble

2:12.4

in a way that will grow us mature us to develop us as a society and as a species I think.

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