Brené with Attica Locke and Tembi Locke on Life, Loss, and All Kinds of Love, Part 1 of 2

Hi, everyone. I'm Brene Brown, and this is Unlocking Us. Oh, my god. I have the best conversation. If you have not seen From Scratch on Netflix yet, you gotta see it. In fact, yesterday, I saw a post by Katie Couric on my feed that was like, I just watched this, and I was looking for something lighthearted, and I'm wrecked. She wrote wrecked in all caps. Like, it is really good. So I am talking to Attica and Temby who are the showrunners, writers, executive producers, and the creative duo behind the Netflix series from scratch. It would just came out on October 21. And it's based on Temby's 2019 memoir. It's a true story. It's her story. We start talking about the series and their story, and then we go everywhere. It's a full blown life conversation, which, again, if you've seen this series, will not surprise you. I'm so glad you're here for this. At Criminal, we've made it a tradition every December to dedicate an episode entirely to animals who are really going for it. And Tony, what happened when you pulled over? Nothing out of the ordinary until I saw the cat on the back of the roof behind the luggage carrier. Listen to our fifth annual Animals episode on Criminal wherever you get your podcasts. Okay. Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit about the folks we're talking to. So let's start with Temby. So after going through a monumental roller coaster life experience, Temby put pen to paper and began the very cathartic experience of writing down her personal story. And, you know, you know how we feel about stories here. This turned into Simon and Schuster's New York Times best selling memoir from scratch, A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, which was then chosen as a 2019 Rees book club pick and picked up by Rees Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and Netflix. So besides being a best selling author, Timbby is a TV producer, an actor, a screenwriter, and an advocate who is a nationally recognized speaker. She talks about resilience, loss, motherhood. She's got a great TEDx talk. Her online platform, which I love, is called The Kitchen Window. She really talks about her advocacy work and love of food to create a space for conversation about caregiving, grief, parenthood, illness, as well as sharing recipes, all things inspired by love. Attica is also a New York Times best selling author. I mean, this is not some serious sister, like, wonder twin powers activate. They're not twins, but they got, like, the sister activation going in creativity. So Attica is also a New York Times best selling author who has written five novels and been honored with a myriad of accolades, including an Edgar Award, the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction, the Ernest Gaines Award for literary excellence, and the NAACP Image Award. She is a former fellow at the Sundance Institute's …