Local 4 sat down with Kwame Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff as she tries to put her affair with him, the lies under oath, and more in the rearview mirror.

Christine Beatty showed up early to our interview. She was ready, direct – much like the former chief of staff I remember covering as a journalist back in the early 2000s. But she was also a little wary.

Melissa Butler has learned to handle a lot of “No” in her life and reflects on the second part of the entrepreneurial climb, which is harder than the first.