How to Survive the End of the World

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...

We're taking some time off this summer but while we're away we're excited to share some shows in our ecology. Today we're playing part of a docuseries from the folks at Respair Media.

Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the fou...

Join the sisters as they discuss Columbia’s People’s Graduation, the new Keith Haring exhibit, Lovecraft Country, Charlotte Day Wilson, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Cowboy Carter, claiming space in the historic, moving slowly as an artist, social media as activism or not, drama rising to the top, making meme poems daily, being a POI, not shitting on one another, the most recent season of True Detective, Poems for Palestine and pre...

In a final, mistakenly overlooked Witch episode, gina Breedlove and adrienne get into Grace’s language, singing the Delfonics, kneeling before different altars, connecting to the throughline of love and peace, moving to the Bay, missionary lineage, touching cemetery dirt, a sense of connection to a patron saint in Ireland, using sound to express grief, holy roller Baptism, the holy ghost taking over for the first time, speaking in ...

Autumn interviews adrienne about our yearlong season of the Witch. They get into working with nature, Karis Nemik’s manifesto from Andor, humor as a spell, Autumns’ spit-takes from birth to death, Witch Season as a Delight Fest, writing letters to God, Love as Craft whether you’re with someone or not, to be part of something that’s interconnected, taking the time to get right with yourself about what you’re really here to do and ho...

For their grand reunion, adrienne and Autumn discuss picking weeds (but not condemning their existence as a species), periods as Cave Goddess, what would a culture of ritual around friend-death look like, the month of April astrologically being a shit show, our stories of suffering, getting EGGED, silly humans, humor as a firm mattress, sabbatical as reset, the actual experience of the mystery taking over, letting the body make a b...

It's Witch School graduation day with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sangodare!

They discuss priestly practice, dropping down and back and into your center, movements of people around the world stepping up, conjuring love, the lineage of love, worshipping our partners, reading sacred texts, forgiveness your Lyft and/or Uber driver, amplifying the best of us, reclaiming love-craft and love as the essential nature of all that supports ...

adrienne welcomes yoga teacher Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen to Witch School. Sign up for her newsletter here. They discuss A-ha moments during yoga, subtle shifts, the somatic experience of being alive, the miraculous mundane, remembering childhood magic, growing up in Nairobi, the beauty of the cycles of the land in the US, the structure of ashtanga yoga, how the threads of dominant culture show up in our spiritual and wellness spaces,...

adrienne welcomes Dori Midnight, a community care practitioner, ritual leader, writer, and deep listener oriented towards healing and liberation.

They discuss how everything is a ritual, palm reading, holding community stories, ancestral healing practices, creative ritual spaces, spell writing, having agency in our presence, prophecy, translations for G-d, reading about ancient prophets, feeling grief and adorned, golden, jewelry m...

Z Griss is the founder of EmbodyMoreLove.com, a spiritual kinky dance community for personal & cultural liberation.

On this episode adrienne and Z discuss what time is it on the clock of the world, veils being pulled back, flapping your knees like butterfly wings, being comfortable around our own magic, moments of discomfort in the presence of our children’s magic, Z’s chutzpah companion, transforming pain into love, the ...

adrienne is joined by The Free Will Astrologer, Rob Brezsny.

They discuss ecocide, the 6 or 7 genocides going on in the world, holding each other tight, the duality of the moment, abiding in the paradox, finding the ways that life moves toward life, daddy witchcraft, adoring our stories, arguing with people who want nothing but transcendence, celebrating the privilege of being in this miraculous and mysterious mode, recording drea...

Join adrienne for a tender conversation with Kristiana Rae and Johnaé Strong about how they generated family as a verb in the wake of losing the father of their children in an accident in 2021. This episode originally ran on adrienne's IG. It's offered here as a resource in our collective work of grief and love.
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adrienne gets witchy with Makani Themba who was previously on the show (6/24/21) with her brother, Robin D.G. Kelly.

adrienne and Makani discuss incanting power, the way our voices vibrate when we’re chanting, when we make ourselves on body, re-membering, Betty Shabazz, patriarchal organizing, love as the ultimate witchy force, Sonia Sanchez, the power of the medicine we’re given, using music to shape ourselves, collective playlist...

adrienne welcomes Queer, non-binary, gender expansive, Two-Spirit human, Sara Flores to Witch School. They get into hot springs, presence-ing, “where intention flows energy goes”, mother’s backyard garden, picking red berries, making magic potions, being in a safe imaginary land, sacred kink, PLEASURE, surviving target violence, midwifery, the word “midwife”, unearthing what’s behind all of this, witch hunts on Turtle Island, child...

adrienne takes a break from our regular program to bring us a very special bonus episode with a super special guest: AUTUMN, the band! Podcast cohost Autumn Brown comes back, this time as a guest to talk about her debut EP, The Animal in You. The Brown Sisters are joined by Autumn’s brilliant collaborators Nehemiah Luckett, Merrill Garbus, and Sterling Duns. Tune in to hear adrienne interview the team about the process of producing...

adrienne is thrilled to welcome Adaku Utah to Witch School. Baltimore born, Nigeria, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a grassroots strategist, holistic healer, transformative facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. They enjoy co-cultivating strategic, sustainable, and impactf...

adrienne is joined by Southern born, Queer, Black, Bay Area based somatic healer, awakener, bodyworker, ritualist, & song weaver, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. They dig into setting up a witch school for your heart, fat phobia in the medical industrial complex, healing what is wounded, being a bridge, GAYTE-keeping, patriarchal bullshit, finding that divine mirror, manifesting heaven on earth, being put here to relieve suffering, th...

For our first episode of 2024, join adrienne as she digs deep with the curator, scholar, critic, filmmaker, institution builder and founder of BEAUCOUP HOODOO, Shantrelle P. Lewis. They get into violent reactions to sugar, talking to our body, moon cycles, negotiating pleasure, saying you're a witch 35 times a day, being New Orleans, Hoodooism, becoming a Priestess, going to Catholic school, Philadelphia, seeing Haiti become a ...

Join us for a conversation with Chani Nicholas, a best-selling author and astrologer. She and adrienne get into how astrology lives in all of us, building a world together, learning as we go, wisdom gathering, the way things could be, running a digital astrology company, and grieving fully.

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