What if the letter that saved your closest relationship started with "I hate you"?
Meet today's Peas: Tembi Locke is a New York Times bestselling author whose memoir From Scratch inspired the popular Netflix series. Attica Locke is an acclaimed novelist (Black Water Rising, Heaven, My Home, Guide Me Home) who also helped bring her sister's memoir to the screen as showrunner on From Scratch. They're sisters first, storytellers second, and two of the most honest friends Dr. Miriam has had on the show yet.
Attica and Tembi grew up sharing bedspreads and a childhood bedroom, then drifted into separate worlds: different schools, different friend groups, years where "friendship" wasn't really the word for what they had. What brought them back wasn't a conversation. It was a letter Attica wrote in her early twenties and slid under her sister's door: raw and unfiltered, and nothing like anything either of them had said out loud before.
Dr. Miriam sits down with Attica and Tembi to unpack what it actually takes to rebuild a relationship you didn't choose: the individual work of unlearning thirty-year-old dynamics, the grief that resurfaced when Tembi lost her husband, and how they've become each other's first readers and closest creative collaborators, with Attica now producing the adaptation of her own novel Bluebird, Bluebird, in the role Tembi once held.
Pull up a chair. This one is for anyone who's ever wanted to reach out to a sibling, or an old friend, and wasn't sure it was worth the risk of rejection.
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Two Peas on a Pod is hosted by Dr. Miriam Kirmayer. Executive produced by Zoe Travis, Matthew Hoffman, Katya Kaminsky, and Dr. Miriam Kirmayer. Produced and edited by Podcast Nation (Producers: Madison Brit and Alesha Pannier, Audio Engineer: Miles Carter). Original music by Sarah Walk. Created by Zoe Travis and Matthew Hoffman. Two Peas on a Pod is recorded in Montreal and Los Angeles. Cover photo by Katya Kaminsky.
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