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Calling all my sweeties to the forefront, I'm your host, Chris Renee Hazlett, and this is the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show.

Welcome to Keep It Positive Sweetie, the place where we heal, grow, and learn together.

Today's guest is someone people may know through leadership, politics, and public service.

But in this conversation, we meet the woman beneath it all.

Through her memoir, the rough side of the mountain, she opens up about family, shame, childhood trauma, faith, motherhood, and parts of herself

she once felt she had to smooth over in order to succeed.

This isn't just a conversation about leadership.

It's a conversation about humanity, healing, and what it means to finally show up as your

whole self.

I'm honored to be sitting with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Before she became mayor of Atlanta, a national political voice or a leader through some

of the country's most difficult moments, Keisha Lance Bottoms was a little girl from Atlanta

navigating family secrets, faith, grief, and the pressure of becoming strong too early.

And in her book, The Rough Side of the Mountain, she tells that story with honesty, vulnerability,

and grace.

From childhood trauma to marriage, motherhood, leadership, and reclaiming the parts of herself

she once thought she had to leave behind, this memoir is deeply personal and profoundly human.

Sweeties, please give a very warm welcome to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Thank you. No, thank you. No, thank you. I'm so happy you're here today. I was so excited when they said, would you be interested in interviewing Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms? I'm like, what? First of all, you calling me? Yes. Now, I am so honored because you know I'm such a fan.

Same. Me too. Not just of your work, but you were just an incredible person. Thank you. And for as

beautiful as you are on the outside, it's your inner beauty that shines most of all. So I'm glad to

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