S2:02 FROM SCARCITY TO SOVEREIGNTY with Prentis Hemphill & Nico Le Blanc

From Scarcity to Sovereignty: Fear, the Body, and Our Relationship to Land Our food systems, land relationships, and community structures mirror our internal landscapes. When we are organized around fear and unprocessed trauma, we build systems of hoarding, extraction, and control. When we metabolize fear, we can build systems rooted in reciprocity and care. Prentis Hemphill is the bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal, a groundbreaking exploration of healing, justice, and transformation. A therapist, somatics teacher, facilitator, political organizer, and writer, Prentis is also the founder of The Embodiment Institute and a leading voice in embodied leadership and collective healing. For over a decade, Prentis has worked with individuals and organizations through their most challenging moments of change—navigating leadership transitions, conflict, and the alignment of practice with values. Grounded in an embodied approach, their work ensures that our intentions aren't just ideas, but are fully lived, felt, and practiced. Nico Le Blanc is a co-founder of Unshackled Alchemy, an intergenerational, community-rooted, and ecologically regenerative vision of liberation-grounded in food and health sovereignty, healing spaces, and reciprocal relationships with the land, water, skies, and all beings. Guided by the wisdom, care, and radical imagination of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as femmes, queer, and trans ancestors, their work helps cultivate spaces of belonging, restoration, and collective possibility. Through the Unshackled Alchemy Land Project, Nico supports the creation of an intentional sanctuary in the Northeast that centers BIPOC land stewardship and invites community into practices of rest, healing, and expansion. Their work is an ongoing invitation to decolonize, disrupt systems of oppression, and remember more liberatory ways of being in relationship with each other and the earth. Sovereign: Reclaiming Black Land is a series, rich in storytelling, history, and ritual, in which we explore what it means to be sovereign. With Black land at the center, this podcast brings together prominent activists, artists, and weavers with the rising generation of Black land stewards for inspiring conversations that honor the past and create blueprints for the future. This podcast is hosted by Crysta Bloom and Clara AgborTabi, and co-produced by Crysta Bloom, Clara AgborTabi, and Zera Bloom. Our theme music is created by Naima Penniman and Zera Bloom. Our artwork and graphics is created by Crysta Bloom. Sovereign: Reclaiming Black Land is presented by Soul Fire Farm. Learn more about Prentis at https://prentishemphill.com/ Follow Unshackled Alchemy Land Project at https://unshackledalchemy.com/ Find Soul Fire Farm at https://www.soulfirefarm.org/ and on social media @soulfirefarm Follow Crysta Bloom's work at https://www.embodiedbloom.com/ and on social media @crystaembodiedbloom Find Clara AgborTabi somewhere offline! Follow zera bloom on bandcamp and instagram Learn more about Naima Penniman's work at https://www.naimainfinity.com and on social media at @naimainfinity