The Reality of Reality w/ Kandi Burruss
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Sweeties, Season 9 is coming in hot! This week, we sit down with the one and only Kandi Burruss for a conversation that’s equal parts unfiltered, funny, and inspiring.
From growing up in "the real Atlanta" to navigating surrogacy, Kandi gets candid about motherhood, faith, and the lessons she’s still learning while being a successful entrepreneur. She shares her very first emotional day filming RHOA and why she’s unapologetically “a what comes up, comes out” kind of person.
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| 0:00.0 | Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm your host, Chris Renee Hazel, and this is the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show. |
| 0:09.9 | Hey, sweeties, welcome back. |
| 0:11.7 | I know it's been a few weeks since we've seen each other, but have no fear because Keep It Positive, Sweetie, is here. |
| 0:17.2 | Today's guest needs no introduction, but you know I'm going to give you one anyway. |
| 0:20.9 | She is Atlanta through and through. She is a wife, mom, you know I'm going to give you one anyway. She is Atlanta through and through. |
| 0:22.7 | She is a wife, mom, singer, actress, producer, and a Grammy Award-winning songwriter. |
| 0:29.0 | You met her through her group Escape, and you got to know her really well on the Real Housewives of Atlanta. |
| 0:34.6 | Sweeties, please give a very warm welcome to Candy Burrs. Candy, what's going on, girl? You're here. Finally. But we've been trying to get you on this podcast for since February. When do we go? We were in, um, fashion week. Was that February? I don't even remember. Yeah, we've been talking about it. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, we've been talking about it for a minute. |
| 0:55.8 | For a while. So we're finally here. So, we're finally here. You're welcome. I feel good. Good. Good. So a lot of people, we know your accolades. Everyone's been a fan of yours since Escape. Tell us a little bit more about you, candy birds and your upbringing that we may not know. |
| 1:14.3 | Ooh. wasn't been a fan of yours since Escape. Tell us a little bit more about you, Candy Birds, and your upbringing, that we may not know. |
| 1:14.7 | Oh, I don't know. |
| 1:16.6 | It's like, I feel like at this point, people know so much about me, but... |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.1 | How does it feel like to feel like everybody knows so much? |
| 1:23.1 | Sometimes it's weird. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.5 | Right. |
| 1:25.7 | I mean, it's cool, you know. |
| 1:27.4 | I mean, I'm just thankful to be able to, you know, be in a space where, you know, people do know me. |
| 1:36.1 | Yes. |
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