Lifted

Hello Beautiful Listeners,

I’m so excited to share something close to my heart—my new audiobook, Someday, Now. It’s a love letter to the season of life when children leave home and families find new ways to connect, re-nest, and reimagine themselves. It’s about motherhood, blended families, returning to familiar places, and so much more.

In this episode, I’m giving you the prologue—an opening glimpse into the journey. If it resonates, the full audiobook is now available wherever you get your audiobooks.

I can’t wait for you to listen.
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In this episode of Lifted, Tembi Locke sits down with visionary entrepreneur and changemaker Shiza Shahid – co-founder of the Malala Fund, founding partner of NOW Ventures, and CEO of Our Place – for a conversation that weaves together purpose, innovation, and heart. Shiza reflects on her journey from organizing protests in Pakistan as a teenager to becoming one of the most influential mission-driven entrepreneurs of her generation. Together, she and Tembi explore how service, storytelling, and social justice shaped Shiza’s worldview, and how she’s used each chapter of her life to uplift others. She shares the personal pivots that led her from McKinsey to the Malala Fund, and then to launching Our Place, a company that reimagines the kitchen as a place of cultural connection and community care. Shiza also speaks candidly about embracing her immigrant identity and learning that impact doesn’t always come through scale but through the values we center each day. For anyone building a life or business rooted in meaning, this episode is a powerful meditation on leading with empathy and purpose.
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Tembi is joined by sommelier, entrepreneur, and hospitality visionary Cha McCoy for a conversation about community, culture, and the art of crafting a life—and business—on your own terms. From Harlem to Italy and Lisbon and back, Cha shares how she’s building a hyper-local hospitality brand serving flavors from around the globe. Together, she and Tembi explore global wine traditions and discuss how wine can act as a tool for cultural connection. Through her travels, Cha has become not simply an expert in wine, but has emerged as a “wine griot”, a bringer of story and wisdom; whether she’s curating travel experiences, pouring wine, or opening doors for others, Cha leads with intention, authenticity, and storytelling. This episode is an invitation to build from where you are, honor your story, and taste life more fully.
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Tembi Locke sits down with powerhouse entrepreneur, strategist, and bestselling author Kathleen Griffith-- founder of Grayce & Co and author of Build Like a Woman. Known for her business acumen and innovative thinking, Kathleen has worked with Fortune 500 companies and global brands to help women-led businesses grow and thrive. Together, they dive into how, years ago, physical travel in the form of a relocation to Los Angeles led Kathleen on a deep emotional journey. Four days into moving to LA, a life-altering accident gave Kathleen a newfound consciousness of death, and forced her to change the life she was living. What followed was a radical reinvention, blending hard-won wisdom, feminine leadership, and a new framework for success that integrates mindset with mastery. From advocating for yourself in a medical crisis to drawing strength from your grandmother’s story, Kathleen shares how the most disorienting moments can actually bring your deepest dreams into clarity. Her signature blend of business strategy and mindset mastery offers a roadmap for building careers-- and lives-- that are aligned, soulful, sustainable, and wildly successful. This episode is full of grounded wisdom for women at turning points; whether you're starting over, stepping into something new, or simply unsure what comes next, this conversation reminds you that it's never too late to build a beautiful, bold life -- one that's wholly your own.

Mentioned: Build Like a Woman, Grayce & Co
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In this intimate and illuminating episode of Lifted, Tembi Locke welcomes death doula, attorney, and bestselling author Alua Arthur (Briefly Perfectly Human) for a transformative conversation on embracing the end of life—not as a tragedy, but as a portal to deeper connection, clarity, and purpose. Alua shares her unexpected journey to becoming a death doula, and together, she and Tembi explore what it means to truly live in the presence of death. They discuss the shame that often surrounds grief, the fear of death that permeates Western culture, and the courageous practice of preparing for the end with honesty, dignity, and love. With humor, reverence, and radical compassion, Alua reframes death as not something to resist, but something to welcome as a vital part of being fully human. If you're navigating grief, caregiving, or seeking more intention in how you live and love, this conversation is a sacred invitation to rethink your relationship with death -- and find deeper meaning in the present.

Key themes: death and dying, end-of-life planning, grief, legacy, caregiving, mental health, cultural attitudes toward mortality, community, living fully

Mentioned: Briefly Perfectly Human, Going with Grace
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