Living through Life’s Challenges with Heart with NYT Bestseller Tembi Locke
Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder
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4.6 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
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In this heartfelt conversation, Tembi and Kimberly explore the profound themes of motherhood, loss, and identity. Tembi shares her journey through grief after losing her husband, the transformative experience of adopting her daughter, and the complexities of navigating life as a mother. They discuss the duality of joy and pain in parenting, the importance of embracing the present, and the significance of cultural identity. Tembi emphasizes the creativity inherent in motherhood and the need to honor all parts of one's journey, including the past. The conversation culminates in reflections on love, loss, and the beauty of re-nesting into oneself as children grow.
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Chapters
00:00 The Power of Vulnerability and Change
03:06 Embracing the Present: Lessons from Sicily
05:53 Navigating Life and Death: The Cycle of Existence
08:58 Unpacking Identity: Beyond Labels
11:35 The Journey of Motherhood: Adoption and Attachment
14:39 The Urgency of Parenthood: A Journey Through Cancer
17:19 The Miraculous Connection: Adoption Story
20:30 The Duality of Joy and Pain in Motherhood
23:02 Returning to Roots: The Significance of Place
25:52 The Grief of Growing Up: Navigating Change in Motherhood
28:27 Navigating the Bitter and Sweet of Parenting
28:56 Honoring the Journey of Transition
29:58 Intentional Connections in the Re-Nesting Phase
31:09 Reframing Emptiness as Spaciousness
33:40 The Evolution of Relationships with Adult Children
34:37 Grief and Curiosity in Parenting Transitions
38:49 Opening the Heart to New Love
43:41 The Complexity of Blended Families
47:08 Redefining Creativity in Motherhood
50:56 Embracing Multicultural Identities
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness. |
| 0:07.8 | When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible |
| 0:22.8 | results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna, |
| 0:39.3 | creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. |
| 0:45.0 | I am passionate about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. |
| 0:51.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:58.3 | I love, I am so excited to share that our biggest sale of the year at myceluna.com is happening this week from Thursday through Cyber Monday. |
| 1:06.6 | This is your chance to stock up on supplements designed and created by yours truly with so much love to try something new like our glowing greens powder to give a loved one because this is our once a year deepest discounted sale. |
| 1:26.3 | So take advantage. Once again, head over to mycelina.com. I am so excited to share this with you. |
| 1:37.3 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am so excited to share a very heartfelt conversation with Tembe Locke |
| 1:49.4 | with you here today. She is a New York Times bestselling author, producer, screenwriter, |
| 1:55.5 | an actor whose work centers on love, loss, and resilience. Her memoir from scratch, |
| 2:00.6 | a memoir of love, Sicily and Finding |
| 2:02.2 | Home, was adopted into a Netflix series and became an instant global hit. Her latest creation |
| 2:08.6 | someday now is what we talk about today. I have to say, Tembe, woo, get ready to maybe shed some tears. |
| 2:18.2 | She delves into subjects like renasting after a child grows up, dealing with grief and life |
| 2:25.0 | and love. |
| 2:26.9 | This interview and her work made my heart feel like it's stretched open. |
| 2:33.9 | She is such a way shower, a light in the world, |
| 2:37.9 | and I can't wait to share with you in just a minute before we get in. A little reminder, though, |
| 2:43.3 | that our show notes will be at myceluna.com, which is our central hub. It's where you can connect |
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